3/24/09
Life is SO GOOD! My mini is a dream come true. She is vibrant, has energy, teaches well, speaks perfectly and is even pretty good speaking English! We have a ball together and work super hard. We are never walking in the street in silence as sometimes happened with Hermana Roy because she likes to be quiet... but anyway... Her name is Hermana Barbara Barrera and she is from Gonzalez Catan... which is the zone of the mission that is super dangerous. There are no sisters there and the Elders are always getting held up at gunpoint, but she is awesome! I love her sooooo much! She is 21 and was a convert when she was 14. She has a rock solid testimony and already knew just about everything. I only had to teach her mission rules and how to take care of the area book and little stuff like that. She is super obedient and really helps me be better. She has a powerful spirit and I know that these 6 weeks together will be a treasure of the mission!
This week the chaos of my many divisions begins. We have 2 this week and the week to come which means that in transit and meeting up and stuff we lose about 2 or 2 and a half hours each division of our time to proselyte. But I have decided not to worry about it. What matters is that I fulfill this purpose helping all the sisters in the zone and that we have faith that everything will work together for our good. I know it will. Things are already working out for our good and we are already seeing miracles. Like last night...
We committed Antonio and Andrea to be baptized on April 11th! They are the parents of an 11 year old member who is the niece of this very active family that lives next door. I have felt so strongly that we just couldn´t drop them, even though their work schedules make them almost impossible to find and teach. I just couldn´t drop them and now I know why... the Lord had prepared them to join His kingdom! They received the date well and we are also teaching their 19 year old son... you never know... he might come around, but he´s a typical teenage boy in Argentina... soccer seems way cooler that reading the scriptures of course!
We also found this way awesome 15 year old girl and taught her the other day. She wants to come to church this Sunday and says that her church just doesn't do it for her. Yea! We hope her father doesn´t stop us from teaching her. Her mom died when she was a kid and this is just what the family needs, but oftentimes we find that those who need to hear this message more than anyone else are too hurt to receive it. We´ll be praying that he is ready and that they are baptized as a family... the dad and 2 daughters... it would be a "complete family!" Her name is Antonella.
I totally destroyed my beautiful nails... as I always do. What is my problem? One breaks and I just pick the rest. Lame.
Life is SO GOOD! My mini is a dream come true. She is vibrant, has energy, teaches well, speaks perfectly and is even pretty good speaking English! We have a ball together and work super hard. We are never walking in the street in silence as sometimes happened with Hermana Roy because she likes to be quiet... but anyway... Her name is Hermana Barbara Barrera and she is from Gonzalez Catan... which is the zone of the mission that is super dangerous. There are no sisters there and the Elders are always getting held up at gunpoint, but she is awesome! I love her sooooo much! She is 21 and was a convert when she was 14. She has a rock solid testimony and already knew just about everything. I only had to teach her mission rules and how to take care of the area book and little stuff like that. She is super obedient and really helps me be better. She has a powerful spirit and I know that these 6 weeks together will be a treasure of the mission!
This week the chaos of my many divisions begins. We have 2 this week and the week to come which means that in transit and meeting up and stuff we lose about 2 or 2 and a half hours each division of our time to proselyte. But I have decided not to worry about it. What matters is that I fulfill this purpose helping all the sisters in the zone and that we have faith that everything will work together for our good. I know it will. Things are already working out for our good and we are already seeing miracles. Like last night...
We committed Antonio and Andrea to be baptized on April 11th! They are the parents of an 11 year old member who is the niece of this very active family that lives next door. I have felt so strongly that we just couldn´t drop them, even though their work schedules make them almost impossible to find and teach. I just couldn´t drop them and now I know why... the Lord had prepared them to join His kingdom! They received the date well and we are also teaching their 19 year old son... you never know... he might come around, but he´s a typical teenage boy in Argentina... soccer seems way cooler that reading the scriptures of course!
We also found this way awesome 15 year old girl and taught her the other day. She wants to come to church this Sunday and says that her church just doesn't do it for her. Yea! We hope her father doesn´t stop us from teaching her. Her mom died when she was a kid and this is just what the family needs, but oftentimes we find that those who need to hear this message more than anyone else are too hurt to receive it. We´ll be praying that he is ready and that they are baptized as a family... the dad and 2 daughters... it would be a "complete family!" Her name is Antonella.
I totally destroyed my beautiful nails... as I always do. What is my problem? One breaks and I just pick the rest. Lame.
Unfortunately Hermana Johns camera was stolen (out of her scripture bag in church one Sunday) which had the pictures of the baptism of Gera´s mom that I also taught... but luckily she had printed me one before it was stolen... but just one. Anyway, she wants to know if you wouldn´t mind putting the pictures of her and me in like a separate folder on the desktop and then burning a CD of these pictures and sending the CD to her mom who will take care of it and send her the pictures as attachments? Could you try to do that for her?
How many Wal-Marts are there in Utah? I tried to guess the other day, I said like 40 or something, but it was just a complete guess.
We did a special fast with Vanessa and Ricardo so that they would somehow be able to get to the registrar’s office and do the one month till the marriage paperwork. I hope that they have the faith to act now... that is what is hard... we can fast and pray, but when it comes to not showing up for work and having the faith to not be fired ... acting is harder than starving!
My companion and I both had a terrible sore throat this week that reminded me that those are no fun. It´s amazing how we can forget that.
If you want to know what Hermana Barrera looks like, just put in the tape of the Karen Carpenter story and she looks just like the actress of the young Karen Carpenter. Same face, same hair, same eyes... it´s uncanny! She makes me smile!
I found the sour cream and it´s divine! We made the ranch dip and it too was truly heavenly... dip not dressing, but it was GREAT with Argentine pizza. We also had it with chicken milanesa and that was divine. My comp. LOVES IT. So I´ll probably be sending her the little envelopes for the rest of my life, but it´s a small price to pay because today she is teaching me how to make milanesa!
I spent like 2 days in a trio with Haedo 2 waiting for my mini who came Wednesday morning and let me tell you... the mission should not be spent in a trio. It just makes everything harder, longer, slower.... too many cooks spoil the broth! Companionships are divine... be they in the mission or in a family... There is a reason... two is the perfect number. (3 with God, but you get what I mean... )
I´ve got to tell you that last week I got a letter from 2 complete strangers named Megan and Kevin. They stumbled onto my video on YouTube of me opening my call and were so impressed and jazzed up that they found the mission address and wrote me. They not only wrote me, but they colored the envelope all bright and gorgeous and it was truly super cool. They wrote about how it is evident that I have a great Spirit and was prepared and stuff. They said they watch the video all the time and that they even joke that Kevin could marry me some day. Funny! I wrote them back and gave them the blog address so that they could see all that has happened in these 10 and a half months. But yeah... 2 complete strangers track down the address and pay 94 cents to send me letters in Argentina. How cool is that! It made my day.
Gotta run! Love you all tons. Thanks for your prayers. Let me know about the anniversary of NataJason. Keep playing with Davy for me and never forget how great it is to have the gospel.
Never give up!
Hermana Stacey Jensen
What, What?!!
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1 COMMENTS:
ajohns37 said...
A very special thanks to Stacey's (Hermana Jensen) concern for Brittany (Hermana Johns) getting her camera stolen and and her awesome mom for posting pictures of them so we can save those precious memories on our computer.
All our love, The Familia Johns
MARCH 26, 2009 8:19 PM
