Oh my goodness. I wish I could just tell y'all every moment of life here
but there is not even time or strength in my poor fingers! Shout out to Hermana
Jarvis- you are now Meagan again but it doesn't mean your mission is over
:)
Sunday night we had an experience that probably changed my mission-- or my
life-- forever. We were on the train home from Arezzo (our farthest city) and we
were going to do finding "diciamo". So we sat at one end of the train. We said a
prayer and then off we went. We talked to a very sweet woman who just lost her
husband. We said a prayer with her and I just felt the spirit so strongly. Right
after the prayer we were about to stop and I said, 'Oh, this is our stop we
gotta go.' So off we ran and ripped opened the doors and I was jumping off when
my companion said, "What are you doing!?" Turns out. We were on a slow train and
so we actually still had 3 stops. Oopsy. So we decided to just keep going with
the finding. We walked the other half of the train and there was no one. We were
turning around to go back a cart when I just felt pulled to a girl I saw. She
was sitting alone. She looked in her 20s, half her head was shaved, the other
half died pink, and she was drawing on her arm with eye-liner while listening to
music loudly. We sat down and she was super nice. At first a little weirded out
but she opened up. I know with all of my heart that we were on God's errand that
night. She has lived a very hard life- I could say that I understood but I know
what it's like to feel like no one cares. This young 17 year-old girl didn't
know what to believe in because she had never seen a world worth trusting. We
said a prayer with her and looked up to see tears in her eyes. I don't know if
I'll ever see her again but she will always be in my heart.
I love this work. I love this gospel. And I love the Book of Mormon. It
isn't enough to just read it at church or read verses occasionally. We need to
study it-- read cover to cover-- and pray about it. We don't just get a
testimony 1 time, we need to continually improve all the days of our
life.
I want to go to Peter Pan nursery...
This is our happy place.
Love you!
Sorella Jarvis
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