[[With the Lord, there is no commitment we cannot keep]]

While contacting, I jumped off someone's porch but fell on the way down from tripping over a sign, and then Hna. Johnston surprisingly followed right after me. Luckily, that person didn't answer the door when we choked back laughs to string their sign back up. We visited Yoana, a young single Colombian mom with a 2 year old son. She moved here alone and has been going through things she cannot carry by herself. Yet, there is someone who can carry her burden and will not leave her -- even "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," who bore our sorrows and our grief (Isaiah 53). We were so happy Yoana could come with us to the ward Christmas party where members from each of their countries made traditional food and performed dances or songs. 

I like that in the first week's video of Light the World, there's dirt on Jesus' hands and the hands of the woman he heals in the last scene. Though King of kings, a God in human form, "the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve" (Matt. 20:28). He labored alongside all people. This season let's put our hands to work in the service of others as our gift to lay before the King.

Well, this makes my last. My mission has been a good one. I am ever grateful to have been called to testify that I know He is the Head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Messiah of the Book of Mormon, and the Savior of the world. I know that what I've learned and felt I could not have experienced any other way. I have been a witness of miracles, of hard, of mercy, of fulfilled promises, of change, of joy, and of Jesus Christ. That's life after all, and ain't that the beauty of it, the beauty of God's great plan? :)

Love, Hermana Jerman

Para siempre Dios este con vos... See you folks real soon!! 

Come to my homecoming talk on December 30th at 9am {white church on 700 E. 300 N. American Fork} and brunch at my home {42 Jackson Circle}!

  Hermana Arnold (from Washington) y Hermana Johnston (from California)