Thank you for the wonderful email! I'm glad to hear you and dad were able to have such a good date night! That sounds like a blast! Our mission president and wife said they've had a date night every week they've been married and they are required to take one as mission presidents too. Babysitting over the years has made me think I want to go on dates with my husband when I'm married :) I think that's important. So it's good to hear you had a great time! Keep me posted on Mitch and medical schools! An interview with Pittsburgh? Is that one of his top choices? There are a LOT of residency students in our ward. So many young families. It's fun and loud in church ;) The hardest rule for me as a missionary is not holding kids. Especially when our ward is full of them! There are a lot of very educated people around here. When we knock on Haile plantation the stickers on people's cars are all Duke, Stanford, etc. Talking to a lot of these people makes me want to have a good education behind me.
Well it's Tuesday and transfer calls were last night. It wasn't too much of a surprise for me because I knew I would be staying in the Gainesville 3rd ward training. It turns out that Sister Atkinson (also has been here only 6 weeks) will be training. She's in the second ward and so we do a lot with those sisters. Sister Toledo will be transferred to Normandy which is apparently in Jacksonville. She's opening this area which means sisters have not been there yet. We had a picnic with the zone today for Elder Sutner who is leaving and I got talking to Sister Call. She unfortunately is leaving Gainesville :( I sure love that Sister. She was telling me how shocked they were to hear that Sister Toledo and another sister are opening that particular area. They didn't think they would send sisters into an area like that because it's really ghetto and scary. She said she was talking to an Elder who had served there and he said the other week there was a shooting in a restaurant he had just been in. Yikes. I didn't tell Sister Toledo about that. She'll be great though.
I'm sorry I keep having you send me more things, however, the mission president has asked all of us to ask our parents to send us a book. It's called The Power of the Everyday Missionary by Elder Clayton Christensen. So if you can send that I would very much appreciate it. Thanks!
Well it sounds like everything is going well! I hope so anyway. If it wasn't, I would hope you would write and tell me. I don't like being out of the loop.
Can I just say that I a lot can happen in a week. We went to visit Georgia and she had told us previously how her family was against the idea of her being baptized, but she just said, "it's my life. I can do what I want." Unfortunately, her family worked on her enough for her to tell us she does not want to get baptized. That was pretty devastating. However, on the bright side, we have been teaching a 24 year old gal named Kaylyn. She is married so thankfully we don't have to hand her over to the YSA sisters to teach! YES! ;) She's been reading in the Book of Mormon and I pray that she will continue to progress. We set a baptism date with her for the tenth and she was able to attend church for the first two meetings this last Sunday. It was great to get her there. We'll see how everything works out!
It's still been rain, rain, rain! Even the locals comment on how much rain we've had. The other day we were talking to three guys outside of their house and then it started pouring rain. I had my umbrella so I got it out. It literally was raining so hard it was raining through my umbrella. When we were driving home it felt like we were in a car wash and that's with the window wipers going at full speed. Thank goodness for Crocs. That's all I've got to say.
I love you all! Keep the letters coming! I love hearing from all of you!
Sister Jensen
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