Fabulous Week

Dear Family & Friends Well it has been a fabulous week here in Coventry!!! The work is moving forward and it is sooo exciting!! On Monday after P-day we had a first lesson with Jenni, the lady that we met on Christmas. It went really well and we talked to her about Joseph Smith and the BOM. Then on Tuesday I woke up sick with the flu. It was the first time on my mission being sick and was no fun at all! I had a fever that day and night. On Tuesday night we had to be in by 6:00. Needless to say, it was probably the most uneventful New Years I've ever had. Haha. Sister Moser and I updated the area book, cleaned the flat, and played cards :). On Wednesday we weren't allowed out of the flat until one so we did our weekly planning session after companion study. After, we taught this awesome guy, Daniel. He is Nigerian and is studying here. He is a minister for the Celestial Church of Christ but is interested in the book of mormon. The lesson went well, but he had so many questions so it was difficult to teach among all the questions. We also taught Joseph that night. MAN, I love this guy. He is so amazing. He's also from Nigeria, but unfortunately he goes back at the end of this month. He knows the BOM is true and is basically just waiting for his answer to be baptised. He says when he gets back he will get in touch with the missionaries there. He wants to serve a mission too! Thursday we did a lot of tracting and finding and then had a lesson in the evening with Niyi. Another Nigerian student. Haha. He was so cool. He just wanted to know how the BOM will help him in his life so we all went through and read our favourite scriptures and testified about how it has helped us. He is going to be solid. We were supposed to have another lesson with this guy, Azad, but we couldn't find a female member to go with us so we just had to stop by and introduce ourselves. (He was a referral from a previous investigator). He's the nicest guy and is Muslim. He said his friends have had really good experiences with Christianity so he wanted to learn more about it. We have an appointment with him this Saturday. Friday was District Meeting and interviews. I love interviews. Time to chat with President is the best! We talked about where desire stems from. He told me to imagine if I had to go finding and if I didn't get one return appointment then my parents would die. Your desire would be up the roof. You will do ALL you can to find that appointment. So what is the difference between our parents and the people we meet everyday? LOVE. When you love the people. you have a greater desire to serve them and find the elect. I loved that analogy. After interviews we had a lesson with Sarah who basically found us. She had a dream about Joseph Smith one night, telling her that she needed to figure out who he was. She's been searching for a church for about the past 10 years and she has a collegue that she works with who is in our ward. So we had our second lesson with her this week and talked about the Plan of Salvation. She never thought that we lived with God before this life. We showed her the scripture inthe bible that basically says, "before I formed thee I knew thee". After she read it she kissed the scripture and just was so happy. Haha. She loves how we say Heavenly Father too and thinks it's so cool that we probably knew each other before this life. She is solid but will have to take things pretty slow because she knows that when she is baptised it will be a big life change. Saturday we played football in the morning with our investigators and ward members. It was raining so the field was absolutely SOAKED. We were all drenched by the time it got over and everyone had mud all over them. I scored one goal though so I was pretty happy :) Haha. We had to run back to the flat, shower and change and then we had a lesson with Dolly and Ash, our chinese friends. WE talked about the Plan of Salvation and they helped us sing I am a Child of God in chinese. It was so great. After we went to town to do some finding. We met a guy, Tafara from London and we got a return appointment with him for this coming week. Sunday we went to church. Sarah came and really enjoyed it. Afterwards we fed the homeless again down in City Centre. It was kinda crazy. The people who come for food are mostly from Romania and are REALLY pushy with each other. It's mad. I kinda thought it would be a humbling experience, but the people who come just seem to expect the food to be there for him. I think it helped me to feel more self worth and a desire to work hard and be independent. So that was pretty much our week! Lots of teaching, which is the best thing you can do. We have set goals to find three more investigators this week and to get the ones we have right now progressing towards baptism. Kindness is probably the closest right now. Oh, today I will have my first driving lesson too! I'm a little nervous but super excited too. I love the excitement that a new year brings and this new year I really want to do my best to follow the spirit. On my mission i've learned that following the spirit is all about not procrastinating! So many times we may get impressions (and we probably don't even realize they're impressions) but we put them off. But, Heavenly Father needs things done in a timely manner! So usually when you don't follow a prompting right away, he will find someone else to do it. And then we lose the experience and the blessings. So this year I am going to pay attention to the promptings and follow them and soon as I can. I know that as we do that we will have miracles happen in our lives and we will be so blessed for them!!! I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!!! Love, Sister Jensen P.S. Remember Roy, the 82- year old man in Lichfield we were teaching? He's getting baptised on February first!!!! :D