Another day another dollar!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE!!! 
Questions: We probably teach like 3-6 lessons a week. We do eat with members sometimes, often Sundays or plays. All our formal lessons are in Chinese, but often people on the street with talk to us in English and all the young people have varying ability but most of their English is better than my Chinese. They dont talk to us in English, but if you ask them a random word or like cant think of the chinese word for something they understand and can teach us. Return missionaries from Taiwan (like our current YSA representative who served in Australia) will often use English with us though. So that's nice. English names are easier for us to remember and 95% of people have English names. We use members Chinese names most of the time (because they have chinese last names) but new friends and YSA often just tell us their English names. 
This week was another great week in songshan! We go to the track every morning to run and this old guy has started recognizing me and talked to me a couple times and told me that it is healthy to run every day and that's what he does so if I wanna be healthy like him at his age, I have to exercise every day. Haha he waves goodbye and says "see you every day!" (English with a Chinese accent) This week we visited a lot of members and sometimes when we visit a less active member and they aren't home, we leave cute heart sticky notes and a note and a picture and this week, we revisited a less active and this time she didnt let us in, but she stood outside and ended up opening up to us a lot about her current concerns for her son and told us she was very touched when she saw our note we had left! Miracles!
Thursday we had a great zone meeting at our chapel and talked a lot about member work. We also did a little taichi with about 15 older ladies in the park that were super sweet and welcomed us right into their little circle and wouldn't stop complimenting our Chinese Haha everyone here is too nice! We also had FHE with a less active family on Friday and brought the primary president! Then on Sunday we had a ward FHE and we played Kahoot! Haha I never thought.i would do that on my mission but lo and behold, it wasnt even blocked on our phones! The trivia questions were about all the new changes in the church in 2019 like come follow me.
Tuesday we had exchanges! I went with Sister Elliot (our new sister training leader) and although she was feeling pretty sick, I learned a ton from her and she gave me a lot of good advice!
Today the sisters from Bitan came to our area and we walked along the river then had lunch together and then went on splits for a pass-off lesson thing.
Scripture of the week:
Helaman 3:35
"Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God." Humility is strength and Christ is our foundation! As we purify our hearts and align our will with His, we will be able to tap into His infinite strength and be filled with joy!
Love you all!
Have a fantastic week!
Sending prayers and hugs!
Sister Jensen
Sister Garner, Hayden, and Porter
Ward FHE
Dinner with Lia (young women)
FHE with Zhou JM and the Han family
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