okay. hello!!!!!!!!!!!! I put so many exclamations because I am so happy today. this whole week has been incredible. I don't have much time left but I'll try to give some details.
I'm going to KL on sunday! to meet elder bednar! wild right? I'm nervous but excited. I'm not sure how long we will stay, so I don't know if I'll get to get out and see a lot of kuala lumpur but I get to see sister norton!!!!! I almost cried when I heard this! I miss her! my companion sister hite is incredible though. we have a lot of fun and work hard. she pushes me a ton. I was in charge of the phone yesterday, which seems stupid but it's scary! people call all day! but I did well enough. no one hung up on me:)
the other day, I pulled a tick out of my skin on my arm. the little devil still had it's legs and everything. it was very disgusting. I actually am only writing about it now, because I think it's time for my denial to stop. it was a mortifying experience. glad I found it though!
so I am spoiled. I will try to figure out how to send pictures, but every day during studies I sit on our deck and look out at the gorgeous blue ocean. it almost looks like kauai. it is GORGEOUS here. I am so spoiled. I teared up the other day because I knew that in a couple months when I'm transferred and in a year and half when I'm home I will miss sitting on the deck and studying. it's incredible. I kindof want you to come pick me up so that you can see all these things and meet all the incredible incredible people here. and eat all the weird food, and delicious indian food! it's amazing.
so we have been teaching two people, Jerry and Lazaias, and they are getting baptized on the 29th!!!! it has been a journey with them but they are both so positive and their faith is so strong. it's incredible to see the change that has happened in them just since I've been here. and they have such a desire to change. and last night when we saw them, they just smiled! like huge smiles all night when we were talking to them about baptism and the holy ghost. it makes me so happy!!!!!! I'm still on cloud nine about it.
heres a bit of heartbreaking news. there is a recent convert named Leni, and she is very very poor. she has three little kids, and her husband spends all their money on alchohol. so she has nothing. and we went over there and her and I just bonded immediately. but I noticed her little three year old daughters elbow was super swollen so I asked what happened. turns out, she fell off of their little stilt house, onto the ground, and she thought she broke her elbow. it was like black. and she had no money to go to the hospital so her daughter had been suffering for a week!! it almost killed me. it brought back the same feelings in africa. so I did my best to look at her arm, we went and got some ice and so I sat with the little girl next to me holding ice on her elbow to try to help with the swelling. I told Leni to try to keep her from putting a lot of weight on it and everything and did my best to give her some other advice about how to treat it, and we went back yesterday and Leni was like SISTER JENSEN! look at her arm!! and I looked, and she could move it, she could feel her fingers, she could grip, still very bruised but hardly swollen. I started crying. I wanted to scream and jump. it was amazing. the Lord blesses us if we have faith. He does! she couldn't move her arm and now she can. what a miracle.
so last week I was sitting on the deck and wondering why I was having such a hard time. and I was in a total pity party. so then I took out my pictures of home, and I was looking at them all and I noticed how happy I was in every picture. and then i took out my journal my friends from the mtc had written in and they all said how I always smiled so much and to never lose that. so then I started thinking, why am I not smiling more here?? I'm a happy happy person! why not in KK? so then I got a smack in the face and realized my bad attitude and my fear was killing my faith. killing the Spirit. so I repented and decided the next day I was going to start smiling again. super simple. guess what happened? EVERYTHING CHANGED! my language, though definitely not perfect, completely changed. the people were nice and I had the Spirit and I had a lot of great moments during my studies and it just changed my life. needless to say, I learned my lesson. and I'm grateful I did so quickly! now I'm not wasting any time not smiling. this work is incredible and so are the people. I'm so so so grateful to be here.
my time is up!! I'm sorry that went so quick! I will try to write a letter as well. I look forward to yours:)
I love you so much. thank you for your prayers, I know they are a big reason I am doing so much better this week.
I love you I love you. I pray everyone is safe and healthy.
until next week!!
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