Smashed platanos and luke warm salami!

September 23, 2013

For every corner there is a church.. for every church there is a Dunkin donuts... for every dunkin donuts there is a person (who eats the donuts)... for every person there are GEESE. and this my beloved family is what I call NEW JERSEY! Any one wanna come and stay for a year and a half?!  JK I love it! But i will not lie there is an uncontrollable about of donut eating people, churches, and geese! hahah 

This week has been good! It is terrible COLD in the mornings! Getting a little nervous cause then i cant run so how will I work out but... oh well I guess.. Its like where was fall? Non existent in the East Coast! haha Goodness I have funny stories but none that I believe are worth sharing! 

 This week I just had the privilege to work with a lot of members and do service! On Saturday we had the opportunity to pick up trash from all around and a lot of the missionaries came, Evan Traasdahl was there and BRADEN! soooo goood to see them! Every time I see them I get a little taken back because I mean I have been here from almost 5 months not seeing anyone I know and then its like WHOAH hey Braden! just on my mission and there is my friend.. haha WE LOVE IT! Also I got to see sister Larsen man do i miss her... SHE WAS GREAT! 

Sunday was great it was district conference in English and Spanish.. weirdest thing of my entire life!! haha having translators... super weird! But it was great! There are 14 full time missionaries in this branch and we all got up and sang with the primary "i hope they call me on a mission" in Spanish and English and as well we got to sing with the youth "we are as the army of Helaman" and I'm not gonna lie i started tearing up during that song because there was such a spirit in that room as we sang that. It was very cool to me because everyone hopes or wants or waits to go on their mission... and i am here! I am A MISSIONARY! President Jeppson wrote all of us and said , " i have sung in the Tabernacle choir for numerous years and have felt the spirit there, but there is no spirit like the one i felt when the Lords missionaries were singing those songs." It was true! I loved it! After I sat down next to this member in my ward, Kat, whom i love with all my heart. She helps me so much! Shes like 26 and has been a member for 3 years! But i sat down and she leaned over to me and said, " i promised myself i wouldn't get attached to anymore missionaries because it is so hard when they leave, but sister jorgs, i am going to cry when you leave. You will leave a hole in my heart that no one can fill...." I JUST DIED! It started to make me really sad to think that i could get transferred.. in 2 months hahah... but i could get transferred and it is just showing me how much I really love the people out here...  

Sorry such a short week but hey I love you all.  Anyways I'm doing great. You all sound like you are just loving life and enjoying it all, especially you dad, stop having so much fun :) kidding! bubba and baby... i miss you guys... i love you all! Stay spiritually strong! Fight off Satan.. Man if i've learned anything out here i have learned that SATAN IS REAL! but we can withstand his temptations.. as Stevo Montgomery would say, " Get thee hence Satan."hahah I never forget when he said that! LOVE YOU ALL!! xoxxx

smashed platanos... a whole plate full.. with luke warm salami.. 

me picking weeds! Me, Kat, Nahommy, and i forget the other girls name :) haha

me and elder welburn, and me and my comp and the elders in my branch!

It rained and poured here

September 16, 2013

Hola family! This past week has been good! Not a lot happened just the same old same old! I went to Ellis island this past week and met someone from HENDERSON! You KNOW I flipped... hahah I almost had a cow I was so happy... I'm not fortunate enough like Lexi to be having EVERYONE AND THEIR DOGS VISIT HER! hahaha so when I find someone that lives remotely close I just lose it! 

 i saw this weird hover helicopter thought of pres and dad :)

 It rained like crazy here on Thursday why? oh cause it was WALKING DAY. yeahhh worst.. We started walking to an appt. and it just down poured so hard it was actually UNSAFE! We tried calling 4 members to come get us cause we were actually stuck because it flooded so bad so fast... We ended up taking our shoes off and running very unsafe but we made it home. We weren't supposed to but we had to use the car to get to an appt. cause there was no other way to get to their house, it was sweet karma because my companion rolled my fingers up in the window... YEAH OW! don't worry I'm okay :) Its starting to get cold here... I HATE IT!

  We went to a members house, the BRAVOS from Mexico, seriously my favorite family in the branch, and we made tortillas with her! She reminds me of aunt Arlene so much! Where exactly is aunt Arlene from? what city? We also got a referral from her! So now we have a new investigator her friend! She is like 24 and has 5 kids.... WHAT?!! insane! But we went and taught a lesson with hermana bravo to her friend and it went well! It might be a struggle to get them to church cause she has 5 kids and the husband is non existent at the time. Well he is there but we don't know exactly anything about him! 

 I love my companion, she is great! She is helping me a lot with Spanish, some days I feel like it comes, and others I'm just like I CANT DO THIS! But I am getting it! I understand it way more than I speak it! 

