THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS! For Lena I mean. It was apparent that she
was completely enfolded in an almost "bubble-of-goodness" or
protective veil this week. Somehow everything worked out. Yes we saw
the work of Satan and his pathetic attempts to keep her from the being
baptized, but his thwarts were nothing matched with Lena's faith
combined with the prayers of the righteous (by the prayers of the
righteous I mean your prayers :). We were with her everyday this last
week as we did everything we could to make sure she was ready and
surrounded by goodness. We had an interesting week that started with
Family night with the young adults and youth. The spiritual thought at
Family night was on the Holy Ghost. To give a "visual" of the Holy
Ghost, they had Lena leave the room and we set up a course she would
have to walk though with a blindfold on. We assigned one girl to be
the "still, small voice" of the Holy Ghost and then we all were the
loud, tempting and distracting voices of the world and Satan. As Lena
walked in and we started yelling and trying to lead her off the path
it was apparent she had no idea what to do. She tried to listen to the
kind, quiet voice, but in the end she heeded our voices and never made
it to the end. I was quite angry at the girl who lead the activity
because she didnt explain to Lena before she started the course, the
point of the game or what she was even supposed to do! The girl then
used Lena's confusion as the example of what not to do, and this just
made Lena feel bad and then confused her. Afterwards we knew we needed
to better explain to her the Holy Ghost and the great gift that
it is. The next day we had a meeting with her and we explained and
more tesimony of the greatness of the Holy Ghost. We then watched the
movie the testaments. If you have not yet seen this movie, i beg of
you to watch it with your family! It truly testifies of the Book of
Mormon and most importanly of THE Christ. We all ended up completely
crying. Lena just sat there holding her heart saying "I feel him. I
feel the Holy Ghost". It was such a sweet experience to see her truly
feel and learn for herself. She then said the closing prayer. It was
the sweetest prayer I have ever heard. She sincerely thanked the Lord
for His goodness, that she now knew of the truthfullness of the
gospel, and she promised to read the Book of Mormon. And she did! This
week, in 8 days, she read over 25 pages! Mind you, she is only 14. Yet
she LOVEs it and LOVES Nephi. Oh how I love her.
Her baptism on Saturday was blissfully beautiful. Haha the font water
was freezing, and green, and her baptismal suit was HUGE on her, but
she didnt even care! And Sunday she recieved the gift of the Holy
Ghost. Afterwards she leaned over to me and asked "so I have the Holy
Ghost now always???". I smiled and nodded and watched as she sat back
and smiled and held her heart. She called her mom and told her all
about it and just kept holding her heart and saying, "I feel him mom.
In my heart".
I just could cry as I think about this last week. It was amazing. I
hope all of you, like Lena, are reading and truly trying to FEEL and
FOLLOW the still small voice of the Holy Ghost. I promise you he will
lead you!
I love you all! Love, Sis Tenney
ps- the photos. Me and Lena, Lena dancing of excitement before the
baptism haha, her big baptismal clothes, and the nasty green water
haha.
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