I was praying that I
would get to stay, but when we saw that we'd be getting a transfer call I
thought I'd be toast. It turns out Elder Levanger is the one who will be
leaving and going to the Naperville zone, and I'll be staying and follow
training a missionary who is already in our district named Elder Heffner!
I've gone on exchanges
with him before and he's a straight homie! Only has to shift one area over to
the left and gets to stay in the same ward! Didn't see that one coming, but Elder
Heffner is a stud and I'm super excited! That means I'm going to have been here
from 7 1/2 months of my mission by the time I leave, and I'm looking forward to
it!!!
Those we are teaching
and who are preparing for baptism are doing extremely well. Our friend Renke
has had all the lessons taught and her interview finished! She's ready to go
and we're super pumped. Gabriel loves the church and agreed to live the law of
tithing so we just have one more thing to teach him and the interview before
Saturday. He is loving it!
The Rotimi family was
crazy shook that they couldn't drink coffee but agreed because it was counsel
from one of the Lord's prophets to bless us. I'm so amazed by their faith! A
lot of the Nigerians here only drink coffee because they need energy to work
late at night, so we teach them that it's bad and then give them some mio
energy and hot chocolate to be a substitute haha. But their belief in God gives
them the strength to sacrifice anything! They are LEGENDARY!!
We had an experience
this week where the mission president called us and said he'd like to keep one
car in Hyde Park district and he was thinking of giving it to us but we only go
to one concentrated area so we told him it would be better to give it to the
other missionaries and we could just keep taking the bus.
Then our entire day
proceeded to get destroyed by the bus system and we lost like 3 hours because
of interesting things that were happening on the bus haha. This one lady
tripped on the bus and then tried to sue the bus driver and we all had to wait
on the next bus and now I really want to fix my bike ASAP even though it's
probably going to snow this week haha. Then this lady proceeded to get off the
bus, walking around like she's fine and yelled asking if anyone has a cigarette.
Then she started screaming at us because we're "from the church of God in
Christ" and we "gave her a card forcing her to trip" *face-palm*
Luckily the next bus
came and we got to our destination an hour late haha. Gotta love the bus
adventures. As we were walking away Elder Levanger saw a church called the
church of God in christ and said "well that church is probably going to
have a bus law suit on their hands anytime soon." so if anything ever goes
wrong in the work or if you ever make anyone mad on accident, I've learned the
valuable lesson is just to tell them you're Jehovah witnesses. (Unless they're
just mad at the True doctrine then just tell them the truth and stand strong
haha)
There is one Nigerian
woman in the ward who keeps telling us every Sunday that she wants to have us
come over so "she can host us." We went over this week and she made
us a feast and then taught us one of her favorite African songs called "Oluwadara"
or in English "God is good." It was super legendary and she was not
fond of the idea of letting us leave until we had this song burned into our
brains. Next level Nigerian hymns!
I think the last thing
this week is we had MLC so that was mega hype! I got to go on a double exchange
with my ZL comp Elder Shupe, which was pretty fun, but it was a fire time and
we learned a lot of good stuff!
Please pray for
Gabriel, Renke, and the Rotimi family this week! It's going to be a big weekend
for them with their baptism coming up and we're excited to see them make
covenants with God! Everyone have an awesome week!
Elder Jensen
Us with our girl
Virgie Smith (recent convert)
Twinning backpack
squad ft. William Robinson (another recent convert)
A house that got shot
up
Coffee
replacement
The elders and Omolara
Our Chicago mural jump
attempt
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