hey everyone.
it has been a week. a week of people. I wanted to start by sharing my list I have made of all of the different countries of people I have met in the three weeks I've been here. here it goes:
Pakistan
Iran
Iraq
Maldives
Dubai
Saudi Arabia
Palestine
Bangladesh
Burma
Cambodia
Vietnam
South Korea
China
Mongolia
Thailand
India
Khazakstan
Phillipines
Indonesia
Mozambique
Ghana
KENYA
Nigeria
Liberia
South Africa
pretty wild, right? three weeks. I feel like I'm in a state of the gathering of Israel. only problem, most of them don't know....needless to say I have my work cut out for me! too bad I can only talk to about 40% of them!
anyway. so the coolest thing that happened was running into three beautiful girls from Kenya. most africans here are from nigeria. and there are tons. and I saw these girls walking, and they were so beautiful and I just stopped and started talking to them. I asked where they were from, they said kenya, so I like screamed "mambo vipi!!!!!!!!" hahahaha. and they got soooooooo excited and yelled back "poa!!!!!!!" a little swahili from the good old days in tanzania! turns out one of them actually lived in arusha, tanzania for a while...I've been to arusha! it was like an hour or two away from moshi, where I stayed. they were awesome. we talked and laughed and we contacted them and everything and they left. and a few minutes later one of them texted and said "your joy is incredible, and can be felt by everyone you smile at. so nice to meet you sis jensen." so cute huh!!! oh it made my heart die. I was freaking out a bit. I have wanted to teach tanzanians/kenyans my entire mission and I finally met some! they haven't met with us yet....which is hard....but I'm not giving up hope. they were dolls.
we had dinner at brother perumal and sister meera's house the other night...I was so happy! authentic indian food! tandoori chicken, homemade naan, this cilantro yogurt sauce, some curry, ooooooo boy. I don't know what I'm gonna eat when I come home. my taste buds are different. everyone is amazed at me because I can eat food hotter than a lot of the natives:) what can I say? a girl needs her curry bah.
we are still trying to build our area, it was pretty dead when we got here. it's challenging. we work hard every day. keep praying some good solid investigators and some more baptisms will come out of that. no doubt in time.
the last thing I'll mention is how cool the book of Esther is in the old testament. seriously. I read that one day for personal study and I was reminded again how cool she was. it started with her beauty, then it went to her kindness and meekness and politeness, her service, her love, her loyalty, courage, strength, intelligence.....she saved all of israel! she was amazing! she lived her life and handled that situation beautifully. she left me inspired to name a daughter or at least a very cute dog esther. haha. we'll see:)
and I'm out of time. love you all!
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