Jay Family Missionaries

Divine Mission,

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Sora Jay

Divine Mission,

I'm Sister Elina Robert; I am married to Chief kamson Robert. He worked with British embassy in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2006 April 26.

We were married for eleven years without a child. He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days. When my late Husband was alive he deposited the sum of $1.8 Million (One Million Eight hundred thousand U.S. Dollars) in a Bank on my name as beneficiary of the fund here in Abidjan. Recently, my Doctor told me that I would not last for the next Eight months due to cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my
stroke sickness.

Having known my condition I decided to donate this fund to someone that will utilise this money the way I am going to instruct herein.

I want you to use this fund for orphanages, widows. The Bible made us to understand that "Blessed is the hand that" giveth". I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way.

This is why I am taking this decision. I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says that "the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace".

I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband's relatives around me always. Whoever that wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Hoping to
receive your reply May God blesses you as you write back.

Yours in Christ,
Sister Elina Robert.

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Your Prize!!!

Monday, July 11, 2011 by Sora Jay

Congratulations,

We are pleased to inform you today the result of the winners from
the SHELL INTERNATIONAL ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME in
conjunction with the Shell Petroleum Company annual donation.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out
$1,000,000.00 (One Million United State Dollars), in cash credited
to file XYL26510460037/11.

You are to contact our Claims Department with the below detail:

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Email: shellasia2011@bigstring.com

Fill the below information:

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Congratulations On behalf of all members of the Lottery foundation.

Mrs.Intan Abubakar
M.Director
ALL RIGHT RESERVED.

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Brazil

by Sora Jay

Querida família,

Friday we baptized a man named Eliézio and a 16-year-old named Rafael. Both of them are really good. Eliézio had been going to church and talking with the missionaries for six months when I got and already knew everything, he just needed a little push. I can see him being a future bishop, but we need to baptize his wife and daughter first. Rafael already wants to be a missionary, but will have to wait three years.

This ward has tons of young people and little kids. On Sunday there were 42 kids in primary, 40 young-men, and 20 something young-women and to keep things revernent during sacrament meeting we all split up to sit with the noisier kids I sat on a bench surrouned by rowdy young boys, but with some threatening, pressure points and countless shushes, we had a pretty reverent. It was almost reverent, during the sacrament a little girl got her arm stuck in one of the him book holders and a guy busted the wood to get her arm out.

Saturday we were talking with a guy and a lady came up and started talking to us and asked if it was our church that donates wheel-chairs. I told her that it was and she told me that her sister has a son that can't walk, so we finished talking to the man and went to this lady´s sister´s house. Does that make sense? Anyway, we taught them about the Plan of Salvation, why we have difficulties, and about the ressurection and invited them to church. The husband wasn't home when we taught them but the next morning they went to church and we are going to teach them again tomorrow.

Gotta go,

Elder Jay Brazil

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11 July 2011, Romania

by Sora Jay

Buna,

Sounds like some crazy things happened this week. I think Sally lives in too dangerous a place. It wasn't a super good week for me either, though.

We went out to a mini Zone Conference in Arad on Tuesday to meet the new president and his wife. They are super cool, and super smart people (plus they're noobs so they listen carefully to everything the experienced missionaries say). It was probably the most positive Zone Conference I have ever had because of the President and his wife. I'm sad that I won't be able to be here to see how things go. It was cool to go back to Arad, it was my first city and I was last there about a year ago. I still knew my way around the city, except for the tramvai lines because they changed. I was able to get a delicious vanilla croissant from the bakery by my old apartment, and they have introduced a new item, the caramel croissant, which is almost just as good. It was kind of depressing to go there though, and exhausting. We had to take a night train and get there at five in the morning and then start getting ready for the conference because there were six girls in the apartment so we had to start getting ready early. I slept a little bit before we left but I was still super tired. After Zone Conference we had to wait until midnight to catch our train back to Brasov so we went contacting in Arad. All the people there are super nice. That's what was depressing. Back when I was in Arad I didn't know how good I had it. People here aren't quite as nice, nor have I been in any area where people are that nice since then. I have also gotten a little tired of my companion this week.

We made some headway with that Pentecostal family we've been teaching, Family Nitsu. We had had only contentious lessons recently where they tried to show us a bunch of verses in the Bible and fight with us. We never fought back, and we always tried to bring back the subject to what we had planned but it never worked. But, when we met with them last I told them that they weren't listening (at least the dad). He said that he was listening and then asked a question and I said "I already answered that question like five times, obviously you weren't listening, see." Sora Bedebone said it was kind of scary when I raised my voice at them and told them to listen. When they tried to read more verses from the Bible I told them we already knew what was in there and wouldn't let them share it (because they just wanted to be contentious). It went on like this for a little while and we told them again that they had to pray to find out the truth. I told the dad that it took all the self control I had to keep from showing him all the things I knew in the Bible because I knew that it wouldn't help him know the truthfulness of our message anyway; he would just try to explain it away the was he had done with the few verses that I had shared. Finally the dad got a little smile on his face and said "I have an idea, you guys pray to know if there is something special about our family and our beliefs, and we will pray to know if Joseph Smith was a real prophet." I felt okay saying "da" and right after I said it the evil spirit of contention left the room and we were able to finish nicely. The son, Oni, asked in the closing prayer to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet. (They told me to expect my answer to come in a dream, and that I will see their family in my dream and if they are healthy it means that the way they practice religion is true but if they are unhealthy they don't have all the truth. That night I had a dream and there was a decrepit priest sitting in a wheelchair at the end of my dream, whereas I was very healthy and giving people tours of the city.) Nothing could ever make me believe that the Book of Mormon isn't true and that Joseph Smith wasn't a prophet of God. I don't need a dream to tell me what the Holy Ghost already has dozens of times. Anyway, we all left happy and comfortable, knowing that God would show us what to do. My week got a lot better after that lesson.

