This week was pretty
cold not going to lie haha. I feel like I'm probably going to be saying that
till April honestly. But we woke up some mornings and it was like 12 degrees
outside and all the people here are just chilling like "oh this is
normal!" I swear they are all literally part Eskimo or something. I think
next week it's going to go back up to like the 30s though so thank goodness! I
think it's so funny because now when it's like 30 degrees I'm thanking God for
it being warm and when I was in good ol Santa Clara it would rarely even get to
the 30s! So that's like my life here, gotta layer it up!
I learned some
valuable lessons this week! first of all, don't eat donuts for lunch! we had a
person drop us who we found like the day before and she seemed super solid so
we were like "oh man" and then Elder Buckway was like "you gotta
try this gourmet donut place" and so we went there and then we both ate
donuts for lunch and then I felt so energized for like 20 min and then I passed
out during my personal study because the sugar killed me and I felt not so good
for like 4 hours after that. So, me thinking I'm all wise I decided to fight
this sugar with pure vegetables, so I blended up spinach and water and I drank
it. (this is lesson #2 by the way cause this was super disgusting and I gagged
it in the sink) I don't recommend drinking spinach and water juice. So basically
next time a person drops us we are going to avoid donuts at all costs. Being on
my own is really teaching me how to learn to eat properly! like I now know to
eat healthy! so not exactly a spiritual super lesson, but a great life
lesson!
Something else funny
that happened, there was this super old lady we tracted into! and we told her
that we were missionaries etc and she's like "Oh! just one minute!"
she goes back inside and Elder Buckway turns to me and he's like "oh man
she's probably going to go inside and get a bunch of books about how our church
is not true and how Jesus saved us so we can eat drink and be merry because
tomorrow we die." anyways she comes back out and has 10 bucks and she's
like "take it." and I said "No! that's against the rules! we
just want to share an exciting message with you!" and she was like "I
already heard your message just take my money." and we stepped back
because we are not supposed to take money! she walks outside and I've never
seen an old lady so agile and she presses the 10 bucks into elder buckways hand
and starts walking back inside and I was like " wait! we're not supposed
to! can we share a message with you?!" and she kept saying she already
heard it and walked inside so I gave her a card and told her that we could
serve her with anything and tried to give her the money back but she shut the
door. Soooo... I accidentally broke a mission rule but the good news is we got
ten bucks haha. So that was pretty funny and at least we gave her our card
because I don't know if she's actually heard our message haha.
So lately during our
studies we light candles and use them for light. Elder Buckway told me the
power went out right before I got here so he got a bunch of candles and then
the power worked again. So we have a bunch of candles. And so we use them I
guess and we feel like we're cool or something I don't know but it makes our
studies so natural! like I'm a missionary in the 1800s who doesn't know what
electric light is! anyways that's pretty exciting haha (oh the ways we make
life entertaining around here haha)
This week we were able
to find a lot more new people! I was super pumped! we got a lot of Potentials
last week and this week we were able to go back and teach them more and turn
them into new people taught. So that's the trick here is the Potentials will become
new people the next week! So we got some Potentials this last week too that
we'll hopefully get to work with more. It's been a good week.
One of the areas we
were tracting at is called cedar lake, and there is a lake there (who would've
guessed) and it's completely frozen over! it's crazy! I didn't know whole lakes
could freeze over, can oceans freeze over!? anyways it is more proof that this
place is an actual winter wonderland and maybe we'll eventually see people Ice
skating on it one it gets a little thicker. How cool would that be?! the only
time I ever Ice skated was at a youth conference up in cedar so here they
probably do it all the time! I guess we'll see haha.
The last interesting
thing that I can think of to talk about is the ward. They are so awesome. We
had a ward party this week and it was super grand. Got to meet tons of less
active members and get to know a lot of members and member friends. It was
super great. One little thing though is somehow we definitely got drafted into
the ward choir, and they made us sing at the Christmas party. (I know my family
and my dad especially is probably extremely proud right now.) after church on
Sundays the choir director grabs us and is like "get over here I need
men's voices". So there's been times where we are the only males in the
choir and we probably sound horrendous but sometimes there are like 2-3 other
males here and they relieve my stress a little bit. So now they make us sing
for like 30 minutes after church every Sunday! I never wanted to be in a choir
but I guess I kinda got trapped in it now haha. We keep stressing out the choir
director by saying that "what if sisters came after us" and she's
like "please no I need men's voices" so I guess we are contributing
to the ward choir because they still want us there haha.
That's about it for
this week. Something I've learned spiritually I guess is the importance of
reading the book of mormon everyday. There has been many promises about reading
the book of mormon every day by prophets and such. It means so much and I've
been learning to love it seriously sososo much and my book of Mormon is
starting to look like a rainbow cause I've been getting so excited about
studying it and marking it all up. I know that it is truly the word of God. That
has been my big focus of the week is the book of mormon because that's where a
lot of the misconceptions are with people. Many think it's like a "latter
day Saint handbook" but it's seriously the word of God. It's proof that
God is real and that he loves all of his children. I love the book of mormon
and I know that it goes hand in hand with the Bible.
So that's about all I
have to say for this week! hope everyone's Christmas season has started off
legendary!
Elder Jensen
Pictures:
1. The frozen lake
2. A cat we found
3. Candle study is
straight
4. Tons of people here
like dress up geese or ducks or whatever type of bird this is and they put it
on their doorsteps. I don't know why but that seems to be the common
trend.
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