We ran in to a guy this week that had some interesting views on the church and some beliefs in Christ and what He taught that were utterly blasphemous. simply put we didn't get along. but it has turned out for the better my faith in Christ and how we are supposed to live as His disciples has grown immensely.
We recieved an interesting phone call from a less active lady on Tuesday. This doesn't really happen... ever. usually we have to initiate contact so we were really excited/confused. turns out her boyfriend, who is also a less active member, had been drinking for about 4 days straight and she was really worried and didn't know what to do so she call us to come sober him up. well when we got there he was to drunk to talk and was in bed. but we had a good convo with her and told her we would come back the next day. on our way up to see him.. we got a text from her inviting us over for dinner with him! awesome except for the fact that we had an extra hour to fill! haha so we weer able to meet with him and he said that in 8 days he would be 7 day sober... not what we wanted to hear but it was better than nothing. we are hoping to fully activate him and get him ordained and preisthood worthy.
It was definitely one of our more successful weeks numbers wise. we taught 7 less active lessons and 2 member present lesson's with one of those becoming a new investigator whose mom is a member so we have a fair amount of support there! our new investigator is very interesting but has genuine interest in the church and so we are hoping we can make progress with her!
We had a very good ward correlation and were able to help our WML ( ward mission leader) draw up some ideas for our new ward mission plan, which i am really hoping will help the ward. things between us and the ward seem to be working better now. before they were willing to help us and feed us and give us rides but now it seems that they are a little more missionary minded and hopefully we will be able to continue the progress. it was like we were two gears that weren't adjusted right and so sometime we worked and sometimes we slipped. a few more adjustments and we should be a well oiled machine...( hopefully)
With all this considered we still had a lot of down time to fill and so that was spent finding. hopefully some of the potentials we met with will feel of our's and the Lord's love for them and become investigators soon.
hope that all is going well back home and that the snow isn't too... well ya know snowy!
love
elder jensen
PS. It has been a very interesting week but i have come out in one piece. Next week i wont be emailing on monday so dont freak out when you dont get an email from me. i will be emailing on thursday becuase we are going on a temple trip!!!!!!!!!! so that is super awesome... we get to go with a recent convert who is going to do baptisms for some family members and so that is super duper awesome... we even got to help him do that genealogy work at the fam. history center and print out the records and everything!
PS. It has been a very interesting week but i have come out in one piece. Next week i wont be emailing on monday so dont freak out when you dont get an email from me. i will be emailing on thursday becuase we are going on a temple trip!!!!!!!!!! so that is super awesome... we get to go with a recent convert who is going to do baptisms for some family members and so that is super duper awesome... we even got to help him do that genealogy work at the fam. history center and print out the records and everything!
this is it really. hope that all is well back home!
love elder jensen
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