tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85234588334656351872024-03-05T03:08:59.758-07:00The Denver Allen'sJeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-83743978335349147652016-04-11T20:37:00.001-06:002016-04-11T20:37:22.985-06:00ENDURING<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I remember the day I was set apart. President Dorny said the prayer, and my dad got to stand in the circle, my whole family was there, and I knew that I was being supported by more than just those in the room. With their strength added to my own, we went off to Utah together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The day I reported, was also the day that our family was able to go to the temple and do baptisms together for the first time as a family with Sydney just having turned twelve. We went early, about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1370624324" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:30</span></span> in the morning, I kept that picture. It became my bookmark for when I read the scriptures every morning, something to help me remember why I came out to serve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That was the day I met my very first companion, Sister Moe. She was so cool! I remember she did so many things that I had never had the courage to do, she taught me a lot, to be brave and stand with good courage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Following my companion was my first district and our teachers, they became my best friends for the next nine weeks. Through their examples, I learned that the Lord can teach me, even Sister Allen how to speak another language. I learned that no matter what happened, as long as I relied on the Lord things would work out just right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After the nine weeks, I went to the field. I remember getting sick on the plane and was not able to decipher if it was because we had a bumpy ride or just because of my nerves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was about an hour and a half of customs for Canada that I had to go through, and finally when it was all done, I got to meet my mission president, his wife, and my new trainer on the other side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was like walking into a whole new world, I know it is only Canada, and we speak English here, so it shouldn't be that difficult right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Luckily my trainer, Sister Dahl, was there to save the day. She taught me so much in the following three months. We worked in Richmond and White Rock together, and I remember time was so important as she was about to go home herself. We worked hard, and faith was behind all of our actions! We found so much joy in the work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When she left I got to become a trainer myself and be with my wonderful Sister Chan. She was so inspired. She taught me to be patient, be loving, be happy, and to find so much joy in the work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We laughed a lot, and made sure we became Preach My Gospel missionaries, we were both learning, and it took much effort to be successful! We were together for a long time, about 5 months, and it was great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then, came Vancouver. I had to learn how to talk to people my own age, that was so hard after coming from a family ward! Luckily I had my trusting Sister Chen with me for that time, she taught me how to use the phone. I thought I was using it before! We used every method we could to bring people unto Christ, things were really busy and we liked it that way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Everything was working out well till the end, and we got in a car accident, I remember she calmed me down in a way that probably nobody else could have. There were angels all around that day. I remember that man who came up to me telling me that he was CPR certified in case anything was needed, I remember he put his arm around me in a way that I knew he was sent from Heavenly Father. People were always sent from Him to help us out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then came Victoria. I remember Sister Tsai and I worked hard together, but for some reason did not know why the hopes and desires we had were not coming. If it were not for Sister Tsai, I would not know how to really rely on the Atonement. She guided me and helped me learn. Sister Tsai helped me believe that Jesus Christ really is my best friend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Somehow, we were still blessed, blessings just came in a different form than we thought would happen, but they came none the less and He taught us to rely solely on the Savior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soon Sister Tsai got transferred and I got a new companion. Sister Yeung. She was only going to be with me for one transfer as she was going to be heading home soon. We learned how to rely on the Spirit together. We got so unified! We were doing our best to keep our will aligned with God's will and we felt like working together in Victoria was a gift from the Lord, an opportunity to be the best we had learned to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When Sister Yeung went home, I was going to be training again, Sister Wu came, and she brought Preach My Gospel with her. My goodness. I had not used Preach My Gospel so much before in my mission, and I thought I was already a Preach My Gospel missionary! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We had excellent studies together and we learned how to really follow the counsel of our leaders, it was a great time to be together. One night I got a call, unexpected. I was going to be transferred. We were not desiring this, we wanted to stay together in Victoria till the end!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But then I met Sister Northcott, and she pushed me. She was one of the most loving companions I had ever had. Somehow we got to go to an area where the members were so excited for the work, and the Lord was blessing us in countless ways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sister Northcott hasn't just made sure that I don't quit, but making sure that I use every minute to the end. I am so grateful for such a good example in my mission.</span></div>
