I have moved!

Dear Family & Friends, Well the big news of the week, is I have been moved! I am now in Coventry! It is the 12th largest city in the UK with a popultation of about 320,000 people. As you can imagine, it is a bit different than Lichfield, with a population of about 35,000 people! I was SO shocked when I got the call that I was leaving. It was rough saying goodbye to everyone, but I managed. I've made so many close friendships with the members in Lichfield but I am excited to now be in Coventry. There are two universities close to our area, so that means lots of solid people! On my first night here, we were walking over a bridge that goes over an overpass on the motorway. There were sky scrapers on both sides and you could hear the rush of traffic. It was BEAUTIFUL and I could help but feel so excited to be here! My companion is Sister Moser. She is my age and from Ogden, Utah. She's the sweetest thing in the world. I can tell we will be great friends. There are 10 missionaries in our ward!! It's a little insane. It makes it really difficult to get to know the members. I have yet to have a Dinner Appointment here. Sister Moser and I are working on a plan for how to get to know the members better and serve them. So with the five sets of missionaries in our ward, the Coventry boundary is divided into five sections. So this complicates things as well. It means that whenever we leave "our area" (Coventry A), we have to request permission from the Zone Leaders. And if we find people that don't live in our area then we have to switch them over to the Elders that live in that area. Sister Moser and I found two solid people this week and had to hand them over. It wasn't fun. :( Oh well, we'll continue finding! We are teaching a few people right now. We taught this guy, Kindness, he's from Nigeria. He's 19 I think and just the nicest guy ever. He's anglican but not for long! Haha. We're also teaching a few chinese people. We went to an appointment on Saturday night with this chinese guy, Ash. Well we got there and started talking to his housemates. One of them, Dolly, we talked to for awhile. When we had gotten there, they were eating dinner but didn't have enough for us so Dolly insisted that she make us a meal. Well she disappeard into the kitchen and when she came back she was carrying a plate with oysters and another with a whole fish. Haha. It still had the head attached and everything... Ha, I was really nervous. But it was actually really delicious! We got to talking to Dolly about God and why we are here. She asked why do bad things happen to good people because her Grandfather just got cancer. She was really receptive to what we were saying and she said she will come to church next week. I so look forward to meeting more people. The people here are SO nice and willing to listen. Well, this past week we had the christmas conference. It was so great to have all the missionaries in one room! It was very powerful. The musical program went really well and I got through my song! Ha. Sister Rasmussen had made sweet pork and rice for costa vida salads! It was the closest thing I've had to it since I was home. Not the same, but it was still good :) We had costco cake for dessert which I couldn't even eat! It's really weird. I think my tastebuds have adjusted to british food because the cake was sooo sweet, I couldn't eat it! Weird. Well as a christmas present we all got a bag of chocolates from President and Sister Rasmussen and a temple-recommend holder with the Gadfield Elm chapel on it and a picture of our zone in the inside. Well, I think that's about all that happened this week! One week to Christmas week! I hope you are all giving something to Christ this year :) For Christmas this year I have decided to seek to adopt the attributes of the Saviour in my ministry and be inspired by His life and sacrifice for me. It's been good so far studying the attributes of Christ and I continue to learn so much from him. I know that He lives and that He guides this church today! I love you all! Have a great week! Love, Sister Jensen