Covenants Made, Tow Trucks Fines Paid

Don't worry I didn't get towed. But an elder in our district did. Pray for him. 

Hello all my friends and the happiest Monday to you all! This week has been absolutely awesome!!! 

We had a baptismal service for our friend Kudi! She was a friend of the Nigerian man named Martins who we baptized last month. She is super awesome and has acted in faith significantly. I remember teaching her the word of wisdom and we talked about coffee and tea and she asked, "Why would I have to give up coffee and tea? They are not bad for me?" As much as we tried to explain that they could be addictive substances she still didn't understand how something as simple as coffee and tea could be bad for her.

Finally we explained the Sacrifice and how God will ask us to sacrifice worldly things we love so we can have a greater abundance of his spirit and blessings in our lives. After hearing this she said, "I have sacrificed for God, and I will always sacrifice for him." She gave up coffee and tea instantly. She works all night and now has the Lord provide the energy that she needs. I love the faith that she has shown me and the faith of these awesome people that we've been able to teach! Elder Bodily was able to baptize her and I was able to confirm her in church the next day. 

Something else super awesome, the family that my last companion Elder Van Tassell and I baptized 2 months ago had a son that just turned 8. Polycarb was able to be baptized by his father Steve Abiola. It was an absolutely amazing thing to see a recent convert, newly ordained to the office of a priest, baptize his young son. This is what the gathering of Israel looks like! It made me so happy. Also I'm pumped because they used to live in our area which is super sketch and lots of people get shot but they were able to move to Hyde Park where the sisters are and it's so much nicer. We've been able to see this with two of the families that my last companion and I were able to teach and baptize together so it's been really cool introducing them to the sisters and having them start to eat all the Nigerian food haha. 

After the baptism another recent convert named Ofure brought some Nigerian food for everyone to eat. President and Sister Shumway were there and sister Shumway got a plate and started talking to some people. Martins, our friend who roasted Elder Bodily for not eating his food began to roast Sister Shumway for not eating hers. "WHY MUST YOU CHAT!? THE FOOD IS THERE FOR YOU TO EAT! YOU MUST EAT IT!" Now this was an entertaining thing for me to see my mission president’s wife get roasted for not eating her Nigerian food, first my companion, now her, haha. 

On Sunday we were able to get Kudi confirmed, Martins was able to get the priesthood, and Darlene got her temple recommend and her patriarchal blessing recommend. It's been absolutely amazing to see these people I love grow and progress in their lives in the gospel. 

This week I was able to go on exchanges to South Shore with Elder Osorio who is a straight homie and an amazing District leader. He's the best and we had a pretty awesome time. We played basketball with the other elders the next morning to switch back, which was sick. 

This week for some reason we've been struggling to find the Nigerian people, we had nobody come to church this week except for Kudi, and she's now a member. We're going to have to hit the hard reset. A little discouraged, but nevertheless a little excited to find some more solid people, my companion and I went with our excited finding attitudes and found a guy who let us in his house to teach him. The dude ended up being super high. He was like "Hold up, what was I even doing before you two got here?" Since he was holding the Book of Mormon in his hands we were able to convince him that he was actually reading the scriptures before we met with him. He believed us and probably began highly reading the Book of Mormon after we left haha.

As we were leaving he was like "When are y’all coming back?" We were like, “We are not sure, what do you think? He pulled out his wrist with no watch on it and looked at it and was like "Howbout 6:00?" So that was pretty cool haha. We saw him later that night walking around and we were like "Jamal where you going?!" And he said in a very legendary way "The liquor store. Jesus turned water into wine, I'm finna turn this paper into some beer." Probably the funniest thing I've ever heard on the Sabbath day. 

So we continue to teach and this week we will have a lot of finding to do as we're kinda doing a slight reset on our teaching pool. It's going to be an awesome time finding in the hood! Hope everyone has an amazing week! 

Elder Jensen 

Green Fire Testimony

Last week for Pday we went downtown, which was legit, and played some gnarly mini golf with the boys. Also we got some super sick pics so stay tuned. 

This week we had transfers and Elder Bodily and I were so grateful to stay together that we planned like 4 lessons on Tuesday morning and then Mr. Vehicle coordinator said we had to chauffeur 2 missionaries and our whole schedule got slightly roasted but it's OK because ONE MORE TRANSFER!!!

This week was actually super awesome. The first week we have had in a long time that hasn't had any meetings, so it was a nice full busy and effective week. I'm very grateful. 

