Holy smokes! My time
on the Southside has come to an end! I've been here for 5 transfers and have
grown to love this place so much!
We got our transfer
calls yesterday and I will be leaving to the Lakeshore 2nd ward which is
straight up to the Northside of Chicago! Still in the city, still on bikes
(thank goodness because parking is terrible up there). I'm going back to the
zone that I started out my mission at and I've even been on exchanges to this
area before! Still a zone leader as well. I'm super pumped!
The last week of this
transfer has been absolutely legendary. It has gotten extra COLD this week.
Like its 3 degrees right now with a wind-chill making it like - 13 degrees. So
we rode the bikes as long as we could but frozen snow and more flats made us
have to call it quits for the past few days.
We were able to do
exchanges with the Assistants this week which was super fun, Elder Van Tassell,
one of my past companions, came down here with me. It was super fun, we had an
incredible day on the bikes, went in for an appointment at 4:00 pm and came out
to find an inch of snow on the ground. Right before an appointment 3 miles
away... So we biked in some gnarly snow and as we were going there was snow
dumping from the sky, and of course my companion took his bus card again so we
didn't have a bus pass haha. By the end of the night there was probably like 5
inches on the ground and somehow we got 2 flats, so we had to tap out and
scramble 2.50$ to hit the bus part of the way back, and then walk. It was SO
MUCH FUN! We got to see all the recent converts we baptized together, and it
was pretty cool to say goodbye to all of them and of course eat a lot of
Nigerian food.
Darlene has been
hearing all the stories about the Nigerians feeding us and she has also wanted
to feed us so bad, but always says "if I cook I'll kill you!" so this
week she got us a pizza and we had probably the most normal member meal I've
ever had here on the Southside haha. It was super legendary and lots of
fun!
Other than that we've
been doing the usual finding, teaching, and soon baptizing. One of the families
we found is progressing really well and will be baptized by the end of
February. We're super excited for them!
I'm going to cut it
short this week, but I hope everyone's week is phenomenal!
Elder Jensen
Pics:
Gabriel and
Ronke
Darlene's BOM
EJ the wannabe thug
and I
Bisola and
Eniola
Snow biking
District pics
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