Hello my dear family and friends! I hope you all had a wonderful week such as I did. :) This week was just a little bit crazier than usual but it wasnt to bad. I've been missin` y'all like crazy latly but i just gotta keep reminding myself to keep pressing forward and to never give up :)
Monday:
First pday in the feild!!! It was really nice becauss we wernt really all that busy. We got everything that we needed to get done around like 2:30. I was so hapoy because i got to take a 2 hour nap. Which we hardly have anytime to do. Later that day we went over to the Wresbrooks (A family in our ward) for FHE we just hung out and helped boogie out with him getting ready for the presthood. It was pretty fun. :) we wanted to do some sight seeing but sense we dont really have that many miles that we could put on our car we couldnt go. Which was pretty sad but it was okay. Oh funny story so at walmart we saw a guy with the cutest puppy ever somwe wemt over to talk to him but as soon as we started going over there the we noticed that he was peeing by his car! Gross! I geuss thats what people so in the south sometimes haha
Tuesday:
We went out to lunch today with Boogie. We had mexican food. It was actually pretty good. After we finnished our lunch. After we had lunch we did some service over at Brendas. We were there doing yard work from 2:30-6:00 it was one of the longest days ever just because it was so hot and humid. But it was okay. After service at brendas we went to a ladies house (dont remember her name) who we are helping her quit smoking. Sis Knegt and I are doing a program with her to help her. Then we wemt back to our apartment had dinner and got ready for bed.
Wednesday:
Sister Knegt, Elder Hess, Elder Peterson and I went and read the BOM with Boogie. It is usually hard to get out of there because he talks ALOT. Haha he is pretty funny though. After that we went over to betty's house (a less active member in our church) and shared her a little message. It was kind of hard to feel the spirit because her kids are so Wroughty and wild. But they are in like in 2nd grade. But what i thought was pretty cool was that she wanted us to come back and teach her some more :) after her lesson we went and had a lesson with Sam and Judy. Judy really reminds me of my aunt Kay :) we taught same and judy about temples because in sacrament meeting people who were baring their testimony were talking about going to the temple and judy leaded over to us and asked what a temple was. During the lesson i really felt the spirit. They asked us "even if we've been married for 48 years can we still get sealed?" I thought it was amazing becauae they were so excjted when we told them of course. After the lesson we just went back to our aptartment and went to bed.
Thursday:
It was a busier day than usual today. We had a district meeting and we talked about the presthood and kind of learned how to teach it. After district meeting we went out to lunch with the whole district. We went to Davids Pizza. It was okay. I think little ceasers is way better. We had a lesson with Angel and Lucas. We are a little bit Worried about Angel only because she isnt understanding anything. (Mainly the BOM) we talked to them about prophets. I think it went pretty well. They seemed to have understood our lesson. After our lesson we went and had dinner with the Dickersons. The dickersons are an amazing family. So sweet. They made us Tator Tot caserol with rolls and a salad. It was really really good. We shared a message about service. As we where headed out the door we noticed that we had missed a call. We called him back and he had some questioms abkut what are perpose in life was and wanted to know when our church service started. He said that he would like us to come teach him some things. I was like wow we got a new investigator!! Hana
Friday:
Weekly planning! We littarly spend at least 3 or so hours doing just weekly plannning. It takes for ever! After wekly planning we went and read with boogie again. So that went okay. We then went and meet with Sister Griffen. Sister Griffen is a older lady who is probably in her late 70's. She had a stroke and is really slow at respodpnding to questions. We went adhead and shared a message about the word of god. It was good. :) funny story. I thought they picked sharing a scripture on line so i bore my testimony on that. I then relized that they picked reading the BOM together with her grandson. Hha i was really emabrresed after word. But was good because i dont think they noticed lol.
Saturday:
The month mark of being a full time missionary! I think that is just crazy to me. Sister Knegt and I did a lot of service tosay. We helped Jaymie and Ellic feed their sheep and helped them out with the firehall Jam. We helped them set up and wrapped the hamburgers and hot dogs. On our way back home we were stopped by this guy who just happend to be looking at our name tags. He asked us a couple of questoons about our church and we gsve him a card and went back home. It was a really cool. We had another lesson with Angel and Lucas today. We shared with them a talk about the BOM. I dont remember who spoke but it was cool because Angel had just happened to recored one of the sessions in general confrence and that was one of the talks that she remembered! Wow!
Sunday:
One of the most busiest days this week. We went to church and studied for a little while and then headed over to one of our investigators, Catlyn. Catlyn is 9 and already is a member of the church. Her parents wanted the missionaries to tea h her so that she can still understand things. She is the cutest. It was really hard to teach her because we need to figurre out ways we can teach it simply enough for her to understand. After catlyns lesson we went over and visted with the smiths. That family is awesome. I feel so bacd for them because they have had so many hard trials come there way. We shared them a scripture that seemed to really help them and told them we were praying for them. After which we went and tracted for a little while. After that we went home. And went to bed.
I hope ya`ll have an amazing week!!
Please feel free to send me letters!
Mission office address:
Sister McKenzie Jensen
11320 station west drive
Suit 101 farragut Tennessee 37934
Apt. Address
Sister McKenzie Jensen
152G Hunterscreek apt.
Lebanon Tennessee
Note: If you are sending letters or packages through usps then to send them to the mission office. If you are sending a package through ups or anyother carrier then it needs to be sent to our personal address.
Love y'all!!!
<3 Sister Jensen
Scripture of the Week:
St Matthew 6:24,6:30-34
Quote of the Week:
"No, I don't want a toothpick from a butt hole!"- Boogie
"It's goood"-Natalie (Mama Tay)
"Your hands remind me of my grandmas hands."-5 year old Allie
Lunch with Boogie
Lesson with Judy and Sam :)
Elder Nay and Elder Peterson took my tablet
Pizza time with the district! (In the back we have Sister Knegt and me, in the front Elder Hess is right in front of sister knegt then the elder leaning up against Elder Hess is Elder Macdonald then on the right is Elder Nay, Elder Peterson was supposed to be in there to but he hid himself.. little punk;)
Me holding little oreo at Ellic and Jaymie's
Beautiful tennessee sunset