Probably one of the coolest things I've been able to see this week was my companion bear powerful testimony. We were teaching this guy, it was a 4th lesson and we were preparing to drop him because every time we met with him he would ask the same question about Joseph Smith saying God was a man and why do Mormons think that they are God's etc. You all know the concern. For like the 50th he had brought it up, and we told him it doesn't matter if Joseph Smith wasn't even a prophet, and if the Book of Mormon is not true. Elder Bodily asked if he had read the Book of Mormon and prayed and this certain person had refused. I studied the concern and try to help him understand but nothing was working.

Elder Bodily finally threw down a savage testimony where he knew of the divinity of the Book of Mormon and of Joseph Smiths prophetic calling. He was even quoting scriptures and even said to this guy "it pains my soul that you'll harden your heart against what we're teaching you" (but it sounded more like what Alma said to the city of Ammonihah) and he was, throwing down! It was so powerful and he told him that we couldn't teach him anymore if he would refuse to read the Book of Mormon and simply ask God if it is true. Holy smokes. After the lesson we told him we loved him but he's simply not doing what we've asked him to do and we dropped him. The spirit had confirmed to me that it was the right thing to do. I've had plenty of drop lessons with people, but this one was really powerful. One of the most rewarding things I've seen on my mission was right then as a trainer, seeing a young missionary who has the most powerful testimony. He'll be a powerful teacher and leader to those in Chicago.

Other than that it was the usual. Ate Nigerian food, taught the Nigerian brothers and sisters and also the homies in the hood. It's a blast and I can't imagine it any better, coming home at night with a crappy haircut, torn pants sewn back together by our recent convert friend, exhausted every day. And I wouldn't trade any of it for the world. The missionary life is a legendary one.

Everybody pray for our friend Kudi this week, she's a Nigerian woman we've been teaching who is a friend of Martins the man who was baptized last transfer. She'll be preparing for baptism this weekend. 

Hope everyone has an amazing week!

Elder Jensen 

General Authorities in Chicago!

It was ANOTHER great week on the Southside! Pretty basic week, helping people stop smoking and trying to teach them why it's important to keep hookers out of their houses, and that self control and the scriptures are a greater defense than a Louisville slugger to "the demons of the world." (The hookers) boy oh boy do we meet some interesting people haha. Had 11 people confirm for church and 2 show up! People must be afraid of the rain is what we have discovered. Either that or they don't understand the DOCTRINE. So WE WILL TEACH THEM!

We actually had a great opportunity this week to have Elder S. Gifford Nielsen who is a 70 and another 70 named Elder McCune who came to do a mission tour. They had the MLC gather together in Naperville (so we had another MLC.) so for the part of the day where it wasn't MLC I went to Chicago 2nd ward for the day with Elder Vargas the other zone leader. It is a Spanish area and my boy is from Spain so he's a pro... Me not so much. We went finding and I told him I'd try it so that I could have a taste of what a Spanish greenie feels like, and I'm pretty sure I figured out how to say "Hello. I am a missionary." That's all I got. So that's what I did! “Hello, I am a missionary.” Bam. Give them a card and then turn to the comp who actually speaks the language haha. But MLC that day was pretty awesome. We talked a lot about how to help the mission move forward and it was super inspiring.

Our mission tour the next day consisted of 3 zones gathering together to hear the general authorities speak. Personally I like zone conferences better because it's more interactive, but this meeting was super awesome too. We were all able to learn a lot and it was amazing being able to see the homies from the other zones and especially being able to talk to the sisters who are currently serving in one of my old areas and hearing about people Elder Jensen and I used to teach and how they were baptized. Super awesome!

That night our ward had a huge event at the church and they wanted to help of all the missionaries. It was a back to school carnival and Elder Bodily and I were on BOUNCE HOUSE DUTY!!! It was super sick. Definitely you already know I took advantage of that. Bounce houses are my thing. If the kids wouldn't get off you could just get on and scream and they'd all go nuts haha and jump off. From that night the ward mission leader gathered us together and told us that 30 families requested that missionaries come and visit them. Next month we'll be having a huge Halloween party and apparently last year they had like 4000 people show up and got like 400 referrals. It's going to be INSANE! Chicago is a great place to tap into the power of ward events.

We had the transfer calls last night and we will both be staying in HYDE PARK!  The whole district is almost changing except for us and all the people who just finished training will now be training again. It's going to be crazy. There's only me and one other missionary in the district who are older so that's kinda weird! Lots of new friends coming in! That's about it for this week! Hope everyone is doing amazing! 

