Happy Thanksgiving!

Dear Friends and Family,

Guess what! There were five people that came to church on Sunday!

We are consistently finding about 3 new investigators a week which is excellent because many of them don't progress so we have to keep finding more. But we found 2 awesome investigators this week! One is a 60ish African American lady that we tracted into on Friday. She's very typical Christian lady and one of the members was kind enough to give her a ride. We also found a 28 year old guy from New York. We tracted into him at about 4pm on Saturday and he said he'd come to church and then he did! We taught him last night and invited him to be baptized which he said he would if the spirit confirmed that is was true. He was raised Roman Catholic and is a super smart well-read person. He seemed to really like church and we are excited to teach him more.

The work is going really well here in Lawton and I really hope I stay here the rest of my mission. We had an excellent conference on Thursday with all the Sisters in the mission and President and Sister Taylor. We talked about missionary work but it was mostly focused on how to be a leader in the church as a women and a leader in the mission as a sister. I learned a lot of amazing things. President Taylor keeps telling us how our mission is going to prepare us to serve the Lord so much better. He said that we are learning things here on a mission that it would be hard to learn other ways (especially in the short period of 18 months). We had an amazing testimony meeting with all the Sisters and I could feel the Spirit so strong. In the past I haven't had the best opinions about some of these sisters. But I felt such a great love for all of them. It was a testimony for me that the closer we grow to the Lord the closer we will grow to other people.

This week we also met a "prophet" while we were tracting. She seemed like a nice lady. But she was telling us all this stuff about how we needed to stop teaching about Christ and teach people about how they can defeat Satan using the "word of God" like Jesus did. I've never had a Christian lady tell me to stop talking about Jesus Christ before; that was pretty crazy. She pretty much talked at us for over an hour and wouldn't let us get in a word. So not a very productive experience, but very interesting.

This week an 8 year old of a less active family got baptized. We have been teaching this family and they have started coming back to church! The dad even got to baptize his son it was awesome! I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost which was fun. I basically used a few analogies to describe the Holy Ghost. I told them: "Heavenly Father wants you to be a Prince in his Kingdom and he's giving you the HG to teach you how to become that person. And so we should listen to the Holy Ghost because it's going to help us be a prince or princess with God." And I drew a crown on the chalk board :) And used the phrase "Be loyal to the royal within!" I love that phrase! I felt the Spirit so much at that baptism. I just felt like these people truly had changed and that they really saw the consequences of their actions.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love

Sister Lila Jenson