In Ranchero Ward!

So last week was transfers so I didn't write. I made it about 5 miles down main street to my new ward... we still meet in the same building and i still see alot of the members from my old ward. My new ward is amazing!! I really like it here it should be good! We have a few investigators, 1 family of 6 with 5 eligible for baptism and then a couple of other older people who we have met through ward members or street contacting. The Family is a very interesting family hahah the 3 boys are all with in 4 years of each other... and treat each other like all 9-12 year old's do. They have some interest in church but really they need their parents backing. The parents have some W.o.W. issues and if they were to give them up that would help their family alot! 

So weird/ spiritual story:

    "How do you play chess well? When you lose, you move the pieces back in the same order as forward and see where you made your mistakes.

    "God plays chess very well!

    "When a spiritual experience happens to you or you participate in a spiritual experience, look back and see all the pieces that had to be moved for it to happen. Then thank God that He has the foresight necessary to make things like that happen!

    "This week we had one of those experiences happen.

    "We have been on foot for a couple days while another missionary with a larger area borrowed my bike...we see these missionaries and find out they haven't even been using it... kinda frustrating... but we are still on foot. we go to see some people that are usually out at night and everything falls through... people that we talk to that are always out in their garage are out of town, less active that are pretty reliable visits and give us a ride home....they are not home... so we are left to walk home on foot. As we do, we pass the house of our investigator family and find out that had we not been there at that specific time we would not have been able to see them or help them! All in Gods time!"

In other completely random but exciting news a member of my new ward actually knows where Taber is! And it turns out he roomed with Landon Garner and Brandon Tanner for a while hahah  small world!

Love 

Elder Jensen

PS. I am so excited for conference!!!! My life has been a little different recently.... E. Clark does things a little different but i am enjoying it all the same.... it seems like God wont ever allow us to be to comfortable... hahaha we are busy and i am well!! 

Transfer Week!

We did have transfers this week... I have a new comp Elder Clark and am in a new area.... a whole 5 miles down the road to another ward in the same stake hahah. I was in the Bear Valley Ward, and now I am in the Ranchero Ward. I am excited! not a whole lot to say this week. 

this is a random sign I saw... thought it would be appreciated by my Forsyth family.

Love 

Elder Jensen

Elder Depew, Elder Jensen and a wonderful family that have taken good care of them

A day in the life....

Ok i am actually gonna write about two or three days but you get the picture

On Thursday we were on exchanges with our district leader, Elder Hancock. So me and Elder Hancock were in his area and our companions were in my area. We had a wonderful day. Corned beef and double deserts make a missionary happy and fat... oh dear... but it was super fun. We had an amazing day especially being lead by the Spirit, one time to a very kind lady who must have needed  blessings of some kind because she paid for our lunch ( and was extremely persistent that she pay!)

Elder Hancock and Elder Jensen

On Saturday we had one of the most interesting days ever. All of our plans fell through and we were left with nothing to do really but follow the spirit and talk to people. So that is what we did! We talked with nearly every person we saw for about 4- 5 hours. I myself handed out about 30 pass-a-long cards and then Elder Depew gave some out too. All in all we talked to probably 50 people and were able to share some form of message with most of them.... it also solidified my lack of spanish speaking ability hahah

Here are a few examples of the spirit guided experiences.

Around 4:30 after we have already been talking to people for like 2 hours we are completely worn out... so after a prayerful decision we decide that it would be the best use of our time to go to the library( assuming it closed @ 6) and print out a talk that Elder Depew really wanted to study. On our way there still talking to people. When were are almost to the library we stopped and talked to a guy who had just came from the library and was reading a book he checked out. As we talked we learned that he was christian, but didn't attend any church 1) because he worked to pay for his bills 2) because a preacher told him it was a sin to pray outside of church. We gave him a Book of Mormon and bookmarked Alma chapter 32 and told him the basis of the story of the people being taught in that chapter. He was really interested in it and willingly* agreed to read it.

