We had another awesome week here! We received our transfer information and I AM STAYING HERE!!! I am so grateful. Sister Lowe and I will be getting another sister, so we will be serving in a trio. Our new companion is coming straight from home, and we are super excited to meet her on Wednesday!
We helped put on the "Hope Drive" this past Saturday and it was a huge success! It was incredible to see an idea turn in to a reality with the help of the stake presidency, our zone, and numerous members. If you want to see how the whole thing turned out, check out the live drive through video on our facebook page! We had almost a hundred cars come through the drive, a handful of which weren't members of the church. We had many people sign up for service, bible studies, and help doing family history work. Sister Lowe and I were kind of supervising the whole thing, so we spent a lot of time walking between stations and checking on missionaries. It went pretty smoothly, although about half way through the wind picked up (as it does here) and we suddenly had canopies, signs, and traffic cones blowing all across the parking lot. We ran around like crazy chasing after things the wind had caught hold of and had everything settled back down within a few minutes. Whew! It was really fun (despite sore feet and sunburns) and the members are requesting a Hope Drive 2.0 so I'll keep you posted on that.
We had another Rona scare. The zone leaders of the Tri-City Spanish zone tested positive and now they are sad Elders, stuck inside. The worst part is Elder Newton was supposed to go home tomorrow and now will have to stay here for another week and a half. We have talked with them quite a bit (over zoom of course) since we all do social media meetings and stuff together and they seem to be doing alright and have a sense of humor about the whole unfortunate situation. If anything they have gained a lot of sympathy for other victims of the virus. Our mission is trying to be super careful to protect other missionaries from getting sick, so hopefully the rest of us remain well.
We were able to pick up a couple of new people to teach this week! They both have been taught in the past and seem ready to continue learning about the restored gospel. We also have been doing a lot of service. Our zone was able to help lay sod for a man that found us through a service offer post on Facebook. He isn't a member, but now has a great relationship with the missionaries in his area! We also had a district tennis lesson with Diane (the woman we met playing tennis) and she absolutely loves missionaries now. We said a prayer with her and she said it made her day!!
I hope you all have a wonderful week! God is good!
Love,
Sister Jensen
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