Dear
Family,
It was another great
week here in the Idaho Nampa Mission! I have been truly blessed to be put in
this area. Our wards are fabulous and there are many people who have been
prepared by the members to receive the gospel. I’m hoping to stay a while :) We
talked to 3 or 4 people briefly this week who are interested in meeting with us
and learning more about the gospel. We
are looking forward to working with them.
One highlight from
this week is J. We were told that she
would be a good visit, so we visited with her. We were having a lovely talk
with her, just getting to know her and her story. She has had some really hard
things happen to her in her life. Growing up, she lived in Salt Lake so she
always went to church with her friends and became active in the church. She
kept on saying that she knew she was happiest when she was active in church.
Then, she asked us if we could teach her the first missionary discussion. We
were like, "Yes, of course!!!" We taught her, and the Spirit was
really strong. She kept on saying that she was glad we came and that she thought
we were supposed to come. It was just one of those great missionary moments
that you know that you are where Heavenly Father wants you to be, helping his
children be brought back to His warm embrace.
We also got to meet
with I. again. We finished talking about the Restoration and that Book of Mormon. She was so excited about having a living prophet and is looking forward
to General Conference next month. I have been thinking a lot lately about the
Restoration and about Joseph Smith. It is so incredibly important for us to
have strong testimony of Joseph Smith as a prophet, because our religion does
stand on the fact that he was called as a prophet. If he wasn't, it would fall.
And how do we know that he was a prophet? It is quite simply by the power of
the Holy Ghost. We read the Book of Mormon and ask Heavenly Father in prayer if
it is true not. It is so simple They only way we can receive truth is from
Heavenly Father, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
I love this quote from
Brigham Young:
“If all the talent, tact, wisdom, and refinement of the world had been sent to
me with the Book of Mormon, and had declared, in the most exalted of earthly
eloquence, the truth of it, undertaking to prove it by learning and worldly
wisdom, they would have been to me like smoke which arises only to vanish away.
But when I saw a man without eloquence or talents for public speaking, who
could only say, ‘I know by the power of the Holy Ghost that the Book of Mormon
is true, that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of the Lord,’ the Holy Ghost proceeding
from that individual illuminated my understanding, and a light, glory, and
immortality were before me. I was encircled by them, filled with them, and I
knew for myself that the testimony of the man was true."
I know that Joseph
Smith was a prophet, called to restore the church of Jesus Christ. And I know
it by the power of the Holy Ghost. I invite all who do not have this life
changing knowledge to read the Book of Mormon, and ask Heavenly Father if it is
His word and if He did call Joseph Smith as a prophet and gave him power to
translate it. And as Moroni promises "And by the power of the Holy Ghost
ye may know the truth of all things."
I love being a
missionary, I love this gospel and I know that it is true. It is the only way
to find peace in this life, and ever-lasting happiness in the next.
Love,
Sister Jensen
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