Otterly Terrifying

This morning we were driving home from the store and I saw a dead otter and I started crying.That was probably the saddest dead thing I have ever seen on the road. 

 

We had interviews with President Innes and it is always so good to speak with him and be able to get advice for our area. We are still finding like crazy and we are having some luck! 

We ran into a former investigator named Dot and she told us how she missed us and wanted us to come back and visit her so hopefully that will be good! It is crazy being in an area for a while; I have started making friends with people in stores and gas stations and a lot of them are asking questions for why we are here! Its amazing to see what the Lord will do when you are on His errand! 

I think for this week I would have y'all read "Try,Try, Try" because that is one of my favorite talks! 

Anyway, gator season is among us! One of our members saw a gator on his land so hopefully I wont have to run in a zig-zag. 

I love y'all and I hope y'all have a blessed week! 

Love,

Sister Jensen

Spanish???

So I guess the really great experience I had this week was that I got to go on exchanges with our sister training leaders; well for our case it was the hermana training leaders. So, I was thrown into a day full of speaking Spanish and I didn't have any clue what was going on. The amazing thing that happened was that when I testified of Christ, even though they didn't have any idea what I was saying, the Spirit was able to touch them. It was honestly some of the strongest feelings of the Spirit I have ever felt. 

I know that as we do all we can and that as we testify of the truth everyone will feel the Spirit and know that it is true! 

It is amazing being able to be on a mission!
This week instead of a talk to read, study the Come, Follow Me and say your prayers! 

I love y'all so much and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

8 MONTHS

Well, this week was 8 months on the mish, which is a little cray that I have been out for that 

long but it doesn't feel like that long! 

This week was really good! We had Zone Conference and got to learn a lot! I learned a lot 

about how we need to plan better and just step up. It is so great and I love it so much! 

We are in finding mode hard core and we have found some really promising families. I am 

super excited to spread this amazing gospel! 

Funny thing here is when we drive we see a lot of dead opossums. I just want to see one 

alive. I don't know if that is funny to y'all but they are legit all over the road dead. It's quite 

a sight and just a new thing to see everywhere! 

Well, this week y'all should read Michelle Craig's devotional called "This is My day of 

Opportunity". It is so good and I love it! 

I love y'all so much and have a blessed week! Keep spreading the gospel wherever you are! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

Revelation is Legit

This week was so awesome! We have been trying to find like crazy! We have found one new person this week. Her name is Marie and she wants us to come and do a bible study with her and her family! I am stinkin' pumped! It has been a while since we have found someone but, we are going hard and giving it our all in this area! 

We are also doing a lot of service and with that simple thing it has really helped to strengthen our testimony. When we focus outward we feel Heavenly Fathers love for us and it is a way to help us while helping others!

Well... in other news we can talk to our fam bams weekly!! It has been a crazy revelation but it will be so good and it will help so much with missionary work!

I love that, not only is there revelation for our church, but for our lives. As we strive to have the Holy Ghost in our life we can be guided by that same power! How awesome is that, Heavenly Father loves us so much and wants us to talk to him

Well, read the talk "That Your Joy May be Perfect"! It is a really good one!

I love y'all and have a blessed week!

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

Congaree round three!

I am still here in Congaree and I love that I am here! 

My new companion is Sister Rencher and she has been out on her mission for 3 months, so I think that is crazy! I am almost at 8 months and that is freaking me out! 

We have been doing a lot with less active members and trying to get them back! We had a game night with a couple of members and my competitive side came out and I think it scared them all a little bit lol! I just really love this ward and how much they treat me like family. I am just continuing to build the relationships and I love it! 

We were able to teach mission prep this week and that was weird! I got to teach future missionaries what it is like to be a missionary and it was awesome! They asked a lot of deep questions and the last one was "what does the Savior mean to you"? 

That is something I would want all y'all to ponder on and really continue to build your relationship with Christ because that is how we will have joy in this life!  

I love y'all and I hope you have a blessed week! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

Transfers...

I am sorry this is such a crappy email but we are on tablets today so it's all good! 

So, I am staying in Congaree and I am getting a new companion so that will be legit! I am excited!

This week was really good and it was full of ministering. 

We were able to go to Columbia to see a member in the hospital and then got a tour of USC and that campus is so SO pretty! 

Spiritual thought of the week... Satan makes us feel unworthy to pray because then we are in darkness and feel like him. When we pray we are growing closer to God and becoming stronger! 

Please all y'all do Come, Follow Me  and I love you and have a blessed week!

7 Months

Hey y'all! 

This week was really slow which sometimes happens in missionary life. We had to stop teaching the McNeil's and it was really sad. I just know that one day they will be in a place where they can really accept the gospel. 

We are doing a lot of finding this week so we are praying for a lot of miracles. We are also working a lot with returning less active members and it is so cool to see how they slowly, with love, open up and just really gain their testimony back. 

Here is a little miracle that we saw this week: We were struggling with finding and we got a call from the YSA sisters. They had found someone that is cousins with someone in our ward. They are going to pass him off to us because he will be in our ward for sacrament. So...long story short...we will be having a baptism in FEBRUARY! 

Next week our p-day will be on Wednesday because of transfers. 

A good thing to read is "For Him" by Joy D. Jones. 

I love y'all and I hope y'all have a blessed day! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

I didn't think they were married.. I thought they were friends

This was about Mary and Joseph, a little family we are teaching said that. I maybe laughed a lot! 

This week was pretty 'ight! We worked a lot with less active members and we are trying to help them to come back to the path. I know that these people have a testimony the spark is still there they just need help and that is where we come in! We are hoping to get a couple of them towards the temple so that will be exciting!

