Double Exchanges

This week was another great one! We had two exchanges this week, one with the assistants and one so that our district leader could go with Elder Bodily. 

Exchanges with the AP's was fire. Elder Van Tassell, my old companion, came here with me and we were reliving the good memories. We stopped by several recent converts that we had baptized while we were here together and we definitely got fed two large dinner meals before 10:00 AM. I don't know why Nigerians eat dinner food for breakfast. It was way fun though we couldn't stop laughing (but our stomachs were in pain) every time they offered more. I almost threw up that day haha. It was a super fun and busy day! Elder Bodily went to the Spanish area again because of the complications with the split zone leaders, and of course he got roasted that day because he couldn't speak Spanish. 

Our other exchange was awesome too, Elder Bodily stayed here and I went to South Shore with a missionary named Elder Noble who is an ultra homie. While we were there we went into another Nigerian building kind of like the one that we have and found like 5 potential new people. We also had a miracle because I had contacted this one lady named Kemmy before who lived in their area, but the address I had received wasn't right and she ended up falling through the cracks. As we were walking out of the building I saw her and recognized her. She remembered me and told me I had a good memory. It was a miracle to catch her again and this time we got her information so those missionaries can go and see her again. 

Many of our recent converts had the awesome opportunity to go to the temple this week for the first time to do baptisms for the dead. Some of our friends including: Chukwudi, Segun and his wife, Darlene, and all the converts of the other missionaries. Darlene was especially excited to tell us all about the temple the next day at church. She had an awesome experience and is excited to go again. Many of the recent converts were able to baptize each other and be witnesses and they absolutely loved it. 

The fall is officially here! It was wild actually on Thursday morning it was still pretty warm like 60 degrees but mid-day it quickly dropped to 40. The next morning I decided to go running because I wasn't ready to give up outside exercise yet and now I'm brutally sick and can't do any exercise so to all those paying attention don't go running in the cold it's a poor idea. 

Last off the Nigerian couple we eat with every Sunday said we were able to have another set of elders over so we invited the ones who are in the South Shore area of our ward and they made us enough food for an army. Four of us and we still had to pound like crazy. It was so fun haha. 

That’s about it for this week, a picture is worth a thousand words so I'll just send some of those. 

Elder Jensen