International Baptisms

These have been a wild past two weeks! Sorry for the lack of email last week we had to switch Pday to Thursday and I figured it would be easy to just do a double letter for this week! 

We had Zone Conference, President Shumway is the man! Talked a lot about member missionary work it was Flippin sick. Also Elder Vargas and I threw down an obedience training which was pretty rad if I do say so myself! Or I guess you could say it didn't end up in a complete disaster. 

After the Elder Bodily's first Zone Conference he was so pumped to go to work and we went to Martins's house right after in which Kudi (Martins's roommate) offered us some food a little hesitantly because he said “no thanks” last time. This time he was so hyped that he was like "yes I'd love to try some food!" and she said, "You are not strong enough to have amala and ocra. You will have rice and beans and stew." So I was able to eat the amala (which is called chocolate fufu. It doesn't really taste like chocolate sadly; it's just a darker color.) It was gnarly, lots of fish, tough chicken, and spicy soup. AND I POUNDED IT.

Elder Bodily was still not able to finish the food and he's such a softie! It was really spicy and he was taking a sip of water after every bite. Martins in his booming Nigerian accent said "BODILY. YOU CANNOT EAT LIKE THAT!" and took the water bottle away. Every time Elder Bodily tried to speak he was cut off by: "Bodily. Eat your food." He checked his phone and martins took it away haha. It was so funny. In the end he wasn't able to finish and Martins said "Look at Jensen! He ate all of his food! He is the champion! He will sleep so well tonight!" Poor dude keeps getting roasted. Martins made sure to post the whole ordeal of his white friends eating his food on Facebook haha. 

I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Butler this week and he's a homie! We tried to clear up the whole day so we could go on a finding blitz in Englewood and the very first contact was in a mid-drug deal. We tried to introduce how to be spiritually high rather than physically, he wasn't exactly interested. But it was a sick day walking the streets finding the elect. 

We had MLC and it was really good, Elder Vargas (the other ZL with me) and I went to Naperville and we left our companions to stay in Englewood for the day, and they had to ride bikes -- two greenies on bikes in the hood. It was so awesome and they had a SICK day. So it was pretty legendary!

Since we had a Pday switch we went with that same companionship and hung out together on Thursday because they were the only ones who had Pday that day, so we decided to do something a little different and hit up China Town. Chicago is like the coolest place. In one neighborhood it’s like straight up only African Americans (where we are), in one neighborhood it’s all Hispanic people, and in one neighborhood it's all Chinese people and Chinese places. IT WAS SO COOL! I was telling Elder Vargas that it would be interesting to go tracting in China Town and he said "Yeah let's try it!" He goes to the very first door he sees and with a puffed out chest he knocks it. Lady answers who is definitely from China. "Hey, we’re missionaries...” The usual...   "Uhhh... No English."

Elder Vargas stands there for like a solid 10 seconds thinking of something to say because usually when they say that he starts going off in Spanish. "So what language do you speak?" 

"Mandarin." ".... OK we'll uh, have a nice day I guess!" Well this is why my boy from Spain was called to speak Spanish haha. 

The rest of the week wasn't really too crazy, we got to go on exchanges with the AP’s and I went with Elder Weinmuller and we've officially been on 3 exchanges together now so he's an ultra homie. It was super awesome. The AP's are always the best examples and they help me know what I can improve on so it was an awesome exchange.

Something super awesome, this week I noticed on the upcoming baptisms that my old area Hebron was having 2! Eric and Carri! I was able to call them on Saturday and talk to them before they got baptized. It was way cool! It was a little less than I year ago when my companion, Elder Buckway, and I knocked on their door! This is the first baptism I've seen from knocking doors in my mission! It really does work and there are those out there!

Also this Nigerian lady named Omolara, who is a member, called our number a few weeks ago and was like "my whole family is in Nigeria and they need to get baptized before September 10th and I need your help!" I literally had no idea how to help so I called Elder Bell and he showed me how to do it and we got all their info and sent it to the referral center and hoped for the best. She had me call the missionaries in Lagos Nigeria about the situation and I couldn't understand a word they were saying over the phone because they were both Nigerian missionaries and it was an international call so it was super fuzzy. Hoping the point went through we went on with our week and she came to us yesterday and told us her whole family was baptized this last weekend. So Elder Bell and I did some of that international missionary work! It was pretty awesome haha.

Well, that about summarizes these last two weeks. Sorry not a whole lot of details but it's been pretty crazy. Hope you all have an amazing week and count your blessings!

