Happy Fall Ya'll!!!
I had a great experience at Fast and Testimony meetings this week. I was fasting for a less active member, and that I would have the ability and power to become a better missionary. I was pondering what Christ had done for us and I realized how amazing it was that we are able to repent and receive forgiveness. I had this wave of gratitude wash over me for Heavenly Father's forgiveness for both me and all the people that were sitting in sacrament meeting. I know that God loves us and wants to forgive us. Isn't it amazing how repentance works!? And the less-active member that I was fasting for came to church with her two kids for the first time in a long time! She's had bad experiences with people at church before and I was so glad that many people came up to her and said hi and were talking with her. She has been going through a lot of health issues but I think this good experience will help her come in the future!
In Relief Society there was another less-active sister that got up and bore her testimony and said that it was because of the sister missionaries that she was there that day. She has been coming for the last three weeks and I am so happy to see her there. We were going through a list of part member families and we knocked on her door and she let us right in! We talked with her and she is just wonderful. She was raised in the Church, but married a man of another faith and stopped coming to church. But she's coming again! In her testimony she said that her grandma had recently died and that made her see how fragile this life is. We were definitely there at the right time to help her come back! We are eating dinner with her tomorrow and she has 3 kids who haven't been baptized and her husband, who hopefully we will be able to teach!
I recently finished The Book of Mormon and before I started it again and wanted to pick out several specific things to look for as I read it. After a few days of pondering I came up with 4 topics.
• Why we need The Book of Mormon?
• Why do we need a Savior?
• How do we overcome challenges and problems?
• What are the strategies and philosophies of Satan?
I am marking each of these in different colors and I am seeing so much more of it apply to my life and the lives of those I am teaching. There are so many verses in even just 1 Nephi that talk about the Lord helping people to overcome challenges!
We had a great lesson on Thanksgiving in RS this week and I am so grateful for gratitude. That may sound a little repetitive, but it's not. I know having an attitude of gratitude makes life so much happier. What if we didn't know how to be grateful, that would be just so sad! May you all experience the joy of a grateful heart as we come close to celebrating Thanksgiving Day.
Gratefully ;)
Sister Lila Jenson
P.S. Sorry for all the letters I haven't responded to yet. You will get letters this week!
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