But lets back up quick, Halloween! So for Halloween, Sister Thomas and I had a ton of lessons planned before we had to be locked up in a church for the remainder of the night. Our lessons all went fantastic by the way! One of our less actives is taking it upon herself to stop smoking!!! It was actually so cool, we just went over to read a chapter of the Book of Mormon with her and by the end she was so happy and understood the chapter so much better and out of the blue, she just told us, "girls, i talked with my doctor and he's prescribing me this medication to help me quit smoking, and I'll be done by December 1st!" It was so awesome!!
Anyways, so after our lessons, we headed to the church building at 6pm. Why do missionaries have to be locked up in the church on Halloween night? Because in bigger cities people have the bright idea to dress up like missionaries and vandalize or wreck havoc. So it's easier on President if he can respond to and complaints and say "Nope, not my missionaries, they were all in the church by 6" So that's what we did. There are 6 sets of missionaries in Star Valley, and we all congregated in the Thayne stake center. Honestly, Sister Thomas and I thought it was going to be super boring because we were just going to sit in the church building for three hours.. but we played games and it was actually pretty fun(:
Lets see, Wednesday, nobody loved us. We planned to visit a ton of people but either no one was home, or no one wanted anything to do with us. One lady answered the door and after us asking "How are you?" She responded "I'm good, and not buying, bye girls". It was a fun time. We did end up having a lesson that day, so that was actually pretty good. We finished the plan of salvation with a less active and had a really deep discussion with her about God's love for all of us, and how he loves us each unconditionally. Some good scriptures- 2 Nephi 1:15, 1 John 4:7-8, 9-11(the Book of Mormon in general because God loves us enough to give us further direction in our lives)
Thursday, Sister Thomas was feeling awful so that wasn't super fun, but on Friday we had Zone Conference! Zone Conference was held in the Paris Tabernacle, which was beautiful! (I'll add pics) The Paris Tabernacle is quite old, and only has wooden benches so President had us bring pillows or blankets to sit on, or as the ZL's (zone leaders) stated, "bring butt pads so you don't get wood... in your butts.." We have very articulate elders. It was great to hear advice and encouragement from president though, as well as hear more about the "Light the World" initiative the church will be putting on again this year. After Zone Conference Sister Thomas and I went on exchanges with the STL's (sister training leaders) and I stayed in the Paris area with Sister Smith! Okay I lied, we actually headed out to Bear Lake, and were in Laketown and Garden City.
Bear Lake was beautiful, and it was funny to be back there again after being there a summer or two ago for the Barlow family reunion. We drove by Pickleville Playhouse and made sure to get shakes on our way out. I didn't spot the house we stayed at when my family was there, but when I described it to Sister Smith, she was pretty sure she knew where it was. It was great to be out with Sister Smith though, she was super sweet and fun. Since we went on exchanges midday, we didn't switch back till Saturday at about 4. So Friday night we went to a few lessons and then Saturday we tried to visit people, but no one was home. Sister Smith said most people got to Logan on the weekend to do their grocery shopping so it was hard to catch people. But during one of our visits on Friday the couple we met with taught us a card game called Thirteen, and I had the best score by the end. Bear Lake was fun and even though it was overcast, the water was still almost turquoise. I took some pictures that I'll send out, it was actually cloudy enough that you couldn't see some of the surrounding mountains so it looked more like a bay on the Oregon coast(:
As we came back into Montpelier the snow slowly creeped in.. Seriously, it was pretty funny, we saw the snow slowly get deeped and more heavy as we got closer to Montpelier. It was pretty funny and I was pretty sure there'd be snow back in Afton. Which there was. I'll include pictures, but it definitely looks like a winter wonderland. I don't think it'll be going away anytime soon. That's all for this week, I love you all!
Love,
Sister Jensen
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