Family Pictures!

Hello!!

My week- it wasn't too eventful, but a few things happened! We had Zone conference on Tuesday which was pretty fun(: The messages were all centered on Charity, which is something I've been think about a lot anyways, so I really enjoyed it. I feel like we run into all sorts of people out here and it's really easy to look at someone and start to make a judgement. I enjoyed the reminder to look past our snap judgement, and understanding more about charity. There was also a talent show that I participated in, I sang "away in a manger" and played my uke. I took a video at home so I'll send that today.

That evening we got to go to a Christmas party and sang with the Young Women at an assisted living home. We sang a song that the yw have been practicing, and then did come more Christmas carols that the ladies requested. It was a fun night, and I enjoyed getting to do some caroling this year. Hopefully we'll get more caroling in before Christmas, I feel like I haven't gotten my fill in.

We got to go on exchanges this Friday, which meant I DROVE IN THE SNOW! Sister Thomas joined Sister Zeigler in Afton and Sister Loring joined me in Grover. Which meant, I drove the car. I've missed driving. And I did pretty good on the snow, Sister Loring only screamed twice. (jk we were fine, im fine) It was a good time, Sister Loring is a new STL, and new to Star Valley so she was fun to get to meet. We took a family portrait while we were together, modeled after a photo we found at the Reinharts. (i'll include it)

Last highlight, Sister Thomas and I gave talks this Sunday. I was pretty calm going into it, We were given a pretty comfortable subject. Bishop asked us to talk about ourselves, our families, our decision to serve, and missionary work. So I felt pretty comfy. Then, when I was siting on the stand, I started panicking because it felt like i wasn't tying my decision to serve into missionary work very well. And/or there were just sudden nerves in general. Well I got up, talked a bit about my family, shared who's been on missions and then talked about my decision to serve. I was actually quite glad to get to share this, because I feel like most people look at missionaries and just assume they're perfect and that we're basically raised to serve, but that's not the case. I feel like people especially thought this of me when I shared that my mom and dad both served, and then that my older sister served. It was nice to get to explain how I really made this decision for myself, and whats more, that I originally decided not to go, but later realized I was letting my fears control me. After explaining that, the Spirit kicked in and took me on a different course than I had planned, but I was grateful for it. I talked about how many of us, like myself, let our fears keep us from doing missionary work, and how we need to set those aside and share the knowledge we have. I felt like I connected with a lot of people, and like I had followed the spirit so it felt good.

I hope you all have a good week and look for ways to share the gospel(:

I love you!!
Sister Jensen