Another week gone by but this time no longer in the great state of Indiana! Back to the other great state of Illinois! My new area is the Naperville 6th ward and it is super awesome! It has like 3 cities so a lot smaller than my last area, but the cities are a lot bigger! We have part of Naperville, part of a place called Aurora, and part of a place called Warrenville. I thought this was going to be a super wealthy place but it's about half and half! Naperville is pretty wealthy and it's way funny literally like all of the population are Indians (not native Americans but the Bangladesh kind) they're all like these software engineers who work in the city and they are all Hindu! So it's interesting to knock on their doors and try to have to convert them to Christianity instead of the usual trying to convert them from Christianity to the church that contains the fullness of the gospel.
The other part is extremely diverse! There are a lot of people were teaching in that area who are from Nigeria. We found one and then we get their friend and then we get their friend and then they begin to fill up our teaching pool. It's pretty awesome! Only problem is some of them have heard the restoration like 6 times because they keep giving us their friends to teach and they're not currently improving, but it's a work in progress! For general conference we watched the first part of one of the sessions with some of our Nigerian friends and so that was pretty cool.
My new companion, Elder Dodson, is SO AWESOME! I've been extremely blessed and have had some of the best companions so far! He had 2 really tough companions right before me so he's super hyped that I'm ready to knock doors with superior speeds and ability (well that's the goal) so we're having a ton of fun and working really fun. Also I was like "I like running in the morning" and he was like "awesome I love it I'm down!" so basically that's how you know it's going to be a great transfer. Also something so cool about the Naperville apartment is it has this cool clubhouse and there is a racquet ball court in it! How awesome is that! Like it is truly the coolest. So I've had to use some of the pickle ball skills that my good friend Elder Lund (couldn't have done it without you Broden ;) helped train me with and I'm going to be a pro! So sometimes for morning exercise we play racquet ball too! it's way fun.
So conference was way awesome. My favorite talk was probably by President Nelson in the Priesthood Session. We should be extremely grateful for the opportunity we have to repent daily and to have a prophet to guide us! It's truly such a privilege. Also I finished the Book of Mormon this week for the 2nd time on my mission. It's pretty interesting to find new ways to study the Book of Mormon and I look forward to reading it again in a different way. Also I'm trying to read the new testament but it's pretty boring but it's got fire scriptures in there that answer simple questions about the church so I got to read it!
Well I don't know a whole lot about the area yet so I don't have too much to say! But this was a good week and I'm excited for another one! here we have less crazy farmer smokers than my last area, but more people complaining about taxes! It's legendary! Hope everyone has an amazing week!
Elder Jensen
Pics:
Last time at the gas station in Indiana
Napersquad
The catholic church is
"apos" for apostasy
Morning run in the fog
Almost warm enough for ice cream
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