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| We corralled these cows! |
Dear Family,
I feel like I am
falling more and more in love with this place every day. I am really excited
for this season of my mission!
This week was good, we
got to see a lot of people. I don't have any major experiences to share, just lots
of little things. First, we got to visit this hilarious lady in the nursing home. We also
saw H., who the sisters had worked with in the past. She just had neck surgery
and we are going to help her brush down her horses tomorrow. We taught a
new member family about the Priesthood and church service, I am seriously so
excited to watch their progression in the gospel. We got this referral for a
lady named J. J. joined the church in her twenties and then stopped attending.
But somehow she got in contact with a member of the church and said that she
wanted us to come and teach her and her kids. We got to go over Saturday morning
and teach them a little bit. The younger kids were very happy to have us over
but had a hard time paying attention. The older kids were on their phones most of
the time. But the one kid was very attentive and paid attention the whole
lesson. Then, J. brought her one of her kids to church yesterday and they
stayed the whole time! We were so excited! A lot of people we have been working
with showed up at church yesterday, it just made me so happy.
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| Pine Valley |
The highlight of our
week was definitely going to do work in Halfway. So we cover 4 wards and a
branch. We do the most work in three of the wards which are here in Baker
Valley where nothing is more than thirty minutes away. The other ward is in
John Day which is about 2 hours away. I haven't been there yet, and Sister
Moa-Sam Fong has only been once. Then we also cover the Pine Valley Branch,
which is where Halfway is. Sister Moa-Sam Fong hadn't been there yet so we
decided to go this past Saturday for the day, it is about an hour
away and the branch is pretty spread out. The Branch Mission Leader, Brother
K., is from Fiji and he works at the school there as the music teacher and
is soon going to be a principal. He and Sister K. are AMAZING and just made
all of the difference. We first went over to their house to talk about the
branch and have lunch. The most exciting thing is that they have an acquaintance that they are really good friends with who asked to go to
church with them. She has come two times and stayed the whole time. They were
supposed to have her over for dinner yesterday and ask her if she wants to meet
with us, so hopefully all went well! Sister K. took us around the rest of
the day and we stopped by the house of one of their friends. Her name is B. and
she is super awesome! When she opened the door I could have sworn I had seen
her somewhere before. But she was super open to setting up an appointment with us
to talk about things. Then we just went around to meet the branch leaders and
then other people. We are hoping to start going once a week, they haven't
really had something constant with the missionaries and I think they are
excited too. I didn't think it could get any prettier than it is here in Baker,
but I was wrong. The Pine Valley is gorgeous, I am so sad the pictures I have
don't do any justice to it. But hopefully as we go out there more often I will
get more. I also love seeing the unique lifestyle that people live there. Most
of them are ranchers, and I am just so impressed by it. It is a 24/7 job and it
is WORK. We visited one of the counselors in the branch presidency and helped
them corral some of their cattle, it was super fun.
I continue to learn
and grow and make mistakes and just love it all. Missions are the best!
Love,
Sister Jensen
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| walking back to the car after tracting |
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