Jensen, Emma

This is the first week of my last transfer. I can't believe it! Where did the time go? Sister Drury and I are staying together as Visitors Center Trainers and I could not be more excited. It's going to be a great last 6 weeks. Highs/Lows of the week: ☆We had our first lesson with Kennedy this week and it went so so well. She is such a faithful person. Her boyfriend, who is a member, was telling us that she is always encouraging him to go to church. Kennedy was so cute and took notes throughout the whole lesson so she wouldn't forget anything ☆There was THE BIGGEST SPIDER I have ever seen at the Visitors Center. I am sure it could have eaten me if it was hungry enough. One of the senior Elders was so brave and killed it for us. He is a true life saver ☆We got a shipment in of the Book of Mormon in Navajo. 1st edition! I remember when I was about 9 months into my mission talking to a man who was helping them translate it while he was serving his mission. At that point they we...

We find out transfer news tonight so I am a little stressed but also so excited for whatever happens these last 6 weeks. Highs/Lows from the week: ☆I went to go brush my teeth and there was a gross little bug on it. I think it was a maggot but I'm just going to pretend it wasn't ☆I got a toothbrush for Christmas ☆Sister Drury and I have become chefs, I also have found a new love for fried eggs ☆I hit 16 months ☆ by the end of this transfer(Thursday), I will have gone on 68 exchanges in thr past 6 weeks! I absolutely love love love VC exchanges ☆I met a lady at the Visitors Center and we figured out we are 5th cousins. Wild! ☆All the Christmas decorations at the VC are gone. So sad. Oh a happy note though I got to go into the attic at the Visitors Center for the first time. It was so exciting ☆This won't make sense to most of the people reading this, but last Christmas(like in 2022) a sister in the mission gave out stickers that had the temple on it and it said "Hawaii ...

I love how fun the holidays are! One fun celebration after the other. For Christmas Eve we got together as a mission and had a musical devotional. There are is so much talent in this mission and it was fun to hear everyone share the theirs. Then on Christmas we gathered together and watched Mr. Kruger Christmas and sang Silent Night in all the different languages of our mission (English, Spanish, French, Tagalog, ASL, Samoan, Tongan, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Cambodian and Portuguese). The spirit was so strong and it was cool to see all of our cultures being represented.  While on exchanges at the Visitors Center I got to give a tour to the most amazing family! As soon as they walked though the front doors the spirit was so present. The whole tour I could feel it so strong and it was so easy to see how much this family loved each other. At the end of the tour we figured out that we were giving a tour to Elder Isaac K. Morrison of the Seventy and his family. Looking bac...

Merry Christmas everyone! I don't have time to write an email today but my mom wants me to send one every weeks so here is my short and simple email. I am grateful for my Savior and that He was born that night long long ago. I know He lives:) Love you all! Xoxo, Sister  Jensen

Highs/Lows from the week: ☆I had interviews with President Bassett yesterday and it was great ☆we saw a spider tie up a fly then kill it. Kinda cool but it was inside our house so then we vacuumed them both up. RIP the fly ☆lots of exchanges ☆One of our members girlfriend wants to take the lessons so we are excited to start teaching her ☆everytime we cook we get a million flies in our house. I think there might be a hole in the window screen. ☆we gave a tour to a lady named Elizabeth at the visitors center and at the end of the tour she says "so is there a place I can go to learn more?" Why yes Elizabeth, there is a place you can go to learn more.:) She wasn't interested in staying in contact with us but we gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and showed her the church's website. She was so interested in learning more! ☆my cousins had me and my companion over for dinner and they made the YUMMIEST taco soup. On Facebook I have been posting a series about different Chr...

This week Sister Drury and I went on 14 exchanges at the Visitors Center. I am having a blast. It is so fun to learn from all the Sisters in the mission and see how everyone does missionary work differently. I am learning soo much! I know without a doubt that I am learning more from all the Sisters then they are learning from me. The Highs/Lows of the week: ☆We did a Visitors Center training for all the missionaries in the mission and it was so scary! It ended up turning out really good and everyone enjoyed it ☆Shared the story of how the Hawaiian Book of Mormon was translated with Tracy Y. Browning! That was so cool! ☆Zone Confrence was yesterday and I learned so much! I learned that in order for me to come closer to my companion I need to come closer to the Savior ☆My favorite person ever finished her mission this week. Definitely the saddest day of my mission FR! ☆We went to watch the waves today and a wild Parrott landed on our car and would not leave us alone. Luckily an angel nam...

My P day changed to Tuesday so that is why I didn't send an email last week. We had transfers last week and A LOT has changed! My new companion is Sister Drury. I was in the MTC with her and we have been waiting our whole missions to be companions. We are so excited to be together. We keep thinking it's not real and someone is going to call us and tell us there was a mistake. We are no longer over 2 wards anymore, we kept one ward and lost the other. Sister Drury and I are the new Visitor Center Trainers, so instead of dividing up our day at the Visitors Center, Teaching Center, and Polynesian Culture Center, we spend all of our day at the Visitors Center going on exchanges with all the sisters in the mission. We have been crazy busy since the transfer started but it is so fun! Highs/Lows from the past 2 weeks +we had Sister Morse's Aloha Oe and it was so sad +soo many lessons with members! +had to say goodbye to my favorite members from YSA 13th:( +went on a million exchan...