Service and Such

Elder Jensen(back row, orange eyes) with other crazies!

So it was a pretty normal week. Church. Weekly Mcdonalds on Friday. teaching people and the likes. We were able to teach all of our gators this week. so that was awesome. Warrens daughter talked to us at church and expressed her gratitude for us teaching her father. 

Jaime and Rebekah and Ethan came to church again. I think that Rebekah is more ready to come back than Jaime is to join but its all good we will get them there.

On Saturday we had a huge stake wide service project. It was a very overcast day and we figured we would get rained on... but we are in the desert so it didn't hahah Everyone one was wondering what was wrong with me when i showed up in shorts... I'm Canadian thats what. We were out at a lake and camping area doing yearly clean up and stuff like that. We had to make things fun and so the pics are what happened. Most of the time I was trail blazing. My inner Grandpa Forsyth came out again as I had to stop eating lunch to get a picture of a cool bird I saw ( also included)... and then the cool weather.

This week Pres. Hobbs asked/told/encouraged me to read even more from the Book of Mormon than I would normally do in my personal studies. As I did this I remembered why I love that book and learned so many cool things. Like Enos prayed for a whole day BEFORE God ever talked to him and then after that he prayed for everyone else.  Just simple little things like that. But it is wonderful. If you don't already read that book on a daily basis I would encourage you to do so.  I can promise it will change you life!

As requested by Cynthia next P-day i will email home my Jacob 5 comic strip!

Love 

Elder Jensen

A week of YAY!

So this week was Great!

We found 3 new investigators! 1 is an old former investigator named Warren. At first he seemed like he was gonna chase us off but at the end he invited us back! When we went back he actually had alot of questions about Joseph Smith, the BoM and the beginning of the Church so we pretty much taught the Restoration with out him knowing!YAY!

The people we built the gazebo for came to church again yesterday and really enjoyed themselves it seems! YAY! Also it turns out that Rebekah is actually a lost less active member. Everything seems to be going good. 

The stake Volleyball continued this week as well... It has been a good fellow-shipping activity for a few less active members.

This week i have been studying Jacob 5 in the Book of Mormon... if you don't know what that means... go read it... just maybe not all at once hahah.

As i studied it i have wrote in down in comic book/strip style. It has made it a lot easier to understand!

Love you all and love hearing from you!

Love 

Elder Jensen

Service = Church Attendance

So the cool story for this week is:

On saturday we did service for forever. We weeded a yard, moved a piano, organized a garage and built a gazebo. the people we built a gazebo for aren't members of the church. They are people that we talked to one night while they were out in their garage drinking. Their names are Jaime rebekah and ethan. Turns out i know Jaime's brother from my last area ( small world). After we built a gazebo with them they had us over for dinner, they drank we didn't hahah. during conversation they asked what we would be doing the next day. we said church and invited them to come. they said they would... but we kinda doubted whether or not they actually would. THEY DID! ANd they like it! hopefully all goes well and we can help come in to the fold!

The rest of the week was filled with walking and more walking... as we were trying to fix my bike...It is finally fixed and i can use it again! We also were invited to participate in th stake volleyball tournament, which turned more into pick up games... so that has been a good way to make some member friendships!

Love you all and hope that the great white north isn't too cold!

Love 

Elder Jensen

Conference Weekend!

So this week we weren't able to teach... like at all kinda sucked ( unlike our vacuum  ) Sorry that was cheesy... but this is what happens when you serve a mission.

We did a lot of service this week... like alot. Hahah one time the instuctions we were given went kinda like this:

See this pile sand right here  It needs to go over here .

                                         

So we shoveled some sand from here over to here .

                                                                          

The tricky part was that we now have this sand here and this sand here... 

                                                                                                        

nothing changed about the first pile but the second pile was the same size... 

it was weird and i don't think we accomplished anything... but it made the guy happy so that's all that matters.

Then my bike broke... but it should be an easy fix...

Conference on Saturday and Sunday was amazing!!!! To hear living Prophets and Apostles bear witness of the living Christ is the best thing on this planet!

On saturday we watched at a members house and on sunday we watched at the stake center.... it was sooooo wierd and empty on sunday... literally only missionaries and their rides to the chapel, if they even needed one. so like 25 people and 18-20 were missionaries. hahah Yup thats about it really. nothing else really happened.

Its way too hot down here.... like i might  die this summer!

Love 

Elder Jensen