Dear Family,
So we have come to another Saturday in the year of 2011 which means that I am still in Mount Pleasant still working hard as a missionary and nothing new has really happened this week. Yun lang.
Well we did have some fun stories this week. We have been preparing to teach one of our investigators the LOC [Law of Chastity] because she is homosexual and well what do you know when we went to another investigator to talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ she came out and told us she was in a homosexual relationship and that other female that we have seen around the house is not her sister its her...well girl friend. I felt sick to my stomach when she said that, but luckily the Lord had prepared us to teach the LOC to a homosexual sister so we were prepared. Also I carry a small copy of the Proclamation to the World on the Family and we read some of that with her. The Spirit was strong so there was a lot for her to process, we go back next Thursday and she will tell us when she has decided. We were also able to teach the LOC to the one we were planning, many tears were shed and at the end we scheduled another appointment but after the closing prayer and through more tears she asked us not to come back, that we are at an impasse because she does not believe that this lifestyle is a sin. Can I just say I do not understand this problem at all and I never want to, guys are awesome, enough said.
Other than that huge blow to us, having Julz drop us after almost 3 months of lesson and us knowing that she has received a confirmation that this Gospel is true, we picked ourselves up and dusted ourselves off and went right back to work. We have been able to hit/ go above mission standards for the past month. The only thing that we have been missing is the goal of 1 baptism per month. We are working on one for August. Brittany Abbott is progressing beautifully. She came to church and stayed all 3 hours and came to our ward Family Home Evening and brought her younger sister. She enjoyed the program and she was fellowshipped by our YSA and stayed playing Volleyball with them even after we left! She is reading a couple pages from the Book of Mormon each night and is in 2 Nephi. Brittany is starting to light up with the Gospel and it is wonderful to see and feel. We were able to meet with her and teach her the Plan of Salvation, and talk about the requirements for baptism. We meet with her again tonight!
Brother and Sister Chubb are doing well, they are both home and even though they have a lot of Doctors appointments they are still in good spirits. We have been over a few times this week to cut up some cantelopes for them. We are working on getting Sister Chubb converted strong enough so that when Sister Missionaries leave the area she will not go inactive again.
I really don't know what else to say. We are very tired. We had a slight change of schedule today we went and played Gator ball with the YSA/Elders this morning. I think I might have found a new favorite, it is like tag/ultimate frisbee/soccer all mixed into one. You start with a soccer ball played with your hands until someone drops in then it is played like soccer. It was an intense game, completely awesome. Then we washed our car, which I do have to say is all shiny and happily clean and waxed. Then I mopped the floor while Sister Wright got ready and well here we are. Luckily the house is clean I just need to write a million letters to people before I can rest. Oh well getting mail at the end of a long day is worth the sacrifice of rest.
Also this week I have seen more band students practicing than I have in my entire life. They are everywhere. That little metronome things keeps going off, we hear drums just about all day. It makes me feel like I am at a parade. I quite enjoy it actually, listening to the drums and the horns just blare onwards. Nothing like a marching band to give you some energy.
This week I taught Sister Wright Tagalog sentence structure and if I give her a sentence and the verb type/verb she is able to write it out. What a blessing it is to be able to teach tagalog. It makes me so sad that in our prayers I am starting to pause more in Tagalog and flow more in English. Weird as it may sound that really makes me sad. I am not sure why I get this wonderful opportunity/trial/blessing/ulg but here I am and I am trying to make the best of it.
I think that is about is for this week, I am glad to hear that everyone is doing well and that most of you were able to get up to tail lake. Summer wouldn't be right without at least one trip down to tail lake. Keep up the good work everyone. I love you all.
Mahal ko po kayo.
Sister Jensen
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