Dear Family,
What a week it has been. All of the sisters in my apartment are transferring and I am staying. Needless to say I sat and cried last night when I thought about all of that responsibility and not only that but they completely are whitewashing the Marikina 2nd ward, so all new housemates. I am nervous but then again we would never grow if we never reached out of our comfort zone. There is slow progression when you are comfortable, when we are put in these situations it's like getting a cavity filled...miserable but oh so necessary. Sigh. which means that tomorrow bright and early we will be going to the transfer meeting and finding out who my new companion is, then hopefully manage to lead the area. Gulp.
What else. So a sister in the ward gave me the biggest chocolate bar (dark chocolate 74% cocoa) last week with hazelnuts, from Sweden. Yum. Except for the stomach pain it caused. Chocolate is again on the bawal [forbidden, illegal, or prohibited] list. I am still living on skyflakes [crackers like unto saltines] and oatmeal, sigh. Thinking about living on it for the next year makes me not too happy, but again when I feel brave and try and eat even the simplest Filipino food I am left suffering. Joy of joys.
Our investigators are doing great, we extended 5 baptismal invitations and all accepted this week! Actually bonus they are children of less active members, we got a referral for one of them then they said oh my neighbor is a member too and their kids are always over, go teach them too, we house hopped like that for hours. Now they are thriving and their kids are learning the gospel. While listening to their stories and watching their children, I realized that they didn't know that it was their responsibility to teach their children the gospel, when they started having children they fell away. We teach them that families are central to the plan and this church but I know that they still don't understand that because families are central the whole family is invited to church. That is something I am going to try and help them understand this next transfer.
What else. Oh we had MTC exchanges, my first 2 daughters in the mission. I didn't die either, I was scared out of my mind yes but luckily the Spirit and a legion of Angels were there helping me and we taught lessons, tracted, OYM'd and they listened with excitement at my stories. Odd, I never thought I would have stories to tell about the mission but yes I do now.
We had a Family History Fireside last week as well. Amazing. I am so glad that we have such amazing members of our family who have really caught the spirit and done a lot of work. These families here don't have many records, many storms destroy all records, many parents move far away from their birth homes and don't tell stories about their grandparents so a lot of knowledge is lost.
What else, I am just trying to do as Pres. Uchtdorf said last last conference, Patience is not just enduring, it is enduring well. I am trying. Wow. Hard.
As for the weather we have had a lot of rain and wind, I lost my really good umbrella and the wind destroyed my cheap one in a matter of days, so I need to buy a new good one today. Other than a lot of rain, and cooler weather for a bit, not much is new. Everything is still green and feels like July. Dad I am going to hold you to Yellowstone when I get home, I can't wait for the culture shock. Just one year left!!! Thank Heavens. I love the mission, I love the people, but wow I am going to be grateful if this next year goes as quickly as the last transfer did.
I love you all!
Sister Jensen
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Family
Dear Family,
How are you all? I am doing better, I have found that if I simply don't give in and eat with the natives my digestive system and I are a lot happier. I have gained a new ward full of mothers who are all concerned for my digestive system and all of them telling my what foods I should eat. So far I am doing okay. Thank you for the prayers. Also for all who wonder I have now finished my 5 lb. of Peanut Butter on the Mission. Yup.
Dad, yes I ate Balut once and I am pretty sure I am done for life. It helps that I was in a weird mood when I ate it, thinking back makes me a little queezy.
We had a miracle last week. Last Saturday we were told by 4 investigators that their parents would absolutely not sign the BR since they were having a viewing at their house. Well actually they keep the dead in their house for over a week before the actual burial, then they have a party nightly with gambling, and smoking and drinking. So we didn't want to go near the house, especially since that area is pretty hard for me with out added alcohol. But Thursday after a week of Sis Santos and I praying and pleading for help and safety we went to the area at night when the parents got off work. They gave us a bench in front of the house looking in at the patay ["Patay" is Tagalog for "the dead". - Emily] and to our left was the tent of sin (gambling, drinking, smoking ect...) to our right there were people making dinner over a fire, so smoke as well, and us in the center. We asked to speak with the parents. They came out, and we started. It was not going well, the mother was not willing to listen, the father seemed pretty willing to let his daughters be baptized but the mom had the final say. Sister Santos looked and me and we both took a pause, prayed silently and continued. We bore a simple testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel. As Sis Santos testified I prayed for her and the parents to open their hearts, for the Spirit to please come. It did come, and powerfully. All distractions were muted and it was just us, the parents, and their 3 daughters who wanted to be baptized. The Spirit touched their hearts and they asked their children do you want to be baptized, their children said yes. The parents paused, then to our surprise testified that they knew that this gospel was helping their children and they would be happy to sign their BR's. Sister Santos and I just about flew home and praying thank you the entire way. What a miracle to watch them be baptized this past Saturday and be confirmed new members on Sunday and hear them thank us for not giving up on them and for helping them. That was a tender mercy. Attached is their picture.
