Week of 9/28 – 10/5/2014
Mom and Dad;
10-5-2014
Today was actually quite an amazing day. I am learning to really love
General Conference. It really testifies to me that God really does call these
wonderful men to lead us in the Church. I have taken to watching Conference
with a specific question in mind, and found that as I watched, I was able to
find my answers through the witness of the Holy Ghost. In between sessions
today, we met with a less active member named Amber and her husband Jerry who
is a non-member. She taught me a wonderful lesson about truly being founded on
Christ and not to think we are better because we are members of the church. And
then when we went back for Conference, each talk was about having a foundation
in Christ and trusting in the Prophets. I am really starting to love missionary
work and this gospel. I love you all! Be safe in soul and body!
10-4-2014
Today was the Saturday session of general conference. If you didn’t
watch it, you really need to because I gained so much insight today as I
listened to the voice of our wonderful prophets and apostles. I love finding
patterns in the way my life is going and in the conference. Something that has
come up just about every day this week is fear no man. We should not be turned
towards men, but through us man should see Christ and Heavenly Father. Mom, you
said your next step would be reading the scriptures. This is awesome as I have
really grown to because the words and insight I gain by reading them. You
should go back and listen to President Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s talk from the
Saturday 2nd session. I learned a lot from that talk, and it might
give you some excitement to read your scriptures daily. Love you all so much.
“Doubt your Doubt before you Doubt your faith!”
PS – We have this “Less Active” named Sister
(redacted) who is inactive because of health. She hasn’t been able to watch
conference for years because she doesn’t have TV, internet, etc… When we
visited her last, I made it my personal goal to let her watch conference and we
succeeded. Brother (redacted), a man in our ward, lent us an iphone and speaker
so that she could watch it. When we went over to help her find the 2nd
session, she said she felt like she was finally a part of the church again, and
that she had never seen President Uchtdorf in motion before. It is so wonderful
to be a missionary!
10-3-2014 So
today was the big day of the family we are living with daughter’s wedding
reception! After study time this morning, we went to the stake center to help
set up. The theme was kind of a rustic meets elegancy theme and at first I
wasn’t sure if I would be a fan of the twine and burlap but it turned out super
nice! The way they did it actually causes me to rethink having my wedding
reception in a stake center…but we have a while to think about that. I also got
your first letter today along with one from several friends, and the girls. I
love you all so much.
10-2-2014 I
can’t believe it is already October! Today, the daughter of the member we live
with got sealed in the Calgary Temple, which we had the wonderful opportunity
to go to yesterday. Although small like the Brigham City, Utah temple, the
feelings and thoughts you have while there are still marvelous. It is so weird
as a missionary because you feel the spiritual responsibility from your calling
that is hard to describe, but such a wonderful thing to have. You feel like you
are constantly learning, constantly being helped and it is a wonderful thing?
We had a Retrainers meeting today so every new missionary from all over came up
to the Willowpark chapel, which means I go to see my companion from the MTC and
all my other MTC missionaries. Super exciting day!
October 14th, 2014
Mom and Dad;
So
remember how I said that Thanksgiving was on Saturday this week... well it was
actually on Monday but that didn't stop us from getting three turkey dinners.
Also on Sunday, we had a baptism. Technically Sister Rowan is not someone we
can count, because she was an excommunicated member that was being rebaptized,
but it was still cool to see. We taught the first lesson while she was getting
dressed which is the Restoration. It was really cool to be able to say the
Joseph Smith first vision my mermory and to feel the spirit that was in
the room as I did so. Brother Rowan (who is not a member) was sitting in the
first row just beaming with the spirit as if it was trying to work on him so
hard... however he came up to us afterwards and was like thanks for the lesson
"really informative"... we are still working on figuring him out. We
are also working with Janet, and investigator from the Woodlands part of our
territory. She has been kind of shut off to us for the past couple
of weeks, but she is now coming and doing everything we ask her
to do/come to, and she even came to church and the baptism on
Sunday. Because yesterday was Thanksgiving, we wanted to do something
special so we had a picnic with Janet and then we made some cookies and hand
turkeys and "Gobbled" like 12 members houses. (We put the hand
turkeys on their houses). Funny story about that... we where going to put
a hand turkey on a members house and I had written on it "Happy
Harvest... of souls D+C 4:4" which would have been cool if it had
actually been the right house. Needless to say that member can
now have a pretty interesting discussion with her neighbor. Oh well right!! Oh
I also got a letter from Grandma this week which was really cool because I
needed to get her address and low and behold there is was!! Also I got a letter
and braclet, thank you Mandy, and a letter from the girls! Fridays are
wonderful because I get to see all the great things that everyone has sent me!!
I love you all and hope that this week has treated you well. I love getting
emails from everyone and hope that you will sall stay safe, keep praying, and
keep relying on the Lord. It is so weird to think that I have basically been
out of Arizona for 2 months now! The weather has stayed nice here and I am
really hoping that will continue because people have said that it is going to
be a rough winter.
Have
a great week!!
Love
Sister Jensen
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