"Hello everyone! Another fantastic week and another email session where I don't have enough time to possibly put it into words. I'll try.
I loved a bumper sticker that I saw this week. It read
"Do you follow Jesus this close?" Now, it's pretty simple, and
humorous as well. But let's honestly think about it! Do we follow Jesus
closely? Do we serve and love others rather than thinking about ourselves and
getting caught up in our own world? Do we constantly strive to improve everyday
and recognize that it is only through Jesus Christ that we are able to do so?
I've been asking myself these questions. Every morning and every night and all
throughout the day, I find myself praying for guidance on how I can improve.
It's been an amazing experience as I have tried to follow as closely as
possible the teachings of Jesus Christ. The only constant thing about this
world that we live in is our faith and the gospel. I had the wonderful
opportunity of watching the Women's Session of General Conference and I cried
during almost every talk because of the amazing things that were said. We don't
have to be perfect. Not even close! Christ and the Atonement MEET US WHERE WE
ARE. We can be empowered through our faith to do amazing things. I've realized
that through humility and gratitude to my Heavenly Father, I have been able to
recognize every small tender mercy in my life. I love that bumper sticker.
Funny stories this week:
1) We screamed for a solid 3 minutes when a giant spider
crawled behind my desk and almost went to go get Elders to kill it. Eventually
through careful planning we were able to kill it. I wonder what our neighbors
were thinking when they heard us haha.
2) There is this saying here that if we role play
situations, God will give us a chance to use that role play in real life. Well.
It happened. But not in the way we expected. We were role playing and Elder
Peterson was pretending to be a Russian man who had a black adopted son. Which
is not something common at all. Sis. Orr said that she has never met a black
person who spoke Russian, much less a child. It was weird and we just kinda
forgot about it. LATER THAT DAY, we totally ran into a babushka that was
talking to some little kids. A SMALL AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD TURNED AROUND AND
STARTED SPEAKING RUSSIAN TO US I SWEAR IT WAS SO WEIRD. So hilarious. God is
mysterious.
3) One of our zone leaders is a known mumbler. He mumbles so
much. He was praying during a meeting and he said "We are grateful for
Jesus Christ's atonement." However, a few people thought that he said
"In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen" it was so funny because everyone
was really confused saying Amen and then he was all I'm not done...and so he
KEPT praying. It doesn't sound funny when I type it out, but I promise that it
was.
We met a wonderful couple this week. They are busy, but
thought that our message is really cool. They are really cute and said that
they couldn't go to church because they were giong to go mushroom picking. I
mean that's a pretty cool excuse, not gonna lie. The man said that he wants to
read the entire Book of Mormon. When a Russian says that they will read an
entire book, they mean that they WILL read the entire book. So excited to hear
about what he thinks! However, they live about 45 minutes from where we live
and an hour and 15 minutes from the Russian speaking group at church, which
makes it a little hard.
For anyone who has a dork dot/orange dot from the MTC I have
some advice for you, stick it on the back of your tag and then paint over it
with clear nail polish. Works like a dream.
Love everyone! Sorry for a slightly short email, but
everything is going wonderfully! We had a great mission "5k" this
morning where we walked around and were able to get JDawgs at the end (it's a
Provo thing). It was fun to be with all the missionaries and have a chance to
unwind and have fun with everyone (and we actually did jog probably the last
0.25 miles haha)
With love,
Sister Jenne"
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