SHARK!🦈🐌🦐🦑🐙
So many happy emails from y'all this week! Thank you! I love hearing about your lives!
Sounds like you did a LOT of good on your trip Dad! That's so awesome! Way to Light the World! And I'm so impressed you're savvy on Instagram now mom! 
I appreciate your love and support! and THANK YOU so much for the Christmas package! Can't wait to open it!
Keep pushing through school kiddos! Christmas is almost here!
Dads questions: This is my last full week of training! Crazy! I still have so much to learn! Sis Larsen has been in Songshan for 4 transfers now, about 6 months, so it's pretty certain she's moving out next week and I'll be staying! She will probably become a Sister training leader!
This week I'm gonna go backwards and start with today :P
Today I ate shark! (and duck, snail, lobster, crab, squid, etc.) The bishop's family gave us coupons to eat at a super fancy buffet today! Shark tastes really strongly of fish and is a little too squishy and slimy for my liking, but no regrets about trying it! Haha Today we also had our final run through of the missionary Christmas program and so almost the whole mission was there! So fun!
Yesterday felt so weird because it was Sunday but we didnt have church until Stake Conference at 4pm and then we had the recent convert fireside at 7pm. A recent convert from our ward, Jessica, came with us to both which was so so good because we haven't been able to contact her or see her at church in a while! We also sang a quartet of "Oh holy night" Sis Larsen soprano, me alto, and Elder Young bass, Elder Pinnock tenor, and Elder Halverson on the piano! It turned out pretty well! Sis Larsen says her favorite thing to do is winging musical numbers and that's often the case when we sing with other missionaries. Funny story from stake conf, this older lady came in late and sat down next to me. We talked briefly and then about 3 minutes later she started doozing off and kept leaning over on my shoulder, only to wake up slightly, center herself, and fall asleep over on my shoulder again. This happened about 25 times. It took everything in me to not laugh when sis Larsen looked over and saw what was happening! And to add to it all, President Peterson was sitting on the stand directly in my line of vision (and I in his). I don't know if he saw, but it was sure entertaining.
This week we also had some awesome family home evenings with less active members and part member families. I love them all so much! And we've gotten a couple awesome referrals from it! President wants us to focus on visiting and strengthening members and the youth, asking for referrals, and talking to everyone on the street in between and we are already seeing so many miracles from it! I am so grateful for President Peterson, the inspiration he receives, and his hard work! He is so ambitious and dedicated but also knows how to have fun! Today we saw him on his way to go golfing with the assistants!
A miracle we saw this week was we went to visit a member a little farther away in Nangang and we really weren't sure what to expect, but we ran into a person, Nikki, we used to teach a while ago, but said she was too busy to meet with us anymore. We got to show her a Taiwanese Light the World video and she agreed to start meeting with us again! She is so sweet and I know the gospel will help her if she chooses to let it! We also had a random guy offer to use his key to let us go on the elevator up to the 19th floor to visit another former person being taught who was miraculously home! So many people helped us out this week! We also met a super sweet lady who feeds all the neighborhood stray cats each night and helped us find a particularly difficult address!
On Friday night, we had a family home evening with the Zhu family and they brought out their 20 year old turtle! I learned that Sis Larsen LOVES turtles and used to have a turtle collection! It was so fun watching their family start to trust and warm up to missionaries and realize we are all just normal people doing our best to serve the Lord!
Scripture of the week: Alma 37:37
"Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day." Don't forget to say your prayers and be grateful this week! The simplest things are sometimes the hardest to remember, but they truly can help us be happy and have the strength we need to press forward! I know prayer is so powerful and that God listens to each one, whether 1pm or 1am, aloud or in our hearts, on our knees or on the run.
Love you all!
Sending hugs and prayers!
Sister Jensen
Lunch with Sophia :)
Liu family home evening
Lunch today thanks to Bishop! 
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