20th of October 2014

     So I forgot how I used to do this, do I read first and then write or write first and then read or like how do you write a mission email? Sorry that I haven´t been super good at this lately, but hoping to improve!

     So I have this new-discovered animo. That means like hmmmm..... positivity, heart, devotion. It means like all of those things in one, I don´t think that the word really exists in English, but that is what I have. I am very happy. I think it might be becuse I have a little niece at home. Well that isn´t all of it, but it for sure is part of it!!

     I am about to complete 9 months in the mission. That is half way right ¿como? seriously who knows how that passed by so fast. 

     My companion Hermana Jones and I have been feeling pretty good. Just to let you know, we have moved houses again due to some saw dust falling from the ceiling, so that was fun! We live in an adorable house now, on the second floor. It is yellow and red and very very cute! like a gingerbread house, and the landlady calls us her "hijas". 

     We are teaching someone wonderful named Eleonora. She is 21 years old, just like me! She works in a paper store, (those are very common here, they sell like school supplies). She was visited by the Elders like a year ago, but at this time (sorry if I am re-writing here, I have no idea what I have already said) she was going to school and working a lot and not interested, but now; she is so super interested and progressing like crazy!

Last sunday, we had visited her for about a week, and she commited to going to church. We tried calling her sunday morning, but she didn´t answer. But she showed up all by herself! We have been able to follow the spirit and answer all of her questions by using the Book of Mormon, which she loves. We teach her principle by principle in her store, and one day she came and said, "yup I read, and I really liked verse 20, can we read that one?" She is amazing and we love her. 

      We are also teaching another young man named Miguel. He is 20 years old and really wants to change his life. What better way is there to do that then through the gospel of Jesus Christ? We called him 20 minutes before church while we were passing for another investigator, and he was like "I am actually already at the church" bah. My bad. He is seriously great. 

     I love you all and hope you learned tons from Conference. I am super excited for the Liahona to come out so that I can read all the talks again. 

     Love

     Hermana Jensen

Oh what things 13 October 2014

     So I am writing very early today, sorry about that. 

     I just wanted to simply let you all know that I love the Lord. I know that we are so blessed to have a God that loves us and that has something in store for us. I am grateful for this time that I am spending as a missionary, even when it is hard.

    There are moments of really hard, but there are moments of really happy. I am actually grateful for the hard. In the moment, sometimes it is difficult to understand, but God is forming us.

We are here, in a refiners fire, and God is watching us until we are ready. Waiting till he can see his reflection in us. 

     I am changing as a person. I am not perfect, but I know that I can be because of Christ. Christ wasn´t just anyone. He not only brought the gospel to the earth and performed many miracles, he is still saving us. The Atonement makes immortality and eternal life possible.

     We have a prophet! He loves us. 

     I testify that the Book of Momon conatians Gods love and the fullness of the gospel. All of it. 

     I love the Lord.

     Love

   
Hermana Jensen

Happy birthday Guadalupe 22 September 2014

Thank you all for the birthday wishes! 

     I had a really great birthday, I ate some delicious chile rellenos and pan dulce. Amazing things of mexico, really. And yesterday, an amazing hermana gave us the really moist cake that is made with 3 milks and it had like this raspberry stuff on top I donno but cake the the US is terrible. The cake here is so much better. Like I am don't think I will be able to eat cake at home again, haha. 

     So things have been pretty great here. This morning, I had some serious thoughts about what God is trying to teach me from all this and I am going to try and sum it up really fast.

     I am learning to put all of my trust in God. To breathe, to be still and to do all that God asks of me. With all of the things that I have gone through in the passed little while, I finally realized why. If the lesson isn't recognized, God sends us something else until we recognize it. We have to submit our will to his and just do. Do without stopping what we are already doing. Sometimes we don't know why or how or even exactly what, but we just have to do it. Follow the good and we will make it. 

     A returned missionary shared the story about Leonardo Davinci in church on Sunday, when he was painting the last super. He looked for someone with the characteristics to pose for Jesus, and he found someone. He was a young man, dedicated to God, focused on others and so Leo painted him as Jesus. He one by one found people to pose for each of the apostles, and 19 years later, he was on the last apostle, Judas. He looked and looked. Then he was advised that someone had just gotten out of prison that could fit his role. He went, and sure enough, he asked this man full of evil and pain to pose as Judas. Then he showed the man the painting, and the man began to cry. "I am the one who posed as Jesus 19 years ago". We have to stay constantly on the pathway, with our eye focused on the light. Light cannot dwell in darkness. Christ is the light.

     Sorry that was summarized very fast, but I loved it so much. 

   
Love you all

Hermana Jensen