This
was probably one of the most legendary weeks in my mission!
We started off going
on exchanges with another one of the district leaders, Elder Sloan. He is serving
directly down south like 100 blocks in the Morgan Park ward, still sketchy, but
a little more suburbia and is kinda out of the city into the sketch south
suburbs a bit. Super sick area! Elder Sloan is my man! He came on his mission
at the age of 20 and he played basketball in college and is seriously such a
beast. He dunks on us every single pday but sure makes you feel like you're
good at basketball if you're on his team haha! Super cool though that day
because we still got to knock doors because it's suburbish, but still kinda
like the South Side.
This week we also had
another exchange because our district leader wanted to do one in Englewood, so
he came here and I went to South Shore. I've been on like 7 exchanges this
transfer and have left every time! So Elder Heffner knows the area now like a
pro! After that exchange we switched back in the morning and made a big
breakfast because it was Elder Heffner's birthday! It was a straight fire day
until the entire day rained and we got completely soaked. Another missionary in
the district lost his bus pass and so we lent him mine and were stuck with only
bikes this week, which is what we do anyway, but holy smokes we had some gnarly
weather.
On Elder Heffner's
birthday we were riding back from the Lowe building and got completely soaked,
like from head to toe. COVERED in road grime. It was CRAZY AWESOME! Riding in
the rain is wild! But then the next day it got even more intense! The day was
another rainy one, but we were slammed busy in the Lowe building for most of
the day and once we came outside at night, we saw the wind going crazy, the
snow everywhere on the ground, and the snow still coming down pretty much
sideways because of the crazy wind. So because we had no bus pass, we proceeded
to bike home in it! The side roads were crazy slipper but the main ones were OK
for the most part! It was crazy! Elder Heffner only biffed it on the very last
turn home. If was pretty fun actually biking in snow, who would've thought!
We had some awesome
miracles this week. On Friday we were walking out of the Lowe building when we
saw one of our recent converts, David Rotimi, who just got baptized in December!
We were kinda confused to see him because he moved out, but he told us he was
by to visit a friend. We decided to follow him to meet his friend in the
building, and he ended up introducing us to A FAMILY OF FOUR! The family
included a single mom, whose name is Bisola, and her three teenage kids who are
already good friends with some other members in the building. We taught them a
lesson and they already came to church this weekend. They are so solid! Super
pumped we found two new families and we have some pretty awesome individuals
we're working with too. The Lowe building has been one of the most interesting
and incredible ways of finding I've been able to be a part of in my mission.
You see a Nigerian recent convert in there and they're visiting a friend?
FOLLOW THEM! As weird as if sounds it has almost always resulted in a solid new
person for us to teach.
This will probably be
my last week in Englewood, I've been here for over 7 months now and am pumped
to see some last week miracles here! Everyone have an awesome week!
Elder Jensen
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