Dear Friends and Family,
This week we had an adventure. The lady upstairs moved out and the movers took her washer and dryer, but the connection was leaking. So we come home and our washer and dryer and carpet was all soaked and there was a hole in our ceiling with water dripping down! The lady came home a few minutes later and we thought the water got shut off, but it leaked all night. I set an alarm for every two hours so that I could get up and empty out the bucket that was catching the water. The next day the repair people came and "fixed it" but it still has been leaking so we'll call them again today. But a leaky ceiling in no way takes away from how awesome this week has been!
On Wednesday we had our Zone Conference and we learned more about planning and how to have effective companion study. It was great and I learned a lot. I know Satan works the hardest on us when we have the most potential for growth, because all last week I was struggling to be excited about missionary work. But towards the end of the week I applied the Doctrine of Christ (Faith, repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost, Endure to the end) and I felt much better. We had a training by Pres. Taylor about the Doctrine of Christ. He had a chart where we listed concerns in missionary work in rows, and then across 5 columns was the principles in the Doctrine of Christ and we talked about how it applies to any concern and any question.
And for Zone Conference I organized a musical number! (Completely out of character for me, right?) We organized it beforehand so it went really well though we only had about 10 minutes to practice together. We had about 9 missionaries singing and we sang "I Am a Child of God" out of the hymn but on the chorus of the first verse some missionaries sang in Spanish and after the second verse Sister Esau and I sang in Kiribati (her native language) and then after the third verse it was all the languages together. It was fun :) and it was something different.
We just had an awesome zone conference and this Monday a zone p-day! We played 4 square, 9 square, dodge ball, scatter ball and a basketball game called Poison. I am so sore today but it was worth it.
Sister Esau has helped me be more faithful. Before lessons I was getting myself all stressed out before we went to go see them about what we were going to teach. But Sister Esau mentioned something about it and now instead of fretting before a lesson we always pray before we go see them. This has made a big difference and it has been a "small and simple thing" that has brought about more faith in my missionary life. That way we go into a lesson with faith and relying on the Lord instead of in fear and "trusting in the arm of flesh" (A phrase that my mission president uses all the time!).
I love you all, and if I don't yet, I'm praying for charity so I will ;)
Sister Jenson
P.S. Just wanted any of you reading this to know that even if you haven't written me a letter yet, I would still love to hear from you. I remember feeling guilty writing a missionary who only had a few months left because I hadn't written them before that. But now as a missionary I realize it doesn't matter. I would love to hear from anyone! And I promise letters in return. So if anyone wants mail :) write me a letter :)
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