Serving with your best friend

Dear Family & Friends,

Week 1 of the transfer! It's already been a great start. Sister Gardner and I are basically the same person so we get along SO well. It's great. It's like serving with your best friend. This week we started out the week with District meeting and interviews with President. He asked us to tell him about a time when we resolved someone's concerns. I always love interviwes! President is so full of wisdom and love for each missionary. I don't know how he does it! I also got to chat with Sister Rasmussen which is always a treat. We love talking about Eagle :) Haha. We had some lessons after that and we also did some finding. The Elders passed us some of their investigators, as the lady fancies one of the Elders. Haha. So we taught them for the first time this week. They are super nice. On Wednesday we got to teach Leevoy who is still set for his baptism on the 17th of May. We taught him Law of Chastity and it was probably one of the best lessons i've had in a while! The spirit was so strong and Leevoy was so humble. By the end of the lesson he was almost in tears telling us that he had broken the law of chastity already. We told him that he didn't need to worry, and that he could repent now. It's so amazing to be able to testify of the atonement to someone who has never used it. It is such a blessing to be able to do that every day. We are also teaching this guy, Lamar, who is convinced that he just needs to find a "woman" that will turn him around. haha. Sister Gardner and I were having a hard time not laughing during the lesson. We're trying to explain to him that NOW is the time to repent, and you need to do it for the right reasons. We'll keep working with him :) Edison is doing great. He has been very busy lately with coursework and exams so we haven't got to teach him as much as we would like. We stop by his place every now and then though just so we can keep contact with him. We're starting to build relationships with some of his housemates as well and one of them came to church yesterday! On Thursday we drove to Peterborough, which takes about 2 hours for the first exchange of the transfer. I drove back to Coventry with Sister Williamson (Sister Gardner doesn't have her license yet, so I will pretty much be doing all the exchanges in Coventry this transfer). Haha sister Williamson and I had a VERY interesting night!! So, we had been asked by the YSA to help out with an outreach night- to go visit YSA who haven't been out in a long time. So they gave us a couple addresses to go by and we took 3 YSA girls in the car with us. The first one we went to, we just took one of the YSA with us inside, Brenda. We knocked on the door, and a lady in a blue bathrobe came to the door. She looked so shocked to see us and invited us in. Haha. She tells us to sit down and then the first thing she does is goes to the electric piano and starts playing us this song. It was on like the organ setting and she was really getting into it. hahaha She did like three more after that and then she would look at us and say,"One of you plays the Cello. Which one is it?" and we were like, "None of us..." She said, "Well, if you look back in your families, you'll find someone who does. Didn't know that did ya?" Haha. Oh man this lady was so not all there but she really enjoyed our visit. That is one fun thing about missionary work... You never know what to expect. Every day is a new adventure! haha. Well, the next day, we taught a couple lessons and then drove back to Peterborough. That night we got back around six thirty and then had to do our weekly planning. Saturday we had to help out with a family history fair at the church. We were also asked to do the relief society lesson and then i got a phone call asking if i would speak in sacrament meeting! so we had to go to the library and do a little bit of preparation. We had a first lesson with a girl called Amy, who is seriously the nicest thing ever!! She told us that she had no belief in God. During the lesson we just talked about how God is like her earthly father. Her earthly father is in China, she can't see him right now, but she knows he is there and that he loves her, and she can communicate with him over the phone. In the same way, we know that God is there and that he loves us, even though we can't see him and we can communicate with him through prayer. She told us she gets approached a lot by people in the streets who give her religious books to read. She said that she never reads them but she doesn't throw them away because she wants to be respectful. And she said that normally she wouldn't agree to meet with people but because of how bubbly and friendly we were, she wanted to see what it was all about!! How cool is that??!?! Then we committed her to pray. She asked if she could pray even though she drinks alcohol? haha it was so cute. We said, of course, you can pray anytime. So she texted us the next day and said that she prayed for the first time and that it actually wasn't bad! We are so excited for her! She is willing to try and so I know that she will gain a testimony. I'm so thankful for my personal testimony and i realize more than ever how important it is that we are constantly nourishing our testimony. It's through establishing those patterns of daily scriptures study and prayer that lead to our conversion. I hope you are all taking time out of your day to have those meaningful studies and prayers. I promise they will make the biggest difference. I love you all so much! Have a fabulous week!

Love,

Sister Jensen