Lila's first Sunday in Lawton

Hi Ya'll!
We have several good people to teach and we are working with 3 part-member families. We found 2 new investigators last week. The mission standard is to have 20 lessons a week and find 3 new investigators and have 30 itc's (initial teaching contacts). I'm happy about the people we have to teach. Also we are going to ward council meetings which really helps to get to know the ward leaders. This week we didn't have any investigators come to church but 4 less-active members came. We were able to introduce one of ladies to the Relief Society president and this lady wants to be a visiting teacher. Cool!

John Bytheway had a version of "I hope they call me on a mission" and instead of "work and work and work like missionaries do" it was "and sweat and sweat and sweat like missionaries do." Well, that is true of Oklahoma as well. Whether or not we are working we are very sweaty. Sigh... life as a missionary! :)

Oh. I LOVE my district! The Elders are all hard workers and all excited to learn more. We have several fairly new Elders and it's just great. One Elder that was in my district in Woodward is now my district leader: Elder Gonzales. Next week for P-day we are going out to the only "mountain" Oklahoma has: Mt Scott. Apparently they have a replica of what Jerusalem might have looked like. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures.

Yay for zucchini! We have a couple here who order vegetables and fruits and they came over with several bags of yummy healthy stuff the other day! Guess what?? Sister Esau loves to wash dishes and I love to cook! It's perfect! She wants to learn how to cook to so we are going to have a lot of fun with that. And she's not picky!

I went up and bore my testimony yesterday. I bore my testimony of Jesus Christ and of the Book of Mormon strengthening my faith in Him and shared one of my favorite scriptures: 2 Timothy 1:(6 or 7) "For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." I know that each person has the power to make changes in the world. I never used to believe that.
Love,
Sister Lila Jenson