General Conference was sooo good! But before I talk about that, I'll start at the beginning of the week.
Monday for P-day we went to a guy's house named Butch. Butch built his house and all of the little shacks around it out of apple crates! He also had underground tunnel/bunker things. And TONS of food storage. I think hes preparing for the end of the world haha. But he is way cool! I'll send some pics. Apparently, he said he had only shown us 5% of the tunnels...
Monday night we had Family Home Evening in the Pearson's home and invited De'Aarons whole family, and they ALL came! De'Aarons mom is named Abril and she was talking to Sister Shinkle about how she would love to be baptized like De'Aaron. We shared a message about General Conference to get them all hyped and they loved it! Paul, De'Aaron's step-dad, said to us afterwards, "you two need to come over more often. We need this in our home." Isn't that a miracle?! He usually doesn't even come out when we are there. SO EXCITING!
On Tuesday we had zone conference. I felt like the main theme was becoming fishers of men! We also talked a lot about how faith precedes miracles.
I hit a milestone in my mission last week. I got a call from the mission office known as the "trunky call". Sister Shinkle and I are going home at the same time so we both got our call the same day. Its basically just a call to confirm our information and they let us know that they booked our flights. Its weird to think that I am close enough to coming home for them to book my flight.. yikes.
In between General Conferences sessions on Saturday, Sister Shinkle and I got to go to a wedding!! Dewayne, who is getting baptized in two weeks, married Traci who has been a member for most of her life. It was a really small ceremony in their living room and Bishop was the one to marry them. The only people there were Traci's sister and her nieces and nephews, and us! So we felt pretty special to get an invite :')
Two hour church!! I LOVE the idea of home centered, church supported learning. Two hour church has been a big rumor going around so I wasn't super shocked by the announcement of it. But I am sure this is going to strengthen families SO much! I think it is going to be easy for a lot of people to miss the point. Its great that church is shortened, but now we all have much more of a responsibility to be teaching the gospel in our homes. No doubt that this instruction has come from the Lord, He is a wise man :)
I think one of my favorite talks from conference was Elder Hollands talk. A statement he made really stuck out to me. I'm not exactly sure how it was worded, but he said something to the effect of- our relationship with our Savior is strongly related to our relationship with others.
Its a great reminder of how important it is to love and be kind to each other :)
We watched each session at a different place. The institute building, the church building, at the Pearson's home, and the last session we watched with a lady named Terry who is not a member of the church. But she was so sweet and invited us over to watch it with her and have cake and ice-cream. Lol she fell asleep during it though and started talking in her sleep.. so if conference wasn't entertaining enough, we had her as well ;)
The music at General Conference was bumpin! The Spirit that I felt as I listened to the words they sang was unreal. I've been singing "This is the Christ" all morning hahah.
Oh and I loved pondering more on what it actually means to take upon us the name of Jesus Christ. A lot of speakers brought it up, and it goes right along with the correction of the church's name that President Nelson spoke about.
I LOVE BEING A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST! There is no greater blessing, or anything more important. I hope everyone enjoyed conference as much as I did, and if you didn't watch it yet, go do it!
Love, Sister Jensen
1-4: I made President and Sister Jackman take a selfie with me at zone conference haha. Sister Jackman gave all of the sisters this poster so we hung it up in our apartment that night.
The rest is a bunch of pictures from Butch's house. He puts these big tanks underground. So most of the pictures are us underground, pretty crazy right??
Oh and a couple pictures from Dewayne and Traci's wedding :)
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