Hey everybodddyyy!!!! Tudo bom?
Another week, another transfer. And the news is.... IM STAYING IN TERRA BRANCA here in Praia but I will now be training.. that's right I'm actually gravida (pregnant). Hahah but I am so pumped! She's a brasileira so already fluent in Portuguese and I'm about to learn some sick brasilian Portuguese now!!!! My dream has come true. But definitely gonna miss sister Webb... she's a party, and these transfers together have been some of the best! but she's gonna do awesome!
So these past couple weeks have been exciting since we usually share our ward with elders but they had to leave earlier so we had about 2 weeks with the whole ward boundaries in our area which was not gonna lie a blast. We got to walk a little more than usual and teach some super cool people that the elders were teaching. We also got a ton of references from our poppin Facebook page. They put up an ad and we were getting like 200 messages everyday from people responding. Yeah so responding became a task of every missionary here in Praia. But its so fun to get to chat with the funniest people online and try to understand their kriole which doesn't have a written form or any type of rules for spelling so lots if time you try to read it out loud and make sense of the convo before responding hahah. We've got a lot of trust in the Lords help with the language thing here. Haha but I've already had some amazing experiences that made sure I understand God is at the helm and theres nothing we've got to worry about.
MARIA MADALENA GOT BAPTIZED!!!! yeah that happened and she is the cutest. And bonus we have officially fallen in love with her fam. They are officially our best friends now. All her siblings are so fun and the mom just treats us like her kids so we feel just at home. We had a family night at their house after the baptism and her older sister Loide wanted to do our hair so we had some sick hairdos for church the next day! But definitely lost another good fraction of my hair.. they don't braid super gentil but its all good, my heads gonna get stronger
Had another sick split with my bestie Sister Teare again, love how we knew each other before and now we're serving in Cabo Verde together. How crazy. And that hits me every time.
Also the other day we had the funniest encounter with a man named dollar99. Yep no joke that was his name and he spoke English with a thick Boston accent. Apparently he lived there for a while and all his fam lives there now, but he got deported here a couple years ago because some of his choices but now he wants to change and turned to God and showed up at church one Sunday. So that was a good convo on the street. We also get the funniest comments from everyone that sees us and just says the little English they know. I think my self esteem is gonna plumet when I get home and don't get called beautiful about 5 times a day. Got a couple proposals in there and lots of cat calls. But God's watching out for us, and today a group of teenage boys told us we were even a little bit pretty. So its evening out dont worry.
Also funny story, our friend Inácia, that the other sisters before us were teaching. So this week we decided to invite her to be baptized since she said she still had interest and was talking about salvation during our lessons. Definitely felt she was ready and already wanting to, but boy we were hit by a curveball. She responded with the good old, "no not yet sisters the water is still too cold. Wait till April." Almost started laughing during the lesson, but held it in til we had left. Love her to death! Cutest old lady that will show up to church an hour and 15 min late but still love it. So honest, I need to be more like her.
Well this is already pretty long so I'll stop here but LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! AND GOD DOES TOO!!! I know this church is true with all my heart, and I love getting to teach and testify of Christ DAILY!! Missionaries have the greatest callings, its true. Let me know if you ever need anything! Tchau tchau!!!
Sister Jensen ♡
Pics from our baptism and little party after! And Trip to Tarrafal for zone activity!!
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