Well I'm staying in Ephrata for another transfer! My birthday is on Wednesday, which is transfer day so I guess I'm getting a new companion as my birthday present! Her name is Sister Shouldberg. I don't know too much about her. Shes been out for a little less than me, about 4 months I think. I heard she color coordinates her closet, so hopefully that means she likes to clean! That would make me happy lol.
Sister Lowham is leaving today to go to the mission home and then shes headed home tomorrow! She has been such a good companion. I've learned a lot from her :)
So this week I think the craziest thing that happened was meeting Nikolay! We met him tracting on Tuesday and I think it was one of the most interesting tracting experiences I've had so far. We knocked on his door, and when he answered he looked like he had just woke up. We talked to him for a little bit and then he stopped talking, ran around his couch, and collapsed on the floor! Sister Lowham and I didnt really know what to do... so we just said hey Nikolay are you okay? And he jumped up really quick and told us he was just looking for his cat under his couch. So he comes back to the door to keep talking to us, (Side note: Hes a 37 year old Ukranian man that is also Jewish.) and he shakes our hand to tell us good-bye and then he turns around and kinda stumbles and collapses AGAIN! At this point we thought either something was wrong or he was drunk. So we asked if he needed us to call someone for him and then he stood up again and said he was looking for his cats, AGAIN! It was so weird.... so then he came outside and talked to us about Jesus and we read some verses from the Book of Mormon. He absolutely loved it! He didn't collapse again and we probably talked to him for about 20 minutes. We ended up having a lesson with him on Friday and teaching him the Restoration. We had a member from our ward with us. And then we gave him a church tour on Saturday, and he came to church yesterday! He's a very... interesting man. And we never did find out why he kept collapsing. We know he wasn't drunk though because he told us he hasn't drank for 5 years now. Maybe he really was looking for his cats? But I don't think thats the case haha. He loved church! And I guess he chose to stay in High Priests group because "the old guys remind him of his grandpa" hahahaha! Oh the people of Ephrata :') He talks a lot about King David too. I think thats part of the Jewish religion? I don't know. But he seems to know the bible really well. I don't really follow many of his stories... but his accent is cool to listen to :)
We had a really good lesson with Jutta, the german lady. We read the Gospel of Jesus Christ out of the Book of Mormon and she loved it! She said she has really been thinking about getting baptized and she said she was going to come to church. But then that same day, she texted us and said her husband didn't want her to come :( He's an athiest I guess and isn't very supportive of her coming to church. So that was sad. Hopefully he'll come around. oh and Jutta's cat had kittens and they were SO CUTE! Oh my goodness it made me wanna cry. I love tiny animals :')
But have I mentioned how much I hate dogs these days? They never quit barking at us. Drives me nuts. Ugh. People always know we're coming when they hear their dogs barking lol.
Well, I think those are things that stick out in my mind from this week. I'll be in a trio companionship for the next couple of days with Sister Castle and Sister Crookston until my comp comes on Wednesday. So that'll be fun! I love those sisters :)
Happy Valentines Day! Love is important. So make sure to love people okay? okay.
Love, Sister Jensen
Heres a bunch of pics!
1. Mirror pic with Sister Crookston
2. We went to dinner at time-out Pizza on Wednesday for an early birthday celebration :)
3. The power went out last night so we roasted marshmallows over candles
4. Food Bank
5 & 6. Soap Lake in the background
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