Dear Family and Friends,
Cheers to all our favorite people!!! We hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving! Tis truly the season for great rejoicing and
the time to give thanks for all our blessings!
It was great to visit with so many over the week! McKinley and Jordan, we sure hope you are
feeling better! It was a rough week for
you and your parents.
We had a wonderful week.
We enjoy FHE with our young single adults. We have a discussion and then have so much fun
playing games together. On Friday we
hosted the Stake YSA’s here in our ward building for Institute. We had about 15 kids this time, which was a
pretty good showing. Most have to drive
over an hour to get clear out here where we are. The Stake is rethinking a once a month
Institute class for the whole stake as the transportation is such an
issue. Most YSA’s don’t have cars and a
lot of them don’t even have driver’s licenses.
Thursday, we hosted an American Thanksgiving dinner here for
our young single adults. It was really
fun. We had 16 people. We had an investigator come who had never had
a Thanksgiving dinner and was so excited to try everything and anything. Most of those who come have never had the
experience before. I think it kind of
blows them away! We had a riot playing
Trivial Pursuit afterwards. We had four
of our missionaries come and they always love a hot meal! I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving! Then on Friday, we got to take our YSA
committee to the London temple. Brad and
I took the names Chloe sent to us to receive their endowments! Chloe, that was really a sweet experience for
us. Thanks again for your efforts!
On Saturday, we spent the day with the Haskins, our dear
friends! They took us to see Southwold
and some other seaside villages on the North Sea. The day turned out to be absolutely
gorgeous. As we walked out on the
Southwold pier, the sun was shining and the sound of the surf was music to our
ears. The salt sea smell was
invigorating. We enjoyed a wonderful
fish and chips meal at a local pub which was built about 600 years ago. The food was very good and the atmosphere of
the place was brilliant. We felt we had
stepped back in time. The rooms were
small, the undulating floors added so much charm. We ate in front of a huge open fire
place. The open beam and plaster
ceilings were low. It was cozy and
oozing with charm! I love this
country! We had stopped at a church
which is supposedly haunted and found a lovely community of people setting up
for a Christmas Market. Brad bought
a tie for 1 pound, and I bought a
beautiful Christmas wreath made with fresh holly and pine boughs. I couldn’t get over that they were real! The church didn’t feel haunted at all, even
with the blackened scratch marks from Satan on the door!!! The angels were a little bit spooky looking
however!
Our dear friend Clinton went into the hospital to have a
stint put into his heart. The ward had a
special fast for him. The doctors were
concerned that the vein in question would require open heart surgery. However, after further consultation, they
found that they could take care of the problem intervenously. The fast really touched Clinton. His goal is to get to the temple before we
leave! He is now very motivated! It is amazing how challenges help us look at
life with heavenly eyes. We really love
Clinton. Brad calls him his brother from
another mother! He is big, tall, and
very black. Brad introduces him as his
brother and then asks, “Can’t you see the resemblance?” There are a lot of very special friends we
will miss!
We met with another YSA couple from the Bury St. Edmunds
Ward to talk about their young adult program.
We found out the Claire grew up in Hitchin. I asked her about my parents and said, they
served in Hitchin when they were on a mission here. She said, “Oh, I love the Glauser’s. They taught my grandparents.” Her grandfather, Ron Kilbey, although, still
not a member, loved them very much. Out
of all the missionaries that taught him, he felt a special cohesive bond with
Dad and Mom. He said, there was really something
special about this senior couple. He is now attending church about every other
week. One never knows the impact they
can have without them even knowing it!!!
Thanks Dad and Mom for your example!
We meet every Tuesday night with our dear friend Kalil! He comes for supper and scriptures. It is a sweet highlight of our week. He adores our little Jordan! He really feels connected to all of our
little stripling warriors! Brad went to
his soccer game on Thanksgiving night.
Luckily, Brad was there as a fight broke out and he was able to get
Kalil out of there before something even worse happened. Kalil told me that he was glad that I wasn’t
at the game. The referee looked at Brad’s
name badge as he was leaving and commented that he wished Jesus Christ would
have been there at the game. It was
pretty rough. I was just grateful Brad
and Kalil got out of there safely!
Happy Birthday to our dear little Russell on November
29 (age 1)! And to our Kinners (age 3) on December 4! You are very special little people!! Happy
Anniversary to Brian and Heather on December 1!
We love you all and miss you a ton!
Our time hear is going fast.
We are anxious to work hard! We
love our Heavenly Father and His Son!
The gospel of Jesus Christ is here upon the earth in its fullness. We are so grateful to be a part of this great
latter-day work! We love you all!
With all our love,
Dad and Mom
Papa and Grandma
Elder and Sister Jackman
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