This Gospel is true. Yes the work is hard and harder with the health woes but the work goes on. The Spirit is such a powerful tool in this work, I cannot imagine having to work without it.
Transfers are next week, this past transfer has gone a lot faster, at this rate I might actually make it to Christmas without realizing it. I get my first 2 "children" this week. We go on MTC transfers for a day, I am a little nervous to go out on my own with new missionaries but all the other missionaries say that I should have little trouble, so I am just going to rely on the Spirit and have fun.
Yellowstone in the fall!! Jealous ako! Oh well. The Lord has shown me this week that He is aware of me and there have been a lot of tender mercies this week.
Also yes Mom, there is a storm here, they have told us to get a 72 hours supply of food and water ready. There has been a lot of rain and we have gotten really wet and had to walk through ankle deep water. So far nothing terrible though. Up north I guess they are evacuating. Scary day. But I know that we will be protected what ever happens.
Thank you for all of your prayers.
I love you all,
Sister Jensen
Thank you for the wedding invitation Bryson and Destiny and good luck to the Bachman's and Love side of the family involved in that.
How are you all? I am doing better, I have found that if I simply don't give in and eat with the natives my digestive system and I are a lot happier. I have gained a new ward full of mothers who are all concerned for my digestive system and all of them telling my what foods I should eat. So far I am doing okay. Thank you for the prayers. Also for all who wonder I have now finished my 5 lb. of Peanut Butter on the Mission. Yup.
Dad, yes I ate Balut once and I am pretty sure I am done for life. It helps that I was in a weird mood when I ate it, thinking back makes me a little queezy.
We had a miracle last week. Last Saturday we were told by 4 investigators that their parents would absolutely not sign the BR since they were having a viewing at their house. Well actually they keep the dead in their house for over a week before the actual burial, then they have a party nightly with gambling, and smoking and drinking. So we didn't want to go near the house, especially since that area is pretty hard for me with out added alcohol. But Thursday after a week of Sis Santos and I praying and pleading for help and safety we went to the area at night when the parents got off work. They gave us a bench in front of the house looking in at the patay ["Patay" is Tagalog for "the dead". - Emily] and to our left was the tent of sin (gambling, drinking, smoking ect...) to our right there were people making dinner over a fire, so smoke as well, and us in the center. We asked to speak with the parents. They came out, and we started. It was not going well, the mother was not willing to listen, the father seemed pretty willing to let his daughters be baptized but the mom had the final say. Sister Santos looked and me and we both took a pause, prayed silently and continued. We bore a simple testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel. As Sis Santos testified I prayed for her and the parents to open their hearts, for the Spirit to please come. It did come, and powerfully. All distractions were muted and it was just us, the parents, and their 3 daughters who wanted to be baptized. The Spirit touched their hearts and they asked their children do you want to be baptized, their children said yes. The parents paused, then to our surprise testified that they knew that this gospel was helping their children and they would be happy to sign their BR's. Sister Santos and I just about flew home and praying thank you the entire way. What a miracle to watch them be baptized this past Saturday and be confirmed new members on Sunday and hear them thank us for not giving up on them and for helping them. That was a tender mercy. Attached is their picture.
This Gospel is true. Yes the work is hard and harder with the health woes but the work goes on. The Spirit is such a powerful tool in this work, I cannot imagine having to work without it.
Transfers are next week, this past transfer has gone a lot faster, at this rate I might actually make it to Christmas without realizing it. I get my first 2 "children" this week. We go on MTC transfers for a day, I am a little nervous to go out on my own with new missionaries but all the other missionaries say that I should have little trouble, so I am just going to rely on the Spirit and have fun.
Yellowstone in the fall!! Jealous ako! Oh well. The Lord has shown me this week that He is aware of me and there have been a lot of tender mercies this week.
