The Savior once said, “I am the good shepherd” (John 10:11). What is a good shepherd? A good shepherd will give his life to protect his sheep. He knows each one by name. They each know his voice and follow him and none other. If one is lost, a good shepherd will leave the flock and search endlessly for the lost sheep and bring it safely back to the fold.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Where to begin… I can never make this ebb and flow. My emails are a big jumbled mess of Q and A, but here we go again!
Mommy… the funeral procesión in your 25 things? Are you referring to when we watched the one third part leave? That must have been way sad!
Mommy… the funeral procesión in your 25 things? Are you referring to when we watched the one third part leave? That must have been way sad!
(Bloggers note: by the way I wasn't referring to that. I'll try to explain. On my "25 random things about me" list I wrote- I cry when I see kind acts of service or people cooperating and showing respect; like at a funeral procession where all of the cars are following one after another in a show of love, respect and solemnity. After years of trying to understand this I think it strikes a tender chord of familiarity in me of what heaven was like... where we all cooperated, were free of worldly attitudes and concerns and gave great love and respect to each other.
Have you heard anythng about a BHS 5 year reunion? If there is one, I want it know about it! SHANKS.
I got an envelope from you! It had ranch, mac n cheese cheese YES!!!, gravy, koolaid, a card, and 4 CDs. Thanks so much. I´m a little confused because it was sent off on the second of Feb. And I swear you had already told me you sent off the package when I told you that I wanted mac n cheese cheese. So I´m confused to know if there was another one. Another reason I tend to think that it might be that way is that you didn´t include the Avon makeup remover I asked for. Maybe it just slipped your mind. Or maybe there was another envelope that hasn´t made it yet. I´m confused. But way grateful for what I got. I´m going to have mac n cheese with my comp today! Thanks for the baptism pix… I almost cried seeing them. I honestly hadn´t seen those pictures in a good 8 years, so it was a cool surprise.
On another note… I got letters by dearelder with cool 25 things about me lists and have already begun my own. I´ll send it to you when it is done and polished. I also got a letter from Jason with advice about training and am way grateful!
It´s hot here. Have you forgotten? I haven´t. About my ice cream favorites… I´m slowly branching out and trying new flavors. But what I have tried so far-- that is distinct, didn´t like that much. I´ll get back to you.
I miss my car because it represents convenience and ease. And power to be where I need to be when I want to be there.
Beware moment… I was cleaning this open wound of one of our drunk investigators and as I was doing this it dawned on me that if he has AIDS and I have a cut on my hand I could get AIDS. I didn´t have a cut. Let that be clear. And I didn´t let his blood touch me, but I still made the decisión not to help people anymore in this way. I was just trying to serve and take care of him like the Good Samaritan would, but I was more or less prompted to not do it anymore. Obedient… I will be!
Faustino… passed his interview and we are proceeding with his baptism this Saturday. Please pray for him that nothing will make it fall through. Thanks, I know you already are!
Last p – day it rained so much that the streets were completely like rivers. Water from one ditch to the other flowing and you couldn´t see the street. I get so giddy every time there´s a flood because I love my awesome rain boots! This past week I even carried my comp across the river street because the rain was so high it even hit over the top of my boots! But, they have like an elastic band at the top, so the water didn´t get it! I was just wet for this random 2 inch strip mid calf, but not higher and not lower.
Ready for a shocker… I actually want to go running in the morning… yeah, read it again! But we can´t. Because we live in "la matanza" which is supposedly like the most dangerous part of the misión because it´s richer… so there is more of an incentive to rob someone than in the ghetto field where nobody has anything of value. Bummer… can´t run… and I know that is just the type of exercise I need, but I will be able to go running if I ever get to serve in "campo" – we´ll see!
