What a wonderful Monday it is today!
I hope everyone's week has been absolutely fantastic! I know mine has
been!
So actually for some reason
everything like started falling through when I got transferred here so basically
none of the people in our teaching pool are currently progressing or can ever
meet the way the used to be able to, so actually this week consisted of a lot
of cancels and finding! But that's way OK! If I've learned anything from the Book
of Mormon cycle it's that a miracle happens right after the crash and burn! I'm
extremely excited to see where this area goes as long as we keep working hard
and do our best to help it move forward!
So we had some pretty cool things
happen this week. First of all on Tuesday it literally got to 70 degrees! Can
you believe that!? I thought I was back in St. George! Even better, it was the
day that everything canceled! We were able to have a fantastic nice weather day
to be out and about finding the elect for the whole day! Gotta love the
blessings :) something crazy though is somehow literally 4 days later it began
to snow. And snow. And snow. We got like a fat snow storm today out of
snowhere! (haha I like to think I'm pretty clever,,, get it! snowhere!) so
basically I got a Sunburn from being out all day on Tuesday and all the sudden
wake up Sunday morning and I have to pull out the extremely dope water bender
fur coat again and the gloves. Illinois truly needs to make up its mind and
just try to be sunny forever but I think it generally likes to avoid doing that
for some odd reason.
So because we had a lot of finding
time this week, we decided to try and knock a lot of doors in Naperville
because most missionaries just give up on it because they get intimidated by
the wealthy houses! But Elder Dodson and I were like "Nah! Let's full send!"
So we knocked and pretty sure someone managed to literally fly half of
Bangladesh over here because like 90% of what we knocked in Naperville was
literally all these Indian Hindu people. It was pretty wild. Actually think I
might have learned so much about Hinduism this week that I might be part
Indian. Praise Vishnu though because we found one Christian Indian who said we
could come back and share more. So ladies and gentleman, it is possible to find
people in wealthy places (I think) I looooove knocking the doors and learning
all the ways to try and get in to teach them! I mean I'm still not the best at
it but there are actually so many tips and tricks I'm trying to learn! (but the
most important tip or trick is to firmly know what you are sharing is true and
life changing).
So we decided to get fruit snacks
for some reason and got a box of like 40 and ate them all in like 2 days
because they were the way good juice filled ones, and then we went on an
exchange and some other elders gave us a ton more and we were like flip were
going to die of fruit snack overdose. But good news these ones are super hard
and stale so instead of actually eating them we decided to do a little
experiment with them and put them in some water until they looked all bloated
and funky and then put them in a blender and drank them. That tasted
interesting. But I will probably not recommend that anyone do this. But know
that blended fruit snacks is definitely possible.
So we got to go on an exchange with
the assistants this week because they go with all the zone leaders and I got to
go with Elder Bush who is the father of my last companion Elder Jensen! It was
a lot of fun and I got to see some actual Captain Moroni level of missionary
work in action! I learned a lot from the experience but I stayed in the area
and I don't know the area yet so we managed to get lost trying to find the
apartment. Whatever it's a work in progress. It was a great day though of
teaching and finding the elect! We also got to teach this girl that Elder Dodson
and I street contacted earlier that week and elder bush was like "how has
reading about prophets from the Bible helped you learn about God?" and she
was like "well obviously Moses had to be from God I mean how else could he
build a giant boat!?" now I'm not a scriptorian or anything but bless her
heart. Haha even if she got Moses and Noah mixed up she promised to read and
pray about the Book of Mormon.
One other way cool thing that
happened was I was able to go to my first mission leadership council. It was a
great experience to be taught a little bit of extra wizardry from President
Bingham the great! He seems to have mastered the technique of bringing the holy
ghost into the room and the holy ghost teaches us all the good stuff and all
the good revelation to help the work improve. Gotta love it. Also somehow a
homeless person snuck into the church during MLC. Like I would see this stuff
all the time in the city but Naperville?! Really!?
Anyway, this week was a banger and a
half. It was way awesome and I'm grateful to be able to serve these great
people and these great missionaries even if this places weather and taxes are a
nightmare! Illinois still remains to be the Promised Land! Hope everyone's week
is absolutely a fantastic legendary week of good tidings and great joy! Also
Easter is coming up so remember the great even that happened on that wonderful
Easter Sunday! Even though it's a possibility that I'm part Hindu now (no jk) I
know the church is the true church and I'm grateful for the blessing and
privilege I have to serve! The Book of Mormon is the word of God! The new
testament is the word of God! The old testament.... Still figuring that one
out!
Talk to everyone later!
Elder Jensen
Pics
1. Good times at member meals
2. President Bingham hooking the
whole zone up with those referrals from stake conference
3. My boy lost some weight!
4. Like that mask?
5. Pday clothes ;)
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