What a fine week this was! I had some pretty interesting
experiences this week. Also, the cold Chicago weather? Yeah it’s starting. I
woke up for the last couple mornings and it’s like 20-30 degrees outside! But
guess what they trick you! The weather app always says the temp in huge numbers
but what it says in really tiny numbers is what it FEELS like, so basically
what it actually is. With wind and humidity, most days this week were like 5-15
degrees outside. So basically the time is starting to come where everyone
dressed outside is trying show the least amount of skin they have so everyone
kinda looks like bundled criminals, where you can only see their eyes. I have
officially discovered what a scarf was and let’s say it saved my life this week
(thanks Aunt Gerilyn!!)
This week we had zone conference! President Bingham spit
some straight fire to all of us weak knowledged souls. I love zone conferences.
I learn so much there. It's like super missionary awesome seminary class that
goes from like 10-4. And all the missionaries are there so it's pretty fun. We
also bought some matching trio ties for zone conference and so that was pretty
funny. With the Christmas season coming up it puts a super big focus on
missionary work because at that time of year many hearts are softened. I'm
excited for the light the world initiative. What a great time to get excited
about serving our Savior!
After zone conference Elder Dorminey had his final
interview because he only has two weeks left! Meanwhile, Elder
Bolton and I went to this focus group thing where some people who are working
for the church questioned us and the other missionaries serving in the YSA
about adults from the ages 18-26. It was a really eye opening thing to be a
part of this. It was pretty awesome and I learned a lot of cool things and I
was glad to be a part of it.
Andrew Pearson my fav member who left Chicago just happened
to be in town this week and so he decided to call up his fav missionaries and
take us to dinner! He’s seriously the coolest and it was so great to
be able to visit with him again. It’s awesome that I'm able to build some
relationships with such awesome people.
So. My subject line. Yes, one of the people we were
teaching did get arrested.
We went to his apartment one morning and knocked and his
landlord who's this Russian dude comes out and says "you did not do a very
good job," and we were like "why?" and he says "your friend
here got arrested last night for drugs." I almost couldn't help but laugh.
It's not funny, but jail is probably going to be the best addiction recovery
program for him. We tried doing that ARP but I think this is going to be a
learning experience for him. Poor guy. But I mean the landlord asked us for our
number so maybe we got a new person taught. So something good came out of this.
I'm not going to say his name but we were trying to help
him recover from drug addiction and he was actually doing pretty well! The only
problem is he invited some bad influences in his house who weren’t doing very
well and they may have left some illegal drugs in his place. So pretty much we
were talking to him on the phone one night right before bed and he told us his
apartment had been broken into so he called the police to come investigate...
And then we went the next day and his landlord said he was arrested for drugs.
So he pretty much called the cops on himself. Well you know it happens :(
hopefully he'll be able to find a Book of Mormon in jail.
Also another funny story. This dude we were teaching a
couple of days earlier asked us to help him put a screen protector on his
phone. So Elder Dorminey was doing it and he accidently hit the home button and
the guy’s phone turned on and it literally was a naked mirror selfie of the
person we were teaching. I was going to cry because I was trying so hard not to
laugh. Elder Dorminey didn't notice though so he asked why I was laughing
and accidentally turned the phone on again and saw and we were both trying so
hard not to laugh. Anyway, the person we were teaching was like, "hey
what's so funny" and we tried to tell him that we were laughing at Elder
Dorminey doing a bad job of putting on the screen protector, so we saved
ourselves. I've discovered that there are some weird people in Chicago. I never
would've thought that a man would make his lock screen a naked picture of
himself. What an interesting generation we live in haha.
Anyway, on a better note. Something else we were able to do
this week was go to teach that family from Africa I was talking about! Tey are
honestly my favorite people ever, but we attempted to do a pass off lesson so
that we were able to pass them off and the elders from the family ward could
start teaching them, but we'll probably need to do another one because the
family is so big that I feel like there is different people every time. The
first member of the family we met on the street is named Jennifer and she has a
daughter who just had a birthday and they also invited us to come to her
birthday party! So there were like 5 missionaries there and we were like the
only white people haha but let’s just say that these Africans know how to
party. They even made shirts for her daughter’s birthday! It was so
cool to be able to be there. Once these family ward elders get to know them a
little better they'll probably be able to meet a lot more of their family and
friends.
This week I studied Ether and the story of the brother of
Jared, and it was like an answer to my prayers, because I was trying to learn
how I can make my prayers more sincere. What an awesome story! The brother of
Jared is honestly probably one of my favorite prophets in the Book of Mormon
because of his amazing exceedingly great faith. I really studied how he said
his prayers in the Book of Mormon so that I could try to emulate that. It was
really awesome and I know that’s why we have the Book of Mormon today. What
better instrument to learn how to stay close to God!
That's my week! Love all of you, hope you're enjoying life!
Elder Jared Daniel Jensen
Pics
1. Andrew visits Chicago
2. The Chicago trio matching ties
3. I look like a bundled fruitloop
4. Same as 3
5. Probably should learn how to park
6. Companionship love
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