This was a gnarly last
week of the transfer, and I'm stoked to say we got our calls and I'll be
staying here in Englewood for another one! This will be my first 6 month area
and I'll be getting another new missionary and training again while staying
zone leader. (Now I'll get to do 12 week for the 3rd time. This time it's going
to be way easier though because there will be an English zone and a Spanish
zone so the other zone leader will be way close and we'll be able to be a lot
more accountable than when it was just one massive zone that was twice the size
of all the others. Good ol Elder Bodily has now graduated 12 week and will be
heading to Chicago YSA!! (The glorious area of my beginning). It's going to be
an awesome transfer though and I'm way excited!
So right after P-Day
last week we went to go teach those who we had scheduled and we saw a glorious
sight. On the South Side I'm pretty sure people don't understand the purpose
for crosswalks because they literally just don't use them, and they're always standing
right in the middle of the road or walking across the street without even
looking. Like I have almost hit so many people, but luckily I have avoided
it.
So anyway, there was
this lady in one of those electric wheelchairs (you see a lot of those too) and
she was moving along in her little wheelchair right in the middle of the road
instead of using this miraculous creation we call sidewalks. Suddenly we hear a
siren (what else is new) but this time it was an ambulance and it was right
behind her and she was still just speeding along as fast as that little chair
could take her, and the ambulance honked so loud haha. She finally got on the
side enough for them to pass her and she flipped it off and was cursing the
ambulance. And then she proceeded to ask us for a quarter. Now that is what I
call a celestial spirit right there haha.
We had our legendary
event for October in the Hyde Park ward this week. This time they did a haunted
house which is the biggest event that the ward does. They always need all hands
on deck and the ward mission leader requests that all the missionaries in the
ward help. It was way fun, and the YSA elders including my old comp Elder
Dodson came to help as well because they had some people coming. Elder Dodson,
Noble, and I were in the "art room" and so it was a room that was
covered in black paper and splattered with some glow paint and black lights,
and then all of us wore black morph suits that had the glow paint all over them
as well. It was way cool we'd try to blend into the wall and scare people. So
it was probably one of the more interesting ways of proselyting but like 1400
people came and 100 families signed up requesting that they wanted a new church
home and would be willing to have missionaries visit, and 3 of the families we
are teaching came as well. It was a ton of fun!
We also had a
legendary zone conference that was super rad and Elder Vargas and I only had to
give a roleplay of how to contact normally and naturally so you know we
pretended to contact hood families playing basketball, but of course some of
the Spanish missionaries were part of our role play so we were slightly
contacting a African and African American and Mexican family. The zone
conference was way awesome though!
I was able to have my
first “call the police” moment this week in the middle of the night! It sounded
like there was a drunk husband who was abusing his wife at our neighbors so we
called the police and they came and we went back to bed. We live in Hispanic
nation and still something pretty wild! Glad it got all figured out though,
Chicago Police dudes are jacked.
Everyone have an
awesome week, until next time!
Elder Jensen
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