Dear Family,
I am so grateful for
the many miracles I have been blessed to witness over this past week. This open
house is truly a choice experience that puts many in our path who are being
prepared.
Since I wrote last we
have taught our investigator that recently got married. The big miracle here is
that her new husband also came to the lesson and that really helped. We talked
about where she is at with everything that we have taught her. We focused our
lesson on asking and receiving answers from God, so we read with her from
Joseph Smith history. I love reading this because investigators can usually relate
to Joseph's search for truth amidst chaos. And the Spirit always fills the room
when we read the account of Joseph seeing the Father and the Son. We talked
with her about what it means to be a member of the church. Her friend that was
with us during the lesson also talked about the possibility of them going to
the temple and being sealed for eternity. This brought tears to her eyes. Her husband also told us how everything seems
to be going better with them since she started meeting with us, and how he
feels they really do need to come to church. They are just really sweet, humble
people and I love them.
Saturday was the
beginning of the general open house and it was packed. My favorite person that
I talked to all day was fifty year old man. He came up to me and another sister
and asked if we were the ones answering questions. He then asked us about how
exactly we do baptisms for the dead. Once that made sense to him, we also
explained how we also do sealings for our ancestors so that those have passed
on can also be with their families forever. He didn't want missionaries to come
and teach him, but he did ask for a Book of Mormon.
We were on our normal
schedule on Sunday, and we had a huge miracle! A couple of weeks ago we ate
with a family that has a foreign exchange student, I think she is a junior or
senior. She has been coming to church
with them for the past couple of weeks, and this last Sunday there was no
teacher in their Sunday school class. The other youth in her class, being the
amazing missionaries that they are, asked her if she had any questions. She did
have tons of questions and after talking about them, they asked her if she
wanted to meet with us and she said yes. We talked to her after church and set
up a time next week to teach her the first lesson. She even asked if we could
make it a group discussion by inviting the other kids in her class, which we
readily agreed to. The Lord is always preparing people, and it is amazing to
see them brought to you.
We have been at the
temple all day Monday and Tuesday, and I am pretty wiped out. But again, so
many miracles. I will start with my favorite. Earlier this year, I had the
chance to go to a Christian school and help give a presentation about the
church to a comparative religions class. It was a really awesome experience,
especially because of the teacher. He was really open-minded, he even came to
our ward to see what a church service was like. He also told us that he was
just sticking to sources put out by the church which really amazed me. Well, I
was in the reception tent, when a group of teenagers came through. They really
looked like a seminary class. Once I start talking to them, I find out that
none of them are members and that they are all in this comparative religions
class at Christian school. They asked me a ton of questions, then their teacher
came out from the tour and he remembered me. He took his class out of school
because he just didn't want them to miss this experience. They hadn't done the
unit on the LDS church yet because this was different class. It was just such a
tender mercy because I was only scheduled to be in that tent in an hour, and
tours go through so quickly that it is easy to miss people. God really is
orchestrating this whole thing for people to meet who they need to. I also ran
into a man from Bellefontaine, Ohio. I had a couple from Okinawa come through
my video room that are now stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base. I ran
into some parents of a family that we lived with in Okinawa. I also was in the
video room that a YSA ward that I served in when I was in Meridian came
through, and I got to see some people I was close within that ward. It is
humbling, all that the Lord has blessed me with.
Love,
Sister Jensen
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