Dear everyone,
Life is still great on the other side of the world. After
a very long and stressful couple of days, Clovis and Jaqueline's papers finally
came in at the last possible second and they were able to get baptized on
Saturday, that was a great day.
So Tuesday we already had their baptismal interviews,
which they both passed. Then all that was left was to wait for the papers to
arrive. They were sent from Toliara last Thursday, so we were in for a
nailbiter. Thursday night, very late, a full week after they were sent, the
papers finally made it here to Tamatave. That made for a frantic Friday morning
of trying to put them all together and make it work out, only to find that one
was missing. All of this work and we were still missing a paper. Then somehow,
almost miraculously, we found in their old cupboards a diferent paper that had
the same effect when we got to town hall. It all worked out and we were finally
able to get them married on Saturday morning before being baptized on Saturday
afternoon. Baptizing Clovis was interesting because he is as tall as I am and
the water was only just above knee deep, but we made it work. I love this
family so much. They have been learning since before I got here and wanted so
badly to be baptized but thought it would never happen, just because of all of
the problems, but the Lord always finds a way.
So in my studies this week I looked a little bit in to
self mastery as a part of repentance. It is a very hard part of repentance.
Some old habits are very very hard to kick. I really like the scripture of
Mosiah 3:19, it's one of my favorites. As it
says, we must be able to put off the natural man if we are ever going to be
able to return to our father in heaven. That means having enough self control
to be able to change and put off the natural man.
Love you all,
Elder Jensen
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