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Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-65566310552069103932016-04-11T20:21:00.002-06:002016-04-11T20:21:45.755-06:00Families Can Be Together Forever<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>
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Before Sister Northcott and I went over for the first time, we wanted to set a date with Sunny, from what we heard, she was prepared for baptism. We had a feeling about the 25th of March, when we went in, Sunny already had a baptismal date scheduled for the 25th, pleasant surprise! We continued to teach according to plan with a few adjustments here and there. </span></div>
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Happy ending! And it isn't over, we will be back in a year for them to go to the temple together. I love them. The gospel really does bless families.</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When we got to church this Sunday, a young woman came up to us and told us that she brought two new investigators and wanted us to go sit by them. Sister Northcott did that and I went to sit on the stand since I was speaking yesterday. Later, in church, we had a member of the bishopric come up to us and invited us over for dinner and a lesson for tonight, with our other baptismal candidate, Turns out they are really good friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Miracles are really happening in this area everyday! I really am so glad that I got to come here for my last transfer, it seems like it is a blessing in every way, the members, the investigators, even the people on the street! Our leaders in this area are great too, they always check in and see what they can to to help. I really just love this. Being a missionary is so exhilarating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Because we did not have a phone, we had no idea that it was daylight savings! There was no announcement made in church the previous week, and because our phone was dead, we were relying on our normal clocks in the house. We were completely obedient, but we had no idea that we were actually getting up an hour later than we were supposed to, because we had not changed our clocks yet. Because of this, we got to church an hour late. Yes, we could not believe it either. Missionaries, coming to CHURCH an hour late. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It gets worse, we were supposed to give talks that day. We just reviewed them in companionship study too, they were perfected, we worked on them all week to make sure the language was okay too. I mean, we were really prepared...till the last minute. When I sat down, the speaker was speaking Cantonese, so I didn't understand what was being said and I was just looking at our Bishop. I was so scared, thinking that we just lost all trust. Well, I am just staring at Bishop, and he is definitely staring back. When the service was over, (it lasted about another 20 minutes) I made my way over to talk to him, and I must have looked real nervous or red or something because everybody that looked at me got nervous for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">He was totally fine! Bishop was talking to me saying that everything would be okay, that things happen and not to worry but to give short testimonies next week. He had so much patience!!!!! And it looked like he was not even expressing any patience, like he was completely okay with us showing up late, and then he smiled and laughed with us! I mean! I have heard horror stories about this bishop! And here we were showing up late, and he is totally fine! I don't know what he was like before, but I feel he is one of the best examples I have in my life right now! I would not have reacted the same way I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But wait, there is actually more! An hour and a half later, he comes into Relief Society and shared some special experiences about his son being on a mission and how grateful he is for the members there to be taking care of his boy. He pointed out that the members of his own ward need to be better and that they should be inviting the missionaries over. Bishop then asked the sisters to look at the dinner calendar, it was empty, he was NOT happy and kind of scolded the ward a little bit for not having us over. I was so shocked that the Bishop was standing up for missionaries all day! Incredible. I was really impressed with him, and am really glad that I get to serve in this ward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I learned a lot about patience yesterday, not just from Bishop's example, but just with yourself too. I mean, you think that you are supposed to get better and better and nearly perfect at the end of your mission, but you really just keep seeing all of things still needing of improvement. I am so grateful that we have the Atonement and can always overcome anything we desire to, because Christ has already done it for us, we just have to really rely on Him and His grace and mercy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I really, really love Burnaby, learning a lot here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We started this new transfer really on a good start! Three investigators came to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1118587383" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>, we had three new investigators this week, and we were able to come to an area where there are two progressing investigators and a baptismal date!