In Gainesville, one of the zone leaders, Elder Bishop, said one time to me after I had just received the second call to train: "Sister Jensen, you're going to be training the rest of your mission!" I took this as a joke. Now, I don't think it's that funny! Sister Johnson is now in her last week of training! WOOOHOOO! So this Sunday, President and Sister Craig made it up to this little train town of Waycross Georgia. They spoke in sacrament meeting about member missionary work. Could you have guessed it? They did a great job and brought a wonderful spirit to the meeting. I was already a little down thinking about Shanna and the kids not being at church. She knows what a commitment baptism is to make. After sacrament meeting, President Craig told Sister Johnson and I that he wanted to talk to the both of us. We entered the bishop's office to talk with him. He talked with us about how we were doing and told us of the great job we are doing here in Waycross. He then said, "but unfortunately, you two will be split up because you both will be training this next transfer". If I was lying, I would tell you that in my mind I thought "Oh yay! I get to train AGAIN!" but it was more like, "AGAIN?!" Obviously, we accepted the call. I guess I just wasn't really expecting the call to train this next transfer. Sometimes God has different plans, however. When we went home, I was a bit heavy with this news. I just knelt by my bed and may or may not have shed a few tears and said, "Heavenly Father, I don't know if I can train again". It was just one of those pitty parties I guess. It will be good though. I've been grateful for the two wonderful trainees that I've been able to train so far. I feel I've learned so much more from them than I ever could have taught them. Missions are a humbling experience for sure. There's no growth in the comfort zone. So to answer your question mom, it looks like I will be transferred. President Craig didn't necessarily state that, but that seems to be what happens the majority of the time. The senior companion leaves, especially when the other companion just got out of training. I have loved being in Waycross and loved getting to know such wonderful people. One thing that I love about the people here is their pace of life. Everyone is laid back. They're not in a rush if you want to talk with them. They take the time. They also give when they don't always have much to give. I've learned so many different things from Gainesville to Waycross. In Gainesville, there were some really educated, well-off people and in Waycross, it's quite the opposite. But the amount of money you have in your bank account or the type of car you own, does not contribute to the happiness in your life.
This last week we had zone conference in Jacksonville. There were some fantastic trainings done by President Craig and the A.P's. Our red Toyota corolla that Sister Johnson and I were driving had over sixty thousand miles on it, so we were informed that we would be getting a new one. Last p-day, Sister Johnson and I made sure to clean it up really well with some wipes and everything. It was probably one of the older cars lined up for inspections, but we were surprised to be announced as the winners of the "cleanest cars". We were awarded with a bag of pretzel m&ms. :) I think it was easy for them to pick ours since we took everything out of it to trade it in... but... we weren't complaining and took the prize anyway. The A.P.s drove our new car to zone conference for us-- a 2014 red Toyota corolla. It even has a backing screen. ;) We felt pretty spoiled. We went to grab the new car keys from Elder Tuft (one of the AP's) and he was asking us how Waycross was and asking about our investigators. He gave us some helpful ideas for Shanna. These Elders are just amazing! There are some really great missionaries who are going to make really great fathers some day.
I guess we'll have to wait and see where I'll be heading next! note: p-day will be next Tuesdaydue to that. Something exciting that happened this last week... we were knocking some doors a couple weeks ago and started talking to a man who was curious about the Book of Mormon. He has a Jehovah witness background. We set up a time where we could bring him a Book of Mormon and share more from it. We went back at the time he agreed to and he wasn't home. We left a sticky note giving him our number and told us to call us back so that we could bring the Book of Mormon. He called us back the other day during personal study. He said that we didn't end up needing to bring by a Book of Mormon because he had just gone a head and downloaded it on his kindle and had been reading from it. He said: "how do you say it, Neffeee.. Lemin... Lemewl?" In my mind I was thinking, "YEEESS!!! He's been reading!!" He talked about how interesting the testimonies of the three and eight witnesses were. Wow! I just felt the spirit as he was speaking about the Book of Mormon to me over the phone. I bore a short testimony of my conviction of it. We invited him to church, but his wife was unfortunately sick that day. I'm excited to see where this goes! The gospel is true!
All my love,
Sister Jensen
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