What a week!
The beginning of the week was a lot of goodbyes for Sister Shinkle. We also helped a couple elderly ladies decorate their christmas trees! And Sister Shinkle ate Arby's for the FIRST time in her life! Lol.
On Wednesday Mike made a steak dinner for us and the Elders before they all took off to their new areas. It was really nice of him! After I dropped Sister Shinkle off I had to have a member come get me so that I would have a companion for a few hours while I waited for Sister Going to arrive. I hung out with Sister Jarman and her little kids playing with kinetic sand haha it was pretty fun. Sister Going is great! She is from Hillsboro, Oregon so not too far away. She has been on her mission for 10 months.
On Saturday we had a member from the Cle Elum branch text us and ask us if we wanted to go to their branch Christmas party! We don't cover Cle Elum and its too far for us to drive. But that is where Molly is and she said Molly would be there with her whole family!! So we decided it would be a good thing to go to. The member picked us up. I haven't seen Molly in a couple of weeks, it was so good to see her and meet the rest of her fam. Unfortunately, she had an allergic reaction at the party and had to leave early.. shes okay now though! While we were at the party we sat with some people that we found out weren't members of the church. they were really funny! They gave us their address and phone number afterwards and told us that we could come see them again! SWEEEET! Totally worth going to Cle Elum that night.
Yesterday was a really good day as well! Mike received the Melchizedek Priesthood. He was only baptized in August so this is pretty quick! He was soooo excited! He even came in a new suit and an ironed white shirt, AND church shoes! He's usually a socks and sandals kind of guy but he wanted me to know that he wore shoes especially for the occasion. He blessed the Sacrament for the first time too and received his Patriarchal Blessing last night. We had a lesson with him afterwards and he shared his testimony with us about how strongly he feels about the gospel. It brought him to tears and the spirit in his home was so strong!
Oh yeah, it snowed over the weeked! I was really crossing my fingers that it wouldn't happen until Christmas... but its alright, it looks pretty outside.
Also yesterday! We found someone new to teach. her name is Ashley. I've actually met her before. We went over to share Light the World with her and invite her to come to church on the 23rd. She said she would love to come! And even invited us back to teach her more. She said shes not going to join our church but wants to learn more about it.... that's what they all say. lol. But we'll take it! We also met a few people while we were tracting that told us we could come back! We didn't run into anyone mean yesterday! Pretty successful if I do say so myself :')
Don't forget to keep Lighting the World! This week for Light the World we helped people set up christmas decorations, ironed Mikes shirts, (Shout-out to papa darrell for teaching me how to iron his dress shirts.) and we took flowers to our mission nurse. We tried to do a free hot chocolate stand but none of the grocery stores would let us :( Maybe next week haha.
Also. In my studies this week I came across this verse that I really like, Mosiah 2:22 "And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you."
The gospel is truly so simple! All that is required of us is to keep the commandments of God and stay on the covenant path. Which the world can make hard sometimes. But as we live the commandments, we are blessed!!
Oh yeah... I started My Plan this week... so that was weird.
LOVE YOU!!!!
-Sister Jensen
Sister Going has a sweater with two head holes and two sleeves so we wore it together at the Christmas party! We made a gingerbread house the first night that Sister Going got here with a member at dinner. Theres some pics of Mike and I doing his "fantastic!" pose. And then me hugging Sister Shinkle goodbye :(
And the pyramid is the Walker family and the other fam is the Adams family. They are both in 1st ward so luckily I still get to see them :')
Our zone had a nerf war a couple weeks ago so heres a couple pics from that as well :) Oh and cute little Sister Fields when we helped her with her christmas tree.ddarr
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