Jensen, Emma

So last week I decided I was going to title all my emails with emojis but the lady that is making a book of all my mission emails said I can't..  Does anyone want to volunteer to come up with captions for me? I won't pay you but you will be payed in blessings. I went on 2 exchanges this week and they were so fun! One was with Sister Kimura, she is from Japan and is the sweetest sister. The other was with my STL Sister Manalo. She is such an amazing missionary and is a great example of exact obedience. One of our members invited us over to make dumplings with them and their friends. the dumplings were SOO YUMMY!!! I accidently cut off a gecko's tail this week in the process of me trying to catch it.  I have been studying the talk by Elder Bednar "Bear up Their Burdens with Ease" and a part of the talk that stood out to me was "the Savior has suffered not just for our sins and iniquities—but also for our physical pains and anguish, our weaknesses and shortcomi...

Titling my emails is actually my least favorite thing I do all week so from now on all my titles will be emojis My friend Keith that I met at our online teaching center, who I met back in March, is finally on date! He has been patiently waiting for the all clear for him to get baptized and he is so excited that it is finally happening! His date is set for September 9th so everyone keep him in your prayers. We got caught in a down pour while we were working out this week. It honestly was so fun and if we weren't worried about our phones getting ruined we would have just stayed and embraced the rain.  One of the many things I get to do in my mission is give virtual tours of the temple grounds and the visitors center. I have never advertised them because I hate doing them. I don't actually HATE them but I am very bad at them. Normally you give at least one every 6 weeks, or one a transfer, but somehow I have managed to go 6 months without having to give one. Because I am tra...

Last Sunday I got to attend the baptism for 2 girls I was teaching in my family ward. It was so fun to see them so happy and glowing! It was also soo fun to see all of my old ward members. I felt like I was at a big family reunion seeing all of them again This week we struggled to get into our area. We had lots of meetings and the time we were available all of our members were at work. Things should start picking up in the next couple of weeks. School starts at the end of the month and our ward boundaries will change so we will have more then 14 members in our ward. Yay Our Bishop had us over for dinner the other day and his wife was preparing for a hoop dancing competition so we got to see her practice. It was so cool watching her dance and then her telling us the story behind the dance afterwards I shared this verse with my friend Keith this week and thought I would share it with all of you too:) It's Alma 38:5, it says "And now my son(or daughter), [insert own name here], I...

We met the most amazing couple this week at the Visitors Center! Sofia and Diego came in have no idea what the temple was and wanted to know all about it! We spend a good 1½ hour with them teaching them about what we believe. Sofia loved learning about the sealing room and the idea that her family could be together forever and Diego loved how all the pictures of Jesus Christ in the Visitors Center were of him happy and full of hope. Sofia and Diego are both from Italy but we were able to get there contact information and give Sofia a Book of Mormon in Italian and we will continue to teach them more when they get home:) I haven't had an interaction like that at the Visitors Center in a really long time so it was such an amazing experience! Our members took us out to the best sit down restaurant in Laie! It's also the only sit down restaurant in Laie:) Lots of my friends that I have made at the Teaching Center have been progressing so much and I am so excited for them! Training a...

This week's we had transfer news. I will be staying in my 2 ysa wards and I will be training a new missionary.  I am so nervous! I accident fasted a whole 24 before I got my trainee because I was so scared I couldn't eat. My trainee is so amazing though! Her name is Sister Roskelley and I am just obsessed with her! She is already so confident at being a missionary and is so ready to share the gospel with people:) I also moved into a new house. It's really small and so cute. It doesn't have a stove top or an oven though which is so awesome. It does have AC in the bedroom so I am a happy camper. Tender mercy of the week is the family that owns our house are from my old ward in Hauula. God is keeping me connected to my mission routes. Alrighty I am tired of writing this email haha so I guess that is all you get this week:) I will leave you with a scripture though:) The scripture is Matthew 14:28-31 "28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come ...

Seriously this week was so boring when it comes to missionary work. Not much happened. We sent out a Google sheet to our wards for the members to sign up to meet with us. We put so much work into it and we really felt proud of how it looked. Only one person from the 2 wards we cover signed up and the only reason why he signed up was because we asked him to. That was awesome. We got bashed at the Visitors Center this week. A cute old couple came in and told us that their family had been here earlier and they wanted us to show them around. As soon as we went to the back of the Visitors Center they started bashing us:) Such a fun hour of my life that I will never get back.  There was supposed to be a hurricane coming through Hawaii this week but it never came. Honestly I was kinda excited for the storm.  I have been sharing 2 nephi 26:33 with alot of my friends at the Teaching Center this week. "he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth non...

Highlights from the week: •my family sent me postcards, I absolutely love getting letters from them:) •I went on my first exchanges as a District Leader and it was so fun! •We went to Costco on P day •We saw the BIGGEST COCKROACH in our house this week! I truly believe that this thing was big enough to eat me! It's still in our house somewhere so if I don't send an email next week you will know why •had a member meal for the first time in forever! Definitely the highlight of my week! •Our friend Paris is LOVING the Book of Mormon. She sent us this text this week, "Hi  Emma  and Ellie! I thought I'd let you both know that I just met with my local missionaries over zoom. We prayed together and they taught me how to pray. We read a passage from 1 Nephi 7:17 and they also told me about the beginnings of the Book of Mormon from 2Nephi 3. After the meeting they asked me to pray to God asking him to show me that what they say is true and I got this overwhelming feeling that t...