Super Busy

Dear Family & Friends, I can't believe another week has gone by SO fast!!! It's crazy to me how the time is flying. This week we have been super busy. Sister Gardner has been working on getting her driving license so on Monday night she had her first driving lesson. We didn't die, so it was successful! Tuesday morning was leadership council. It was AMAZING like always. President did a training on how to use our time effectively by planning meaningful activities for every hour of the day. It was great to be there with all the other missionaries. Oh, and Dayna and Tyler Rasmussen were there! It was so weird having Eagle Idaho combined with England... haha. After leadership council we came back and taught a couple lessons and then had dinner, and went finding. We started teaching this guy called Wisdom. He is so cool! He's from Nigeria and was out proselyting when we met him! The lesson was a bit difficult because he really challenged everything we said. But we just invited him to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. He wouldn't agree. He said he would pray first to find out if he should read it. Well, about an hour after the lesson, he send us a text that said, "I have decided to read your Book of Mormon." We were so happy! So we will see how things go with him. Wednesday morning we had another driving lesson and we had to go to the family history centre after to print something off. John was there doing his family history and the consultants wouldn't stop praising him! They said that he is just doing so well and doing it all on his own. They even requested for us to ask Bishop if he can be called as a new family history consultant! He already has 8 names to take to the temple. He is doing SO well and we are so proud of him. We had a lunch appointment after that and then we had a lesson with a potential called Ermeas. Last week when we were teaching a lesson in IKEA, he interuppted us and asked us if he could join in. We were already finished though so we just took down his details and set up another time we could teach him. Well we were teaching him Restoration and in the middle of the lesson, he was like, "Now, what do you guys think about Mormonism? Back when I lived in another town, I was meeting with a couple lads and they were talking about some golden plates" haha Sister Gardner and I just looked at each other, trying to hold our laughter in and we told him that we are actually members of that church. Haha. It was so funny. He took it well though and we invited him to read and pray and be baptised! It was a great lesson. Thursday was our Zone Meeting. It went really well. Sister Gardner and I did some training and we used a talk called, "Overcome Feelings of Inadequacy" It was great. We had a couple lessons after that and then a dinner appointment and some more finding. Friday we had to drive to a place called Wednesbury to take Sister Gardner's driving test. She didn't pass :( But she is staying positive and will try to take it again soon! We drove back, filled out our progress record and then left for Nuneaton to go on an exchange. I stayed in Coventry with Sister Obies-Sanchez. She is from Spain and will go home at the end of this transfer. We taught some lessons and did some finding and then we had a dinner appointment with Tish and Sarah (Our recent convert). It was really interesting... Sarah brought up a few concerns that she has. She is still doing fine but will you all please pray for her this week that she will be able to overcome her doubts? Thank you! Saturday we taught some lessons in the morning and then had to drive back to Nuneaton. We taught some lessons and then went to the chapel for the baptism of Walter, the Elders' investigator. It went really well! After, we decided we should try to stop by Tyler's house to see if we could catch him in, as we still haven't seen him! (The Elders ran into him in city centre though and said that he has lost his phone and that's why he hasn't been responding). Well, we knocked on his door, and we heard someone say, "Who's there?" I said, "It's the sisters!" and he said, "Jensen!!" haha it was so cute! He opened the door and was just so excited to see us! He said, "What are we doing? Have you had dinner? Do you want to go to dinner?" It was about 8:20 pm though and we hadn't had dinner yet but we knew we wouldn't have time, so we said we couldn't. Then he asked if he could go finding with us? haha so of course we said yes! It was so funny. We talked to some WACKO's and we were really glad he was with us. haha. Thank you Heavenly Father!! The next day was Sunday and it was so great. John, brought one of his friends, called Steve and he LOVED it! We will begin teaching him this Tuesday. We had five of our investigators there and two of them were friends of people we have taught, or are teaching. It was so cool. The Lord really is blessing us here. And member missionary work is the way to go! I love our ward here as well. There is SO much diversity! There was two baby blessings of an Indian family, and then Walter who is chinese recieved the holy ghost from Brother Lam, who is from Hong Kong. Seated in the congregation were people from England, America, Scotland, Hungary, India, Africa, Spain... I just realized how cool it is that we all come from such different cultures but we believe in the same thing. The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone! After church, we had lunch and GQ-ed our way to do service feeding the homeless. After service, we taught a lesson to a potential called Jun. He is chinese, and doesn't believe in God, but doesn't NOT believe either. We were going to teach him at IKEA but it was closed so we sat outside. A team of the Elders were there too teaching. The lesson was going really well and then out of NOWHERE it got super windy and it started to downpour! We found a little shelter and waited for the storm to pass. It was so funny. Four missionaries with a few investigators all huddled under IKEA. haha. The storm didn't last long and we finished the lesson. Jun is so awesome and will come this Saturday to see a baptism! Anyways, it was SUCH a great week! I am looking forward to the coming week. I love you all so much and hope you have a wonderful week as well :) Love you! Sister Jensen