NEW TRAINER HERMANA ECHARD FROM HONEYVILLE, UTAH

TEACHING KIDS ENGLISH

OTHER ROOMIES HERMANAS PISCONTE, MIJANGOS

PLAYED SOCCER W/ ZONE THEN WATER FIGHT

THE FIELD IS WHITE AND READY TO HARVEST

SO MANY THINGS HAPPENED THIS WEEK SO IM GONNA TRY MY BEST!

La Yuca!!! has already stolen my heart!! :)) so i am in the capital and i love it!! i still have running water!! haha its not hot anymore but its hot enough outside that it really is a blessing! i have to turn my shower on with plyers and use broken glass as a mirror! BUT ITS SO AWESOME! i love it here!!

my area is pretty small but fulllllll of the most amazing people! and my house is right next to the chapel!! SO BLESSED!! all the people here are my family, gosh i cant even describe how much i already love them! its easy to love someone when they are so loving, and thats how the people are here!! AMAZING!!

my companion is Hermana Echard from UT!! haha she is truly amazing she has a really good understanding of this gospel and an awesome testimony! i am truly blessed to have her! and she loves popcorn so we eat it alot! :)) we live with two other sisters one who was in the ccm with me Hermana Pisconte from peru and her trainer Hermana Mijangos from mexico!! so i get to practice spanish ALOT!! which is good cause i need it! but my trainer said that she was impressed with my spanish so thats good! she is a really good teacher!!

so i have a story

we were in a lesson and my companion leans over to me and tells me i am going to teach the 1st vision to a brand new investigator! ahhh, my first time actually teaching on my 1st full day out! i was like... okay i got this! and i said 1978534908 prayers in my heart to just have the spirit with me and that Yeseña would feel it! i started to recite the vision and WOW the spirit was so strong!!! i dont think i used any correct grammar but she was listening and then we invited her to be baptised and she said yes! later we were talking about the feelings of the spirit and how it works and she told me that she could feel it when i was talking and telling her about Joseph Smith!! i have never been more grateful for the spirit or my Father in Heaven!! this is the true church!! sharing my testimony and the restoration of this Gospel makes my testimony grow every time!! 

I LOVED CONFERENCE!! I WISH I COULD JUST SEND HOME ALL MY NOTES!! but one thing i have focused on this week (cause i cannot speak very well) is letting my light shine like our Prophet has counciled, those things in our religion that make us different make us shine in this dark world! so i just walk around holding my EL LIBRO DE MORMON and a smile on my face!! :)) hahaha

 

i love the Dominican Republic and all of its nasty smell and most wonderful people! and most of all i love preaching this perfect gospel! :)

until next week!!

HERMANA JENSON

Awkward missionary pics

One sister sleeping another writing

Matching Croc shoes

Everyone wearing my clothes

New Latino sisters

Found a mutual friend (she doesn't say who though)
more awkward missionary pic

WEEK 5

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUTS TO MY SISSY DEENA AND MY FAVORITE MOMMY AND THE BEST MOMMY EVER!! I LOVE YOU GUYS!! EVERYONE EMAIL THEM 1897989 EMAILS AND TELL THEM HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND YOU LOVE THEM AS WELL!!! 

so siestas... haha my companion Hermana Juchau loves naps.. and one day we wouldn't let her take one after lunch because we had stuff to do, so she was upset! haha but then in class that night our meastro was asking us how our day was, and my companion told him the story and he said that she needs to get us to believe in naps and she says "yo se que siestas son verdaderas!" haha bearing her testimony about naps to us!! bahaha!! :)))

i guess this is my farewell from the CCM!! i leave this coming Tuesday and i won’t have a p-day until the next Monday! I really enjoyed my time here... tons of food, all the people THE SPIRIT!!, AC!, hot showers with lots of water pressure, the temple, but especially the people!!.. and specifically my district and companions!!! I could not be more grateful for all the things I have here, and the relationships I have made, I am the only one going to the west mission in my district so I won't see any of them! :( but one day I will!! Heavenly Father has truly blessed me more than I deserve! With that being said I CANNOT wait to get out into the field, to talk to real life humans about this real life gospel THAT IS TRUE!! Gosh I get the biggest smile on my face just thinking about it!! I had the opportunity to go out into the field, specifically the west mission, this last Friday!! I was with hermana Paul, from Pennsylvania. She spoke English and very good Spanish!! My first reaction as I got to the field was to cry! Cry of happiness!!! I had this overwhelming feeling that felt like i was at home! I TRULY LOVE THIS PLACE AND THESE PEOPLE!!!! We taught 3 lessons, 1 to inactive, 1 to a new investigator, and 1 to a woman with a baptismal date!! All of them were super spiritual moments that I will never forget! I was able to get to know them, sing, pray, and bare specific testimonies to these people!! IN SPANISH!! WOW!! I feel so blessed!! Although it was an incredible day I was overwhelmed, only because I had been dreaming/imagining those moments since I was a little girl in primary and then all of a sudden I was living them! Dreams do come true! I honestly had to remind myself I was a real life missionary sitting in the DR teaching people this wonderful gospel! I am so excited to get out there again!!! They practically had to drag me back on to the guagua (wawa) it’s a van thingy, to go back to the CCM! I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! I truly do love it! With how much you guys know i love being a missionary i want to say something that has been on my mind a lot!! When I left, and even still I'll have people tell me "wow you are so great and have sacrificed so much to serve a mission" NO this is THE GREATEST privilege I could ever have! This is an opportunity, and there are so many people who suffered and died for me to have this glorious opportunity. For all of us really... to be able to have this restored gospel here on earth! Those people sacrificed!! Jesus Christ sacrificed, not me, I get emotional just thinking about it, especially what our Savior and Redeemer did for us!! I just want to say to you guys that I don't see my mission as a sacrifice in the slightest, I am so grateful for it and all the people that made it possible for me to be here!! I know I'm not perfect and I know I don't know everything but I have confidence in my Father in Heaven and the power that I am set apart as a missionary!! I am so excited to get out into the field and work so hard!! (Words of Mormom 1:7) I encourage you guys to give thanks for all our Father in Heaven has given you this week, and to be a missionary!! 

It is my testimony that our Savior lives and loves us, and that the true gospel is restored!! 

I love you guys!! Enjoy conference cause I know I will!! :)) thank you for everything!!! 

con 

amor 

Hermana Jenson

Your guess is as good as mine, just silly hermanas

At the TEMPLE

Wednesday is wear Pink Day !

All Smiles



Hermana Peters