ANOTHER WEEK DOWN/ NEXT WEEK IS 1 YEAR MARK

Hola Familia!! Wow what a crazy and amazing week to be a servant of The Lord here in Piantini! I love this amazing work and I love my Savior! 

I want to tell you guys just a little more about my daughter Hermana Veliz de Peru! She is the sweetest little thing and has an amazing testimony. She and her sister are the only members in her family and her mom had a hard time letting her go! But she has not let any of that stop her from serving our loving Savior! We get along great, I'm teaching her how to talk Dominican and she is teaching me how to speak Spanish! Hahahaha! I have learned so much from her sweet testimony and example! I love her as if she is my own daughter. I do believe that she is teaching me more than I am teaching her, an example of this: We were contacting this week by intercom and this lady answered and my companion explained our purpose and that we would like to share our wonderful message with her, the lady rudely rejected and hung up right mid sentence. I was kind of nervous how Hermana Veliz would take it and as I waited for her response, she just looks at me with a smile gave a little chuckle and pressed the next button! She is so humble and ready to find the people, white and ready to harvest! 

So this week we had a noche de hogar with Wilson and some other families that we have been teaching, as I have been catching up with him he told me that he has been talking to his girlfriend (in Haiti) about the church and his conversion, and that she has gone to church the past 2 weeks and is meeting with the missionaries and that he wants to be the first couple to be sealed in the new temple in Haiti. He made hermana Moeller and I promise that we would be there! He is an amazing person I wish I could explain more to you guys how Christ like he is and that each of you could meet him personally! 

I LOVE THIS WORK I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY  AND I LOVE THE PEOPLE HERE IN THE DR! 

Have a good week! 

Love 

hermana Jenson

PICTURES OF MY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

MIJA !!!

Okay family thank you so so so much for all the birthday emails I don't have much time now because of them but it was amazing to hear from each of you! I have such  great love for you guys!!! 

So I got my daughter and had an amazing birthday! She is so cute she is from Chiclayo, Peru her name is Hermana Veliz!! And oh gosh she is just a little ball of cuteness ready to preach this amazing gospel! I love teaching her the ins and outs of the mission field and how to love these people! 

We saw some amazing miracles this week the first day that I was with my daughter and a investigator form Haiti  who has been waiting for her passport for almost a year now so that she can get married and baptized...and pow it came on our first visit with her this week! Gosh it was just an amazing tender mercy. She will be soon entering the waters of baptism!! I cannot wait for her and her family!! 

I love the DR and all the people here! I love the mission and most of all I love my Savior! :)) 

hermana Jenson

Have a good week! 

ME AND MY MIJA HERMANA  VELIZ

 The weather has been crazy crazy crazy just like hurricane weather! hahah 

Me opening my birthday package!! And smelling perfume on the letter from my mom almost crying!

HOW CAN YOU NOT JUST LOVE THAT FACE AND SMILE OF HERS

BIRTHDAY WEEK/TRAINER TIME

Holllllla!!!! Wow where to start with this wonderful miracle filled week?

We were supposed to have interviews with president about a month ago but he called us personally and said that he wasn't going to do our interviews with everyone and he would call us when he was going to meet with us. So we waited about 3 weeks until last Saturday he told us he would be coming to our house to have personal interviews with us that next day! So then came that Sunday, he came to our house at night and we had a good talk with us 3 about our investigators the progress of our area. (also had a good sit in my hammock!)  Then he asked to interview me first, he asked me to start with a prayer when I felt the impression to pray for us to act on he feelings of the spirit we had during our interview. It went great we made jokes and also felt the spirit talking about the miracles we have seen in these last few weeks in our area, then as it was coming to an end he just stopped and took long hard look at me and I just smiled.. didn't know what else to do.. and he said you know what, I'm just gonna call you to be a trainer right now! With a smile I just said OKAY!!!! Hahaha so tomorrow morning I will be getting my daughter!! I am so excited!! Probably the best birthday present ever! :))) 

So here in Piantini we have the great privilege to have the Area Presidency in our ward! So these last few weeks we had Elder Martinez an his amazing wife be with us to help us teach. Wow, what an opportunity to have a General Authority be with you weekly to teach. I have grown to love them and the amazing spirit that they bring every time I see them! This week as well, the new Area President got here! President Gonzalez! We also got to meet him and hear of his words in sacrament meeting! :) 