Elder Jensen 

Nigerian Spice With a Side of Baptisms

This week was just as miraculous if not more miraculous than last week. 

For those of you don't know me, I am paranoid. Especially the week before baptisms. I legit have seen too many people fall away in that last week before a baptism. It is a stressful week. But it all worked out this week! 

We had one of our last lessons with Darlene the day before her baptism, and she was just sitting in front of the window when we walked in, saying that she was "reflecting on her spiritual journey." She told us some personal things that she had been struggling with, including anorexia and depression. She had come from 350 pounds to 100 in like a year and every time she looked in the mirror she said she saw her 350 pound self. Every time we'd meet with her we'd check her fridge and convince her to eat more and more. On Saturday at her baptism she came up out of the water crying and said "I'm free." She gave Brother Clarke one of her main fellow shippers who was baptizing her a huge hug.

We came back the next day after her confirmation and talked with her and she wrote her testimony down which she is so excited to share in church next week and also she wrote and page that talks about how she'd been free from bondage. She said now she looks in the mirror and says "that girl needs a full course meal!" She told us how the gospel had taken her out of a haze and a disorder she didn't know she was in. Every single lesson the first 10 min are: "I'm just so grateful my 3 elders showed me this amazing gospel...." haha you get the point. If there is anyone who I've been able to teach on my mission who understands the gospel and has changed MY life, it's her. Also she met a new friend at church and they're starting to get a little flirty haha. 

Our first lesson after she was baptized she started doing the "I'm grateful" rang and somehow mentioned how John the beloved died peacefully, so naturally we had to show her doctrine and covenants 7 and the end of John where it mentions he doesn't die until Christ comes, and talk about the 3 Nephites... "Oh my goodness there is so much I still don't know! I can't wait to read it all!" She probably has the greatest study ability of anyone I've ever met. 

With Martins we found him on the elevator at the building that we're always in. Said hello in Yoruba their language, he was so hyped that we spoke some of his language, and he was at church that next week and loved it. The dude was also super prepared and absolutely loves going to church! it was a miracle because there was a Nigerian man named Ibukun who got baptized just a little under a year ago and he leads the music every Sunday, and martins recognized him when he came to church. Turns out they grew up together in Nigeria and it was the first time they'd seen each other in years and they both just happened to be at Chicago. Ibukun was able to baptize Martins and it was probably the greatest thing of all time. He dunked him forwards, put his hand to his back halfway through the prayer, and said amen as he was raising him out of the water instead of before he went into the water haha. But the ordinance was done, the prayer was correct, and Martins was immersed. 

Before the baptism I reminded the ward mission leader that it might be good to remind everyone to not film, but it was literally like right before the baptism. So as soon as martins got in the water, his friend Kudi (who were also teaching) got up and started filming it *sigh/facepalm*

After the confirmation, Kudi was on it again haha! So it's possible that Martins posted confirmation pics on FB he was so hyped haha. 

With so many Nigerians at church it definitely makes it a very unique ward! But I love it so much. Lots of simple things that wouldn't be done in a regular Utah ward. One came up to give a talk and said a prayer before his talk, one sang a song and all the Nigerians in the congregation clapped after haha. Utah bishops would flip out. It's OK were slowly getting there. 

Had some of our friends come to church, one of my fav homies is named Kenny, every time you'll ask him how his day was he says, "I am too blessed to be stressed!" Basically it’s the coolest motto of all time. 

Last of all I think we had a wild experience; we were blessed to find another Nigerian family in our favorite building. Pretty devout to their church but from my experience if you can get them in the church at least once they are in -- maybe because it's true or something. But they had us over and were cooking so what do they do? Offer the food! And what do we do? We accept! (Glad my companion is learning haha) but they made these mashed potatoes with what they call Jamaican peppers. I have had plenty of soups with these peppers and they are extremely hot, but this "porridge" was loaded with them. It's hard to smile and say you loved their food when legit you're sweating more than when you play basketball on Mondays. Dead serious. It was obvious haha. So much sweat. From eating peppers. But we ate it all and it was actually super delicious besides the fact that I was on fire! 

I think that's about it for us! It’s been a legendary week and I cannot wait for another one! hope everybody has an amazing week! 

Elder Jensen 

Well, It's Been a Year!

This week has been amazing, phenomenal, and full of miracles and funny moments!