My frustration is having a really big vocabulary in my native language and a crummy one in the misión language. I'll explain:
If I ask, "What is the word for when I want to do something and you want to do something else, so we meet in the middle and do something we can both agree on?" Of course the answer I´m looking for is compromise...but the person I am asking doesn't know the word for that. Imagine that – all day long. With words like "tie" – nobody wins, nobody loses. There´s more but I´m too tired to list them all.
Mommy – I forgot to tell you that I love the French manicure painting pen you sent me. I finally let myself use it and it is so fast! Thanks so much! It makes me feel great and even happier throughout the day… as I´m sure you know. Also – the pancake recipe is super good. They don´t come out very fluffy, but I think that is because as of yet I haven´t been using baking powder… my goal is to buy some today and try again and see if it makes a difference. But either way thanks a bunch!
Nata – and everyone imagine this… you go to the carniceria to buy meat that is nice and cheap, but the ground beef has nerves in it. And not just every once in a while… like every 8th bite you´ll get a purple, shiny, chewy NERVE! Gross, gross, gross… I can´t take it much more!
Ines and her kids were going to come to church, but there were legitimate complications. They are progressing, but slowly. It is hard because in the misión you want to find everyone and help them get baptized in 3 weeks, but that seems to only work out for the Elders… every other day you here them saying "and they got baptized in 3 weeks." I´m jealous, but hey, go elders!
Mommy! The miracle of this week was when the Spirit gave me revelation and I was able to "make friends" with a 13 year old boy that left the church shortly after getting baptized- age 10. He is the only member of his immediate family… problem number one. But anyway, he usually doesn´t attend us when we come to visit him. The same thing happened this past week. I was talking to him through the open window as he played video games not responding to a word I said. But then I remembered something I had read in his teaching record… that he loves the Book of Revelations. So I started talking to the wall – basically – and told him that I´m super confused and don´t understand if the dragon is real or symbolic and asked random questions about all the prophesies and after about 3 or 5 minutes of me talking he finally said "you have to read it slowly.' I asked a follow up question and said "do you have a Bible… can you show me?" He pushed pause, hopped up, grabbed his Bible, left the house and stood with us on the front porch and LET US TEACH HIM! Well teach, in the sense that we started and ended with a prayer and talked about the gospel. He even said we could come back and ask him more questions this week! I made him my friend… I learned that trick from my Mom, and the Spirit helped me do it!
Valentines day was lame… just a regular day.
I did get the Picture of the half full chart and it blew me away!
NATA- with Jane… invite her to a FHE with you guys. You could watch the restoration DVD – 25 minutes. Or you could have a Chat about the Proclamation to the Family or you can give her a Book of Mormon and testify about why it is important. Or you could use chapter 6 in Preach My Gospel and talk about Christlike attributes – pick one and testify about it… or take the quiz! Definitely invite her to church… bring her with you, sit by her, do everything! Invite the missionaries to teach her IN YOUR HOME! Go Nata!
Wow – where does the time go? I could talk for hours and hours, but there will be plenty of time to do that in 9 months! Keep up the good work.
Be safe, be obedient, endure to the end!
I love you tons. I sent off real letters to both of the grandparents today… don´t worry and
I´ll pray for the Bishop!
I love you more than how much I would love to baptize a complete family… and that is A LOT!
Hermana Jensen!
Beware moment… I was cleaning this open wound of one of our drunk investigators and as I was doing this it dawned on me that if he has AIDS and I have a cut on my hand I could get AIDS. I didn´t have a cut. Let that be clear. And I didn´t let his blood touch me, but I still made the decisión not to help people anymore in this way. I was just trying to serve and take care of him like the Good Samaritan would, but I was more or less prompted to not do it anymore. Obedient… I will be!
Faustino… passed his interview and we are proceeding with his baptism this Saturday. Please pray for him that nothing will make it fall through. Thanks, I know you already are!
Last p – day it rained so much that the streets were completely like rivers. Water from one ditch to the other flowing and you couldn´t see the street. I get so giddy every time there´s a flood because I love my awesome rain boots! This past week I even carried my comp across the river street because the rain was so high it even hit over the top of my boots! But, they have like an elastic band at the top, so the water didn´t get it! I was just wet for this random 2 inch strip mid calf, but not higher and not lower.
