Leevoy and Edison

 Edison

 Leevoy

Sister Gardner and Tyler

Sister Gardner and Tyler

So Many Blessings!

Dear Family & Friends, Well it's been one of the best weeks of my mission thus far!!! We've seen sooo many blessings this week. John and Leevoy both got baptised this Saturday! They were both so excited and the service went great. It was so wonderful to see them take that first step onto their eternal paths. We will be going with John this week to get started on his family history so he can go to the temple in June! Leevoy will be going back to China this week unfortunately, but he will be back in September so we'll make sure the ward keeps track of him. The weather has been incredible the past couple days and it seems to make a big difference on the attitudes of people here! haha. (Me, included) I am loving the sunshine! Missionary work is way better when it's warm and sunny. We won't have any exchanges this week since it is transfers so we will get to be outside a lot doing some finding! We're really excited just to dedicate this week to our area and hopefully find some more awesome people. We will also be traveling to Birmingham on Tuesday night for a baptism in Sister Gardner's first area. She is very excited. We will find out tonight if I will be transferred. It's possible that I will but if I stay then I will probably finish my mission here. This week in District Meeting Elder Unice talked to us about making every day count. A line from one of my Zone Conferences came back to my head. It goes like this..."You cannot waste time without damaging the eternities" That quote has stuck with me since then and I know it is true. Every day that we have we are given the precious gift of time! It's a concept that's difficult to grasp because sometimes it seems like we will have an endless amount. But here on my mission I am really learning that time is measured daily. Not weekly, monthy or yearly. It is what we do on a daily basis that affects our lives forever. Truly, we can't waste time without damaging the future. I think about all the hours I spent on facebook, pinterest, netflix, etc... I'll never get that time back! And it could have been used doing something of an eternal nature. Furthering my personal intelligence, helping others to feel of the Saviour's love, sharing the gospel with a friend or strengthening my testimony through personal prayer and scripture study. I hope that each of you will think about the ways that you use your time every day and try to remember just how precious it is. I promise that as you replace a "time waster" with something of eternal value, you will have great faith and charity because you will feel like you are doing what the Lord would have you do with your time. I love you all so much and i'm grateful for the many wonderful, priceless memories you have given me throughout the years and for the continued support that I receive every day here. Love, Sister Jensen

Ammon Like Servants

Dear Family & Friends, Well there isn't much to say since we just skyped yesterday!! That was so amazing to see all of you again. I wished I could have talked all night but it was wonderful anyways. You all looked so happy! It was great to meet Shannon and Derek as well. They seem like such amazing people. This week has been crazy busy like always!! On Tuesday this week we had mission leadership council. It was SO amazing and I felt a greater desire to do better. President trained on working with members and being Ammon-like servants. He talked about how we need to be the ones serving the members, not the other way around. We should be the first to stack chairs, we should leave the building clean after we use it and we should always have a "How can I serve" attitude. It was a wonderful training and we're looking forward to implementing what we learned. President also introduces two new things that we will be doing. We will start to teach lesson 5 before baptism and he also wants us to keep in touch with our recent converts for at least 90 days after baptism. So that's exciting. We had two exchanges, one to Loughborough and one to Nuneaton. We had some awesome miracles! We taught John with our ward mission leader and it was a powerful lesson. John is so elect!!! Our Ward mission leader suggested that we move forward his baptismal date, because it was supposed to be in June but he is fully ready for baptism. We went through the interview questions with him in the lesson just to see where he was at and he had no problems with anything. So we're going to teach him loads this week and we'll see if he is ready for this Saturday. His desire for baptism is amazing. He is super excited about it even gets kinda giddy whenever we mention it! He is awesome. We also taught a guy called Tyler this week. He is chinese and scheduled for baptism late June. He's a very logical thinker though and the gospel isn't coming easily for him. In our lesson we asked him if he could ask God one question what would it be? And he said he would like to know what will happen in his future. We asked him, Do you think God cares what will happen in your future? He said No. We tried to testify to him about how much God loves him and if his earthly father, who is imperfect loves him so much and cares about his future, how much more does his Heavenly Father who is imperfect care about him and his future. The spirit was so strong and we were both getting kind of emotional. He said that if anything, he believes that God cares because he sent me to be his angel. It was such a special moment and I know that Tyler felt the spirit. We will continue working with Him and pray for him. Please pray for Tyler! Well, I sure love all of you SO much! Thank you for your continuous support and prayers. You are the best! Love, Sister Jensen

Tan in England!

Dear Family and friends!! 

What a wonderful week it has been! I actually got a tan in England!!! Sunshine does exist! Everyone here is much happier than normal which is always a plus for missionary work. We've been able to do a lot of teaching this week which was wonderful. We also went on two exchanges. Sister Gardner still doesn't have her license which means I have to stay in Coventry for every exchange. It's a little rough because it means we only have about 2 days during the week when we're actually together. But our investigators are all doing really well right now. Leevoy is very excited for his upcoming baptism and we only have a few more things to teach him. We also taught Tyler this week. He is now on a date for June 28th. He is chinese and doing his post-grad in automotive design. He took us out to lunch after our lesson with him this week to a cantonese restaurant. He made sure that we tried everything before he told us what it was. Haha. The weirdest thing we ate was cow stomach. Which actually wasn't that bad! Just really chewy. We also started teaching this guy called John. Sister Muller and I met him a couple transfers ago and he lived in the Elders area so we handed him over, but I guess they could never get in touch with him because he texted us and asked how we were doing. We set up a lesson with him and he is SO incredibly golden!!! We had a perfect first lesson with him about the restoration. We got to see him twice during the week. He came for a baptism on Saturday and we taught him plan of salvation and invited him to be baptised on a date! He accepted and is looking forward to his baptism in June! He is so prepared!!! Lots of our investigators have been super busy recently though with Exams. Those will finish this week so we are VERY excited about that! Things are going really well right now so we cannot complain! The sisters are all doing so well also. I love being able to go on exchange with them and learn from them and get to know them. This week I got to go with a new missionary which was a treat! The poor girl was just so tired and is still adjusting to the schedule. But being with her just made me realize really how far I have come and how much I have learned on my mission. I feel like all I remember and all I know is missionary work. And what I have learned more than anything is that I am so imperfect and that I really don't know anything at all! I know that God loves His children, but just like Nephi, I don't know the meaning of all things. But that love is all we need. If we know how much God loves us and wants us to succeed then that love will govern every choice we make and prepare us to live with him again someday. The gospel is so wonderful and beautiful. I am so excited to talk to you all in less than one week!!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

Love,

Sister Jensen