Dear Family,
I am sorry that I won't have as much
to report on, since I just emailed on Wednesday. But I do have several
happy things to talk about so no worries.
We had another lesson on Wednesday with one of our investigators. We received the happy news
that her and her boyfriend of 26 years were married that day! We were very
happy and excited for her! We read 3 Nephi 11 with her that night, but before
we did we watched a short video called "My Joy is Full". I think it
is just a beautiful portrayal of the Savior ministering to the inhabitants of
America, His other sheep. She seemed to think so too as she shed a few tears. I
was happy that we could help her feel the Spirit. On Friday was her
reception and that was fun to attend for a little bit. Then yesterday, she came
to church! It was the primary program, so that was perfect. We hope and pray
that she will feel comfortable enough to attend next week too. We have another
lesson with her tonight.
On Friday we had our zone
conference, and it was unlike any zone conference I have been too. They told us
sometime in the summer that we would be doing a 5K in October, and that is what
we did. They split the mission in half, and we did ours on Friday. I was
just planning on walking it, because I was too lazy to train for it. I ended up
walking with Sister Smith, the sister that Sister Moa-Sam Fong trained. She is
really funny, I love her. Anyway, somehow we motivated each other to run for
parts of it. They had us do 6 figure eights around the stake center, and we
decided to run for the last one. We did the whole thing in about 45 minutes.
Many of the elders showed up in all sorts of onsies. Elder Wheeler, my MTC
buddy, came in an inflatable dinosaur costume. After the race we had lunch then
went into the gym to do minute to win it sort of games. We did a brainteasers,
we knocked over water bottles with tights and tennis balls on our heads, we did
the cookie on the face thing, and we even played corn hole, which I scored a
couple of points in, surprisingly. It was a super fun zone conference. Also, we
did have a training at the very beginning. President Sorensen talked to us
about the Book of Mormon, since it was a major topic at conference. He
challenged us all to read the Book of Mormon in three months with a
question or topic in mind. In the front of my fresh copy of the Book of Mormon
I wrote this:
Matthew 10:39
She that findeth her life shall lose
it: and she that loseth her life for my sake shall find it.
How can I lose myself in service to
Heavenly Father?
So that is the scripture and question
that I will be pondering as I read the Book of Mormon once again.
Saturday was spent at the temple open house. The three days I have been there were really slow, since it actually
hasn't started yet. They have just been doing tours for the members and other
VIP tours. But there were several people who just saw that something was
happening in the temple and came to check it out, and they end up just walking
in to take a tour. Several of them have been neighbors of other faiths, so that
has been fun and a good preview of what is to come. One couple came through and
watched the video, and we found out they were not members when the husband
asked if there was coffee at the end. They were very friendly and I enjoyed
talking to them. Later, I heard a tour guide mention that she took them through
the temple, and the wife just kept on turning to her and telling her how
peaceful it was. At the end of the day we were scheduled to be at the reception
tent at the end of the tour. I was a little sad about this because then we
couldn't jump onto the last tour like we could if we were in the video room.
However, when we were in the tent, a set of sisters came out of a tour, and
told us how they had been in the video room, but due to the lack of people they
closed it and told the sisters that they could go on a tour. They then asked if
they wanted to take our place in the tent so we could go on a tour, and we said
yes, of course. So we just walked to the front of the temple, and they let us
go in and wait for the next tour to come. We had to wait about 10 minutes, so
we just sat by the recommend desk and enjoyed the peace of the temple. Then we
took another tour, which was wonderful. I am so very grateful to be serving a
mission here at this time. And I am so excited for this Saturday, for the
open house to officially begin :)
Love,
Sister Jensen
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