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!

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