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The first thing Sister Northcott and I did when we got to the area was call Bishop. Bishop was really glad to have sisters back in the area and asked if we would be able to meet soon. We met right after the ward coordination to get a list of sisters he wants us to work with. We were able to follow up with them and are able to get things going pretty quick. We have been having member visits pretty often and the work is really just progressing here! I feel like it was good for missionaries to leave the area for a couple transfers so that when we came back, they were all really excited for missionary work, somebody even brought their friend to church the other day and we are meeting her <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1118587384" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span>! We are so excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am also glad that I get to be on the mainland, but not in my old areas. I am glad because I get to physically see some of the people I helped bring out of inactivity and people that I got to see be baptized still going to church! And at the same time, I don't get so attached to them again. It is a little hard to explain, but I can feel it really is Heavenly Father's tender mercy that I have been able to see a particular three people at church yesterday, fulfilling their callings, after me being in Victoria and hearing that they were going less active from other missionaries, I think it was a way that Heavenly Father showed me that the work is never ending, but also just an opportunity to see the fruits of my labours. Heavenly Father has really been very tender lately, it was really nice to be able to see them yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">PS: this is a picture I got to take after one of my recent converts from my previous area was able to come to a lesson we had after inviting an investigator to a baptism :) It was awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We got down town and talked to some great people in Chinatown (a place we do not go very often because they are mostly tourists, but we had a feeling), then we got a text asking us if we could bring one of our ward missionaries something to eat. So we picked up a small pizza for us and the ward missionaries who were setting up for the baptism. When we were walking out of the pizza place, we found our bus just leaving. Because it was a Saturday, it was going to take a little longer to wait for the bus, 40 minutes longer...bummer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, we hopped on the next bus that would help us get to an area at least a little close to the church, it would drop us off about 3 blocks away. When we got on the bus, our friend Bonnie, who was about to be baptized, just got there, waiting at the church for the missionaries. Wow, making a girl wait on her baptism day, we are just not the example to follow everybody.</span></div>
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Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-53896164605238870052016-02-22T15:38:00.002-07:002016-02-22T15:38:47.631-07:00The Fast<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We have recently had some changes in the mission in how we are finding. With the changes came a lot of inspiration.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The area I serve in has a lot of students. We are trying to teach people who speak Chinese in Canada. Not something that you would first think of, but here on this island, we hold a Chinese sacrament meeting once a month. We do our best to invite EVERYBODY and often times they will all come. The reason why we have this many people coming to church every week is because all of these members are missionaries, we are all doing our best to form a branch. Everybody wants a Chinese speaking branch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A little over a year ago, there were about 5 members in this area. 5 Mandarin speaking members. They felt like there was a stop in the work, because everybody they were teaching just decided not to get baptized and the people who were on the streets, didn't want to meet. It was hard, and so those members and the a couple others from the ward got together with the missionaries and had a fast. A fast that the pause in missionary work would end. Since that fast, there has been a baptism every month in this work. This area has literally had a baptism every month in all of 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This last Sunday we had a fast. We fasted for the group to find families, because all of these baptisms have been students, people that might go back to China after school. We wanted to find families, but also to bring back the people that had been baptized before and might not be at church lately. We had the whole Chinese group working together to fast, we had missionaries fasting, we had our bishopric fasting, we had the stake presidency fasting, we had returned Chinese speaking missionaries fasting, the fast was going on all over the world just for the work to hasten! It happened quickly too, because <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_114070499" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>, we had one of the members who had not been to church for a whole year come back. Not only did he come back for the day, but he brought his scriptures and was ready to learn again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Happy Valentines day! When we went to the local university to contact this Sunday, there were not a lot of students all together as couples, but there were a lot of people that were studying for midterms and things like that. People just were not paying attention to the holiday and still working really hard. A lot of students looked really sad, so we went and made some happy :) Because, I mean really, we are missionaries, all we do is love! We really go out and teach what Jesus taught us, and it all starts at the core of His love for us and Heavenly Father's love for us who sent His Son for us.