Hello hello!
My week has been really good!! Staying at the Schwabs was nice, they have a BEAUTIFUL and HUGE house and they were out of town so we had it all to ourselves which was fun for the most part. We did miss the Reinharts after a while. Sister Thomas and I made 2 pies and a tart for the Reinharts thanksgiving feast. (it was a service for sister Reinhart...a pretty fun one too(; ) We made an apple pie, a chocolate tart and a pecan pie. And I gotta say, Sister Thomas and I are bomb cooks. The apple pie was fantastic and gone pretty quick, the chocolate tart was beautiful and fought over, and the pecan pie...well that one tasted fantastic but looked pretty pathetic. It got eaten when we brought it to the Reinharts...after Thanksgiving because we didn't want anyone to judge our sad little piex) It tasted great though, I'll be keeping those recipes to take home.
Thanksgiving day was a fun one, we ate at like 3 places.The members all were fantastic and loved having us over. We had Thanksgiving on Friday too, we ate with the Lemon family and holy cow. Their turkey was like 35 pounds I kid you not. Sister Thomas took a picture of me by it, I'll send that at some point. This thing was massive. They raise wild turkey's and this one just liked to linger around the feed bin and they let it keep going because Sister Lemon wanted a big turkey this year. She's a really good cook so our after Thanksgiving feast was great.
This week has been so great though. I'm going to be honest, I was feeling super lame the first few days because while helping Sister Reinhart is fun, and very appreciated by her, we also ended up being in the house a lot the first few days and I was feeling a little like "ugh...we aren't getting to visit anyone!!!" But by Sunday we were setting up so many appointments with people, that we actually ran into some scheduling conflicts!! That's crazy! AND!! Oh my word, AND! These two girls who have been coming with the Grover Young Women want to be baptized! Like yesterday! Like we haven't even met with them yet, but they've told the yw leader that they want to be baptized! We'll meet with them this week, if all goes well, but MIRACLES!! We had set a goal for 2 baptisms in the month of December, and the Lord is putting the people ready right in our path. It's been so great!
On Saturday we moved back into the Reinharts, which was a relief. I love the Schwabs, they're awesome, but it's also not super fun to be living out of a suitcase and have to adjust to a different, but temporary living space. Their house was also getting a tad bit creepy tbh, they have like 10 rooms and the first morning we both thought we heard someone int he house. We looked through the whole house and I don't know what I wanted to happen, no one to be there so we wouldn't have any problems, or someone to be there so we wouldn't have to deal with phantom noises the whole time we were there. No one was there, and we're pretty sure most of the noise was from their 2 indoor cats. Side note, I will never have cats. Ever. End of side note.
On Sunday, I tried out one of the turtlenecks grandma sent me...thus the subject line. It wasn't terrible. I expected it to look sorta a little awful because thats the reputation turtlenecks have, but Sister Thomas said it didn't look "too bad". She let me go to church in it, so I'm assuming she was being truthful. I didn't take any pictures of me in it thought because I don't feel like i've completely mastered the turtleneck yet, those will come later, I'm determined to rock this. We had a very eventful Sunday, we had ward council for all three wards, which makes for a very long church block. We actually had to skip ward council for the middle ward though, because we were doing sharing time for the first ward! Junior primary was a little rough because the kids were all pretty quiet and shy, but senior was totally into it. We talked about what a missionary needs to be a missionary (a testimony!) and how they could start being missionaries now. We put a bag together of a bunch of things a missionary has (shoes, tag, watch, etc) and had the kids pull each item out and say why a missionary needs it. They all seemed to enjoy that part. They were all super cute and fun to teach. It's definitely different to teach kids, but pretty fun.
Those are the main highlights from my week, it's been a good one. I hit my 2 month mark today so that was kinda weird to realize. It seems like I still have forever to go when I look forward, but the time seems to have gone by really fast when I look back. It's an odd feeling. Also, I fell behind on my journal again. So no gold star for me this week. (partially due to the fact that I have my uke now and have been playing that the past two nights) It's been a good week though, we'll be starting the light the world challenge in a few days, you should all print out a calendar and do it!! It's on mormon.org!
I love you and miss you all!! <3
Love,
Sister Jensen<3
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