We got to go over to a couple of members home for lessons and it was so nice. We got to have  breakfast for dinner, like cinnamon rolls and casserole and bacon and it was so good. They had just had a baby and it was so hard not to try and hold that little one! I just love seeing how everyone has had a different experience but they all help to strengthen their testimonies! That is something I am so grateful for is being able to hear all these amazing stories about their faith and how they have lived the gospel! 

I have been studying a lot about grace and personal revelation a lot recently and I would encourage all y'all to read the talk by President Nelson called "Revelation For the Church, Revelation For Our Lives". It is so powerful and we need to have that personal revelation in order to survive in the last days! 

Well I love y'all so much and I hope you have a blessed week! 

Love, 
Sister Jensen 

 

                               

Happy New Year

I am sorry that I am the worst and didn't email y'all last week but I hope 2019 so far is treating you really good! 

We had stake conference and Elder Stanfill of the 70 came and talked to us and he is so cool! One of his quotes that he said that I loved was " don't sweat the little things"  and I think you can use that a lot with life. Whenever things get crazy don't focus on the little things driving you crazy look for the good in life! 

We also got to have zone conference and Elder Stanfill spoke to us as missionaries. He had the first vision read and played if you could hide to Kolob and it was so powerful. Just listening and reflecting helped you to see how true the restoration is! When we did that you just felt like you were in the moment and that it was something to be happy about. 

Here is the office moment of the week: 

We went to this less actives home and we knocked on the door and asked "Is Robert here" and he said no he doesn't know who Robert was. We apologized and walked away. We met the dad in the garage and asked " hey do you know if Robert still lives here" and the dad responded with " yeah Robert was the one who answered the door." I just walked away laughing at the camera. 

Here is an amazing thing that you should read! It is called His grace is Sufficient. I LOVE THIS TALK! It is so powerful and has changed my thoughts. 

Hopefully y'all are doing Come, Follow Me because that is inspired and it really does bring the Spirit into your home! 

I love y'all so so much and I hope you have a blessed week! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen  

You only live once...false. You live everyday. You only die once.

Bailee emailed me (her mama) early and then went to the Ammers (I assume they are members in the area) to do ceramics and they were making them breakfast. She told me that she would send the weekly email afterwards but the next email was super short and it said that they went shopping (looks like she purchased some dress slacks!!) instead and they ran out of time…so, I am going to just put a few things down from her email that she sent to me. 

I LOVE The office! It is still my favorite show and I quote it everyday!
In the South, for New Years they do Black Eyed Peas (they represent coins) and Collared Greens (they represent money) to bless this new year. I can tell you right now that I HATE black eyed peas and collared greens are only good if they are covered in salt! 

We found 3 new people to teach and I am super excited. Hunter is reading the Book of Mormon so we are hopefully going to pass him over to the YSA sisters since he is 18. 

A good talk to read is Choose the Light by Elder Vern P. Stanfill. He came and spoke to our stake for Stake conference and we will get to talk to him tomorrow for ZONE CONFERENCE.

I love y'all and have a blessed week!
Love,
Sister Jensen

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

HOLY MOLY I CANNOT BELIEVE IT IS ALMOST 2019! Time is flying and I have a lot more to become in 2019. 

This week was so good! Christmas was so good and it was amazing to talk to my family! We spent a lot of our day out and being with members. We decided to do "He is the reason for the season" candy bars and give them to people working and it was so cute to see their reaction. This year I could really feel the Light of Christ as I focused on others needs and not mine own! It was a great feeling! 

This week was all about teaching everyone and really helping them to progress more and more in the Gospel. We had such a good lesson with Hunter. We went to Chick-fil-a and just talked and it made it such a relaxed environment that it was easy to relate what he was saying and his questions to the Restoration. The Restoration really is what makes us different from all other churches and the Spirit even in a Chick-fil-a will testify of the truth! 

We are starting to teach a lady named Evelina. She is so cool! She had missionaries come and teach her in 2008 while she lived in Florida. She moved here and lost the Book of Mormon and Bible so she wanted to order another one. So we went and delivered that to her and she just asked us a whole lot of questions and we almost taught her the whole Restoration and the Plan of Salvation. We are going back soon so hopefully it will be good! 

On a mission (and just in life) you have a lot of what I would call "office moments". These are moments where you just look up as if a camera was there watching you and just make a face. Hopefully that makes sense but this week I had one of those experiences and I just have to share it. 

We went to teach Dot and she is so cute. We are teaching the Restoration and it is going so well. She is just accepting it and really seems to be grasping it. We get to Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and she kinda shuts off. She goes, " Let me be honest with you, I love what y'all are doing for the Lord but I am not going to change." We tried to explain that we weren't trying to make her change but just wanted to add some light. She just would not accept it. Sister Beckstrom asked her " What if all this is true? What if what we are teaching is true?"  and she said " it probably is true but I don't want to change". 

It was in that moment that I looked to a non-existent camera and shook my head. We all have our agency and I know that one day she will accept the gospel! 

If you want a good read this week here is my testimony! 

I know without a shadow of a doubt that we have a loving Heavenly Father, He cares for us and He wants to hear from us. I know that the Book of Mormon is "the most correct of any book of earth and the keystone of our religion and a man can get nearer to God by abiding by its precept than by any other book." We quote that every morning it is what Jospeh Smith said about the Book of Mormon. I know that we have a prophet on the earth today and that because we have a prophet we have the priesthood. That priesthood is the power that seals us to our families for eternity. I love that I am out serving and I love this gospel. 

I love y'all so much and I hope y'all have a blessed week! 

Love,

Sister Jensen