We had an amazing miracle as we were teaching Darlene this week. She has been using a crutch for the last 5 years and was especially in quite a lot of pain one of the times we saw her this past week because of the weather and how it affected her arthritis. She had told us she didn't want us to come by since she was in a lot of pain but she felt the need to have us over. Well that day we had just happened to be teaching her about the priesthood and what it means and so we explained blessings and asked if she would like a blessing of healing. She accepted and so Elder Bodily anointed her with the oil and I gave her a blessing.

During the blessing she gasped and was shaking a little bit so in my head I was like (oh please no don't tell me my hands are too heavy or something, cause I thought they were super light!) Well, after the blessing she looked at us, stood up and grabbed my arm without her crutch and said "let's walk." So she walked out the door and down the hallway holding on to my arm saying "oh wow! It doesn't hurt anymore! Oh wow!" We came back and sat down and she said, "can I do it again?" So this time she grabs Elder Bodily's arm and walks down the hallway and at the very end he says "alright I'm going to let go!" and he let go and she walked on her own for the first time in 5 years. I was standing there at the end of the hallway and she burst into tears and gave me a hug. She was sobbing as she whispered "thank you."

I was shocked and amazed to witness a miracle performed by the priesthood that Elder Bodily and I hold. What a blessing to be able to experience. We made sure to have her write down the experience in her journal so she could always remember it! Finally on this Saturday the Hyde Park ward will be holding a baptismal service and she'll be able to make a covenant with God that she's been waiting to make.

Another absolutely hilarious experience (horrifying for my comp, funny for me), we went to our good friend Martins’ house. Martins is a Nigerian man and is on date for the 24th as well. He was cooking some food when we walked in, so naturally I went and asked about the food that he was making and what it was and he says in his booming voice: "may I offer you some food!" Of course I say yes, because that is what you must do. He made us a plate of fried yam and stew (an extremely spicy stew that was spicy sauce and very rubbery fatty beef) and I began to eat. Now I cannot say that I like Nigerian food, but it's not really hard for me to eat it anymore. I'm able to pound it now.

He turns to Elder Bodily and says: "It is for you too! Go and eat your food!" Poor Elder Bodily did not heed my warnings and said, "No thank you." If I could face palm that is exactly what I would do. Martins turned to him slowly and fiercely and said with his voice raising every syllable: "You do not accept my food? WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M TRYING TO DO POISON YOU?! YOU ALWAYS ACCEPT FOOD WHEN WE OFFER YOU! IF NOT YOU ARE AN EVIL SPIRIT! YOU DO NOT SAY NO!" Elder Bodily was absolutely horrified. I was trying so hard to hide my laughter so naturally I started to film. So Elder Bodily started eating the yam. Yam basically just tastes like tough potatoes. He's like "this isn't that bad!" Ding dong, didn't even touch the stew yet. I eat all the spicy sauce, and a whole piece of beef and point to the other one and say to him "that one is yours." He refused. So I ate all the fat on the beef for him. And then I told him that was all I was doing for him.

Martins at this point says, "he will not always be there to eat your food! You must finish it or I will not be baptized on the 24th!" Of course he was messing with him, but that made him finish up the food really fast haha. I will probably never stop making fun of him for this and I thought I was the picky eater. It's OK, when salvation is on the line I'll literally eat anything.

This week was the ONE YEAR! I just happened to go on exchanges with Elder Bell, my MTC buddy on that day. He burned a shirt, I decided I'd keep mine for wearing haha. We went into our journals and read the entry from our first day in the mission. It was pretty funny I cannot lie. We went ham  and he told me it might be a good time to broaden our horizons and start trying to find people outside the one building we have because we've just about talked to everyone in there. So we decided to start doing the hood contacting. We walk around the streets on the Southside and see all these families who are just chilling on their porch. They'll pretty much always let you teach them, but very often you'll never see them again so it's a risk. But it's been really fun. A lot more dangerous areas and a lot of people are like "oh don't go that way there was a shooting just like 2 hours ago" and we are like” thank yo, do you want a message from God” And it's pretty gnarly! So we had a lot of fun and probably was the unhealthiest day of my life since we had a lot of Oreos.

