What an incredible general conference! I couldn't be more excited for April, although I have a lot of work to do before then. As I listened to our beloved prophet and apostles speak, I began to feel a sense of urgency. Our Savior is coming, and we need to prepare ourselves, our families, our friends, and the world.
One thing that stuck out to me was how important it is to understand the covenants that we have made. We can't fully commit to keeping our promises with God unless we understand them, as completely as possible! I also felt an emphasis on building our spiritual strength in order to control our physical desires. Many of the temptations the adversary throws at us originate from our "natural man" and from having a physical body, so learning to subject our physical hungers to our spiritual desires is a major purpose of our lives here on Earth. It isn't always easy, but when we try to remember who we are and who our Father is, it becomes possible. We have to be careful not to grow complacent in that constant battle!
So Jose, one of the people we found last week, has been progressing a lot. We met him out on the street, and have since taught him five times and he came and watched part of conference with us! He has committed to be baptized on October 26th. The catch-- he might actually already be a member haha. In our last lesson, I asked if he had ever been baptized before, and after some hesitation he said that he thought so. So we are trying to hunt down his records! If we can't find them, he will need to be baptized again, but we are thinking they may be in Hermiston. Either way, Jose is grateful to have been found! The other day at our lesson he was so grateful that he had prepared us a "goodie bag" containing some canned tuna, vienna sausages, oatmeal, applesauce etc. Oh and also some green tea. We better go over the word of wisdom again...
We found two new people to teach, both referrals from other members of our district. Elizabeth and Enrique! Both are pretty busy with work and school, but that's basically every young adult ever. We also found Jacob. He has three jobs right now plus school. So it's been a little hard to teach him.
Some other things:
We are going to do a "missionary question and answer session" with Omar and all of his nonmember friends he brings to volleyball! We've been playing with them for months now, but this is the first step towards being able to teach them! Omar is super excited, as are we.
Sister Gibson made banana muffins for conference, and Jose ate...all of them. He was like, I think I'm addicted to these! It was pretty funny. And everyone else was like, hmm, yeah, wonder what they tasted like!
I can now be the witness for a baptism, or a sealing! What!!
Edgar went on splits with the elders, and it was so cool. He truly has become a new person in Christ.
I hope you all have a good week!
Love,
Sister Jensen
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