Sunday, November 29, 2015

Week 69-November 24, 2015

Week 69-November 24, 2015

sounds like everyone is doing great!!! and that everyone is excited for christmas!!! me too!!! :)
thanks for the letters and package!!!!!  i will try to send letters and stuff for christmas if i can haha  the package i got is for christmas? should i open it?
this week was great. ariel gets baptized sunday! but we still have to teach a ton so its kinda crazy. but we are excited :)
silvia is still quitting smoking, and raquel and fransisca came sunday but guess what?! raquel is already a member :P oh chile..haha but hey its all good because fransisca can get baptized and her husband too! :P so we will keep working with them. anyway we had a meeting this week with pres and it was super good. it made me really think about how God blesses us when we are obedient and cant when we decide not to be obedient. i feel like in my life like taylor said our family has been SOOOOO blessed its almost crazy. i decided 99 percent of the blessings i have received and enjoyed personally come from the obedience of mo m and dad. seriously. i feel like their faith and testimonies and sacrifices literally have made all the difference in our lives and it makes me scared to move away or such because im not as good as mom and dad and wont receive the same blessings :P haha i think ill just keep living in the house forever and never move out or get married :P what do you think dad?   but seriously i realized one of the big reasons i wanted to serve a mission was so tht i could become a little more like mom. i told that to an investigator who is pregnant this week and she started crying lol  i feel like i have so many flaws but Christ literally promises to change us, thats the purpose of life, literally cchange our desires and ideas and everything about us. hopefully we will die a completely different person from who we were when we were 10, or 18, etc. the goal is become who God wants us to be, not who we want to be. but we have tendencies and are rebelious and lack faith and such and so we need lots of grace... hopefully God has made me a little more like mom in these last 15 months...:P 
oh and funny fact, sunday we ate patitas de serda for lunch...cows feet. it was actually pretty good...
oh and mom can you send me the recipe for lasagna?
fav scripture of the week. 2 nephi 2:6-9
love and miss you all!! have a fantastic week!

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Week 68-November 17, 2015

Week 68-November 17, 2015

oh my gosh i almost had a hard attack when i read that first sentence.. wow its crazy to think about seeing you guys. and you guys coming to chile. its a lot to think about. im just going to go back to knocking doors because it stresses me out to think about the real world....haha 
also keep in mind its going to be SUPER HOT when you guys come. wow ok im going to keep thinking about all this....

ya benjamin!!! sounds like everyone is kicking butt playing soccer!!

ok so i kind of lost track of the emails but here is my email for this week¨:
this week was awesome!
 question, dad who is manual mercado and victor?
this week rachel and fransisca accepted the baptism date of the 28th of november and ariel and silvia too!! we have the 4 for that weekend. all kinds of miracles. and the four of them came to church and juan, rachels husband too!!!! we really want to find him when he isnt working and teach him too because he is super receptive and wants to find his faith again. 
we also found a few news this week who are super awesome. also the members here are fantastic. they all want to help us and accompany us and we are finally not having problems with obedience because they have been helping us leave lunch in less than an hour and its been great. anyway, i spent all my time today reading and copying pictures from my camera so i cant write more but i love you all tons and have a great week! 
i dont know if i already send it but my fav scripture this week is moroni 9:6.,...

