Lets see, so last pday zone activity didn't happen and Sister Thomas and I went home to chill. Well while we were home our ZL's texted us, asking if we knew of any good sledding hills. The Reinharts have what we thought looked like a pretty good hill, but then we tried it...and well...I'll send videos. We found another place that we'll be sledding today(;
On Tuesday we had an interesting day.. There's a less active we visit who works at an airplane place, (like where they build little husky airplanes) and she told us to come in for a tour with her sometime. She seemed really super excited about it so we went, and then realized this was probably have been a better activity for pday because she wasn't even able to give us the tour. It was unfortunate. But a cool place to see. We felt bad though because it turned out to be much more of a recreational activity than we thought.
We also got the mail and accidentally followed this nice old guy home. We seem him every so often at the post office (it's a hoppin place) and he talked to us for like 45 minutes haha. Well after that we had planned to go to the trailer court...which as we found out is coincidentally where he lives. We just looked creepy for a bit but it's finex) He's a nice guy though, we plan to try and set up lessons.
Also. I forgot to mention. We went on this awesome sleigh ride on Tuesday!! The youth in one of our wards did a sleigh ride and then had a bonfire afterwards with a testimony meeting. It was a really neat activity and I felt prompted to share my testimony, so I got up. I wanted the youth to realize that we aren't that much older than them, and for them to see that the cares in high school really don't matter at all. I wish I could have understood how silly high school cares are, and focused more on my relationship with others and Christ. I don't know how much I got through to them, but I hope I helped someone. It was a good activity though(:
On Wednesday we had an interesting event with our car. The snow had melted all the day before and turned to mostly slush, but then as evening came it froze. The first time we went down the Reinharts driveway we definitely slid a lot, but made it down alright. The second time...well that's another story. We started down the hill and took off like a roller coaster. You could feel the car's weight suddenly come off the wheels and just slide. Our momentum took us turning counterclockwise till we did a whole 360 and then straightened back out. I don't know how we didn't tip, and or hit anything. There were definitely angels helping us down. Nothing bad happened, so looking back on it, it was kinda fun. But i also wouldn't choose to do that again. We parked at the bottom and walked up that night haha.
The next day we got an interesting phone call and I almost had a heart attack. President was calling us. I thought he was going to say something about me being a trainer, but instead, he asked us if he needed to close our area. We were floored and immediately were like NO!!!!! We told him how we meet with a ton of less actives, most of which are single women, and how the area needed to stay open and we were making progress with them. He said he was glad he called and got to hear our side of things. Made the rest of the day sort of odd because we were just sort of thinking like "Should he be keeping the area open? Are we actually doing good here?" It made us reflect a lot on what we could be doing better as missionaries and the faith we felt we lacked. It was a good eye opener though. (transfer calls were this week so he was still deciding. he said he needed to close 2 areas because of a shortage of missionaries)
On Friday we were able to have district meeting and then watch the funeral of Thomas S. Monson. During district meeting we didn't have a self-playing piano so I used my rusty right hand piano skills and butchered 2 hymns for us to sing along too. Fun time. The funeral was really good though. I loved the legacy that President Monson was able to leave of loving and caring for others. It made me think even more about how I could be improving and what I want people to remember me for. It was a good time to reflect on President Monson's life, and my own.
On Saturday, we got transfer calls. I'm relieved to say I will not be training. Sister Thomas will be headed to Blackfoot, and I will be staying in Star Valley. (which is interesting because I thought covering my Aunt's ward would get me booted out asap but I guess not lol) I will be the senior companion-so yes now I'll be driving and it'll be weird because the Sister I'm getting has been out a transfer longer than me. I think her name is Sister Staut...but it also could be Scott...It was a little hard to tell over the phone. I'm not looking forward to having Sister Thomas leave, but I know this is part of a mission so I'll get used to it and get to know this new sister(:
Those were the highlights, I hope you all have a good week!!
Love,
Sister Jensen
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