On the Lord's Errand

Dearest friends and family,

Edgar update! He is on date to be baptized!! Last Monday, following family home evening, we taught an impromptu lesson. Edgar told us he had questions about Joseph Smith, and those doubts were stopping him from being able to read the Book of Mormon with an open heart. So, we taught him the restoration! I have taught the restoration a time or two, but this time was especially awesome. The spirit was so strong! As I spoke the words of the first vision, I felt as if there were angels surrounding our little group, bearing witness of the truth of what I said. It was incredible, and afterwards we were all a bit speechless, Edgar included. So we set up a temple tour the next day! We walked him around the grounds and told him a little about what we do in temples, then we all went in to the coat room of the temple and pondered for about twenty minutes. We were a little worried at first, because Edgar walked out of there a bit discouraged and sad, but when we talked more about it the next day we were able to help him understand that sometimes we feel that way when there are changes that we need to make in our lives. That seemed to make sense to him, and he put himself on date for baptism (August 27th, although he mentioned yesterday at church that he was thinking of maybe moving it up)! It was awesome. 

Yesterday our church service was a YSA multi-stake meeting in Benton City which was awesome because my Walla Walla people were there! It was so fun to see some of them again. We also saw some crazy airplanes this weekend doing some very scary tricks in honor of the boat races. We didn't see any of the races, but the planes were cool enough for us. 

This week will be crazy for us, as we are officially in charge of planning the baptism for Johnny! It's scheduled for next Saturday, so we have some work to do. We are also in charge of the FHE tonight, so I'll let you know how that goes.

I hope you are all still doing your Come Follow Me! Sometimes I feel that it was written especially for missionaries. This weeks lesson (finishing Acts) was so applicable. This week we had some really hard days. But just because things get hard doesn't mean we aren't doing the Lord's work. And He has been with us through it all!

Love,
S. Jensen