AHH I HAVE NOTHING TO PUT HERE ANYMORE... sorry

This past couple of days have been really good! We are doing a lot to try and find people to teach and it is starting to pick up momentum! This is going to be a good week! 

We had a cooking lesson with Iris and she taught us how to make lasagna! I had no idea how much time and effort it takes to make it, thank you mom! We had a lot of fun and we got to know more about each other so it was good! 

We have been doing our "Flip for Jesus" more and it seems like a lot of people like it. It has been cool to see how people react and they seem a lot more open. 

Overall, we are having fun AND getting the work done! The best combo ever. 

I don't know if I have mentioned this but President Innes challenged us to read the Book of Mormon in 90 days together and it is so cool! The Book of Mormon really is for us today and it really does help with anything we are going through. It is really cool to see how when we do this we grow in a companionship and get closer to Christ. If any of y'all need some peace and joy read the Book of Mormon I can promise to y'all that you will feel the peace you need!

This week something good to do is to pick a Christlike attribute you want to develop and study it all week. With every prayer you say mention that you want that attribute and act. At the end of the week look back and see how you have grown closer to Christ. 

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

Love, 

Sister Jensen

ESCAPE!!!

So I FREAKING LOVE ESCAPE ROOMS!!!!! We got to go to one today. I kinda suck at them but it is so much fun and I mean we escaped so #blessed. I really don't have time to do my weekly email so I am just going to add a bunch of photos and have that be my weekly. 

I love y'all and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen  

p.s. it was transfers this week and we are staying in Inman and I freaking love it!! 

#depressed

We were reading in the Book of Mormon in comp study and we happened on this verse in Jacob 1:12 and it says, " And it came to pass that Nephi died" . Sister Laudie was so upset that she wrote #depressed in her scriptures. It's a sad day in the scriptures when Nephi dies. 

We were able to do some fun service this week! We had the chance to do an interfaith community project and help with a homeless shelter. We painted and we are going back on Saturday to help with more painting and assembling shelves. It will be a whole lot of fun! 

I honestly can't think of a lot more to add #sorry! 

If you want to read a good talk read “Compassion” by President Monson, bomb talk! 

I love y'all and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen  

"I got a clean slate, maybe you should try it!"

Lisa got baptized and it was so good! She told us that she is going to say this to some of her siblings to get them thinking! Man, I love Lisa! She was so happy and just had this glow about her. It was so amazing to be a part of! It was also super cute to see her husband baptize her! I LOVE being a missionary!

This week we were able to go on exchanges and it was super fun. I just love Sister Church so much! We were able to see some really cool miracles and am grateful for that! We did some service this week and we were moving bricks into a trailer. Freaky thing is that we saw 3 black widows!! I almost started crying but the members that were with us killed them for us. 

The Fourth of July was a lot of fun! We went to a members lake house. Sadly a storm rolled in right before fireworks. It was alright though because we got to watch a really cool lightning storm and hear loud thunder so I still count it as a good Fourth! 

A good talk to read this week is called "The first great Commandment" By Elder Holland! Holy Hannah is that a good talk! 

Well I love y'all and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

If I would've known...

So to start the weekly off here is a little story... Our mission is trying to do more service referrals through Facebook. We have gotten a lot of people that we can do service for so we are #blessed. But...there was this one lady who asked us to come and do some yard work. The only time that worked for us was 1:00 in the afternoon. South Carolina in June at 1:00 in the afternoon is so hot and humid. But...we did it anyway. We showed up and we mowed her lawn with a push mower and the grass was knee high on me! We could only do like half her yard in the 2 hours we had available. When we were finishing up, she said that if she would've known they would be sending two girls to do it, she wouldn't have asked for it. I am glad that we could serve her but learned a very valuable lesson... if you are going to do yard work in the summer in South Carolina, do it in the morning before the hot and humid weather hits!

We got to do a lot of cool things this week! We had zone conference and it was so much fun! We have a big push on studying the Book of Mormon and we have been challenged to read it in 90 days. I am so pumped! I love the Book of Mormon. We were able to set up a family history thing at a gas station and it was fun! We put on a poster one of our ancestors that served in the military and put a sign up to see off anyone wants to learn more about family history. We are going to do it a couple more times in the month because "Merica". 

We also got to be part of a Fourth of July celebration and it was so good! There was some crazy cool talent from other faiths and it was a blast to get into it. My favorite part was this guy who did the "I Have a Dream" speech and it sounded like Martin Luther was actually there #shooketh

Lisa is getting baptized on Saturday and I am PUMPED! She is just the cutest thing ever and I can't wait to see what the gospel brings into her life!

If you want a good read this week read "Where Is the Pavilion,"  by President Eyring. 

Well I love y'all so much and stay blessed!

Love,
Sister Jensen

"There's a whole lot of uglies out there" - Hilda

We were talking to this sweet, 95 year old women named Hilda and she was just talking about all the different personalities that people have and it just cracked me up. Sister Laudie said to her that on the 5th day God created the uglies and the cuties. Hilda's response was, "There's a whole lot of uglies out there". To say the least, we are getting along really well! 

This week was a whole lot of talking to people and getting new people to teach! It's really awesome in this area. We find someone, we help them progress, and then we start the cycle over again! It's my favorite thing ever! 

Lisa is doing really good and she is so excited about her baptism next Saturday! I LOVE Lisa and she is just the best! She (without us even asking her too)  started reading the Doctrine and Covenants because she finished the Book of Mormon! #yougogirl 

I also hit a year this week and I cried just a little bit. A mission goes by WAY too fast! I love the South so much and it's amazing to be able to help so many people along the way! 