Saturday night we planned a noche de hogar with Wilson and all of the members and investigators that we have in that area. There was a new family that just moved in next to a member family and we invited them to come and share with us. We had a testimony meeting and everyone shared beautiful testimonies, even this new family! The mom offered to say the prayer at the end! Then my companion made a cake for my birthday and we celebrated! :)) Such a happy day! my compa and I had a really special moment after with Wilson, he just thanked us and promised us he would endure until the end.. that we would never ever be ashamed of his name. Then we all made a promise that we will all go to Haiti when the temple is finished and enter with him and his family! I just started to cry.. the spirit was so strong and I just felt so grateful to my Father in Heaven that he has given me this wonderful opportunity to be a missionary to meet these people and change my life! 

I will miss my dear friend hermana Moeller as she finishes her mission this Wednesday but I am so proud of her and grateful for her wonderful example! I love her so much! She is the best missionary I have known! :)) 

I am excited for the adventures to come! And mostly I love being a missionary and wearing the name of my Savior, Jesucristo every day!

Hermana Jenson! 

Have a great week! 

Read and Pray! 

We went out to lunch.. and breakfast.. for my birthday!!! Wow it was AMAZING! :))

Intercambios with the CCM!! Haha I love them! And most of all my companion! 

I did intercambion with hermana Pajarez!! She is the daughter of hermana Larson! So awesome! 

Our district.. the best district ever!!! 

Guillermo!!! Haha hermana Moeller saying goodbye to him and his family!

Last planning session with chinola, mango smoothies and popcorn! 

WEEK 48/ 11 MONTHS

HOLA FAMILIA!!!

 First off please forgive me for not writing an email last week! :)
 Another amazing week this week in the service of our Savior! I love
being a missionary and putting that plaque on every day! :)


 So, so many things have happened this week and I don't even know where to start!

 This week we had a lesson with Miguel who will be baptized this coming
27th of August! He is a changed man, we had a lesson with him and 3
members in the chapel, talk about having the spirit in a lesson!
I felt the strong impression to change our lesson plan and to have
each of us share our favorite scripture and why, and share our
testimony of it! Wow... such a touching experience for me to see
members from all different walks of life explain how personally the
 Book of Mormon has changed their lives. How these prophets of old have
written these words specifically for them and it has changed them! They are HAPPY because of it!  Miguels testimony was the sweetest.. he said that
before he started to meet with us he couldnt sleep at night and was
completely worried about all of these problems going on in his life!
Then he explained that he started to pray for the first time in his
life and read the Book of Mormon and hand these problems over to the
Lord everyday and night.. that he has a hard time waking up to his
alarm! Haha and even though he has the exact same problems he is
HAPPY!!! 

I love being a missionary and seeing this gospel change peoples lives! And seeing these people change for the better. I am trying as hard as I
can to be an istrument in His hands.. it is changing me also! 

I love this place these people and this Gospel!!!

 Transfers are next week!! I'll let you all know how it goes!! :))) Love you all!!

hermana Jenson

 

This is the Colonial Zone!!! It's amazing where Cristofer Colon (Christopher Columbus) came to the new world!! These are pictures of the first church and the first street in all of the NEW WORLD or the Americas!" SUPER COOL!

WEEK 47/MOM UPDATE SINCE NO LETTER FROM RACHEL THIS WEEK

HELLO ALL,

Rachel did not write a letter this week and only had a short time online. We got to chat for just a little bit, but she is doing great, LOVES her compania and the days are long long long and super busy. She says they are having trouble finding investigators and just running around a lot trying to get things organized.
Next week will be her 11 months out and only 7 months left to go. (but who's counting)

Be prepared for next week she says that there will be tons of pictures and hopefully a long letter.

LIFE IN THE CAPITAL

FAMILIA!!! 

First things first, I won't have a p-day until next Tuesday because I am going to the zona colonial! Its a tourist thing! It'll be cool! So pics to come! :)) 

This week was amazing and I love everything about the mission! I love being a servant of The Lord!