Also yes Mom, there is a storm here, they have told us to get a 72 hours supply of food and water ready. There has been a lot of rain and we have gotten really wet and had to walk through ankle deep water. So far nothing terrible though. Up north I guess they are evacuating. Scary day. But I know that we will be protected what ever happens.
Thank you for all of your prayers.
I love you all,
Sister Jensen
Thank you for the wedding invitation Bryson and Destiny and good luck to the Bachman's and Love side of the family involved in that.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
This is me eating balut!
...I will send my camera card soon, I bought a flash drive today.
Dear Family,
I am so jealous of fly fishing and fall. Thank you for enjoying it for me. FYI it is still as hot as ever here and will be until the day I leave and will be probably forever and ever.
What a week. I survived though. To start off, conference was wonderful. I cried though the entire first session of Saturday. Mom, Dad thank you from the bottom of my heart for my love of conference but it sure makes it hard to be away from you on conference weekend. I really missed you all. I was craving apple crisp and waffles all day on Sunday, random. Interviews last week went well. I was able to be open with Pres. DeLaMare and we were able to laugh about some of the difficult cultural differences and get advice about how to politely refuse food. His advice blame the doctor. Awesome! I am still trying to find my place in this culture...still hard for me.
Also the food this week has decided that it will not stay in me, needless to say I have had a most interesting time eating crackers, rice, bananas, and Gatorade since Thursday. Everything else that I eat just makes me sick. I have talked to Sister DeLaMare about it when it first started and will talk to her again tomorrow. (We get to listen to Elder Jay E Jensen tomorrow as a Mission Devotional, I am so excited.) That has made the work hard this week, many of our areas are exceedingly poor some don't have a CR some don't even have electricity. I listened to Pres Monson's talk about gratitude with different ears this conference. Some of our teaching appointments are done by a single light bulb or lamps. What a different world I live in.
The work this week other than me running to CR's ["Comfort Room"] has been good. We had a set of 4 sisters decide to delay their baptism because of their uncle's death. Which left us a little sad...okay more than a little sad. But also we had 3 sisters step up and ask if they could move their baptism up to this Saturday, so we swapped their dates and happily have baptisms for the stake baptism. They are all amazing. I was on exchanges yesterday and got to lead the area, that was fun and very humbling. It is still hard for me not to understand and speak as much as I want to. I still have so so so so so so so so much to learn. I am coming up on 6 months on the mission, they say it goes faster after this point. Really?
Well Conference was amazing, beyond amazing. I sat there entranced by the English and the MoTab (yes MoTab) and all the white people, good grief we really are white. I got to answer a lot of questions about the Conference Center and who is who and what is where. That was nice to feel like I actually know something.
Well I think that is it for this week. Congratulations Megan. My heart goes out to you and please keep me in the loop. Congrats and marami-maraming salamat din para sa lahat [many, many thanks also for all] who have served, who are preparing to serve, and for those I get to serve. This is a marvelous work and a wonder! The church is true. Thomas S Monson is the Prophet on earth today and his words are for us.
I love you all
Ingat,
Sister Jensen
Friday, October 8, 2010
Fall??
Kumusta Family,
I am not even going to start with how much I missed you over conference weekend. No, we have not yet seen conference, we get it delayed this weekend. Although we missed the announcement that there was a rebroadcast of the Relief Society meeting, my companion and I found out Saturday afternoon just as it ended. Well needless to say there were two sisters standing in the middle of a road in Bagong Silang crying. We taught one lesson and went home to rest and recharge our phone which had died. Later that night we played Fairy Godmother. We invited 3 of our investigators to a baptism of Elder Smith and Arthur and while walking to meet us, the youngest's flip flop broke, the older sisters came to meet us and when we asked where the youngest (Siya, she's 14) was they told us she was home crying. We sent them running back to get her while we ran to find and buy new shoes. It seemed like we ran a long time before we found a tidahan that sold shoes, we finally found a place and thank heavens for inspiration we knew her size, payed for them quickly then ran back to get them. We replaced her shoes and then took a jeep-nee to the baptism which was slightly late because of us. Although in the process we won the hearts of their parents, they know that we love their daughters and are just helping them. Also the sisters are so excited for their baptism as well!!
We had 12 investigators come to church yesterday and two got lost and didn't make it, they took the wrong jeep. I know that the Lord blessed our fasting and prayers and for working through relief society meeting even when we were heart broken to miss it.
