Dear Family & Friends,
Well the clocks have moved forward and I am definitely feeling it! One hour can make such a difference!!! I'm sure it will catch up to me soon though. And it's General Conference weekend so that is something to look forward to. Well, this week has been a bit crazy! Here's the rundown...
Tuesday: We had a lesson with Artu in the morning. He's doing well! Still struggling with the language barrier but he is continuing to keep his committments so that is great! We had to leave straight after the appointment to drive to Nuneaton for an exchange. I stayed in Coventry with Sister Gardner. It went SO well. We did some finding during the day, taught a lesson and then had a Dinner appointment. We did some stop-bys and then taught Agus in the evening. We taught him the Restoration again- good thing because it appeared that he didn't really understand it the first time! haha.
Wednesday: We had to leave in the morning to pick up the sisters in Nuneaton and go to Zone Meeting at 10:30. It was such a great meeting. Sister Hanks and I did some training on the Restoration and how bearing testiomony using personal experiences can help our investigators desire to know. A member from the ward also gave some training as well as all the district leaders. After, we had an appointment that flogged so we did a bit of finding and then stopped by Sarah's house. It was great because her boys were home and we got to talk to them for a bit. They are pretty anti- everything religion and they really tried to rally Sarah up. Haha it kinda reminded me of growing up with two boys ;) She handled it well though and we all had a good laugh. We had ward coordination after that and then came home for dinner.
Thursday: we had a lesson with Artu in the morning and then had to drive again to another exchange. This one was in Peterborough. I stayed there with Sister Mackay. I had been to Peterborough the previous exchange and we had found a couple of cool people. One of them, was Alice who is from Portugal. The first time we met her on exchange, she came up to us and asked for our number, and said she had been taught by sisters in Portugal and wanted to be taught again. So I got to see her again, now a month and a half later! It was SO amazing. She is on a baptismal date for April 12th and it was such a powerful lesson. She bore her testimony to us and even started to cry. IT was amazing to see how much she has grown in such a short time!!! The exchange went really well though. It rained most of them time and we were FREEZING our butts off, (we were also on bikes, which i haven't done in ages!) haha but we laughed about it and made the most of it. Making a miserable situation into a fun one is something I have learned to do on my mission!
Friday: We exchanged back in the afternoon and then drove back to Coventry. It's about a 2 hour drive. We had a lesson with a new guy that Sister Gardner and I found on exchanges. His name is Edison! He is chinese and SOOO elect! We taught him about God, prayer, and baptism and he absolutely loved it. We invited to a baptism for the following day and he said he would come. We had to fill out our progress record online after that and then had a dinner appointment. We came back home for weekly planning and also had to make sugar cookies for Saturday's ward activity!
Saturday: We had a lesson with Sarah in the morning. She is so excited for her baptism and cannot wait. We had planned to teach Law of chastity, but she already knew all of it and said she was already living it! It was awesome. We had football after that and our investigator Leevoy came and loved it. We came home for lunch, then had a lesson with Artu. We got stopped by some christian guys of another faith and had a religious discussion for about 30 minutes. The first 2 guys that stopped us were really nice and genuinely just wanted to know what we believe. They asked us questions like, " Do you hold Joseph Smith and Jesus Christ in the same esteem?" and, "If you believe the Bible is true, how come you believe the Book of Mormon?" and, "You say you have a testimony of the Book of Mormon because of feelings you've had... so how do you know those feelings are from God and not the devil?" Haha. They had some really good questions! Thank goodness the spirit helped us answer them! The last guy that came and joined in the discussion wasn't so nice though. He claimed to be non-denominational and said that true christianity doesn't have a badge. Well, it's not the first time we've got comments like that! But it made me think that christianity isn't about a badge, that's true, but it's all about love, and tolerance, and accepting other's beliefs. If there's anywhere I feel that love it is in the church. Well, we had to hurry after that to the church to get prepared for a baptism. It was a great service. Afterward we had a ward party which was a quiz night. The missionaries all put it on so it was a little hectic getting everything prepared! It went well though. We had some investigators there and the members were able to do some fellowshipping. It was great.
Sunday: set the clocks forward! We were all pretty exhausted at church. It was a wonderful day though. In gospel principles we had a great lesson about organized religion & do we really need it? Sam, our teacher, always encourages a good group discussion and teaches on some topics that investigators might have questions about but are scared to bring up. We talked about all the pros and cons of organized religion. It was a wonderful lesson and would encourage you to think about it too! We had a dinner appointment after church, then did some finding andcame home for call-ins and companionship study.
I think the theme of the week is LOVE! The gospel of Jesus Christ is all centered around love. Because God loves us, he gave us his Son. Because our Saviour loves his Father and he loves us, he gave his life and atoned for our sins. Because we love God and Jesus Christ, we do our best to follow them and be obedient to the commandments so we all can live together forever with the ones we love!! The gospel is all about love :)
I love you all and I'm so grateful for your support!
Love,
Sister Jensen <3
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