Well
this week was just an average week! Maybe nothing too legendary happened
because this week was shorter than usual cause of our weird pday switch.
One thing that was
super awesome this week though is we had exchanges with the zone leaders who
are in our district. Normally as a district leader you go on a lot of exchanges
but since there are only the zone leaders and sisters in our district we only
have to do a zone leader exchange so Elder Buckway my companion and our wise
fearless district chief king doesn't really have to plan out a whole lot of
exchanges. So My Boi Elder Thompson came down to Hebron with me for the day.
Elder Thompson was in my district back in Chicago and he also got transferred
to this zone so that's super cool. He was the first elder who I ever went on an
exchange with so this was Thompson/Jensen super team pt. 2. It was gnarly.
We found a new person to teach together so that was pretty rad. Also we went
and taught this guy who is not a member but always comes to church and he is
something else and he made us take a picture together on a rocking horse in his
house haha. I don't have it yet but I'm going to get it. So that was super fun
and a way good time.
Then the next day I
was back with Elder Buckway again and we taught Eric and Carri and Danny again
and were able to put them all on date! So that was really exciting. They are
great people and some who so far have kept commitments pretty well. Something
I've noticed with a lot of people is that as soon as you teach the first
lesson, opposition (Satan :() does everything he can to make them not want to
meet with you. People start looking up anti or they talk to their friends who
say "those guys are a cult" and lots of that stuff. It's super
frustrating. With Eric the opposition was his mom who thought we were a cult.
But when we went to the lesson he said "I heard a lot of things about your
church but I'm not listening to the secondary source, I want to come directly
to you guys to ask." I was super impressed and super happy he feels that
way. So that was a good success for this week.
Elder Bolton my
trainer officially went home this week! May the mission remember his legacy and
I his son will try to make his legacy go on. He called me the day he was
leaving and told me about the last transfer in the YSA and all that and will
not lie it might have been just as exciting maybe more exciting than skyping my
family. Haha love my trainer. The next day I got an email from his showing that
he was listening to Charlie Puths new album in my honor. Let the Illinois
Chicago West Mission remember this man. And ladies who are going to university
of Utah he is single, hit him up. All my companions so far are home which is
quite sad. Good thing Elder Buckway will be here like 8 more months.
I guess this week was
also the last three hour church ever which is super crazy. It's going to be a
lot easier to get people to church and hopefully we'll be able to help them out
with the new Come Follow Me program.
Lately everyone while
we're tracting thinks that saying "oh I'm Catholic" means that the
conversation is over. Not going to lie almost gotten a little sassy and saying
things like "oh you're Catholic! That's exactly why we're here!" or
"Hi Catholic I'm Elder Jensen, we'd like to share a message with
you!" or "Oh you're Catholic, does that mean this conversation is
over?" don't worry we didn't actually do it but definitely made some
interesting tracting conversation haha.
Tracting story for the
week:
Oh actually something
a little weird did happen this week we were tracting and this old lady answered
the door and she was like "I don't know anything I swear." and we
were like "that's OK we're just missionaries for our church".
"WHAT?!" "um.... We're just missionaries from our
church...." "WHAT WAS THAT?" anyways this lady like could hardly
hear us, and I'm pretty sure she thought we were cops cause she kept bringing
up how she didn't know anything and how maybe we should check the library for
more information. Anyway I wanted out of this contact so I was like "here
would you like this picture of Jesus?" just trying to give her a pass
along card. She was like "what a beautiful picture! I couldn't accept
this! You should give it to your girlfriend!" I was like "no really I
have plenty it's on the house" but this lady was so persistent in making
me "give that card to my girlfriend" so long story short we were
there probably like 30 minutes because she kept on rambling that she didn't
know and it was quite the contact.
Spiritual Thang for
the week;
Mosiah 14 and 15: go
read them It is some super deep stuff about the atonement and it blew my mind
when I really studied it. Super powerful stuff that once again made me
extremely grateful for my savior Jesus Christ. Take it apart and you'll see the
power of the atonement. Basically Abinadi is a wizard and he knows his stuff, a
Book of Mormon President Bingham you could say.
I think that's about
all for this week. Was a great one! new year is coming 2019 here we come! this
will be known for the rest of my life as the mission year so I'm excited. Happy
New Year!
Elder Jensen
Pics:
1 a zone Pic I forgot
to send
2. in memory of my
thinnn poppy
3. Refreshing
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