We were able to go to
the temple on Wednesday and enjoy feeling the spirit of revelation pour upon
our souls and you can't go wrong with that! It was interesting to see some of
the changes that were made in the endowment session from when I last went 6 months
ago!
We also had the last
missionary leadership conference with President Bingham before he goes home! It
was absolutely amazing and there were some very insightful things we talked
about that the mission needs to improve on to see some more progress! It was a
super awesome experience and I'm excited to improve my missionary skills this
summer!
Also this week
actually right after the hype of MLC we felt like we could go and convert the
world! So we went and starting knocking some townhomes in Naperville and this
one dude opens the door and we introduce ourselves and he was like "one
second" and Elder Dodson was like "great he's going to go and get his
Bible to start a bash or something." So, anyway the dude comes out WITH A
GUN! Like for reals, this is like the
Chicago suburb haha! Anyway, he's like "did you guys even see my
sign!?" And it said “no soliciting” so I told him that's absolutely
perfect because we're not soliciting and then we invited him to read the Book
of Mormon.
He told us that we were
lucky we were in Naperville or else he'd "blow us off his porch."
Like what are you bro, the big bad wolf? So naturally we try to make our
contacts diligent and let them at least reject our offers three times before we
leave so because he literally just told us he can't shoot us, we asked him one
more time if he wanted to learn more but the dude wasn't having it. Told us
proudly he had read the whole New Testament by the time he was in 6th grade so
there was no purpose to learn more. It was pretty funny because Elder Dodson
was on the south side for 6 months and he never was threatened with a gun until
he happened to be in the sweet little suburb of Naperville where people read
the Bible with 6th grade educations, clearly understanding the wonderful
message Jesus taught haha.
So overall a good week
with a lot of finding! Since we dropped our whole teaching pool we've been
trying to find the elect and bigger our teaching pool with those who are
prepared to receive the gospel. It's been a work in progress and we're excited
to see it continue!
Hope everyone has an
amazing week!
Elder Jensen
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