What else. Yes, I ate Balut! [Wikipedia says that "A balut is a fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell... It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines." - Emily] My companion said I ate it like a native, no gagging or anything. I was in a really weird mood when I ate it, like a tired whatever mood. So it turned out well. I also ate Cassava cake (rice something), Papaya, and Ube [purple yams] this week.
It has been a full week. The Spirit has been so strong in every lesson, I can't believe how strong, our investigators are wonderful they are really catching hold of their purpose and progressing. It is exciting to see and be a part of that, and to have so many at once.
I finished Jesus the Christ last week and our Search for Happiness this week. Inspired books!! Also I finished reading the September Ensign, wonderful messages about missionaries. What can I say other then the Spirit has really been so strong this week, even with all the rejections and all the discouragement, this church is so true and this work so necessary.
I am glad to hear that everyone is well and that you all enjoyed conference. I miss canning season more than you can imagine. I find myself doodling pictures of peaches and apples and tomoato plants. Yes my companion lovingly thinks I am insane when I described canning with the excitement that I get when I talk about canning. You know how excited I get.
We had our Zone activity today. We went to the top of a mountain and saw the city from up high. We also had a scavenger hunt, a spiritual one of course. It was fun.
I saw a shirt this week that I really liked it said "there are 2 things you can controll in this life, 1 your attitude 2 your effort." How true that is, in this mission I can have my line out in the water all day constantly reeling and recasting, paying close attention to those who strike, or I can put my line out in the water and wait. Well I am trying to be a diligent Sister and work hard.
I love you all. Thank you for your prayers and letters.
Ingat,
Sister Jensen
I am not even going to start with how much I missed you over conference weekend. No, we have not yet seen conference, we get it delayed this weekend. Although we missed the announcement that there was a rebroadcast of the Relief Society meeting, my companion and I found out Saturday afternoon just as it ended. Well needless to say there were two sisters standing in the middle of a road in Bagong Silang crying. We taught one lesson and went home to rest and recharge our phone which had died. Later that night we played Fairy Godmother. We invited 3 of our investigators to a baptism of Elder Smith and Arthur and while walking to meet us, the youngest's flip flop broke, the older sisters came to meet us and when we asked where the youngest (Siya, she's 14) was they told us she was home crying. We sent them running back to get her while we ran to find and buy new shoes. It seemed like we ran a long time before we found a tidahan that sold shoes, we finally found a place and thank heavens for inspiration we knew her size, payed for them quickly then ran back to get them. We replaced her shoes and then took a jeep-nee to the baptism which was slightly late because of us. Although in the process we won the hearts of their parents, they know that we love their daughters and are just helping them. Also the sisters are so excited for their baptism as well!!
We had 12 investigators come to church yesterday and two got lost and didn't make it, they took the wrong jeep. I know that the Lord blessed our fasting and prayers and for working through relief society meeting even when we were heart broken to miss it.
What else. Yes, I ate Balut! [Wikipedia says that "A balut is a fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell... It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines." - Emily] My companion said I ate it like a native, no gagging or anything. I was in a really weird mood when I ate it, like a tired whatever mood. So it turned out well. I also ate Cassava cake (rice something), Papaya, and Ube [purple yams] this week.
It has been a full week. The Spirit has been so strong in every lesson, I can't believe how strong, our investigators are wonderful they are really catching hold of their purpose and progressing. It is exciting to see and be a part of that, and to have so many at once.
I finished Jesus the Christ last week and our Search for Happiness this week. Inspired books!! Also I finished reading the September Ensign, wonderful messages about missionaries. What can I say other then the Spirit has really been so strong this week, even with all the rejections and all the discouragement, this church is so true and this work so necessary.
I am glad to hear that everyone is well and that you all enjoyed conference. I miss canning season more than you can imagine. I find myself doodling pictures of peaches and apples and tomoato plants. Yes my companion lovingly thinks I am insane when I described canning with the excitement that I get when I talk about canning. You know how excited I get.
We had our Zone activity today. We went to the top of a mountain and saw the city from up high. We also had a scavenger hunt, a spiritual one of course. It was fun.
I saw a shirt this week that I really liked it said "there are 2 things you can controll in this life, 1 your attitude 2 your effort." How true that is, in this mission I can have my line out in the water all day constantly reeling and recasting, paying close attention to those who strike, or I can put my line out in the water and wait. Well I am trying to be a diligent Sister and work hard.