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We talked to this Korean guy, trying to make our conversation about the Savior, and His love for us, and he was so funny! We were taking the bus with him and could not stop laughing, getting side tracked. We gave him the missionaries phone number because he told us that he was not interested but that his Chinese room mate would be, he told us "This is the first girl in Canada that gave me her number, and she gave it to me on Valentines day!" We told him it didn't count, but it just made me so happy to go out onto the streets yesterday and find people who wanted to be loved, it made it so easy to talk to people! I love our Savior and that He loves everybody, I am so glad He has blessed us with the Book of Mormon and a modern day prophet just because He loves us! Things are so good here in Victoria!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Tuesday: Got lost trying to find our way to an investigators house, ended up taking a long way and figured it out. If we had gotten there any earlier, she would have not been home yet, and we would not have seen her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wednesday: We finally got to teach some people. One of them was a really great lesson, because we have been teaching her for a while now and she still doesn't quite know if God is listening to her prayers, so we watched the Restoration video with her and she realized that if God could appear to a 14 year old boy, then is she had real intent then God would be able to give her a little answer to know if this is true. She decided to give more intent and said that she would come to church on Sunday if we found her a ride. We found her a ride and this was so great because she had been about 2 months without going!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Friday: We had a zone meeting, and we had planned to drop by a member who lives over by the church right after the meeting. Normally, we don't do drop by's but we had this feeling we should head over. The meeting went a little long, and one of the missionaries asked if we needed a ride anywhere because we don't have a car. We are hardly ever at the church because it takes about 45 minutes to get there from where we live on transit and we don't have a key to get in, so dropping by this member at this time would be the best solution. We ended up getting a ride, and as we went in we could see why we needed to be there. She had been having a really rough day, about ten minutes after we had gotten there, and about 6 minutes into a message, the school called asking if she could come by and pick up her son, he had a fever and needed to come home. Like her day was about to get a lot more difficult than it needed to be. She told us that she still had a couple minutes before she absolutely needed to go, and asked us to go all the way through the message. By the end, we were all smiling. It was great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So many miracles came, I know we were blessed to see it because Heavenly Father wants us to keep building this area up. I hear stories of other missionaries who were here before us, legends that we see in our area books. Legends that the members remember, some of them are off and married now. Some of them have just gone home. But these members from the beginning remember them, they remember Elder Bishoff and Elder Gomez. They remember Sister Chen and Sister Lau and Sister Xie. These missionaries set the tone for the area, and I am so blessed to be serving in this area, a place where I can still see the fruits of their labors. Every missionary has such a key role in every part of the work, and this mission is all just catching on fire. We are burning with the Spirit, and things are changing, things are improving and moving forward. Only a work that is true would move forward this quickly, only the truth can do something like this.</span></div>
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I only have one more transfer call left, I will probably be dying here in Victoria. I probably won't be getting another transfer call, I will probably be staying here till the end. When I went to Richmond (the lower mainland) to pick up my new companion from the airport, I got to talk to President Burt for a little bit and he did not realize that I was going home so soon. He looked at me and you could see that he was counting the time in his head, and just started getting really puzzled, like wow, you really are going home soon, and then he laughed and said that I should extend till he goes home. It was pretty funny!</div>
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Sister Wu was originally called to do English work. But we had 6 Chinese speaking missionaries go home in this last transfer, so President called the headquarters and asked if we could change it at all and have more Mandarin missionaries in. They changed some of the missionaries calls because of that, like Sister Wu. They also changed one of the missionaries who was learning how to speak Korean and asked him to learn Chinese instead, insane! When President and the assistants went to go pick them up, two of the four planned Chinese missionaries didn't come, and President was freaking out. But it worked out okay, because they just have to stay in the MTC a little longer for English, nothing like they weren't going to come or anything. so things all worked out in the end! I am excited to see where the Lord will take us as we keep building our faith together and keep the work pushing forward. Woohoo!</div>