           * most people aren't willing hahah

So we get to the library at 5 and it has just closed... bummer. so we pray again and decide that it would be best if we rearrange our schedule and go for an early dinner... and we were expressly told to go to Del Taco... wierd... but ok no arguments. We get there and order and are just sitting down to eat when a lady comes over and asks if we are mormons. We answer yes. And she asks where the nearest family history center is. We told her and she explained that she had just moved and previously had be doing family history work, but couldn't anymore because she didn't know where to go.

Later we had dropped off our bikes and were walking around waiting to go to a shaky appt... when we see a tree that I have biked past nearly every day for 4 and a half months and never noticed. So we go over to check it out because it is at like a 45 degree angle with the ground(definitely would have landed on a house if we were in Canada hahah) on the way over we see a bunch of mexicans out having a party(not really unusual) so we decide to go talk to them. Two girls started talking with us and had no idea who we were, so we told them and they asked us to do our missionary speal. we told them we represented the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints and told them the we share a message about Christ. They explained that they were catholic... but didn't really go because they were unsure of their beliefs and were looking at other religions. We taught them how God is our loving Heavenly Father and how he loves us. They were really interested. we left them with restoration pamphlets and one even said that we might be the reason that she became more religious and joined a different church.

God definitely knows us and how we work hahah silly trees and fake mexican food hahah

Today we went hiking and that is what the pictures are of ... my inner Rex Forsyth ( grandpa) came out as I wanted to stop and look and take pictures of all the flowers hahah oh dear It was super fun! It was more of a walk in the desert than a real hike... but what ever counts hahah

Love 

Elder Jensen!

#MishLife

 

Patience Patience

So yup not sure how to start this... welp yup ok

so last week was wierd.. this week was also abnormal but then again that is mission life.

ON thursday we did service for a member who is cleaning out his garage.., he had like 6 old office desks from his dads old business in there and they were all going out and up into storage at his shop. in storage meant up on top of the office there hahaha so we rigged a sketchy idea to make it work. 4 desks and a bookshelf were pushed up ladder... almost horizontal i might add haha any way we managed just fine.  but it was tons of fun! we taught all of our investigators this week which was awesome! and we found a new one. she is the younger sister of a less active member so that is awesome... we can help both out! 

I studied patience alot this week because i wasn't getting what i wanted when i wanted it... so i decided a review was in need. It has been a wonderful journey, learning lots and finding even more things to work on! i would suggest that everyone go read this talk for Pres. Utchfdorf!

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/04/continue-in-patience?lang=eng

it is so awesome!! well i gotta go but i love you all!!!

Love 

elder jensen!

A Saturday Glimpse....

A Slow Week and a Phone Call

Well it was a slow boring week.

We hardly taught at all. But he lord was just trying our faith.

Saturday evening we talked to this guy, Jonathan, who was out cleaning his yard at like 8:45 weird... but that's what we look for really. So we talked to him and he said we could come over Sunday night.

After dinner on Sunday we go over and some other guy answers the door and tells us that Jonathan just left. So we walk back to our apartments all dejected. When we get back we check our phone and see that there is a voice mail. It was Jonathan, calling to tell us he was expecting us. NO ONE EVER CALLS MISSIONARIES! So we hurried back to his place and it turns out he was in the bathroom or shower when we first knocked. We taught him the restoration and during the lesson he told us that he knows he needs to read the bible but doesn't like to because it is hard to understand. We then taught him about the Book of Mormon and how it is like the Bible, but simpler and easier to understand. it was a pretty cool lesson.

Also earlier this week we had by far the crappiest day ever hahahah we were helping this less active family who has 2 horses and we were shovelling out their stable/pen area... we shovelled a ton of crap... like literally a ton. it was pretty funny and quite the adventure! So like I said... It was the crappiest day ever!

Well I hope all is well back home?

Love 

Elder Jensen

This picture from Bro. Tahauri is just a picture... his 6 year old daughter wanted to do a picture with hats on so we did it hahah it was fun!