The Field Is Still White...

Dearest Friends and Family,

It's been a crazy week! Here are some of the highlights :)

So nearly every house in Walla Walla has animals. As Sister McNeil said, "Everyone and their dog has a dog". For real. So many dogs. And cats. And, in one particular case, BIRDS. We brought a member with us to teach a newly interested person, and we walk in to his apartment and there are a bunch of birds just flying around! He called himself the "Bird Man". And his birds just fly free all around his house. It's crazy. And very distracting to try and teach him at his house...

We locked our apartment keys inside our apartment. Which isn't so bad... except for the fact that we also locked our car keys inside our apartment...and church (which is all the way in Milton-Freewater OR) was supposed to start in a half hour, and we were literally the entire sacrament meeting (we were both asked to speak and we were the only speakers, and I was asked to play the piano since the normal piano player couldn't come ahhh). But don't worry, we got a member to pick us up, and we were only a few minutes late YSA-time, and everything went well once we were there. Whew.

Other news...we got a new car! At least to use for now (they give the people with the cleanest cars the nicest ones, so that could change haha). Our old car was retired (mostly because it had too many miles), but our new car is a four-wheel drive so maybe we just got ourselves stuck so many times in the snow that they figured we needed it.

I witnessed my first ice storm! Freezing rain is a real thing here, it's crazy.

We got asked to teach a COLLEGE class. It's for a world religion class, and it's at a Seventh Day Adventist college, so I'll let you know how that goes...

We knocked on a door, and a guy eating spam and rice answered. Naturally I asked him if he was from Hawaii (truly an inspired question) and he answered yes. Low and behold, he is also from Hilo, and our families are actually good friends. We may be the only two native Hilo-ans in all of the state of Washington, so I am truly humbled that we knocked on his door. (He was not interested in our message, but that's okay we'll try again sometime, maybe with some fresh musubi or haopia next time.)

It has been a good week here in Walla Walla! Two of the people we sent off as referrals now have baptism dates! And one of those people (Naphtali) referred her cousin, who has been referred back to us because he's a young single adult!! He, like Naphtali, is so prepared for our message of Jesus Christ. There are so many extremely humble people here in Washington, and it is incredible to be able to talk to those people about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Finding those prepared people makes all the hard work, and the doors slammed in our faces, worth it. We are truly blessed to have the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to have the inner peace that it can bring us as we rely on our Savior.

Love,
Sister Jensen

Also...the blue sky you can see in a few of these pictures was sooooo nice to see, and one of the first days since I've been here that I've seen the sky :)