Surprise! Kirsten got her mission call that she DIDN'T TELL ANYONE she was getting (aside from our dear mother). She was at college in Provo when she received it in the mail, six days before Mother's Day 2014. Since we'd be skyping with Matthew on his mission that day, she decided to wait until then to make the big reveal (ridiculous willpower I know, she's an inspiration to us all). So there we were, having a three-way skype session between her, Matthew, and everyone else back in Oregon when she pulls out a big, white envelope and says "Guess what this is??" Needless to say, we had no response. Maybe her acceptance/denial reply from the BYU School of Nursing? Nope. "It's my mission call! :D" WAIT WHAT. We freaked out, but none was more perplexed than Dad. How could Kirsten not have told her own father? And yet, such was the case. We were all still pretty bewildered as Kirsten opened it up and read:
We couldn't believe it! Our very own Kirsten who had never even come close to leaving the United States was going halfway around the world to the land of windmills and tulips to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The purpose of this blog is to keep up with that adventure and will be updated by her family back in Oregon, ideally weekly but realistically as often as they remember to do so!
"Dear Sister Jensen,
You are hereby called to serve as a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You are assigned to labor in the Belgium/Netherlands Mission. It is anticipated that you will serve for a period of 18 months.
You should report to the Provo Missionary Training Center on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. You will prepare to preach the gospel in the Dutch language."
We couldn't believe it! Our very own Kirsten who had never even come close to leaving the United States was going halfway around the world to the land of windmills and tulips to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
"Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.
Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work;
For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, [she] that thrusteth in [her] sickle with [her] might, the same layeth up in store that [she] perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to [her] soul;"
Doctrine and Covenants 4:2-4-
The purpose of this blog is to keep up with that adventure and will be updated by her family back in Oregon, ideally weekly but realistically as often as they remember to do so!
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