Hello Hello Hello
every one!
Well... sad news...
:(... Sister Layton is leaving me to go to the south of the mission... my guess
is that she will go either to Cardston or Medicine Hat (which I would love)...
but I am rEEEAaaaalllLLLyyyyy going to miss her. Luckily we live in the same state
and are going home at the same time so it won't be too big of an issue. I just
hope that because she is going south that I will see her again before we
leave.
Okay so other then
that sad news this week has been AMAZING! (Like always!)
Crazy food, crazy fun,
and great progress in the work!
Let us start with the
CraZy food of the week!
Tuesday: SUPER SPICY
PABLANO SOUP... okay it was really good and not that crazy but I felt bad
leaving it out because it was out of the normal.
Wednesday: (Here is
where the fun begins) We have had dinner with our member Sister Anderson before
and she promised us that next time we have dinner at her house she is making
Jamaican food... which includes.... wait for it.... GOAT!!!!!! We had goat curry!
It is actually really good and I wasn't sure that I would like it.
Thursday: Sushi! (okay
not weird for me but it was really good). A member decided to take us out for
dinner.... I really like Sushi.
Saturday: We had
Escargot! The Guidis are an French/Italian couple in our ward and they always
make great food. She wanted to make us a traditional holiday meal so we had a
four course meal of Escargot, Cappelini in Bouillon, Lamb steak, (a cheese
course with both Italian and French cheese) and Pie... Blueberry pie. I love
them. They are so missionary minded and the are the couple that have been
helping us with Eddy. The best!
Sunday: Organic
foods!
Okay so enough for
making you hungry... it was just a really strange week in the food
department!
On to the more
eventful and miraculous things!
Miracles of the
week:
Last week we got a
phone call from a lady named Shelby. She has a friend that is LDS and she
needed some help getting to the food bank and back so she called us up and we
set up a member who could go with us to take her and talk to her about the
gospel. Tuesday was the day! Sister Bauer drove us all to the Food Bank and we
got to see what it was like to be on the other side of the conveyor belt for
once. Shelby and her kids are allergic to gluten so she got special foods, but
got the food that she needed. Sister Bauer was a great fellow shipper as she
has a lot in common with Shelby and on our way home we talked a lot about her
beliefs and what she knew about the church. We are hoping to be able to sit
down with her this week before transfers!
We also have been in
contact with Kory and Catherine a couple of other potential investigators who
are really struggling financially right now. It has been really great to
support them and gain a relationship with them and they have taught me a lot
about trusting in the Lord. They said that they might come to church this
upcoming Sunday, so hopefully they can make it out.
We had an amazing
District meeting this week. I am really going to miss this district as most of
them are getting transferred but I am super proud because most of the Elders in
our district have just come out and they are all training a new missionary this
transfer.
On Thursday we did
another round of Christmas wrapping in the mall. It is always a fun time but
this time we didn't have another set of missionaries with us we had two
volunteers. Their names were Shelby and Lina. It was great talking with them
and we got into a natural conversation about religion. One was super into
Christianity and the other was Chinese so it was great to hear about their
cultural. I love Sister Layton because she is always looking for chances to
share what she knows and she was trying to get them to ask questions so that
she could share and by the end of the day we had only wrapped 5 presents (it
wasn't busy at all), but we had taught the Plan of Salvation to them so that
was amazing. I really felt the spirit and hope that it helped them start off
the Christmas season right!
We met a new less-active.
Heavenly Father keeps helping us find new less-actives to teach. Seriously I
think we found a least a new one every week... Hmm... well I am okay with
that.
Sunday one of our
members brought their Friend Sophie to our Stake Christmas Music Festival! I
seriously love this ward!
Okay so other fun
events of the week!
Check it out! We went
to the Calgary Tower and had lunch as a district! The tower has a restaurant at
the top that looks out over the city and it rotates as you eat so you can see
the city from everyside. The picture on the top consists of some of my area...
including the bit of downtown that we cover.
We went to our young
women's activity to try to get to know a nonmember part member girl who comes
to church every week and made cute little sock snowmen... THEY ARE SO CUTE! And
we got to know Mckenzie better too!
The Wildwood ward
asked us as a district to sing at their ward Christmas party... which as so
happened to be a ward Christmas lunch. We sang Oh Come All Ye Faithful and it
went pretty well. Elder Linford who covers wildwood was on the Voice and so
that whole ward has been pretty hyped on missionaries singing. It went well. I
think that this zone has been the most musical zone I have ever been in which I
love! We also got to sing for the Stake Musical Fireside which was great. We
sung the First Noel and because Elder Clabaux is French we sang the first verse
in French. We also sang with the Stake Choir.
(Soooo sorry this is
so long... you can skim and just look at the pictures if you want)
We also made a poem
this week so encourage the Christmas Book of Mormon challenge that we extended
out to the ward. It goes as follows.
Twas 2 weeks before
Christmas
and all through the
ward
all the members were
learning
about Christ the Lord
All there coats were
hung
in the coatroom with
care
in hopes that the
spirit
soon would be there
All the children were
singing
by their teachers were
led
while visions of
Prophets
danced in their heads
And mom in her
dress
and dad in his tie
had just settled
down
for a lesson in 3
Nephi
They learned and they
listened
there was quite the
chatter
you may ask
"Well, why?"
and this was the
matter:
The star in the sky
more precious then
Gold
gave the luster of
Mid-day
as the prophets
foretold
The star was a
symbol
or Hope,love and birth
they knew in a
moment
Christ has come to the
Earth
Now this is the story
the Book of Mormon
Shares
that Christ did
come
and YES! He does
care!
You all have a witness
We know that it's true
Here is our challenge
we give it to you
Hand out a copy
to friend or to foe
it will bless you
no need to feel low
We are here to support
you
to lend you our aid
we hope with this
poem
your day has been
made!
Well that is the week
everyone! It was great with a lot of events! I love you all!
Have a great
week!
Love,
Sister Jensen
