Monday, March 9, 2009

Sandra's Baptism

From Joram's 3/9 email:

Thanks a ton for the letter. It seems like this week has been made to make me be humble and realize just how blessed i am. I was talking with a missionary who just got back from argentina and he was talking about how he lived in a shack without AC and heat and how he walked 2 miles just to get into his area. He just acted like its what you do and i was like man i am freaking spoiled. Then i get this letter and i am like wow i didn't really have a hard time getting here, i never lived in a car, didn't really work that hard, so yeah i feel like garbage but oh well i guess i will just try to be more thankful for the things i have. Well we had an amazing experience this week.

We finally baptized Sandra. Elder Shepherd flew back from Utah and it was an amazing experience. I did the confirmation on Sunday. She was kind of freaking out before the baptism so we gave her a blessing and the one word i wanted to use more than anything i couldn't remember. I gave the blessing in English because she speaks better English than Spanish and i couldn't remember the word for comfort, all i could think of was consuelo. So yeah i am retarded, I gave a prayer in Zone confrence and realized that i hadn't prayed in English in over 9 months, needless to say it was a little rough. Any way that was an amazing experience. For the confirmation i was worried about what to say and what she needed to hear and then all of a sudden i was just remembered a scripture in DC that says something to the effect of "treasure up in you mind the words of god and it will be given in the very minute that you need it" so i just sat and had faith that i could be an instrument and that everything would go well. And it did, i don't remember a single thing i said but my mouth was saying words and my mind was just thinking i hope this is coherent because i am not in control. It was a wierd but also an amazing experience. So that was very spiritual and gives me a testimony of the power of the spirit. Well thats about all folks.
Love Elder Jensen

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