Lake Shore 2

This week has been AWESOME! My new area is super cool. I mean it has been one of the dream places to go since the beginning of my mission in YSA, and it covers where I used to live, so I'm a little familiar with the area. Still trying to figure it out completely though because it doesn't have the same grid system as the South Side does, so it a little harder to find your way around. It's right off the lake though so super cold! 

My new companion is named Elder Christensen, and he's been out for 3 months so just finished training. (No more 12 week YESSS!!) He's from a place called Jerusalem, Utah which I didn't know existed and I don't think anybody else does either. It's like by Moroni, Utah which is another place nobody probably knows where it is. So he is yet another country boy companion I've had in the big city! He's super awesome, really great at talking to people, especially white people which I'm not good at because I just came from the South Side.

This area is way diverse and so I've been pumped to find a lot of people from Africa this last week! I can't help but want to talk to them a little more, even though God is no respecter of persons.

Since we're opening this area, we've been finding all day every day for the past week! No knocking doors because it's the city, so we hit the streets every day! And because we didn't really have a teaching pool, we did public transportation instead of riding bikes for the most part because we needed to talk to more people anyways. But we were stoked and blessed to find 10 new people to teach this week and now we kind of have a teaching pool! 2 of them are Nigerian, and 4 others are from Uganda and Ethiopia. It will be super cool to teach them!

Were also in a ward with another companionship who's actually a trio, but there are no boundaries so occasionally we'll see them street contacting. We went on exchanges with them last week and the problem is now they're starting to hit up some of our Hotspots to find a lot of good people haha! It's pretty legendary though!

Sorry it's a little short, this week was mostly just finding and next week we'll do a whole lot more finding because we are trying to get that teaching pool huge! Pray for the hearts of the people in Chicago to be prepared! Have an awesome week!

Elder Jensen