That's all the time I had.

Love,
Sora Jay

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Brazil

Monday, July 4, 2011 by Sora Jay

Querida família,

Happy fourth of July! There are four elders living in my house and all four are from the US, so today we sang the National Anthem, pledged allegience to the flag, and decided to speak lots of English. I am also walking around with a flag sticking out of my belt. You don't know how good the US is until you leave, but now that I am used to Brazil when I back home it will be a culture shock.

This week some crazy things happened, the first thing is that a catholic school next to the church now has an anit-mormon curriculum and the second thing is that we found an elect. We have been teaching a lady names Sandra whose daughter is 14 and is already a member of the church. We had marked Sandra's baptism for this Sunday, but they live in a house that belongs to the Catholic school and the boss-lady of the school told them that they have to choose between the house and the school or the church. The school is funded by donations from Germany and there are lots of people from other religions that go to school there but the old lady doesn't want anyone to go the "Mormon Church." I talked to her for almost two hours the other day but she is stubborn and ignorant, and Satuday the had mass in the school where the subject was "The Mormons are trying to take the youth to there church." I almost got really mad and had "tompertantrum", but I didn't because I knew that it would just make things worse. Sandra still wants to get baptized, but she has to find a new house before she can come to church anymore. She and her daughter are really sad, maybe you guys can pray that God will soften the heart of the old, mean lady or help Sandra find a new house.

One night we brought a young man to seminary and when we were leaving a 20-year-old stopped on his motorcylce and asked at what time the church was open. I talked to him a little and we marked to visit him in his house. He lives really close to the church and he already had a Book of Mormon that he found in the garbage, brought home, and cleaned. We taught him and marked another visit, but the next day he passed on his motorcycle again and said that he had read and felt really good, that he had felt a great peace. He came to church on Sunday a half hour early and already wants to be a missionary. There really are people out there that aren't in the church and aren't keeping the commandments because they don't know any better. We just have to open our mouths.

Gotta go,
Elder Jay Brazil

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God Bless America

by Sora Jay

Hey Everybody,

This week was pretty good we were able to meet with a lot of people. That pentecostal family that I told you about got a little difficult because they started wanting to Bible bash all the time, and every time that I tried to bring the subject back, somebody would find a verse from the bible and read it to us. We had a lesson that went super bad and afterward as we were walking back to the bus stop the son, Oni, asked if we were upset. I told him that we were, because they didn't listen to us. It's super annoying when people try to teach us stuff out of the Bible because we already know all that stuff and we are there to try to give them more. They want to teach us (things that we already know) instead of us teaching them (things they don't know yet that would help them a lot). When I told Oni that we were upset we explained to him again why we were there and asked him what he would do if he found out that Joseph Smith was a prophet, and he said he would get baptized. The lesson after that went really well. The dad left when we started though, because the first thing he did was correct Sora Bedebone after she prayed, saying that she should say 'the Holy Ghost' instead of 'the Spirit', but both Oni and his mom told the dad that it was the same thing, so he left and we had a good lesson about prayer and receiving answers. Hopefully he will forgive everyone and come to the lessons again.

That's cool that Ed found his Area Book again. I told you it was worth a miracle to get that thing back.

Today, we went out to Castle Bran in the little city of Bran about 45 minutes away from Brasov. It's a castle where Vlad the Impaler lived. They didn't have any real cool exhibits about Vlad the Impaler, but the castle was cool. Everything there was tiny. People back then must have been a lot smaller. Elder Simmons, who is over six feet tall, couldn't stand up straight in some of the rooms. I took a lot of pictures, but now I am too lazy to go through all the trouble of sending them in the mail since I can show them to you when I get back. I found some secret boxes for cheap so I got one, you guys will like it.
Tourism here really sucks. They could make tons of money from tourism here, but they don't know how. Everything still runs the same way it did during communism rather than running well so that they can actually make a profit. We met some people from Israel at the castle. They were on a bicycling tour here. I didn't ask them what religion they were.

We got our new mission president this past week, and today is the first time we have heard from him (through email). But tomorrow we will have a mini Zone Conference in Arad, the city where I started my mission. It will be cool to go back there for a day, and it will be interesting to see what the new mission president is like and how he does things differently.

That's probably it for now. Save a firework for me.

Love,
Sora Jay

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hello

Friday, July 1, 2011 by Sora Jay

Hello How are you today, I hope all is well with you .I am sorry to worry you with my proposal for a relationship with you, but I know that you will grant my request in good faith and understanding, My name is Clara i Just read through your email and found you very interesting and i will like to know more about You.you can send an email to my email address (clarajames1111@ymail.com) so that I can send you more details about my self including my picture. I believe we can move from here. But bear in mind that love has no colors barrier, no educational back ground barrier, no socio-economic barrier, religious, language, nationality or distance barrier, the only important thing there is love. I am waiting for your mail to my email address above. Yours sincerely. Clara

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