13 Doors

Hello everyone!

Well, lots of good things happened this week, but the highlight was: General Conference!

Oh man, I'm sure lots of people have the same feeling, but I felt like a couple of the talks were speaking directly to me! It's so wonderful that we have the chance to hear from the prophet and apostles. I felt really inspired. We watched the Saturday morning session live (at 6:00 pm Saturday evening here), and then the Saturday afternoon session the next day, and then we watched the Sunday morning session live again. We will see the last conference session in a couple of weeks after Stake conference. I think my favorite was Dallin H. Oaks' talk about the importance of desire. But all of them were so good!

We got the chance to do service for a lot of people this week, mostly cleaning houses. First we helped a lady who has a new baby, and is suffering post-partum depression. We've actually been helping her once a week for a few weeks now. It's her first baby and her husband works late every day, and she was feeling really lonely and stressed out. Then we got to help an inactive woman from Russia. We've been teaching her every now and then, but I don't think she realized how much we care about her until we showed up to clean her apartment.

Actually, that's a funny story. So we asked if she needed help, and she said, 'If you're willing, I really need to clean my doors. I haven't cleaned my doors in over six months!' And we were both kind of like, '...doors?' I don't think either of us had every really cared about the state of our doors before, but she seemed pretty concerned about hers. So we were like, 'Okay.' She just has a tiny, cramped, one-floor apartment, so I thought 'How many doors can there really be?' It turned out she had 13 doors! In a tiny apartment! It was kind of ridiculous.

What else... oh, and then today our p-day is a little shorter because we were walking home from buying groceries and saw our relief society president cleaning someone else's house, so we stopped in and spent a couple of hours helping her. It turns out it was supposed to be a relief society activity -- cleaning this old lady's house -- but no one else showed up, so Sis. Zonardo was going to do it all herself. Good thing we walked by!

Well, I'd better get going. Thank you all for the letters and emails and support! I love you all.

Sincerely,
Sister Jensen