Dear Friends and Family,
We had two people at church on Sunday! And one of them is getting baptized on Saturday! We have eight people who have committed to baptism. We are going to be re-setting dates with many of them this week. Many of them haven't been able to come to church because they or their children have been sick. It seems like half of Woodward is sick right now. Thankfully Sister Maude and I haven't been.
One of our investigators hasn't smoked or drank coffee or tea since last Sunday and he is now starting to pray and read the Book of Mormon! He hasn't yet made it to church but we are happy that he is making some progress. Our next goal is going to help him understand the benefits and importance of church attendance.
We have about 11 people that we are teaching right now and it is exciting to actually have appointments and be busy!
Another push for this week is to try to follow PMG (Preach My Gospel) and have members at every lesson possible. We are also trying to prepare members before we teach with them because on Saturday we taught a “member present lesson” and didn't prepare them and the Plan of Salvation suddenly got way more confusing when people are trying to teach it in two different ways. When we were discussing how the lesson went Sister Maude and I also were able to discover ways that we could teach more in unity so we definitely learned from the experience.
I also learned a great lesson, when I'm frustrated the best thing to do is to think about how other people are feeling. After the lesson I was sitting in the car and feeling frustrated and I had this little thought come to my head "Well, how do you think Sister Maude is feeling?" I know this wasn't just my thought. I know it was the Holy Ghost trying to help me feel better and not be selfish. Once I started thinking about her and we talked about how the lesson went I started feeling much better. Thinking about this experience I know I can apply this to any time I'm angry or frustrated, as soon as I'm able to reach out of my own annoyance I feel much better. I'm sorry that I got frustrated but I'm very grateful for the lesson the Spirit was able to teach me and I hope that I can apply that to next time I am frustrated.
So since we've been teaching and checking up on a lot more people we haven't done as much tracting :) but one day we were tracting for about 3 hours and hardly anyone answered their door! We talked to about 4 people an hour! And one time someone opened the door and I said:
"We're missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"
The man responded "That's bad!"
"Why is that?"
"I'm (church name has been removed)!" and shuts the door in our face.
Fun times in Woodward!
Lots of love,
Sister Lila Jenson
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