Rainy Week

Dear Family & Friends, It has been a rainy week in England! I finally had to invest in a rain jacket! The weather here kind of reminds me of Rexburg, in that it changes every hour! I have learned to always keep my rain jacket with me at all times. Well, we are continuing to see miracles here in Nottingham! It's amazing how much Heavenly Father trusts me, and it really overwhelms me at times. We are continuing to teach Andy and he is doing so good! He came to church with us yesterday and really enjoyed it. He is just having a hard time praying because he has never done it before and feels awkward. But, i'm not worried, we will be persistent and I know that he will come around. This Tuesday we had a really awesome experience and an answer to prayer. We had a 30 minute gap between appointments and we decided that we would run a note by a potential investigator, Sarah, to remind her of an appointment coming up. Before we left the flat, we knelt down and prayed that Heavenly Father would place someone in our path as we went to Sarah's house. We began walking to her house and not 5 minutes into the walk, a woman stopped ahead of us to smell some flowers. It was so obvious that we needed to talk to her. We introduced ourselves and began talking about religion. She said that we have caught her at a really good time in her life where she has tons of questions and has been searching for the truth. She told us also that she felt so much goodness radiating from us and agreed to set up an appointment!!! It was SO cool! My testimony of prayer has really grown and I see how important that it is for us to be specific in our prayers. Heavenly Father really does love us and he wants to give us good gifts, if we ask in faith! This week, we went to teach our investigator Mitch, and we took a member from church, Emily with us. A little background on Emily- About 2 months ago, she was extremely inactive and hadn't been to church in ages. Until one day she had a very powerful experience when she knew she had to go back, and ever since then she has been so involved in the ward and she is just amazing! So, in our lesson, we were talking about faith and prayers. We asked Emily to bear her testimony about her experience with prayer. In essence she said that we cannot pray to God, hoping to test him. If we pray with the mindset that we are going to prove God (example: If I don't receive a powerful witness then it isn't true), then we won't get that answer. We must pray with faith, believing that we WILL receive an answer. I really loved that and it has expanded my understanding of what it means to pray in faith, nothing wavering. I am so grateful for the many wonderful people here in England. There are many! It is such a blessing to learn from them. I want all of you to know that we are brothers and sisters. In a very literal sense, we are the children of God and we are responsible to help each other get on that path back to him. I love this gospel and I love missionary work. Love, Sister Jensen