As always, a good talk to read is "Tomorrow, the Lord Will Do Wonders Among You," by Elder Holland! It is so good and just one of my favs.  

I love y'all so much and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen 

" Oh you devil"

We were at a members house this week and, out of sibling love, one of them said, "Oh you devil"!!  Lol reminds me of my siblings ;) 

This week was so awesome! Inman is killing it and so is my new companion Sister Laudie! She is so awesome and is not afraid of trying anything! 

We really saw our prayers answered this week and it has been some really humbling experiences. We were doing our companionship study at the park and we prayed to have someone there for us to talk to about the gospel. We were studying and that is when Carolyn came over and sat down. We talked for a while and she kept saying how much she liked talking to us and how the next time we are all at the park we are going to have to talk a lot about what we each believe! I am so pumped! 

Another answer to our prayer was with Lisa. While we were doing our weekly planning we prayed and we felt really strong about asking if she would be baptized and putting her on date for July 13. We felt so good about it, so we ran with it. We had our lesson with her on Friday and we invited her to be baptized and she said YES! She then asked if we can move it to July 6 instead. She told us while she was mowing her lawn that a thought came into her mind to be baptized on that date. 

It is so amazing to see how God will answer your prayer, it is just so amazing to see the love He has for each of us! 

Well, If you need a good talk this week read Sister Craven's talk "Casual or Careful" from the last General Conference. 

I love y'all and stay blessed! 

Love,

Sister Jensen 

There's two of them!

We were doing some lovely store contacting (just talking to people at different stores) and a lady stopped dead in her tracks, looked at our tag then turned to her grandma and said, 
"Oh Lord, there are two of them". I busted out laughing and it was just another one of those Office moments. I also got the hiccups really bad while we were in the store and everyone would either laugh or bless me. It was funny!

So transfers are among us and we got some news...Sister Lyman is going to Seneca with Sister Crave!! My gurll! I am staying in good ol' Inman and training a new missionary. I am excited and it should be fun! 

We did service this week and helped clean a house for someone because they are moving. We got it lookin nice! I also was super spontaneous this week and let a youth in our ward cut me some bangs...yep, I did that. 

We also got to see and catch fireflies! Oh my heaven! It is such a pretty sight to see them that I started to cry! 

Well, a good talk for the week is "100% Responsible" by Lyn Robbins (I think)...

Well, I love y'all and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen

 

 

A Freaking Mazing

The title says it all for this week!

We had such a great week!

We were able to see Joseph get baptized!!!!

The spirit was so strong and it was just a very sweet experience. I don't think there was a dry eye in the room. After he got baptized, there was a couple of us who stayed after and played knockout... I am so terrible at basketball so maybe Bubba will have to teach me some moves when I get back home. On Sunday, he received the Holy Ghost and it was A Freaking Mazing (according to Joseph)!!! 

We had a lesson with this part memebr family this week and it was so good!! The first question she asked us was "What are the steps to me becoming a member?" Music to a missionaries ears. So we are starting to teach her. Her name is Lisa and she is so sweet. They also have this cat called a mancoon (part raccoon part cat) and that cat LOVES Sister Lyman. It was pretty funny! 

A good thing to do this week is to read or listen to Elder Klebingat's talk in the October 2014 conference and ponder on some of the questions he asks. 

Well I love y'all and stay blessed! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen

When your ac breaks and then your car...

This week was a crazy week but it is so awesome to see God's hand in it all! 

We went on exchanges this week and it was so much fun! I was able to go to Spartanburg with Sister Church. We got to do a service project at Hatcher gardens. We helped them to pull things out of the ground to make the other flowers look good. It was fun but really, really hot and dirty. 

We also had an amazing lesson with Joseph and he is all good for baptism! It's gonna be awesome and something that we are really looking forward to! We have been teaching some others also and it just feels so promising and good.

Well, our air conditioner broke earlier this week in our apartment. It was sitting at a cool 90° one day, so ya...it was hot. We got a fan and camped out in the living room so we could get some airflow. We also found a leak in our car and so we called our car specialist. He told us  that we cracked our fuel line... we don't know how but we are taking it in on Wednesday to get fixed! 

A good talk to read this week is "Your Priesthood Playbook" from the most recent general conference. It's a great talk and it applies to us all. 

Well as always, I love y'all and have a blessed week! 

Love,

Sister Jensen

CAN I GET AN AMEN??!!

Hey yall!

Things out here in Inman has been poppin'. We have had a pretty exciting week. 

On Wednesday we had an awesome lesson with Preston, Joseph, and Kate. Kate had some awesome questions about why we think this is the only true church. Lucky for her we were teaching the Restoration. It was a bomb.com lesson and the spirit was crazy strong. We hope that we were able to answer some of her questions. 

Friday we had zone conference. It was as zone conferencey as ever. 

On Saturday we met this 95 year old named Hilda. She likes to paint and her husband carves wood. They aren't that interested in the gospel but they were very nice. 

Sunday was probably the greatest moment of my life. Why you may ask? Well, I'll tell ya. 

Joseph came to church by himself, first off. We were very pumped that he made that big decision by himself. Anyways, we asked if he would like to meet after church with us and he agreed. We grabbed our recent convert, Margaret, and had a bomb lesson. We had Margaret share her conversion story and why she knows the church is true. The spirit was super duper strong and we took that moment to invite Joseph to be on date for baptism. And he said yes and was smiling ear- to ear!  We are now having a baptism on June 1st and we are pumped! Can I get an amen!?

Anyways, solid week and I am just so happy!

If you want something cool to do, read Moroni 6 it is a great chapter! 

Anyways, I love y'all an hope you have a blessed weeK! 

Love, 

Sister Jensen