I love you all. Thank you for your prayers and letters.
Ingat,
Sister Jensen
Gulp - Conference Without You
Hello Family,
I am not sure what to write this week, it has been a long full week. With Sister Santos we teach about 9-12 lessons a day and are always tracting and OYMing. [Open Your Mouth-ing. It's a contacting mindset that if you open your mouth to talk to someone about the Gospel, it will be filled. -Emily] It is awesome. President DeLaMare suggested that I be more assertive in this area. I am trying. As for the work, we basically started from scratch when I got here, not sure why but we have been tracting like crazy. We have found a lot of new people that are progressing, one family stopped us on the walkway and said that they wanted to go to the temple. We started asking questions and found out that about 4-5 years ago they took lessons from the Elders and for some reason stopped, and their young daughters remembered going to the temple and when they saw us they came up and asked to be taught. We gave them Books of Mormon on Friday and the feeling there handing their 3 daughters (which are now upper teens) their own BoM. Wow, what a feeling. They texted us on Saturday if it was okay to bring their BoM to church with them on Sunday. How amazing! Temple tour on Saturday was good we just took a taxi with 3 of our investigators, no getting up at 3:30am like in Morong. Unfortunately on the way back the traffic was horrible, again with the no rules really, try having a whole mass of cars from one direction trying to get into a single lane...ulg...so we were all feeling car sick and one of our investigators kept throwing up which honestly did not help at all.
Oh well, the church is still true.
Another investigator taught us about Enos and testified of the truthfulness of the BOM, the spirit was so strong in the work this week. I feel like a missionary, every night I am dead tired but feeling the Spirit, I know that we have a lot of work to do here, Kaya namin!!
Tracting is different here, in Morong it was more provincial and here it is just a mass of houses and houses where I didn't think one could fit. Some of them are so small, so so so small. I am learning that with the Spirit is doesn't matter if they live in a mansion or in a little tiny basement house with cement walls and dirt floor the Lord still wants them to hear the gospel. I have been experiencing some interesting smells which knock all appetite out, and some sights and sounds which astound me. But again the Church is true, I didn't get called to the Philippines to be comfortable. I was called here to work, and that means forgetting myself, forgetting that I am uncomfortable and focusing on loving the people I am around, trying to understand their Tagalog and address their needs. That is when the work goes better, when I am able to do more, when I am happier. I still have a long long long way to go.
Happy Conference everyone. I am not even going to start with the waves the homesickness that I have been feeling every time someone mentions conference. Sigh. The Church is true. I will be able to watch some of it next weekend with our investigators at our stake center. I love my new ward though. I loved Morong as well but there are a lot of SA [I think this means Single Adults. - Emily] here and they are really helping me with my Tagalog.
Happy News. I was asked to speak at a ward baptism on Saturday so we went. For the special musical number there was a girl who played the violin. My heart about died of joy the first violin I have seen in the Philippines. After the baptism I asked her if I could play it, for an hour I took requests from the children's hymn book. There was no shoulder rest which made it slightly difficult for me, and it was out of tune at first. I showed her how to tune and explained some other things she had questions about, then I just played for the members. I started in a different room because I didn't want too much attention but after a while most of them had come to listen. I know that I had help from the Spirit as I played. For not really playing in 5 months I was able to play every song they requested on the first try. By the time that we really needed to get back to work my soul was so happy. I can't even begin to describe the joy that playing again, being able to share music with others help others through music again...amazing. Actually a lot of those in the ward ask me for help with music, either piano hymns or theory for their classes. It is just another testament to me that I am supposed to be here in the Marikina 3rd ward.
Well that is about it for this week. Everyone was out partying yesterday because it was the 1 year anniversary of Ondoy [the typhoon]. We hear about it a lot because this area was one of the most effected by it. A lot of drunk people. Lets just say after an event yesterday we then met up and went to work with 3 SA helpers. I have never been so glad for RM's who come with us to work. YAY work with missionaries.
Oh also I got a handful of letters today. Thank you all for your letters that you send. Yes Valerie your pouch mail made it through, thank you. I haven't read them yet, haven't had time but I am so excited. I LOVE MAIL!!!!!!
