Hello! I don't have too much of an
update this week, a lot of the same old! But this week was super awesome!
On Tuesday we went on exchanges with
the Spanish Elders in Aurora. They actually cover our same area! So I stayed
here and Elder Vargas who is an Elder Born in Colombia but lived most of his
life in Spain came here with me! It was super awesome! We hit up the wealthy
suburbs of Naperville first and then we spent most of the day in Aurora
tracting Jehovah’s Witness style with one Companionship on each side of the
street. Everybody there was mostly Hispanic, but the Spanish elders got a lot
of work done with our help! (When I say Jehovah’s witness style I don't mean
the style of literally shoving bibles into people's faces, but the kind where
we hit one street with double timing it.)
Elder Vargas is my man and a Spanish
wizard, probably because it's his first language. It was a really great day and
we had a really great time going there! It's actually super awesome, this place,
Aurora, is like a Spanish pocket and is almost like a tiny Mexico. So whenever
there was an English person I would contact them and whenever they were Spanish
speaking E
lder Vargas would contact them. It
was the same with the other elders. It was super awesome! Taught my man how to
play racquetball early in the morning and he was asking tons of questions about
the ways of America haha.
This week we also had the
opportunity to teach Seminary, it was elder Dodson's first time teaching
Seminary but I'd taught Seminary a few times in Hebron. It was pretty cool to
do it again. The students are always tired but they have to sacrifice sleep for
Seminary other than in Utah where they take Seminary as an opportunity TO sleep
which is lame. People if you are in Seminary right now take advantage of the
opportunity to learn the doctrines of the kingdom rather than sleep.
OK this week was so great at first
cause it was Spring style 70 degrees lots of great times and light outside and
nice and warm and then on Saturday somehow it managed to be 30 degrees again
and snowing and raining and sleeting and hailing all day, like it was a cold
and wet mess. And it was Saturday! Saturday is the best day for tracting! So we
went out anyway for like 6 hours straight and went to find the elect but the
elect thought it was a little too cold to open the door that day which is funny
because they were doing it when it was winter time but right when they got a
little taste of the heat they were no longer having it haha. It was a cold,
wet, glorious day! One of our Books of Mormon got a little wet but it still
contains the message of Christ's ministry in the ancient America's and is
therefore of infinite worth!
Also some lady whose door we knocked
on was Muslim and so she invited us to a mosque, so we went with her. It was
pretty interesting. They are some extremely nice people, and something I've
noticed is that just about everything that Christians disagree with us about
(like the trinity, prophets after Jesus etc.) the Muslims agree with us about.
But everything the Muslims disagree with us about, we agree with most
Christians about. The theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
is like right in between Islamic and average Christianity. But also it’s true
and is the church that has the authority from God so that makes all the
difference.
Well we had church this Sunday and
one of the returning member family's we have been meeting with has a son and
his name is Roman, he's 2 years old and is very loud. When we walked into
church he yelled "MISSIONAWIES" and ran to us and throughout
sacrament he yelled "I WANT TO SIT BY THE MISSIONAWIES," so he sat by
us haha. My man was so loud we were trying so hard to keep him quiet and then
finally he ran back to his mom in the back. So I gave a talk in church this
last Sunday and my man Roman ran up to the front of the congregation and stood
right by me while I was giving my talk and I was trying so hard not to laugh
but his mom gave him the death glare so he ran back down to sit with his mom.
I'm pretty sure I've lost count how many times a kid in church has ran up to
the front and their parents chase after them and pick them up and take them out
haha.
That's about all my update for this
week, some cool scriptures from this week:
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 4:17 Therefore to him that
knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Mosiah 3:19 For the natural man is
an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and
ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the
natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and
becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing
to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a
child doth submit to his father.
I've been learning a lot about flesh
Vs. Spirit this week and love these scriptures! Let’s overcome the Natural man
and let the spirit lead the way and DO what God wants us to do! The church is
True!!!
Hope everyone has a great
week!
Elder Jensen
Pics
1. The Gatorade Windex prank
2. Aurora blitz
3. My Spain boy
4. Grilled cheesus
5. An attempt to make muffins after
seminary 
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