Funny Times in Hokey Oke
Hi Everyone!
So this week I've had several fun and new experiences, and a few hilarious ones too.This week I threw a football for the first time!
So I have a wimpy arm, but it was fun, and I think I could get better at it. My opinion is that footballs are very oddly shaped. I don't get how people can throw them so smoothly through the air.
I extended my first baptismal commitment. I am so glad that we practiced saying those words so many times at the MTC, because otherwise I would have totally messed up. I was so scared to ask, but he said yes, and guess what? He's practically the only person in Oklahoma who hasn't gotten baptized before! He's studied the Bible and knows he has to get baptized, but hasn't yet. So this will be his first and only baptism that he'll need :)
Ok, so we went to check on this investigator. (We're supposed to have daily contact with all investigators and her phone isn't working) So we knock on her door and her family says that she is around back, so we go over and there is a medium size bonfire and she has a can of gasoline in her hand. Guess what she was burning....Her boyfriends PORN!!! LOL. She was rather annoyed about it because apparently the girls were just barely 18 and she has a daughter who is 12 and when she saw it all she could think about was her daughter and how soon she'll be 18. So she called him a pervert, and he told her just to throw it in the trash, (which he had already pulled it out of the trash before) but she said no, she was going to burn it! So she was, she is a hard core opinionated lady. Sister Goodell and I were laughing about it and how that was a pretty awesome thing to witness to.
I'm getting better at talking on the phone :) We have to make a lot of calls, to follow up with investigators, coordinate with the ward and get rides for our investigators for church, and Sister Goodell is the one assigned to drive, so I have to make a lot of them. Anyway, it's still hard to talk to people I don't know very well on the phone, but I'm getting better. This week in talking to one of the members of the ward here I realized that I don't want my fear (of any one thing) to prevent me from doing the Lord's work. There is no way that I would allow my nervousness to talk on the phone to stop me from doing missionary work, or when I get home, visiting teaching, or anything else. I resolved that even if I am afraid to do something, if the Lord wills it, then I will do it.
I hope I am growing in humilty, I catch myself being prideful, but then I just bop that gopher of pride on the head and try and be humble.
One thing that really struck me from General Conference was the talk on gratitude. For a while I have been wondering how to live more in the moment. I am constantly planning ahead and I find myself thinking, oh I can't wait till this day, or P-day, or whatever, and I don't want any day to pass me by while my head is stuck in the future. So listening to this talk I realized that if I am grateful and learn to constantly recognize the things I am grateful for I will live more in the moment. I don't want this mission to pass me by, I want to enjoy every day of it!
I continue to be grateful for the commandments. Today as I was reading in Preach My Gospel in The Plan of Salvation, about The Fall of Adam and Eve I realized something new about Agency. PMG said that God gave Adam and Eve agency in the garden of Eden. But I was confused because I know that we all had agency in premortal life and that is how we choose God's Plan. 2 Nephi 2:16 ( I think) talks about how man can't choose unless he is enticed by either side. The next line in PMG is about the Lord giving them commandments and I realized that God giving us commandments allows us to have agency. We have to be able to have choices in order to chose and giving us commandments allows us to choose to keep or break those commandments. Satan wanted to not give us agency and he could have done that by just not setting any expectations or commandments. Anyway, agency is amazing and I'm learning a lot.
I know that this gospel is true and that it helps us so much in our lives. I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior and that it is only through His enabling power and grace that we can have hope and peace in our lives. I know that his gospel has been restored through a living prophet and that God is leading us today through him.
Sister Lila Jenson
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