"I don't have time...I need to feed my 80lb turtle."

 It has been a great week! 



My new companion is Hna Gomez. She goes in the history books as my shortest companion ;) She comes in at a solid 5 feet. Basically I am a giant everywhere I go.

Here is what I learned this week: 

Success is hard to measure. 

• As missionaries we keep track of everything with numbers, but you can start to go crazy as a missionary if you focus on the numbers.
• Some missionaries determine their success on how many people will listen and accept the gospel. 
• Some determine success from getting assignments to serve as leaders or trainers in the mission. 
• I have determined my success as a missionary MANY ways throughout my mission, and I have finally found THE ONLY WAY to measure success. Nightly Prayer. No joke. It is in my nightly prayer that I can give Heavenly Father an honest accounting of my day. I can tell Him what I did, and I can ask Him how I need to improve. I give Him thanks for His guidance throughout the day, and ask Him for help and strength to improve as a missionary. I can ask for forgiveness for the things I didn't do so great, and I can promise Him that I will give a sincere, honest, best effort the next day. Doing this has helped me a lot. Daily accountability is super important! It is through daily accountability that we can reach our goals. That is a promise!

RANDOM STUFF FOR THE WEEK:

1. We had our ward Father's Day party this week. We have been working on getting a family involved in the ward for the past 2 months. THEY CAME TO THE PARTY. Wahoo! I spent the whole night sending ward members to go talk to them, so they would never be alone. Muahhahaha. If you ever see anyone alone at a party...Sit. By. Them.

2.  We were out knocking doors and a guy told us, "I don't have time...I need to feed my 80lb turtle." WHAT!? I had to see it to believe it. Picture to come :) I told him I had a turtle named Pete.

3. We also met the man named Cainen. He was sitting on his porch with a black suit that had skulls all over it. He was smoking a cigarette and holding a guitar. We walked up to him and said, "Can you play us a song?" I wasn't sure what he was going to do, but he ended up playing us a really good song. Be on the look out for Cainan! Dropping his new album 2017.

4. We had to take our car up to Santa Clarita so they could put a bike rack hitch on it. We kept telling everyone, "We're getting hitched!" 

I love you Mama. Have a great week. Don't forget to say your nightly prayers :)

Hna Moo

It looks small in the picture, but it really was 80 lbs!

goodbye tacos with Hna Jensen