This week started off great! We had
been worried about a couple we are teaching because we palnned to go to
the Cartório with them Tuesday and we spent all day Monday calling them to confirm. Then when Tuesday
came, they still weren't answering the phone. Just before lunch, we
got a call and they said they were in the Cartório waiting for us. We
practically ran there in the hot sun to get there on time. When we
arrived, they were finishing and asked us to be the witnesses at their
wedding. My first time being a witness! They will be married tomorrow!!! And we would like to baptize Lorencio Saturday. Despite the lack of support from Carla's mom, they are getting married and I'm so happy for them for making the right choice.
We also went to visit Eziquiel this week to get him
back on track for his baptism, but he was sick and then he traveled. I
don't know how many times we passed that young man's house this
week...at least 20 times! Unfortunately he wasn't baptized, but I still
feel like he will be.
Finally, this week we were able to baptize a young
man named Kennedy. He is 14 years old and was baptized a little over a
year ago, but was never confirmed and registered in the church's system.
After a year, you have to be baptized a again. Don't ask me how he
got lost in the process, I don't know...but I am grateful that we were
able to help him be baptized again and confirmed Sunday. That was truely a miracle. I feel like he is a lot more prepared now than he was a year ago.
It is truely a blessing to be a missionary. This
week we found a lot of great families to start teaching and with the
wedding of Carla and Lorencio, I'm super excited for this week. I'm
grateful for the greater testimony I gained this week of the Book of
Mormon. I started reading it with the Manual they use in institute and
it has helped my study a lot! I loved reading about the Brother of
Jared this week and his great faith he had in the Lord. The Brother of
Jared was able to do many marvelous things because of his faith. And
the Brother of Jared worked by faith until the day he asked the Lord to
touch the 16 stones he gathered so that they could have light in the
ships. And his faith was so great that the scriptures say th following
about his experience:
17 And
now, as I, Moroni, said I could not make a full account of these things
which are written, therefore it sufficeth me to say that Jesus showed
himself unto this man in the spirit, even after the manner and in the
likeness of the same body even as he showed himself unto the Nephites.
18 And
he ministered unto him even as he ministered unto the Nephites; and all
this, that this man might know that he was God, because of the many
great works which the Lord had showed unto him.
The Brother of Jared no longer had faith in
the moment he saw the finger of Christ, but a perfect knowledge of God.
To the point that he could not be kept from wthin the veil. I love
these scriptures. The Brother of Jared began with faith and one day
arrived at a perfect knowledge. We too can gain a perfect knowledge of
these things. But first, we need to walk by faith. We can even doubt
sometimes because "doubts create space for faith to exist". I love the
gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm grateful to have the precious gift of the
Holy Ghost to guide me in the right direction. I can't imagine my life
without this precious gift that confirms to me that what I'm doing is
right. I'm sure that is why baptizing and confirming people makes me so
happy because they get to have this precious gift too. I look forward
to the day when, like the Brother of Jared, I can't be held within the
veil any longer and my faith will be a perfect knowledge. Like the
Brother of Jared, one of my greatest desires is to see the face of
Christ.
I love you all. Have a great week!
Sister Jensen
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