 I have been learning a lot lately! Just like about the gospel in general. Something that really sticks out to me is you just cant be good in this world anymore, you HAVE to be the BEST. You cant just go to church because you know you should, you shouldn't just read the scriptures because you have to and so on and so on, but you HAVE to go to church with real intent of asking for forgiveness during the sacrament, you HAVE to study your scriptures.. like STUDY them. Learn from them and apply them to your life because just going through the actions of the gospel will get you no where if you don't have a real intent while doing them. That is just a little thing that I have learned out here, something that clearly i got called unto repentance for. hahah I emailed Brooke markie and makenna and told them that, I kind of went all spiritual on them and called them unto repentance.. hahah hey its what we do as missionaries :) 

 GOOD SPENCER IS GETTING MARRIED!! I was starting to get a little nervous, like maybe i needed to extend my mission and give him more time! hahah kidding! She looks adorable :) You tell him CONGRATS! Aubsie sounds like she is just livin large and lovin life! Pressy sounds like he is just killin it in tennis, bubba im proud of you for not playing on Sunday. You will become 10 times better for not! DAD your knee... im so sorry! I guess thats what happens when you start getting old... I'm mean hello you are almost 49... Which in reality is almost 50!!!!! OH PS CANT WAIT FOR YOUR 50TH BIRTHDAY DAD! YOU KNOW ILL BE HOME :) wouldn't wanna miss that party for the world... haha MOM you sound busy still sheesh take a break lex and i are gone just RELAX little lady! I miss everyone very much, think about you constantly but sure wouldn't change where i am at right now for the world! I hope you all have a great week! Hey, this gospel is true :)

love. Hermana Jorgensen Dos (always the second) xoxx.

me and my district :) 

sweet dominican lady knitted this for me.. haha I NEVER KKOW WHAT SHE IS SAYING. EVER

BU, me, and my new companion

September 4, 2013

OKAY HELLO. THIS WEEK. OH MAN I HOPE YOU ARE JUST READY TO Hear THIS. So oh first things first i got the package. The bag is just perfect, the candy just perfect, the letters perfect, the skirt perfect, mother you are just perfect thank you!!!!! oh also the target gift card... LOVE IT!!!   Bubba also you are so sweet thank you for writing me that letter, your cursive looks like BOMB DIGITY!! super good!!!! 

Okay so this week, as you know, was TRANSFERS!! More like just ANXIETY!! hahah goodness okay so i got a new companion, Sister Garn. She is great! She is so bomb! She already knows Spanish like a boss. She has been out 2 transfers ahead of me! She lived in Guatemala for 6 months and Ecuador for 1 so yeah she really knows Spanish! Well that's not the part that gives me anxiety! The part that gives me anxiety is that sister Larsen (my old companion) left and i am the one who is staying here running the area! Meaning i have to show her everyone here like introduce her to the members and pretty much teach the lessons cause i know everyone even though we are supposed to be doing like companion unity, it didn't really go that way this week! Only i have been teaching, and shocking myself to say the least i kind of know Spanish!! KIND OF! okay also got anxiety cause of the car we have. It is broken, it is straight up the oldest car in the whole mission. 2008 Malibu... EVERY PAIR OF ELDERS HAVE HAD THAT CAR. That car is a legend in ever elders eyes seriously. They always say to me ohhh mann you got the "BU" YOU ARE SO LUCKYY!! Well why am i lucky? Cause we have a tiwi in our car and all the other cars 2013 Subaru's get speeding violations and aggressive drivings really easily, but the "BU" doesn't. So that also means that The car has been WRECKED!! Because the elders would have competitions to see who could get the most aggressive drivings in that car! Sister Larsen and i have taken the car in like 5 times to get fixed.. well 3 days before transfers we went and got it fixed which it cost 957 dollars... what? So you would think it would be fixed after we have just spent so much money on it well no.... okay NOW for the real story! Just got my new comp. First 10 minutes in the car, always just a little awkward cause its like uhh hi we are about to be the best of friends for the next 3 months whether we want to or not, and i have no idea who you are hahha. So we are in the car driving home and i am telling her about the car and how its a legend and how it has problems seriously as i am telling her there is a draggin noise... I'm like oh freak... Well we had to pull over on the freeway... we look and the front bumper is just DRAGGIN!!! oh my gosh! So umm yeah neither of us know anything about cars, so what do we do? Who do we call? Our parents? NO!! So i call the zone leaders... hahaha They just LOVE ME!! NOT!! haha seriously I'm in the same branch as the zone leaders for the past 3 months and for the next 3 months so they know me quite well and let me tell you i don't think they are quite use to sisters being like me just yet... Because before they had 16 sisters in this entire mission all over the age of 21... hahah and oh HI I'M 19 OUT OF CONTROL!! Well i call them and they tell us to inch off of the freeway so we inch off the free way into Newark.. well its like 8 at night 2 sisters in Newark... hahah NOT SAFE!! So coincidence i think not when i say we pulled off the freeway right into a car wash place! We pulled into that, sent the elders the address cause we weren't allowed to be there by ourselves. So i got out of the car and asked one of the guys if they could fix our car... or more so just tell us what the heck we should do... He was like oh let me just fix it temporarily... He put ZIP TIES ON OUR BUMPER... hahahha WHAT?!!! talk about a serious temporary fix... hahhaa well it was just a little awkward that the zone leaders show up and the car is fixed.... uhhh ahha whoops sorry zone leaders just wasted your time, miles, and gas just to come and say hi to us in Newark!!! Well first anxiety moment with the new comp. OVAAA!!! 