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I am really glad that she was able to learn English in the MTC, because it is not a ton of English, but because it was able to remind her of the basics that we teach in the gospel. In turn, teaching me to remember. All of my companions except for the two ones that I have trained have gone home now, so I got to learn a lot of what they thought what was best, and it was interesting to see how all of my companions would always direct us back to PMG or to the pamphlets, so that is what we are doing now. Remembering the basics, in the most simple form too. It is wonderful, it works out for everybody. Helps the investigators understand more, it helps the lessons be taught more clearly, and it helps the Spirit testify so much more powerfully. I love the basics. What a great way to end the mission, when you are training. </div>
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Sister Wu is great, she has invited somebody to be baptized in every single lesson we have had so far. We have not had many lessons, but all with different investigators, and she has set the expectation for them, which is great! These are all people that I have invited before, and some even with dates before, but they ultimately decided that they didn't quite believe in God yet, or not quite ready to make that commitment of baptism. One lesson we had this week was at a members home. That member is a part of the bishopric, and there were his family, another woman in the stake relief society presidency and two other missionaries who are in the 12 step recovery program. All of these people were there for a dinner and a lesson. It was great, we were talking with our investigator, who has been working on quitting smoking about the doctrine of Christ, and the spirit was so strong! We were not planning to invite her to baptism last night because we had done that before and the stress of knowing that she needed to be baptized caused her to relapse. But this week the Spirit was so strong! And so Sister Wu used English to invite her, (English speaking members) and did it perfectly!!!! And when our investigator responded, I heard the most mature and sincere answer I have ever heard from her, she said that she knew it was a commitment to Jesus, not to other Christians or to missionaries, and because of this she needed to strengthen her faith in Him knowing that He can save her from smoking and coffee. I was so impressed!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week has been crazy! I feel like this week has been a gift. I got to be with Sister Tsai, and ensure that she was on the ferry nice and safe. We were able to meet with a couple recent converts the day before she left and talk about the importance of the sacrament. It was effective I think. Sister Yeung came and she was literally running to do missionary work! It was great! The next day was weekly planning, and wonderful, we also got to visit some less actives that night and happened to run into an old investigator that Sister Facer taught! That same investigator wants to start meeting missionaries again! So we set a time to meet, which is coming up. On Friday, we met somebody, she speaks English, so we will pass her, but she is a younger woman with lung cancer and talked to us for about an hour on the street about being resurrected one day. It was incredible! She is really busy with work, but going to be free around Christmas time so she will be coming to the pageant that the church has been doing every year for the community (they said it is the 29th year) and we will be able to pass her to the English sisters then! Saturday came and we got to go to the ward Christmas party that night, Henry and Shari invited all of their friends! And they actually came! We now have two new solid investigators from that, a mother and a daughter. They came to church the next day, and are really interested in learning more. And even better, the topic for gospel principles that day was baptism, all of the recent converts were able to share a quick reason why they were baptized, and then all of the investigators in that class (there were three, the daughter went to the Young Women, and the elders had two investigators there too) said that they were preparing for baptism!!! We have our first real appointment on Wednesday night with them, and I am sure that we will be able to set a date! I am so excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Also, I really love Sister Yeung. We were talking last night before we fell asleep and we are both so grateful that we are together this transfer. She said that if she is with me, she knows that she will be obedient. I know that with her excitement to do the work, I will be able to leave this area better than I found it. It took a while, and it was already better than I found it two transfers ago, but I know that it can improve so much more, so thank you for praying and listening to the Lord. I really am grateful that I have had all of my companions that I did, I am really glad that because of them I am able to change and be better. I was reading my patriarchal blessing this morning in preparation for the zone meeting, and I saw some things in there that told me that because I was obedient in the pre-earth life, I had to come at this time, and because of that I was expected by the Lord to serve a mission. I know that even when things get tough, like Alma in chapter 8:13-15 he just had to find comfort that he was being obedient. I was banking on being obedient for a lot of my mission, and then in Doctrine and Covenants 58:1-7 it talks about being rewarded in Heaven, and how there will be a trial of faith, but also be a reward. I keep thinking that one of those rewards really is obedience, it is something that can really bring a lot of peace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This letter might not be so big. I just wanted to share what an inspiration he is with everybody! He was baptized by our bishop. Our bishop does