Last off a couple nights ago we were in our fav building stopping by with a few more people to end the night and we stopped by this one dude we were teaching named Tayo. As we were talking to him we hear a loud "BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM" I'm like "why are people doing fireworks in the building?" But also this building has a butt load of crazies, Nigerians and then a bunch of hood drug dealers who all love us. So anyways we get on the elevator to go to our car and it was stopping like every floor and everyone was getting on looking severely stressed. We discovered from the conversation that there had been a shooting right in front of the building just barely and everyone was going to see what had happened and if their cars / friends were all OK. There was a drive by and definitely some cars got shot and someone was shot and most likely killed. Cops were everywhere instantly. It sufficeth me to say we dipped from the scene haha. We always park on the side so our car was OK but it was insane! The next day everyone had acted like nothing had happened. #southside

The cool thing is we literally never feel scared. But don't worry we're not stupid haha. These terrible things happening are signs of even more people being prepared for the gospel. There are so many prepared people in this sad place. It's hell for everyone who lives here, but it's missionary heaven. 

Well, last night we had some more Nigerian food and my comp got wrecked again and I ate tons of Nigerian food. It was pretty funky not going to lie. Tons of fish and I hate fish (I'm still winning the bet against Broden Lund) but the lord is my strength and I ate it all. My companion luckily got an Americanized Nigerian so she let him take it to go haha.

I LOVE THIS PLACE! I hope everyone has an amazing week and is doing well! Have a good one!

Elder Jensen 

 Elder Bell

Darlene

Benjamin and Febisola 

The Greenie in the City

Oh my goodness this week has been super crazy busy. It started legendary with last pday, our main man Elder English (who is actually a Spanish speaking missionary) was about to go home so we had to go hit the beach for an early morning sunrise. It was sick. We had a super tight district and I absolutely love being here with my brothers. We definitely had a drink that may have had caffeine and I was going nuts again. Ultra hype. Then we stopped by pretty much everyone so Elder Van Tassell could say goodbye to everyone. He will definitely be missed. All these Nigerians might protest against the mission office haha.

Also Elder Van Tassell and I needed a haircut super bad so we were like "yo any of you missionaries down?" None of them had a haircutting kit! So we decided to stop by one of those little hole in the wall places to get a haircut. Anyways she cuts my hair and lets me see it and is like "how does it look?" It literally looked like I had a chocolate brick on my head. So I was like "yeah could you maybe go a little rounder and shorten it a bit?" Wrong thing to say. She literally cut my hair so short that I officially looked like buzz lightyear. Not good haha. The first thing my new comp sees is Elder Buzz racing to meet him literally with hype from infinity and beyond. 

The real craziness started on Tuesday with transfers. We went out west to Naperville (old area baby) and I was literally able to drive though these gnarly Indian neighborhoods I used to knock haha. They had a big council for all the trainers to discuss the needs for those we will be training, etc. They then introduced us to the new missionaries! Thank goodness I got a total stud named Elder Bodily! I can only imagine the amazing missionary he is going to become! He's way bold, talks to everyone he comes in contact which I love cause I was not good at that at the beginning.

So that began our adventures of having meetings just about every day this week. New missionary/trainer meeting on Tuesday, district council on Wednesday, MLC was on Thursday, and we had a big meeting on Friday as a whole zone because president Shumway is making some changes and he left the zone leaders in charge of it. It was a stressful week haha. Being a zone leader and trainer at the same time is wild. 

So MLC was sick. President Shumway is an amazing mission president and he is making some inspired changes! It's been super exciting to be a part of it and he's giving all of us quite a bit of responsibility. He is training us to be A DISCIPLE OF CHRIST! What a legend.

So this week I was able to show the young one the south side of Chicago. Pretty sure my man was very stressed that he was going to die, but he's relaxed quite a bit. I will tell you something that stressed me though, first thing he mentioned is that he's an extremely picky eater, and as we all know Nigerians will be waaayyyy offended if you do not eat all their food. My man had some Moimoi this week and it's basically like a meatloaf, except it's filled with fish, egg, peppers, and a bunch of mystery meat/breaded stuff. He only had the heart to eat one loaf and made me pound like 3. Yeah that was stressful. Also he hates Nigerian soda which is understandable because it tastes like spaghettio's but soda. We survived the ordeal thank goodness and found a new person in the process!

So I'll tell you a little more about my man. He's from Preston ID which is where Napolean Dynamite was filmed! How cool is that! He's like a BMX biker and stuff. And he loves St. George and said he might go to Dixie one day!

This is a hype time for missionary work! We have recently baptized like 3 families from this one building, and now we've been stopping by and continuing to teach those in the building. However we've talked to almost everybody there and by the next baptismal service we'll have 2 more people from that building: Darlene and Martins. So we might switch off going there every day and hitting a different part of the area, something my new companion suggested. We'll see how it works! We’re going to start talking to more of those in the hood! Should be exciting! 

I think that's mostly about it for the week! I hope everyone is doing amazing and has a legendary week!