Dear Family and Friends,
I love my companion Sister Grant because she loves people and it makes tracting fun. We talked to a guy the other day named "Doc" and he told us all these amazing stories about how he fought in Vietnam, managed power plants, was a truck driver, worked on the oil rigs, and raced cars. He was also super emotional. "I'm just a boob!" He started crying twice in just the 30 minutes we were talking to him. He also talked non-stop and just loves to work and always be doing things. He's someone that I would get exhausted just hanging around. I am starting to love meeting new people, too. It's amazing how different people are and how many stories they have.
This week we also talked with a self-pronounced pagan. He was telling us that Mormons are "preppers" because we prepare for things. He also said that his path of paganism includes all paths and that our path is just one of them. He was very much a relativist, everything to him is relative. There is no right or wrong, but everyone perceives things differently and what they perceive is real to them.
It's amazing because even as I come across all these new ideas it doesn't shake my testimony, but yet reinforces it. I know that this gospel is true, that Jesus is the Son of God and that it is only through Him that we are saved. He loves us and has provided us the straight and narrow way so that we can return to live with our Heavenly Father.
Oh, and I taught someone on pot for the first time that I know of. I'm getting over a cold currently and I couldn't really smell, but I knew something was weird and I was pretty sure I was smelling drugs! It's amazing how drugs make a person not really care about the world around them. He was chill to the point of not having an opinion about anything. So it was interesting trying to teach him the gospel.
I know that Heavenly Father wants us to not take things into our bodies that dull our senses because it keeps us from being active and learning and growing and becoming like our Savior.
"If you judge people you have no time to love them" Mother Teresa.
I know this is a true statement. As a missionary I teach people who are not married and living together. As a missionary I know this is a very serious sin, but I have also seen that, where before I might have been prone to judge and look down on people, now I see that their living together doesn't really affect how I treat them. I love them and I am working hard to help them. If they were married I would still love them and work hard to teach them. I will never judge or look down on people I see in church ever again. I know that people who come to church have made an effort to change and to learn how to better themselves and we should accept them with open arms and help them make that transformation.
I'm grateful for the Savior and the fact that He accepts me and is there to help me grow and become better. I hope I can emulate and help all those around me to grow.
Love, Sister Lila Jenson
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