not speak Chinese. Though, because of Doctor Chen, our bishop tried really hard to speak Chinese. We had a paper there for him when he needed assistance, but those tones are a kicker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Doctor Chen corrected him on his own baptism about 5 times, and our bishop took it like a champ, he got through the baptism, Doctor Chen went under and came back up. After he came up, we were closing the font doors, prompting everybody to go back to their seats, when Doctor Chen yelled out, "Good!" Literally shouting for joy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The next day when was invited to the stand to be confirmed, he just about ran to the stand, try to imagine an 87 year old running, it was adorable. He was so ready and so excited to have the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What an inspiration he is to all of us! He knows that life is short, and that we are here to be happy! He has a testimony that God lives, and that Jesus Christ is our Savior! I know that God sent us here to learn and grow, but mostly to be happy and to find peace and joy in the things He has given us! So when we are feeling down and dreary, or feeling bummed out at all, remember that God gave us all of this to be happy. We can all start shouting for joy and find happiness!</span></div>
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PS...Thanks for all the prayers. Here is Alyssa's update on her health:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My mission nurse says that it sounds like a bowel infection, and that it can be taken care of, so I had to do a stool sample, gross, and some blood work. I also met with some lawyers lately because of the accident, so I thought it could also be related to stress. Kind of like when you have stress in a test, and it is hard to finish the test because you need to go to the restroom. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">April, is the only one who responded, she told us that she was busy that weekend, but would soon have time because of Canadian Thanksgiving was coming soon. We ended up meeting at a doughnut house, and she told us that she would be at church the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_871560834" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">next Sunday</span></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When we were there, she saw pictures of the temple and of eternal families, she wanted to know more so we shared the plan of Salvation, and she was amazed! She very quickly became a part of the ward and wanted to take her family to the temple, she was just baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_871560836" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 100, 100); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span>, received the Holy Ghost <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_871560837" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>, and just recently got her temple recommend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I know that when we got to this area, we did not know what to do. People were dropping us like crazy, and in the midst of all the craziness, we were able to find somebody who was prepared. All she needed was a little text, letting her know that we would love to meet for a short 20 minutes to share a quick message. I know the Lord has prepared people out there, and that when things get hard, the Lord really will provide. I know that April was an answer to our ward's prayers and efforts. I know that she was able to so easily accept the gospel into her life because all she had to do was remember that she is a daughter of God and wants to be a part of an eternal family. She has plans to go to the Taiwan temple with her family, she is so special.</span></div>
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<br />Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-27924778951819992022015-11-17T21:37:00.002-07:002015-11-17T21:37:21.190-07:00The Salmon Run<br />
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Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-79850203967997901892015-11-17T21:30:00.003-07:002015-11-17T21:30:45.852-07:00I'm still in the learning process, but the learning process is great!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week, was insane! I am still in the learning process, but the learning process is great.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My testimony is really growing here in Victoria, God loves you so much. Recently Sister Tsai and I were in a situation that led me to wonder; "Is what I am doing really making a difference?" Of course I knew it mattered, but sometimes we really have to learn more, and then Sister Tsai told me to be grateful for even a little testimony, to be grateful for what we have because even though we have worked on it a lot, it really is just a blessing given to us from God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week I had fallen, and then had to get a little taller on my knees (kneeling in prayer), which led to re-learning how to sit in a chair (scripture study at a desk), which caused me to stand up and do my best (actually going out and applying what I just learned), which causes others to see, and you start walking (walking with others to help them off their knees too).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">She recently had fallen too, but she opened up and let us into her home, she prayed, and was able to sit together with us at the kitchen table doing scripture study too. We didn't share a super inspirational message, but it was enough for her to remember how much God really loves her! And as she was starting to stand up, she wanted to walk too, she wanted to go out and share this message. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So we went out and talked to every person that knows how to speak Chinese in that neighborhood, we talked to a lot of students in the area too (it is a college town) and really, just ended up knocking a lot of doors on a rainy day, and I felt so blessed to be surrounded by people who love and know the gospel is true! Remember that God loves you, and He might let us fall because He knows it will be there to bring us to our knees and eventually get up and share with the world what a wonderful God He is!</span></div>
