Dear Family and Friends,
Well, guess what!?
My companion is getting transferred! I'm so sad. I've really enjoyed working with her and I've learned so much from her and she is just a super fun companion. After Wednesday morning I'll be companions with Sister Maud. She's been out about 14 months. I met her once a few weeks ago at the leadership training when I was there to get my quarterly interview with the mission president.
So the next two days are going to be crazy-packed--trying to make sure I know what I need to know about the area before Sister Glenn leaves. Thankfully I'll be able to see her next week when we have our Mission Temple Conference on Dec 2-3. It's kind of crazy how as a missionary our life is not in our hands at all.
Transfer weeks are crazy. Thursday we plan through the next Sunday but we never know if we will both be there or not. Sunday night we get the call about what is happening. Monday is P-day so we can pack if need be and then some of Tuesday is often to say goodbye to people and then Wednesday morning is transfers. Everyone gathers in the Moore Stake Center and it's cool to see all the missionaries and their companions who are getting transferred. Then the next week is trying to continue the work and adjusting to a new companion, a new way of teaching together, a new way of doing things and if your leaving a new set of members, investigators, etc.
I guess all in all I'm settling into mission life. I'm so grateful for the person I'm becoming and the work I'm able to do. This last week I have realized how much I love the Book of Mormon! We are teaching an 80 year old woman who is an energizer bunny! She has so much energy and always wants to learn new things. She is going to get baptized in the next few weeks and she LOVES the Book of Mormon. She studies it every night, both reading it and looking up scriptures from the lessons we have taught her and cross referencing it with the Holy Bible. She couldn’t come to church one week and so she looked at the program from church from the previous week which listed the Sunday School lesson that was being taught that day and studied it on her own. We asked her how she was feeling about church and what we had taught her and she told us that she likes it and that it all fits in with what she knows. After the first night of reading the Book of Mormon she said she knew that Lehi's vision had to be from God and that she knew the Book of Mormon was true. It is so amazing to see the gospel work in people's lives. She is the perfect example of how being Christian and being faithful to what you know can really be such a wonderful foundation for the restored gospel. She understands so much already and the skills and habits she has of reading & studying the scriptures and her amazing faith in the Lord and prayer will serve her so well and will help her to grow in the gospel. Seeing her example has really strengthened me and showed me again how wonderful this gospel really is.
I LOVE General Conference! On Friday we got the November 2010 Ensign (finally) and I love reading over those talks. I know without a doubt that the prophet and the apostles are called of God. The things they say are perfect and being part of many people's lives I have seen how widely they apply. The words they say are for everyone and everyone can benefit from them. I have come to see how essential faith is, that it is a principle of action, like people always say, but it really is true. When believe really believe and know that God loves them and that He has given us commandments then it becomes easy to make decisions about what to do and keeps us from being paralyzed by "Why?" question. We can't move on with things we are facing when we are constantly questioning the will of God, it doesn't help us to ask the why question, at all. One line that stuck out to me from a general conference talk was that, we face many decisions in our lives that affect our Eternal Salvation, "none of which are difficult." We often think of decisions as difficult and hard but if we have faith then it becomes obvious the things we should and shouldn't do and we have the motivation to do them as we build our faith in a loving Heavenly Father.
So that's what's up.
Love you all!
Sister Lila Jenson
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