Sister Jenna Connell

Holy cow what a week! So guess what my training is over! thats crazy! its gone so fast! Anyway that means transfers where this week and they have been the craziest transfers! We got 6 new sisters which basically doubled our sister missionary force. Also means most people are training. It was fun this week though because the day the new ones arrived I got to take some of the new sisters around contacting all by myself! I was able to talk to the taxi driver and have a very nice conversation with him and not get lost. Also the newbies are killer contacters. We even got invited into someones house to teach them (that never happens here eve.) So that was way cool but I had no idea what to do because I had never really been in that situation. So I was all like "What do we do now?" and the new missionaries were all like "you should probably introduce the gospel then teach God is our loving Heavenly Father" haha let's just say I'm glad the Holy Ghost is the teache...

Chuc Mung Nam Moi! (Happy New Year) So this week has been suuuper chill. This weekend was Tet so literally nobody is in the city of Hanoi. Everybody is out in there hometowns and its so weird cuz the streets are empty and you can actually hear the birds! We mostly have just done alot of studying and cleaning and service. Only one person showed up to English class as well so even that was chill. But this week end we got invited to a bunch of members houses to come over and eat and share the gospel with there families. Traditionally Tet is celebrated over 3 days and they do different things each day to either honor family or teachers or invite good luck and fortune. Then they do a lot of eating and talking. But the first person to step into your home brings you good luck so usually you want someone important to be that person. Well one of the recent converts Chi Phuong Anh invited one of the American Families and us over and i have never eaten so much food in my life. I will be stu...

Holy cow I cant even believe it but I'm almost done with training! that is crazy! But anyway Happy Valentines day everyone! hope it is awesome and you find someone to love this week! Anyway this week has started to slow down a bit because of Tet. Literally everyone is leaving the city this week but we were still able to meet Anh Hung and Chi Linh and a bunch of recent converts! We also made Kim Chi this week with one of the Korean ladies in our branch and it is sooo good but so spicy! Adventures with Bac Bon part 3: So Bac Bon (the member who sells beer and hooka things in an ally and who we go massage her hands sometimes) calls us this week and want to meet us. She sounds really excited and so naturally we are too! so we plan a really good lesson about temples because we want all the members to go to the temple in the Phillipines this summer. Anyway we go over and she takes us to her house and we go in and up like 11 flights of winding stairs to the roof balcony thing. The...

Chao Bui Sang Cac Anh Chi Em! Good morning everybody! I hope your Sabbath day was awesome! Monday: We moved! that's right we moved apartments bc the last one was very old and falling apart! but we are feeling so blessed bc the new one is sooo nice and there are so many new people to contact and talk to! Also I got a new bike bc that was also falling apart. Anh Hung is doing awesome! also he is the only one we have met with all week! It's officially Tet season which means that no one can meet with us. They all are working like crazy or gone back to their home towns. It fact we had 6 lessons scheduled last Saturday and only one of them followed through. Which was a bummer but gives us lots of opportunities for service. Anyway Anh Hung is finally getting it! He is super big into analyzing EVERYTHING and doesn't want to say any one religion is right or wrong. We keep inviting him to baptism but he said that since Moroni appeared to Joseph Smith 3 times we are going to h...