Week 67-November 10, 2015

Week 67-November 10, 2015

haha ya i put about half my mission on a pen drive but after that i havent done it..ill do it next week. and ya i sent pics of danielas baptism too...? anyway i dont have the camera cord today but next week ill send them again and such. right now im in Olimpo, which is in the city Maipu. you can google map it if you search OHiggins with Teniente Bello (where we live) or the street Cuatro Poniente with Nueva San Martin (our sector) ..both are in Maipu, like 15 min in auto from the plaza of Maipu. the church we go to is in German Garces with Barros Luco, but those are smaller streets so not sure if you will be able to find it. its in the sector of the elders, not ours, and yes its warm here now. pretty hot actually. using lots of sunscreen this year because i have like a million new wrinkles under my eyes from last year..the sun here is SUPER strong because there is no ozone over Chile . and no i havent gotten a package from the primary kids yet but i decided to tough out the blisters and wear the Toms and other shoes you sent and they are working :) thanks a ton. also sounds like you guys had a good week! and that the YW lesson was great and the Primary program was fantastic. but im a little confused as to why you guys are always crying, during the primary program, in lessons, etc?.. either my family got like hyper spiritual while ive been gone or mom is getting older and her daughters are exactly the same...haha :P just kidding.
crazy to hear that natalie is my height now! woo hoo!! twins!! also ive noticed that in almost every picture of her she is wearing something of mine ..;) glad to know my clothes are going to good use..:P
anyway, i am doing fantastic. its been a great week, FULL of miracles. the biggest miracle of all was sunday, when we had 4 investigators in church!!! RacheL and fransisca, tamara and her son Vicente(3 years old), and Ariel (who even came in a suit!!) it was awesome. the members helped us go around in auto and pick them all up and greeted them with tons of love afterwards. it was great... and the crazy thing was that none of them answered the phone in the morning when we called to wake them up and such so i thought they were all sleeping and we almost didnt go pick them up but we decided to go and see and they were all ready and waiting. it was amazing. also nicolas and isidora (our recent converts) were there. anyway, rachel and fransisca are awesome and rachel, the mom, is just looking for an answer from God to know if this is the right path for her family. she has cancer and it has made even her husband (theyre married!!! its a miracle!!!!) , who had kind of lost his faith, super receptive. also Ariel is progressing and the members have been great accompanying us and such to visit him because he lives alone. and tamara has tons of questions and is great too :) second miracle of the day sunday, we were knocking doors and decided to go look for an old investigator whose name was in our area book and we found a woman named Silvia. she let us in, cried as she toldus about her feelings for God and her doubts and we invited her to baptism and she said yes. we invited her to prepare for the 28th and she said yes. the next day we taught lesson 1 and invited her to read and pray and come to church. she said yes, of course!. and to keep preparing for baptism, and she said yes. haha even the member with us starting laughing at how willing and excited she was. she is seriously a miracle. and she seperated from her pareja (husband she wasnt married to) like 2 months ago, so now she can be baptized! woo hoo! 
anyway, that was our week. we are doing great, being blessed like crazy. love and miss you all!
hermana jensen

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Week 66-November 3, 2015

Week 66-November 3, 2015

so my week was aweome. super crazy but liek mom said, i love to have lots to do. saturday we were literally running everywhere, from the temple to one baptism to the next, we barely ate lunch but it was awesome. Daniela finally got baptized in Rinconada and it was a beautiful baptism. also Farack got baptized in los heroes! she was also a miracle. cool story, the day of her interview we visited her and she said she didnt really want to be baptized so we talked a lot and then we told her to pray and ask if she should be bapttized. she prayed there with us , asking if she should be mormon, and then waiting afterwards with her eyes closed. then she said she would keep thinking and go to the interview that night and let us know.we left and then returned that night and she walked out of her house and said that she had thought about it and that she was going to be baptized! haha it was seriously a miracle. we didnt do anything at all. she passed her interview great and her mom and sister and neighbor came to her baptism. one of the priests from the ward baptized her and then her boyfriend came sunday for her confirmation :) unfortunately hermano bustos didnt pass his interview because he is still smoking and drinking coffee and then he told us he doesnt want to keep participating... it was a little weird, but maybe he will be ready later on.
anyway, we did baptisms for the dead on halloween with nicolas and karina from rinconada and bastian, another friend of nicolas. pretty ironic :P then we handed out glowsticks (thanks mom!) all night and found a new family to teach! :) 
changes are tomorrow and im staying here but hna galeano is leaving and hna harden will go back to her sector with a new comp.
love and miss you all and have a fantastic week!!!


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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Week 65--October 27, 2015

Week 65--October 27, 2015
 so i only have like 20 min to write today and the most important to me was to read your emails so i cant write much at all butits been a good week. its super fun working in two secotors in a trio, lots of work!! running all the time. but we have possibly 3 baptisms this saturday :) Farack and Eliu in los heroes and Daniela in Rinconada (a investigator of lots of time that finally made the decision to get baptized and is way excited :)) 
anyway, i will send pics next week and hope you are all welll. love you tons!!! enjoy your halloween!!!!
also i had to buy a new retainer too because my top one broke. but its a new plastic version thats way better and only cost like 45 dollars (instead of 180 at home!!)
anyway, ill write more next week. haev a great weeek!!
hermana jensen