Week 23 - Chillin in Ephrata

Camri is enjoying her new area…minus the snow. She mentioned to me that it was pretty cold. She seems to be doing great. She has met so many new people. We are so blessed to receive texts and pictures every once in a while from those she meets and enters their home. She always looks so happy. Her email was once again sluggish today. She wasn't able to go to the library due to the holiday and so she was at the church again. Hopefully next week we will be able to chat a little more. She did send a few pictures. Don't forget to check them out on her blog. Sisterjenseninyakima.blogspot.com
Till next week…


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Hey everybody!

It snowed this week.... it was kinda awful.  And I felt pretty bad because the day it snowed was the day that Sis.Lowham and I had the car so the other sisters were out walking.  They were soaking wet when they came home! It was sad.  But the sun has been out so the snow has melted again for the most part.Monday we had the Word of Wisdom lesson with Erika and it went really good! She said she is going to try and quit smoking so she can get baptized.  She also came to church yesterday!On wednesday morning we went to the thrift store and did some service there.  We helped hang up clothes and stuff.  haha the lady we were helping was named Mary and she had the cutest Brittish accent!I guess this week we did a lot of service! Because we also helped Sister Sortomme, a lady in the ward, make cupcakes for a baby shower.  They were pretty legit! I learned how to make fondant so thats neat.  All the missionaries went to the church on Friday to watch President Monsons funeral service.  I don't know if yall got a chance to watch it, but it was very nice.  President Monson was such a good man :)on saturday we had a lesson with our new investigators, Mary and Margaret.  Mary is the daughter, probably in her 60's.  And Margaret is her mom and shes probably about 80.  They're really funny ladies with a lot of questions haha... we taught them the Plan of Salvation.  And the idea of a pre-earth life was very foreign to them.  It didn't make a lot of sense in their minds.  So they said they would pray about it.  They also said they would pray about getting baptized.  I guess I had never thought about a Pre-earth life being a weird idea because it has always made sense to me.  But as I was reading the pamphlet about it, I tried to imagine how I would feel about it if i had never heard of it before.  It helped me understand a little bit more of where they were coming from.  Oh yeah, my talk in church went good yesterday! I think anyways.  I read a poem in it called "Holes" and a bunch of people asked me for a copy of it afterwards! So I guess that means at least they were listening :')Remember the little girl Natalia that put my hair in pigtails? Well she came to church! We even went to her primary class with her haha.  But then after church her mom texted us and said we couldn't come over anymore.... so that was kind of a stab wound to the heart.  Sad.  Maybe one day she'll be able to meet missionaries and her mom will let them in.  OH! The ward here does this super cool thing called the "40 Day Fast".  Members sign up for a day and they fast for the missionary work.  So everyday, a different family is fasting in the ward.  Isn't that neat?!? I know that its going to help us see so many miracles and I am STOKED!!! Oh one other thing that happened.  We met this lady named Sylvia that is a former investigator.  She let us in and we talked for a while and she brought up Pres. Monsons funeral.  Then she started talking about how she gets the ensign every month and loves reading it, and how she studies from her quad everyday and listens to the gospel library app while she gets ready in the morning.  We were like, uhhh why haven't you been baptized?? And she said she really wants to be, but her kids are anti-mormon and would be really really upset with her.  Then she asked if we could just baptize her in secret so they wouldn't have to know... I don't know if thats the best idea.  But she was super amazing.  We are going to go see her again but we have to go when shes there alone or her family won't let us in.  I'm hoping this 40 day fast results in a miracle for her so she can finally be baptized :)Well fam I think thats about it for the week! Love ya :)Oh yeah! I memorized "The Living Christ"! Its been a goal of mine so I just thought I'd share :')

Love, Sister Jensen <3



Pics: 

1.This is Avery.  She let me try on her fish mask :')

2. Beautiful Ephrata

3. Check it out! I have a mini storage warehouse!

4. Some members in the ward that we ate dinner with last night.  They taught me how to play the Ukelelle a little bit.