Your guess is as good as mine, just silly hermanas

At the TEMPLE

Wednesday is wear Pink Day !

All Smiles



Hermana Peters

1 MONTH

Hola mi familia y mi amigos!!!!

un otro semana en el ccm!!!! :))) 

-temple anniversary last week! it was 15 years!! and we got to go and do a session on the exact hour it was dedicated! I LOVE THE TEMPLE! 

-we went to the University and La Tienda again!!!

-all the missionaries left for Santiago and Puerto Rico! it was so lonely and quiet here and sad that they left!!

-BUT we got new ones a couple days later!!!! YAY!! they are Latinos that are going to our missions!! ive absolutely fallen in love with them all!! there are only 4 other hermanas going to west!! 

-I HIT MY 1 MONTH MARK! cant believe i leave here in 2 weeks!! 

- I get to go to my mission on splits tomorrow!! :))))))))

Since i have arrived in my mission ive been thinking about what i want to accomplish as a missionary!! and as i have thought about it i have realized that a lot of what i want to accomplish is a little out of my comfort zone.. i know surprise i have a comfort zone, but i do... but since I got here ive told myself that i am no longer Rachel Jenson...i left her at home along with all her insicurities, fears, and weaknesses! i am now Hermana Jenson, bold, more courageous and fearless than i ever have been before, i am filling everything with Christ! I have been praying for strength to maintain this mentality! i need to have this for my investigators and for the future Hermana Jenson that the Lord wants me to become! the only way that i am able to do this is by the help of my Father in Heaven. For He casteth out all fear! i can be the Hermana Jenson He wants me to be because I KNOW He has the confidence in me! and I KNOW each of you can be exactly who He wanes you to become through Him! let Him make us who He wants us to be! i am trying my hardest to Fully hand myself over to HIm! For HE can make me strong (ether 12:27) in a devotional this week that we heard form Elder Holland, "obedience is the 1st law to pretty much everything!" i know that is starts from the small and simple things! i know that we can have a strong foundation and give up ourselves to be who the Lord wants us to be! (heleman 5:12) i know im where He wants me when He wants me and im trying to become who He wants be to be!!! i know that the Book of Mormon is true and testifies of all truth!! i love this gospel and i couldnt be more honored to represent my Savior!!! Thank you all for the love and support! :) i am so happy!!!!! its undescribable!!

much love from the DR!!!

Hermana Jenson

Missionary life is so FUN

High on the Gospel

P-Day Ritual (fort making)

 

strike a pose

Rachel's normal picture face



Rachel's district in the MTC



Hermanas: Juchau (cinderella) Garcia (teacher/fairy god mother)
Jenson (merida or brave) Shaw (ariel)
nicknames from Hermana Garcia



So much love



Goofy Hermanas

WEEK 3 Life as a missionary

Hola Familia!!!

wow, another fabulous week as a missionary!! This has been my favorite week so far! i feel like ill be saying that every week! but its so true!! i love being a missionary!!!

so much happened this week i dont even know where to start!! 

i met my mission president! and some sisters, and elders in my mission!! it was so refreshing to see people who are in the field!! my mission president is amazing and so are all the missionaries! i met a sister who could be my trainer, and we started laughing and we both snorted at the same time!! ha we just looked and each other and then started laughing and snorting again!! so great!! i cannot wait to get out there and start doing The Lords work!! I WANT TO SHOUT THE TRUTH FROM THE ROOFTOPS! and i will! :) 

so my roommates and i got this idea to do a pday eve tradition!! haha so we got all our mattresses in the same room and built a fort! ill send pictures! 

we got to go to the university and contact people!! REAL LIFE DOMINICAN PEOPLE!! i was stoked out of my mind!! one thing i have learned this week, is that with Heavenly Father on your side there is no room to be afraid or be insecure or scared! i always thought i would be somewhat embarrassed when i had to talk to someone or scared! haha but I HAD NOT ONE FEAR!! even though i still dont know spanish!! I truly am set apart and i love it!! so contacting went SO well!! my companions and i talked to so many people PLACED OUR FIRST BOOK OF MORMON (3) and had to go steal pamphlets from the elders! haha i was feeling kind of blessed to be a sister missionary at that moment! haha 

it was my turn to talk to this lady who was sitting on a bench, i saw her and just knew we had to talk to her! so i start talking about the restoration in the little spanish i know and LITERALLY she just starts finishing all my sentences for me, even though she knows nothing about the gospel.... i was about to start crying in the middle of the campus! so many prophets and leaders have told us that if we just love and try that the people will help us and i was a witness of that promise! i am so extra grateful for prophets in our day and that they have the power to communicate with our Father in Heaven to give us guidance and direction! listen to the priesthood!!!!! and im so grateful to be a woman that has the opportunity to support and appreciate that priesthood!! i love this gospel!! IT IS THE ONLY TRUE GOSPEL ON EARTH!! 

Remember that we have the great opportunity to be forgiven, every single day! take advantage of it!!!

I love my Father in Heaven and im so grateful for this opportunity to be so close to him! thank you all for the love support and prayers, they are all felt and not going to waste!! i pray for you all!! THANK YOU!! 

LOVE 

HERMANA JENSON

We are all models, ha ha I love my companions and roommate

I cut up some fabric and sowed ears on my companions robe!! haha she is so cute!