OKAY! NOW well here's the real GOOD STORY! Seriously too great. This would happen to me.. like this is just so typical. Okay so Hermana Larsen and i contacted this guy like 6 weeks ago on the street and have been teaching him. He told us that he met with sister missionaries 6 years ago and has been to church before.. well this is as much as we could understand. So we had been teaching him for like 5 weeks and we had already taught him the restoration, the plan of salvation, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We would teach him with folletos (pamphlets) and whenever we would come back to talk about them he had been really reading them and underlining and also reading the BOM. He said he knew that the BOM was true and that Joseph Smith was a true prophet and so on... TALK ABOUT A GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR... so we thought.. Well i always felt a little weird like kind of like how can he be progressing that fast and that well yadyadyada. So i was excited to bring my new comp Hermana Garn because she could really understand and tell if he would be ready to be baptized the 15th of September. WELL so we are in the lesson teaching him repentance, and we are really going over repentance so he can REALLY repent! ya know thats all we do out here on the mish call EVERYONE AND THEIR CAT UNTO REPENTANCE!!! even ourselves :) haha okay anyways so we teach him and at the end hermana garn was like so Edgar do you feel like you will be ready to be baptized the 15th? He was like oh i need to be baptized again? She was like well in another church they didnt have the proper authority of God yadyada he was like no like i was already baptized. She was like by the immersion of water, and then confirmed by the laying on of hands for the holy ghost? He said yeah... He was like i was baptized IN THE PASSAIC LDS CHURCH.... she looked at me... WHAT?!!!! I STRAIGHT UP COVERED MY FACE AND JUST LAUGHED...  i was like what? It was SOOO EMBARASSING! He goes yeah remember i told you that like the first time we met? I was like... uhhhhhh hahahahah WELP LANGUAGE BARRIER! whoop there it is!! Nope didnt understand! SOOO now we are looking for his records, and they cant be found in the church. So now we have to send in his information to Salt Lake to see if they have his records, and if they don't then he has to be baptized again!! (crossin my fingas yall) haha I mean either way We found a less active and have reactivated him, or if we don't have his records we got a "baptism" wooo hooo! haha So embarrassing had to go to ward council and tell everyone the story.. cause ya know Ive only been talking about him for like a month or so about how he is an investigator so on and so on.. and he isn't!!!!!!!!!! DAY IN THE LIFE OF HERMANA JORGENSEN WHO CANT SPEAK SPANISH!!! Missions hahaha i don't even know what to think of themm.... maybe its just me though.. its always interesting missionaries always say that they have never had "fun" on their missions until they met me.... haha welll sorry i take after my father... LIFE IS A PARTYY!!! heavens yeah sooo I'm doing great feeling so loved from everyone so far away!!

oh i love you all so much... gosh what i would give to just give you all a hug!!!! xoxxxx

Hitting pears off the pear tree outside my apt:)

It's me and my new companion, Hermana Garn

I finished the Book of Mormon for the first time

August 26, 2013

Hello everyone,

Last Thursday morning was so BEAUTIFUL, I had seriously never seen so much lightning in my life.  Boy do they have bi polar weather here, i guess that's why they aren't a desert.

I had to give a talk yesterday( for 15 minutes!) On Christ like attributes, everyone said it was good, but it was HARD!! But hey i did it! Spanish still stinks but whatever! I love learning it though! I hope I'm getting better.

Last night it was like 8:15 and me and my comp went to a less actives house. Her door was in the dark and we were knocking on her door and she didn't answer. We started walking away but we heard a guy yell, so I looked back but i didn't see anyone. We kept walking and he yelled again, but i still couldn't see anyone.. We started walking faster, and this guy and another guy come out of the dark and are straight up calling us and chasing us... ME AND MY COMP BOOKED IT ACROSS THE STREET TO WHERE THERE WAS LIKE 5 OTHER PEOPLE... we got in our car and just about died... once the guys saw other people they booked it down like a different street... it was the weirdest thing... I've never been so thankful to be in our car.

 Oh today August 26th, 2013 is the day I finished The Book Of Mormon for the first time in my whole entire life. There is this "mountain" here that over looks like all of new jersey and like all of new york city, and i sat on top of the cliff and finished the BOM!!!! After i just sat there and prayed to know if it was true, and IT IS!!! THE BOOK OF MORMON IS TRUE!!! WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT Y'ALL?!! I love that book with all my heart. So over all this week was one of the best/hardest/most draining/ most rewarding week of my whole mission! Can you believe I've almost been out 4 months!!!!! WOW!!! 

I love you all

Hermana Dos

 Painting someone else's church with all the sisters in my apartment.

Loving ourselves some italian ice.

Sister Atkinson and I