Ready for a shocker… I actually want to go running in the morning… yeah, read it again! But we can´t. Because we live in "la matanza" which is supposedly like the most dangerous part of the misión because it´s richer… so there is more of an incentive to rob someone than in the ghetto field where nobody has anything of value. Bummer… can´t run… and I know that is just the type of exercise I need, but I will be able to go running if I ever get to serve in "campo" – we´ll see!
My frustration is having a really big vocabulary in my native language and a crummy one in the misión language. I'll explain:
If I ask, "What is the word for when I want to do something and you want to do something else, so we meet in the middle and do something we can both agree on?" Of course the answer I´m looking for is compromise...but the person I am asking doesn't know the word for that. Imagine that – all day long. With words like "tie" – nobody wins, nobody loses. There´s more but I´m too tired to list them all.
Mommy – I forgot to tell you that I love the French manicure painting pen you sent me. I finally let myself use it and it is so fast! Thanks so much! It makes me feel great and even happier throughout the day… as I´m sure you know. Also – the pancake recipe is super good. They don´t come out very fluffy, but I think that is because as of yet I haven´t been using baking powder… my goal is to buy some today and try again and see if it makes a difference. But either way thanks a bunch!
Nata – and everyone imagine this… you go to the carniceria to buy meat that is nice and cheap, but the ground beef has nerves in it. And not just every once in a while… like every 8th bite you´ll get a purple, shiny, chewy NERVE! Gross, gross, gross… I can´t take it much more!
Ines and her kids were going to come to church, but there were legitimate complications. They are progressing, but slowly. It is hard because in the misión you want to find everyone and help them get baptized in 3 weeks, but that seems to only work out for the Elders… every other day you here them saying "and they got baptized in 3 weeks." I´m jealous, but hey, go elders!
Mommy! The miracle of this week was when the Spirit gave me revelation and I was able to "make friends" with a 13 year old boy that left the church shortly after getting baptized- age 10. He is the only member of his immediate family… problem number one. But anyway, he usually doesn´t attend us when we come to visit him. The same thing happened this past week. I was talking to him through the open window as he played video games not responding to a word I said. But then I remembered something I had read in his teaching record… that he loves the Book of Revelations. So I started talking to the wall – basically – and told him that I´m super confused and don´t understand if the dragon is real or symbolic and asked random questions about all the prophesies and after about 3 or 5 minutes of me talking he finally said "you have to read it slowly.' I asked a follow up question and said "do you have a Bible… can you show me?" He pushed pause, hopped up, grabbed his Bible, left the house and stood with us on the front porch and LET US TEACH HIM! Well teach, in the sense that we started and ended with a prayer and talked about the gospel. He even said we could come back and ask him more questions this week! I made him my friend… I learned that trick from my Mom, and the Spirit helped me do it!
Valentines day was lame… just a regular day.
I did get the Picture of the half full chart and it blew me away!
NATA- with Jane… invite her to a FHE with you guys. You could watch the restoration DVD – 25 minutes. Or you could have a Chat about the Proclamation to the Family or you can give her a Book of Mormon and testify about why it is important. Or you could use chapter 6 in Preach My Gospel and talk about Christlike attributes – pick one and testify about it… or take the quiz! Definitely invite her to church… bring her with you, sit by her, do everything! Invite the missionaries to teach her IN YOUR HOME! Go Nata!
Wow – where does the time go? I could talk for hours and hours, but there will be plenty of time to do that in 9 months! Keep up the good work.
Be safe, be obedient, endure to the end!
I love you tons. I sent off real letters to both of the grandparents today… don´t worry and
I´ll pray for the Bishop!
I love you more than how much I would love to baptize a complete family… and that is A LOT!
Hermana Jensen!