Enjoy conference, the fall leaves, crisp apples, the cool beautiful mornings that just testifies of God, all of which I miss a lot. Again The CHURCH IS TRUE!
I love you all.
Sister Rebecca Jensen
I am not sure what to write this week, it has been a long full week. With Sister Santos we teach about 9-12 lessons a day and are always tracting and OYMing. [Open Your Mouth-ing. It's a contacting mindset that if you open your mouth to talk to someone about the Gospel, it will be filled. -Emily] It is awesome. President DeLaMare suggested that I be more assertive in this area. I am trying. As for the work, we basically started from scratch when I got here, not sure why but we have been tracting like crazy. We have found a lot of new people that are progressing, one family stopped us on the walkway and said that they wanted to go to the temple. We started asking questions and found out that about 4-5 years ago they took lessons from the Elders and for some reason stopped, and their young daughters remembered going to the temple and when they saw us they came up and asked to be taught. We gave them Books of Mormon on Friday and the feeling there handing their 3 daughters (which are now upper teens) their own BoM. Wow, what a feeling. They texted us on Saturday if it was okay to bring their BoM to church with them on Sunday. How amazing! Temple tour on Saturday was good we just took a taxi with 3 of our investigators, no getting up at 3:30am like in Morong. Unfortunately on the way back the traffic was horrible, again with the no rules really, try having a whole mass of cars from one direction trying to get into a single lane...ulg...so we were all feeling car sick and one of our investigators kept throwing up which honestly did not help at all.
Oh well, the church is still true.
Another investigator taught us about Enos and testified of the truthfulness of the BOM, the spirit was so strong in the work this week. I feel like a missionary, every night I am dead tired but feeling the Spirit, I know that we have a lot of work to do here, Kaya namin!!
Tracting is different here, in Morong it was more provincial and here it is just a mass of houses and houses where I didn't think one could fit. Some of them are so small, so so so small. I am learning that with the Spirit is doesn't matter if they live in a mansion or in a little tiny basement house with cement walls and dirt floor the Lord still wants them to hear the gospel. I have been experiencing some interesting smells which knock all appetite out, and some sights and sounds which astound me. But again the Church is true, I didn't get called to the Philippines to be comfortable. I was called here to work, and that means forgetting myself, forgetting that I am uncomfortable and focusing on loving the people I am around, trying to understand their Tagalog and address their needs. That is when the work goes better, when I am able to do more, when I am happier. I still have a long long long way to go.
Happy Conference everyone. I am not even going to start with the waves the homesickness that I have been feeling every time someone mentions conference. Sigh. The Church is true. I will be able to watch some of it next weekend with our investigators at our stake center. I love my new ward though. I loved Morong as well but there are a lot of SA [I think this means Single Adults. - Emily] here and they are really helping me with my Tagalog.
Happy News. I was asked to speak at a ward baptism on Saturday so we went. For the special musical number there was a girl who played the violin. My heart about died of joy the first violin I have seen in the Philippines. After the baptism I asked her if I could play it, for an hour I took requests from the children's hymn book. There was no shoulder rest which made it slightly difficult for me, and it was out of tune at first. I showed her how to tune and explained some other things she had questions about, then I just played for the members. I started in a different room because I didn't want too much attention but after a while most of them had come to listen. I know that I had help from the Spirit as I played. For not really playing in 5 months I was able to play every song they requested on the first try. By the time that we really needed to get back to work my soul was so happy. I can't even begin to describe the joy that playing again, being able to share music with others help others through music again...amazing. Actually a lot of those in the ward ask me for help with music, either piano hymns or theory for their classes. It is just another testament to me that I am supposed to be here in the Marikina 3rd ward.
Well that is about it for this week. Everyone was out partying yesterday because it was the 1 year anniversary of Ondoy [the typhoon]. We hear about it a lot because this area was one of the most effected by it. A lot of drunk people. Lets just say after an event yesterday we then met up and went to work with 3 SA helpers. I have never been so glad for RM's who come with us to work. YAY work with missionaries.
Oh also I got a handful of letters today. Thank you all for your letters that you send. Yes Valerie your pouch mail made it through, thank you. I haven't read them yet, haven't had time but I am so excited. I LOVE MAIL!!!!!!
Enjoy conference, the fall leaves, crisp apples, the cool beautiful mornings that just testifies of God, all of which I miss a lot. Again The CHURCH IS TRUE!
I love you all.
Sister Rebecca Jensen
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