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Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-26308118983515485112015-11-09T07:03:00.003-07:002015-11-09T07:03:26.528-07:00Jesus Christ was with me last night<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week has been crazy, literally emotions all over the place. But last night, I was visited by my older brother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I had a dream that Sister Tsai had already gone home and I was still serving in Victoria. But, weird enough, I was in a companionship again with Sister Chen, like she had come back to the mission after going home. Even though we were serving in Victoria together, we had a baptism in Burnaby. (Burnaby is a city on the lower mainland, a place that I have never served in, but I am very familiar with the chapel there because of all the activities that have happened there, I was there every week when I lived in Vancouver.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I had to use the washroom and told Sister Chen that I would be right back. As I was walking towards the restroom, I saw Jesus Christ walking. I went to Him and put my hands on His shoulder, my head resting on my hands, like a little girl walking up to her dad or a big brother, He did not stop walking. I was still talking to Him, just talking like it had been a long time since we had seen each other. When we finally got to the doors by the chapel instead of the doors by the restroom, I asked Him if I could have a real hug. He hugged me in the same place where I asked the question. While we were hugging I told Him I don't know what to do to help Sister Chen's stress (I guess she was really stressed about the baptism and that is why I decided to go to the bathroom, to get away from it for a moment, against white handbook rules, but I did it anyway) He told me to rely on Him, to remember His Atonement in my own life and then I would know what to do to help her, because I had to help myself first. I pulled away agreeing to start relying more on Him and better use the Atonement. Then He directed me to go back to Sister Chen, we were out of sight and sound for too long by then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I noticed that as I was walking back to the room where the baptism would soon be held, and found my companion, there were other people there that I did not recognize. It was like Jesus Christ was really at the Burnaby chapel last night and I was there, so were others, people I did not know, but needed to see Him too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I know that my body was resting last night, but it was really like my spirit was not of this world for a time being, like that day I said a prayer for district meeting and could literally feel my spirit changing as I was praying for these people in the district, it was like that day that I was at zone meeting closed my eyes literally hearing Heavenly Father talking to me saying "Welcome home, you've done well." But the weird thing is that when Heavenly Father was talking to me, He speaks in Chinese, but Christ spoke to me in English, like it was all alright, like He was my best friend, not always keeping high expectations, but knows that I need to ask Him for what He has already offered. I had to ask Him to stop walking, I had to ask Him to give me a hug, and He hugged me for as long as I needed that support, but also for as long as I wanted. He is the best friend that everybody needs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don't know if you want to put that on the blog, but I want my family to know, and Sister Em' Dahl too, had a feeling I should share with you too. I love you so much , I hope you are all doing what you need to do to qualify yourself to be with Jesus Christ, I love you so much :)</span></div>
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We are teaching somebody new in Nanaimo, but we are using skype to teach. Her name is Vivian, she was found and taught by the Nanaimo sisters for about a month, and then they decided that a bigger help would be needed in assuring that she would learn the most clear way. Vivian now has a baptismal date for the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_228327135" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5th of December</span></span>! </div>
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So my personal study went to studying about the Atonement, and I happened to be lined up to study 2 Nephi chapter 9 in my personal study today, all about the Atonement, it was great! I realized that Jesus Christ was a GOD! And He was willing to become a person, something as little as us to allow us become who God intends us to be, to allow us to become who we want to be. I know that Jesus Christ loves me, but I am always reminded of how little I can comprehend this love. Eventually, the time to roleplay came and she wanted me to teach the whole plan of Salvation instead of just the Atonement. I got out my pictures and started to roleplay, I was trying really hard to make sure that I would not forget all the little points that we are taught in Preach My Gospel. </div>
