New Car and New Companion

Dear Family and Friends,
Well we got transfer calls last night and guess what??????


Sister Holt and I are both staying, but we are getting a third companion!!!! Her name is Sister Weaver and she has been out for 6months. I don't really know her that well, but I talked with her a little bit at the temple conference and I think it will be great. Also my MTC companion, Sister Grant is going to be whitewash training a new greenie in an area in my district! One of the Elders went home because his mom was about to die and so no missionaries have been in that area for about a month now. But we taught the girl that had a baptismal date. And she got baptized on Saturday!!!!!! Deanna is so awesome! We are excited for her! But so we will have 5 sisters and 2 elders in our district, lol crazy! And Elder Olsen, one of the Elders in my MTC district is going to be one of our Zone leaders! I am so excited! Did I ever mention that he was Sister Grants and my companion for a day at the MTC? All the other Elders in our district left the day before we did, so for a whole day we were his companions and he had a little sticker on his name tag that said "solo". It was super fun and funny. People at the MTC kept giving him weird looks for walking around alone with two sister missionaries, lol.

We got a new car, a 2011 Ford Fusion. It's silver and its name is Mushu, like the dragon from Mulan. We got it on Thursday and they are going to sell our old car, which was a 2008 Toyota Corolla, and it was red and his name was Elmo. It was one of the oldest cars in the mission and had about 60,000 miles on it. Missionaries are so spoiled. When we got our car it had 32 miles on the odometer! Crazy! This will probably be the nicest or at least newest car I will ever drive, lol.

One thing I learned in the last few days is that once we are baptized we enter into the Kingdom of God on Earth. And then Enduring to the End is simply abiding in God's Kingdom and not choosing to leave. The walls of this kingdom are the covenants we make, one side being baptism and the other the temple covenants so God is simply asking us not to walk over and trample our covenant. I like thinking of it that way.

I love learning about the Doctrine of Christ (Faith in Jesus Christ, Repentance, Baptism, Gift of the Holy Ghost, Enduring to the End). Every time President Taylor speaks on it, it is always different yet the same. I know there is more substance to these principles then I will ever fully understand on Earth but I want to understand as much as possible.

Everything I learn strengthens my testimony of the Savior. I see so quickly that those who follow him are really happier and those who don't have it harder and don't have peace. In Relief Society the teacher asked us to list the consequences of obedience: eternal life, peace, joy, happiness, charity, knowledge, etc and then the consequences of disobedience: sorrow, guilt, pride, temporary pleasure, etc and it was so easy to see again, why it is so important to be obedient to God's commandments.

Love,

Sister Lila Jenson

A Record Set! Plus some funny photos of signs!

We had 6 people come to church yesterday!!! That's the most that I've ever had come in one
week during my whole mission! It was really exciting. Kind of crazy because yesterday we were arranging rides for everyone because they didn't have a car. There was a husband and his wife and their daughter. The husband is really excited and seems like he wants to get baptized. The wife is also very interested. Her daughter from a previous marriage has some slight mental disability and is very sweet, and only lives with them sometimes. We are really excited about this family and we were able to call ward leaders and give them a heads up about who was coming to church and everyone did a very good job of introducing themselves and getting them involved. We have the best Gospel Principles teacher!!! His name is Brother James and he is 29 a convert and served a Chinese-speaking mission in CA. His wife is also a convert from Mongolia who also served a mission in her country. He is super good about involving people in class discussion and explaining things that investigators wouldn't have been introduced to yet, like terms or principles that might be new to them.

Guess what?!! We get to go to the Temple on Wednesday! I have been super excited about this for over a month now! We are having a temple conference, so we will get to see about half of the missionaries in the mission, half go Tuesday and the other half Wednesday. And we have a zone conference type thing, plus the temple. It will probably end up going till about 5pm. And guess what? I can do the Virtue experiences and project (reading the Book of Mormon) and get the ribbon or whatever for that, so I am. And 3 out of 4 of the experiences are about preparing to go to the temple. So it's been cool to refresh my memory and really prepare to go to the temple again.

This week a 21 year old girl with Downs syndrome passed away in our ward. Her family is related to several other families in the ward and they just moved in a few months ago. Her name was Brittany and they had a viewing at the church on Friday, which we got to go to. It brought back a lot of memories, and I know I don't know what they are going through, but yet I do. It was interesting to see how the family felt they had to comfort the rest of the ward.

On a side note to that, at the viewing, one of the girls who's 16 came up and told me that she had been putting mormon.org cards in the books and CD's at the library because she spends a lot of time there and thought it would be a good way to do missionary work. However, about 8-10 missionaries go there on p-day to email and another time in the week to research on mormon.org. So when she said that, I immediately was thinking that the library staff would probably not be very happy and would think it was us. So right as I got on the computer to email today the librarian came up to us and told us they had been finding cards. Luckily I was the one they came up to and was able to tell her that it was this girl in the congregation and not us. So for anyone else, probably not the best idea to stick tons of mormon.org cards in the library books.

So I am sending some pictures but they are random ones of signs up all over OKC. Well there is a little city "Warr Acres" that is part of OKC and they have these funny signs up all over so I decided to "collect" them by taking pictures of each one.

1. A hand of friendship

2. "A city set on a hill" President R. Reagan

3. A city with a heart in the heart of Oklahoma

4. Thank you for shopping in Historical US Route 66 America's Favorite Highway

5.Welcome to Warr Acres Almost Capital of Oklahoma

6. The Small City with a Big Heart

Hmmm, well there are a lot more of these signs so I guess I'll have to get some more of them this week.



Love Sister Lila Jenson