Dear Family and Friends,
The work is going well here in Woodward. Last transfers both of the Sisters here were laid up with health problems and couldn't go out teaching or tracting very much, but my companion is feeling much better and we have been working really hard to get new investigators and catch up with the ones they were teaching before.
This week has been a great crazy week. We are starting to really get the work going and we found a new investigator on Saturday, who came for the last hour of church on Sunday. We just taught him a first lesson and he was welcomed with open arms into the branch. He is here for 6months for a contract job and is from Texas. We were able to feel the Spirit very strong with him during the lesson and really feel he could get baptized. We also taught an investigator who just wanted to bash with us, which was a first for me. It was crazy we were trying to teach her about The Restoration which would really answer her questions, but she wasn't listening to us at all, just looking up the next scripture so she could tell us we are wrong. She did an online search before and was just reading us all these quotes of Joseph Smith from the Doctrine and Covenants and "asking" about them.
Sister Glenn and I learned a lot at mission conference and we are really working to be exactly obedient because we both know that will help us feel the Spirit and strengthen the work. One thing we are trying to do is to refer to investigators by "Brother_____" and "Sister___" Driving home from the conference we realized that both of us had had the prompting to start that, so we are.
Because of our trips to the city and district meetings we have no procelytizing miles (We get 1500 miles a month) so we have been on bikes as much as possible. We have gone through 5 bikes in the last week. We have had a crazy string of problems, like bikes breaking, tires flatt, etc. I got bit by a dog (but it didn't really break the skin) and Sister Glenn almost got run over by a cop (Sister Glenn had the right of way and the cop was turning left and didn't see her till it was almost too late), so it has been a great crazy week.
In my studies I have continued to try and gain a better understanding of the Atonement and also how I can teach the principles more simply, seeing as we are teaching a 9 yr old son of a becoming-active family. I am also reading out of the New Testament and just finished the Gospels. From reading the gospels I have strengthened my testimony in the importance of obedience and how the commandments show God's love for us. In the Book of Mormon I was reading Alma 12 today and something from it really stuck out. Alma is talking to Zeezrom after he starts to be curious about the gospel and in verse 9-10 warns him. Before I never understood why those verses were there until I was studying and thinking about several investigators we have. They are curious about the gospel and some even have desires to have a knowledge of the gospel, but they haven't taken the steps to act on that. They have not given "heed and dilligence" to it. I couldn't have the knowledge of the gospel that I have without my obedience and dilligence to the gospel. So many people want to "know" the truth, but unless they are willing to act on the truth the Lord won't give it to them. I know that as I am better able to soften my heart and be more humble the Lord will be able to bless me with the wisdom and knowledge that I love to learn about.
I know that this gospel is true and I know that God wants all his children to know about it. I know he wants to grant our righteous desires and is just waiting for us to take those steps to come unto him.
Love,
Sister Lila Jenson
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