This past week has flown by, we've been so busy. We have new TRC investigators and I'm not ready to say goodbye to them yet because teaching them has been great. Kristina is a very sweet woman, and has absorbed everything we've taught her. Oleksandr is more difficult. He's from Ukraine, and upon meeting him he told us he doesn't believe in God, but that he's open to learning about the gospel. His lessons have been my favorite because they've been so hard. By the end of our first lesson, we asked him if he would commit to pray by the next lesson and he flat out told us no. (In the most polite way possible.) so we asked him to read from the Book of Mormon instead, which he said he would do.
Our last lesson, we planned to talk about the apostasy and restoration so that we could expound upon the importance of the Book of Mormon. Well that's not what we talked about at all. For the first ten minutes or so he was just asking us questions about our missions and about the MTC. When we finally started to go into the lesson he stopped us after a few minutes and apologetically said "girls I've actually got to go in a few minutes to be at another lesson." So I asked if we could each at least share our favorite scripture with him. Sister Freeman shared hers after mine, reciting 1 Nephi 3:7 from memory. After she finished, and ended with "save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them" Oleksandr immediately asked "How? How does he prepare a way?" And from there we went into how to recognize the spirit! It was such a great little mini lesson and by the end he told us that he really admired that we knew and could trust that God was there and that he wanted that for himself. The spirit was definitely there and it was such a great lesson!! Meeting with him has helped my confidence as a missionary grow, and my testimony of the gospel as well.
Backing up to Sunday though, Sister Freeman and I taught relief society and I guess I've been spoiled with my gospel principles class because holy cow it was SILENT. The sisters from my district answered questions and would talk, as well as towards the end the other sisters from our zone were talking more, but other than that, the sisters joining us were no help. I was told it was still a good lesson. We went over 1 Nephi chapter 13, and used that to talk about the apostasy and Restoration. It is such an amazing chapter! As I was reading it I realized I never really understood that chapter but it talks all about the Bible and how the Book of Mormon will come about and my mind was blown and HOW DID I MISS THAT BEFORE?? (it went to caps there but I think it was appropriate)
Another amazing thing- D. Todd Christofferson came and spoke for our Tuesday evening Devotional! (also quick side note, his cousin is our branch president in the MTC...i didn't realize they were actually related till after the devotional and he said something..) Sister Christofferson also spoke, she had a lot to say about charity and keeping faith. Elder Christofferson spoke about the history of the Book of Mormon and reminded us all of what hardship the early saints went through to bring it about. Towards the end of his talk he something that really struck me, "the Book of Mormon is the most powerful written testimony in existence today." It reminded me how important it is to just get your investigators to read, and how as long as they just open the book, the spirit will begin to work within them.
Some fun things this week-
I have realized my addiction to cereal. I find myself craving cereal quite a bit. No not the healthy "life" cereal that Sister Freeman so lovingly suggests. (This is ironic because she drinks coke at breakfast almost every day.) No but I keep craving the normal kinds like frosted flakes, honey nut cheerios, and OH'S. Sadly, the MTC knockoff cereal brands have nothing comparable to Oh's.
The other sisters in my district and I used to play soccer during exercise time, but we have now graduated to foursquare and we get QUITE competitive.
Thats all for this week, I love hearing from you all, take care!<3
Love,
Sister Jensen<3
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