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Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8523458833465635187.post-58726113477318276512015-10-14T11:29:00.000-06:002015-10-14T11:29:00.163-06:00Blessings Are In the Air<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week was so good! Sister Tsai was sick for a little bit, so it allowed us to stay in and for me to call every single person in our area book, every former investigator, every potential investigator, every current investigator, every less active member, and really just everybody. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I just got into another car accident. I am totally fine. But I will be paying a fine of about xxx. A motorcycle and our car collided. His legs will probably need prosthetic legs. Or at least some new bars in his legs. We were waiting at a intersection for about three minutes at a stop sign and then found a time when there was nobody coming both ways. So we turned left. At the median, there started a honk and it went about 3 seconds, we couldn't find where it was coming from when we were in the process of turning. All of a sudden our car was impacted and his body was on top of our front windshield like we were hitting a dear in the middle of the night, except this was a person coming off of a motorcycle and the middle of the day in Vancouver. Our car landed in the church lawn, we couldn't see him. We were looking all over for him, or for anything, and didn't see anything. He kept flying into a deeper part of the grass of the church lawn. Padded landing, but he broke his leg. His bones were spread on the sidewalk. We tried to get out of the car, but the doors were not opening. He didn't die. Luckily for us, there was somebody coming by on the street that is a qualified paramedic, he took him out of his pain. My companion and I were stuck in the car with a shattered windshield and called the police from the inside because we couldn't get out. Eventually the car opened, and we were able to get out. By then, their were people coming from a lot of different directions trying to help. Pretty soon our police man came. I don't know his name, I should have though, he was key to helping us. The ambulances were next, they got there really fast, and then the fire truck. They got the man's clothes taken off and taken to the hospital. Hopefully he is going to be okay. I eventually heard his name was Jason, don't know the last name, please pray for Jason's health, and please don't ever ride a motorcycle, and be so cautious of those little things all over the place. We then tried to call all of our leaders. None were picking up, except for our zone leader who was going to the hospital at the same time. Quite a day in the Chinese Zone eh? We ended up staying at the accident for another hour with the police men, they were all so good. My companion had to be treated for shock, they let her go though because there was a senior couple that pulled by on their P-day, about to be done grocery shopping when they saw us. We got a ride with them to the mission office in Richmond. Sister Chen needed her senior missionary, Sister Spueler, a miracle worker. She walked in slowly, and stood in front of her. Her eyes were so blank. She didn't know what to think, to say, and I don't think she was really able to realize that Sister Spueler was trying to hug her, she couldn't move. And then all at once, she realized what was happening. She cried. Her knee was cut up and finally wanted to dress her wounds. She was so scared. Please also pray for Sister Chen. Apparently, the mission has been having a lot of car accidents lately, like into poles and stuff, little things, but because of that they have a car shortage, so we have no car for transfers. So please pray for travel plans, that everything will go smoothly and people will get to where they need to go safely. I want you to know, I am completely okay. I have nothing but a small headache, which is no big deal. Please pray for Jason, the motorcyclist, please pray for our zone leader Elder Hay who might be going in to surgery this week which would end his mission about 2 transfers early, please pray for travel plans, and please pray for Sister Chen, that she will be able to function and be able to be happy still. I love you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I called Alyssa. She was NOT expecting the call. President Burt hadn't told her I was calling. Of course when I asked her how she was there were tears, on both ends of the phone. But she assured me she was in fact fine. She was super worried about the guy on the motorcycle. They were praying and fasting for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I told her angels were watching over her that day, that's the only reason she came away from the accident unscathed. Then she told me what happened. A man came over to help her and Sister Chen. They were trapped inside their vehicle, terrified and in shock. He managed to get the door open and help Alyssa and Sister Chen out of the car. Then, he did exactly what Alyssa needed. He hugged her. A stranger sent from Heavenly Father hugged her for a couple of minutes. Then she pulled it together and was able to help Sister Chen. She was able to talk to the police, her mission president and everyone else that had questions. But she is sure that the man that helped them out was her special angel from God that day. She knows he must have felt prompted to help the sisters when clearly the man on the motorcycle was in much more distress. The five minutes he spent with them healed Alyssa and gave her what she needed to go on. I will be forever in his debt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took me (Jeni) almost 2 weeks to share this with you all. It was hard for me to process, it was hard for me not to be with her. But I now know that she is fine, that Heavenly Father loves her and Sister Chen and kept them safe when things could have gone so badly. I love my little girl. She's 20 today. Wow, when did she grow up??? She's my Alyssa and I am glad for the experiences she is having that is growing her faith stronger and stronger every day. </span></div>
Jeni Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16902012690082541440noreply@blogger.com0