The Blessing of Blessings

Main events from this week:

Last Monday, the elders from my district decided to throw me a little birthday party so they bought me a cake and candles and everythingx) it was pretty great hahaha. We all went to the institute and played foosball and pool together. It was a great time, I still don't feel like i'm 20 but oh well. I'll adjust by next year I guess. That's usually how it goes.

On Friday we had probably the most spiritual district meeting I've been in my whole mission. We talked all about charity and love and what we could do to improve our unity as a district. I attempted to make apple crisp. I swear usually I can execute it. But this time I was not so fortunate. Moral of the story, you cannot always trust the pre measured ingredients your sister sends, no matter how lovingly she sends them. I really have no idea what went wrong, but I don't think my district was too impressed. x) Maybe it was elevation change, but maybe i'm just a terrible cook. The world will never know. I'll include pics.

The most significant thing that happened this week was actually just yesterday. Sister Ziegler and I went out to attend church in Marsh Valley ward. We've been struggling to find and contact people out there. It's been hard because we have to set aside a day for visits all over the area, and most of the time, people aren't home because we aren't hitting schedules right. But, miracles!! We'll be teaching a guy named Alma who was wishy washy about serving a mission, but is now more determined. We plan to start going through Preach My Gospel with him to keep his desire up.

The church block was really thought provoking though. Marsh Valley has to switch the order of their blocks so they have Relief Society & Priesthood, Sunday School, and then Sacrament Meeting. So we started with Relief Society and the lesson was based on a talk by Elder Uchtdorf, "A Yearning For Home." It made me think about Heavenly Father and the answers and assurances I felt I needed from him. Midway through the lesson priesthood blessings were brought up. Earlier in the week Sister Ziegler and I somehow got to the topic of blessings and we would come back to that subject throughout the week. I had the thought as Sister Ziegler and I talked about them the first time, "hm, I'll probably need to get a blessing soon. This was a pretty random subject, so I think that's coming."

Well when it was brought up in relief society, I just felt like I needed to get a blessing that night. I wasn't stressed anymore, I was actually quite excited with the news of transfers, but I felt I was supposed to hear something from Heavenly Father. We arranged to have the elders give us blessings that night and Elder Hassell was the one to give me mine. I was very touched by what was said in the blessing. Right off the bat he addressed something I hadn't realized I was struggling with. He said that God hears my every prayer. And I have been struggling a bit feeling like Heavenly Father has been there listening to my prayers, and I almost started crying right there. He went on to bless me with kindness, compassion and patience to face trials that lie ahead. It was a very powerful blessing and strengthened my faith and testimony that Heavenly Father is really there and he loves us and listens to each and every one of us. He is mindful of our situations and circumstances and what we need to help us through our trials. I love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week.

Love,
Sister Jensen

PS!!! Transfer calls came, I'll be staying with Sister Ziegler in Pokey(: AND! SISTER STOTT IS COMING! She'll be in Inkom so I'll see her a lot and I am STOKED!! We also have 4 AP's, i think to prepare for the new mission president coming in. This is the Hancock's last transfer, and it will be a shorter one, only 5 weeks. Anyways, love you all!!

Oh. and there was a flash flood. We were worried because we live in a basement, but nothing leaked into our apartment.