Yes, yes I am now 20 years old and I do feel older actually. The teenage title has been taken away from me, but no promises that my actions will demonstrate this quite yet. But yes, and the best birthday present was getting to chat with my fam and on the day of my sister's wedding the day after! And gained another brother! YESSSS i love more family, and so happy for my sister! Love her so much! Congrats!!!
So, this week was quite exciting! We keep finding new people to teach so we're getting pretty busy now haha my favorite problem on the mission :) But I'll try to mention some of the highlights. Well this week we got to meet the whole family of a couple of my friends from Fogo and it was super fun to see them again and their like whole family is golden because the mom is looking for a religion, and two of their kids are already members and the dad is super cool and already loves us hhehehe and a couple of them showed up at the church yesturday! Anyways super excited to start teaching them.
Also met an Italian here who came up to us and started asking us all the classic questions to missionaries.. why are you guys here kinda thing. And I love this question so much! Anyways, and we met with him yesturday and it was my first lesson I have taught here in Cabo Verde in ENGLISH! definitely so strange, and I said the opening prayer and definitely had to concentrate a little harder than normal. Funny story, when he called us on the phone he definitely called me out half way through and literally said, "Sister Jensen speak english" hahaha yep whoops but hes hilarious and super interesting so im exciting to keep answering his questions.
Sunday was amazing! We had a miraculous number of our friends at church which also fills my heart with so my heart with so much joy. Cant explain it but its awesome. And that morning we walked with one of them but we had also agreed to pick up another girl so Sister Webb and I ended up running up the dirt mountain next to the road to her house to find out she had already gone on her own! Then we ran back down quickly and were barely late for church! haha But everyone in Cabo Verde is always just a little late so the first 10-15 minutes of church everyones still walking in. Yep, feels just like home hahahha :) But I feel an incredible amount of happiness with every little step of progress our friends make. Can't describe it, but helping others find this happiness is my dream! ♡
Okay, a couple fun stories...
I have now officially worn a durag. Yes, a less active had two and decided to try them out on us. Im not complaining, was definitely a highlight. That same night we also ended up eating cow intestine soup... cow heart, lung, and i honestly dont know what else hahah :) but my companhion and I didnt even get sick! Grateful for my steal stomach sometimes!
BEST PART! TODAY WE GOT TO PLAY PAINTBALL and it was a blast! ohh my, not only do they actually have a place to play paintball here, it was actually legit and super fun. We played with our zone and another companhionship of sisters. And now i can say ive been paintballing was on the mish and in Cabo Verde. What a flex im sorry.
Anyways this was quite long sorry! Love you all and thanks for reading! God loves you and nothing can separate us from that love! One of my favorite scriptures is now Romans 8:38-39! Go give it a read :)
Hope you all have a great week!
Sister Jensen ♡
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