Dearest friends and family,
What an incredible week! We were blessed to be able to teach a lot this week, and it was amazing. I love being able to sit down with someone and just teach them the plain and precious truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ! It's a nice change of pace from being out tracting.
EDGAR- So last Sunday (not yesterday but a week ago) someone showed up at fast and testimony meeting. He sat in the very front, and seemed to enjoy the meeting, but he left before we could talk to him, which was a bummer. But then on Monday we were contacting some people with potential out of Areabook, and we ended up contacting someone named Edgar. He agreed to a lesson the next night, and so we made the trek to Basin City and taught him (and also his whole family, actually). He was the same person who had showed up at church (he has a very recognizable afro...)!! It was amazing. We taught him twice this past week and resolved a lot of his concerns. He came to church again yesterday!
ISACC- Isacc is on date to be baptized on August 3rd!! We have had contact with him every day this past week (which is always the goal, but almost never actually happens). We have had some awesome lessons with him, and did a tour of the church with him and the spirit was really strong. We hope to get him to church next week despite his new job at a blueberry factory...
MARK- We received a referral from the Spanish Elders (actually the same Elders that we directed to the park last week) and he is awesome! Mark works as an agronomist (he analyzes nutrient deficiencies in farmer's crops or something) which is pretty cool. He said he's been looking for a church to join, and jumped at the chance to have lessons with us! We have taught him a couple times already, and he is beginning to read the Book of Mormon. His roommate has a very cute puppy who always tries to bite our skirts and shoes while we teach, but the lessons have been pretty good regardless.
JOE- Joe is someone we have been teaching for a long time, but this week we had an incredible lesson with him at a member's home. We also were able to eat dinner with the members since Joe was there, which was a miracle in and of itself since we had some of our food unexpectedly go bad and we didn't know what we were going to eat for the next few days. They gave us some of their home-grown cucumbers, tomatoes, and potatoes (and some bacon) which was an answer to prayer. Also, Joe showed up at church in a suit, which was so cool! We are still not entirely sure where he got the suit from, but it was still awesome.
It has been a great, busy, week. We also met a hilarious Mexican man who called Pasco "little Mexico" and told us he wanted to take us out to tacos to "eat and talk about God" after we said we didn't know which taco trucks around here were any good.
We had an incredible experience with the spirit where we were able to call the police on a man we saw while out tracting. (Speaking of, shout out to all of the police officers in my life. I am so grateful for the men and women willing to put their own lives at risk for the safety of our communities!!) We also played a LOT of volleyball this week (because that's what YSA do) so maybe after doing my time in the YSA I'll be able to perfect my serve. We sorted onions this week for our zone service at "2nd Harvest".This week I was studying the differences between weakness and sin. We are all subject to weakness, as humans. But while satan uses our weaknesses to entice us to sin, God uses our weaknesses to help us be more like Christ (Ether 12:27). Whenever I am overwhelmed by my imperfections, and by how weak I am, I try to remember that as I humble myself before God, I can become strong not just despite those imperfections, but because of them.
Love,
Sister Jensen
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