So here in the capital it's really hard to find investigators by just contacting so my companion and I have been working really hard to work and get to know the members to receive references! We had the coolest experience yesterday! We went to the familia Melendez as we began to get to know them we asked them how they met, and how they were able to come to the knowledge of this amazing gospel they explained that they have been members for a very long time and started to tell us the story. The missionaries knocked on their door and their whole family was baptized a family of 6! Then explained that there is a book that I was able to read before my mission about the history of the Church in the DR.. and the wife left, brought me the book.. and showed me.. they are stars of this book! They are a huge part of why the church has grown so much in this amazing place! He is now a sealer in the temple and their 2 sons have served missions and they all have families strong in the Gospel! What an amazing privilege I have to serve these wonderful people and help the church grow here! :)) 

Wilson received the priesthood this week! :))) We visited him on Tuesday and he told us that receiving the Holy Ghost has brought him a whole new hunger to learn of the Gospel! He has now in this week restarted the Book of Mormon and wrote a resumen (OVERVIEW) verse by verse and is in the middle of Alma! He is so great! :)) 

It's really hot hot hot here! Haha.  I sweat just blinking my eyes! Haha but its great! 

Hope you guys all have a great week! I love you all! :)) 

HERMANA JENSON

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

This is my new zone

WEEK 45: BEAUTIFUL SPIRITUAL WEEK

I don't really know where to start on such a beautiful spiritual week! But just to say that I know that my Savior lives!

The first experience that I would love to share with you guys is on Thursday morning my companion and I had the opportunity to meet Wilson at the temple to have a lesson! We got there and he showed up in a white shirt and tie as we walked up to the front of the temple and started to talk the spirit was so strong... we talked about prophets and we gave him a Liahona from the last general conference. But when we finished the lesson Wilson asked if he could just wait outside and look in the door as the people inside of the temple walked out. We went in and asked the worker at the front desk if we could come in and sit in the front area and he said yes. Wilson walked in looked at himself in the mirror, took a deep breath, and walked in the doors.. instantly the spirit struck each one of us.. and we all had tears streaming down our faces. as we sat in the waiting room, a temple worker came in and shook Wilson's hand and looked at us and said "This is a special man" and yet again with tears in all of our eyes he told us "This is the waiting room to the temple, and this is the Lords house, when He comes here this is the room He visits to see the people who are waiting to come in, and patted us on the back. He then left his information and told Wilson he wanted to be there when he would go for his first time to enter into the temple and be there with his family!!! What a special moment I will forever hold dear to my heart! 

When we were leaving the temple Wilson looks at us and says.. " If you guys ever show up at my house and I'm not there its because I'm here" :)))

We had the opportunity to do intercambios with the CCM (MTC) hermanas who only have 1 month in the ccm.. wow what an amazing opportunity.. first of all to feel there excitement to serve and answer their questions and also to able to see how far I have come as a missionary. I love the mission and the person that we are able to become through true dedicated service to the Lord! The sweet Hermana Pearce that I was with had the opportunity to share the 1st vision in her broken Spanish, but it was perfect the spirit was felt, it doesn't matter exactly what we say but the intentions behind it. The spirit does the rest!:) I am so grateful for the spirit in my life and I hope to every day be more worthy to have it as a companionship in my life.

Saturday.. Wilson entered into the waters of baptism! It was a great baptism.. everything went perfectly. That is almost unheard of! Haha but it was amazing and Wilson shared a lovely testimony of his journey to the restored and true church of Jesus Christ! :) THIS IS HIS CHURCH! and on Sunday we were able to see him confirmed! :) Such a blessing to see him and the atonement of Jesus Christ work a mighty change in him! :) 

My companion is amazing and we are working hard and seeing miracles! I love this gospel and I am happy and grateful to have the restored gospel in my life and that I can share it with others! :) I love sharing my testimony! :) 

Hermana Jenson

We are really going to live forever. where we live, how we live, and with whom we live is largely up to US! 

Sheri Dew! 

WILSON'S BAPTISM

THEIR VISIT TO THE TEMPLE WITH WILSON

PICTURE OF THE CITY (SANTO DOMINGO) AND TEMPLE