Fort Collins, Here I come!!!
Ni hao fam!!!
As you heard, I got my reassignment this week and I'll be flying out to Fort Collins, Colorado tomorrow morning!!! I am super duper excited!!! There is another sister I have never met that will be flying with me and two other elders from the mandarin Zone 2!
A little about the Fort Collins mission, it includes most of Wyoming and just a little of the top of Colorado (part of me wishes I could have gone to denver and seen Jared, but it's all good). It has a beautiful temple that I will get to visit tomorrow! We will most likely be driving everywhere, so the biking (and losing MTC weight ;) ) will have to wait til Taiwan.
This last week at the MTC was so great! Last night, Jenny Oaks Baker and her ADORABLE family came and performed at our Sunday Night Devotional! It was so sweet to hear her stories and testimony intermixed with beautiful arrangements of church songs. She played violin, her daughters played violin, cello, and piano, and her youngest son played the guitar. It was absolutely gorgeous! Go look up some of their videos on youtube if you've never listened to them before! So good!!!
Our last class was very bittersweet. We spent a long time reflecting and evaluating our time here at the MTC, our teachers, the activities we did, our goals and language study plans, and set a lot of goals for when we get out into the field to apply the things we have learned. We finished off by reading in the Book of Mormon together and sharing testimonies and thoughts. Sister Morgan left this morning at 4:45 am. Sister Liu and I walked with her to the travel office (i felt a little strange--i didn't realize so many people would be there so early in the morning and i was walking around with my retainer in, flip flops on, pjs, and no tag...it was pretty funny) but today has just not been the same since one of my dear companions has left. I love them so much and my district has truly become like my family. It's so sad but so exciting to part ways because I know there are so many more life-changing, growing experiences to come.
One of the highlights of this week was getting to do international hosting on wednesday! I hosted the sweetest Samoan sister and we got to talk a lot between going to the health office, the BYU health center, then the missionary assistance office, travel office, etc. She was so nice and spoke really good english, but was a little shy so it was hilarious to watch some of the sweet ladies helping her talk to her like she didn't know english and doing a fantastic job of using charades and then we would walk out the door and she would start chatting away with me again! She also gave me the best chocolate ever after we were all done which was just so nice because i really didn't do anything but walk with her! It was awesome too though to see how the Church and the MTC really takes care of all the missionaries. They so generously supply all the international missionaries that come from places with so little and make sure they have everything they need to be comfortable and successful.
Scripture of the week: Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
I know that God cares about each and every one of His children. I know that He knows our trials, our weaknesses, our joys and our strengths. I know that He answers our sincere prayers and only wants what is best for us. He knows so much more than we do and sometimes we have to go through hard times to become the person He knows and wants us to become. The more I rely on the Lord when I am struggling with something, the more miracles I see and the more my faith grows and grows. I love this gospel and I love our Savior, Jesus Christ.
Have a fantastic week!
Sending prayers and hugs!
Sis. Jensen
Tuesday, Aug 7th: ARRIVED! I'm in Colorado! 😉
Today was quite the adventure. We left the MTC at 9:15 and then rode a bus to the front runner, then took Trax to the airport. It was all a little crazy but we made it! So yeah, turns out there were a lot of English missionaries with us too so there was a total of 21 missionaries: four visa waiters (three mandarin, one Dutch sister) and 16 English and a hermana. The Dutch sister and I are kinda comps rn because we both are staying with a random companionship tonight because we've been assigned to the Nebraska area(her) and the Indian reservation area in Wyoming, riverton (me-Im pumped, prepare for some sweet stories 
) so we have like a 6 hour car ride tomorrow. We are both gonna be in trios! I'm pretty excited! I'll meet my trainer tomorrow and her comp is on her second transfer of training. The president and his wife took us to the beautiful fort collins temple after the airport and then we went to the mission home and had like a little orientation thing and then got our assignments and trainers, etc. Our Pdays here are Tuesdays so I'll talk to you again then!!!
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