Happy Halloween everyone!
We had a ward Halloween Party on Saturday and Sister Shinkle and I forgot to plan a costume so right before we walked in, we switched name-tags and went as each other! Only the people that actually knew our names caught one haha we thought it was clever.
I feel like we raked a lot of leaves this week! Its that time of year I guess. We also did some service with the college students on Saturday. None of them knew who we were and they weren't members, so when we did an "ice-breaker" game to introduce ourselves, they were pretty confused as to why I introduced myself as "Sister Jensen". We hung out with a girl named Taylor the whole time and she was so sweet! She even added us on Facebook. I asked her if she had ever heard of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and she said no... so then I said, well sometimes people nickname us as the Mormons. And she said ohhhh yeah I have heard of that church! Her mom played church ball once lol. But she had no idea what our church is actually called!! A lot of people haven't connected it actually so it just shows even more how true the Prophets words were in conference a few weeks ago.
Yesterday we had a pretty cool experience! De'Aaron had his 16th birthday so he was ordained to the office of a Priest. One of the other Priests was the one to ordain him and that was just so so cool!! De'Aarons mom and his little brother both came to church halfway through sacrament so they could be there. Abril thought she had missed the ordination, but it didn't happen until 3rd hour. So we said, hey come to class until it happens! So we had her and some members come to gospel principles and we ended up teaching her the first missionary lesson, The Restoration. And the four members were able to all bear their testimonies and it was SO COOL!! Abril loved it and kept saying things like "oh my goodness!" and "Wow!!" And we set up an appointment for tonight to go see her whole family!
We got to see Molly again last night! We taught her about the Word of Wisdom and it went really well. But! Lemme tell you a story. So on Friday we were planning and talking about what to teach Molly. I had the thought that we should teach her about tithing, but I just sort of ignored it because we had only taught her the first two lessons pretty much. Then yesterday during companion study we were talking about her lesson and again in my head I had the thought, "maybe we should teach her about tithing". But usually tithing is one of the later things we teach and I didn't know why Molly would need that lesson right now. Soooo we get through with the word of wisdom lesson and Molly says, "I have a question.... about tithing". Immediately I knew that I had ignored a prompting from the Holy Ghost! Molly had a bunch of questions about tithing of all things! We were able to answer her questions of course and we're going to teach her the tithing lesson next time. It was a big testimony builder for me that Heavenly Father knows all of his children perfectly and individually. He knows what we need, and when we need it. God is SO real!
Be safe this week! And make sure to take lots of candy from strangers ;) Halloween is seriously so weird haha.
Love, Sister Jensen
Heres pics from the Halloween party! I got a spider painted on my face. Also some pics from the service on Saturday and lots of pics from raking leaves. Oh and Mike gives us cakes that he buys at the store sometimes haha so thats him.
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