Sick week

So this week was hard.... me and Elder Markham were both sick which meant we didn't get to proselytize much. I got an ear infection, but thanks to ear drops and a priesthood blessing I am feeling much better!

So investigators

Douglas: He is well. He dumped his female friend after we taught the law of chastity. Quote "She wasn't that nice to me anyway" hahaha so that was good. He has only come to church once, so we taught keep the Sabbath day holy and at the end committed him to come to church and he was like "no its cool i'll just come after my baptism"... so that was sad... have to figure that one out. 

Brad: had a lesson with him as well. He is doing well, but he is spending more time with his parents ( which is a really good thing) on weekends which means he can't come to church. Also he thinks that the law of chastity is unlivable in the day and age.

Martin: didn't get to see him this week. He called us 10 minutes before the our appointment with him and said he had been called in early to work :(

Sam and Charlene: our appointment is next week.

Johnny and Kelly: Our lesson with them went pretty good. We show up to teach and kelly is like "Wait! can my friend join us?" of course. so he goes and gets his friend from the backroom and it is a less active guy (Trent) hahah. It was really great because Trent was able to help johnny and Kelly understand the plan of salvation better. Kelly is still afraid to die though. We committed them to church.... but when we showed up to get them ready they were like "nah not this week guys" so that was also sad.

The sisters did give a referral for a couple named Joe and Alicia. they live just around the corner from us. the sisters got them to church on their first try... so they must be doing something better than us. Sadly they had to leave early because Joe had to go to the hospital with high blood pressure.

But he is still alive!

the picture is of the moon and a cool ring around it... kinda hard to see #NotTheBestPicture

Love 

Elder Jensen

Ponderize verse Helaman 14:13

The longest week ever.....

So this week was, as stated above, the longest week of my mission. we didn't have p-day last Monday.... so the week was actually like 11 days long. and this weekend was the weekend we get transfer calls so that made it even worse. to end all suspense... i am staying here in Apple Valley and so is Elder Markham. 

Life is good.  We did some service at a squash farm... basically we just pulled out all the dead squash plants and through them in a composter.  

We also found 4 new investigators this week.

Johnny and Kelly were the first two. They are two guys that are best friends and were a referral from the sister in our ward hahah. they live in the sisters area, but it is better if we teach them. They are a little off hahah and they were drunk when we taught them so that wasn't helping. After receiving a tour of their house, we finally taught them the message of the restoration, Johnny was trying to counter everything we said with random bible facts, but we out did him and his "Amazing bible knowledge" and he accepted that Jesus did visit the america's and Joseph Smith could be a prophet. Kelly is a little more skeptical about the whole God thing... but his was already reading from the book of Mormon when we found him and he said he like it so that is good.

The other two I don't know much about. Elder Markham found them on exchanges and I have only taught them once. They are Sam and Charlene an the definitely need the gospel. When we taught them they accepted everything we taught... but it was hard to see if they really believed it or if they were just agreeing to us to get us to shut up and leave.

Other wise nothing much has happened.... Brad and Douglas are doing well... Douglas should be baptized on the seventh of November.

Love

Elder Jensen

this is my district ( sans Elder Markham)  and half of my zone

Surprise Thursday email!

So not much has changed since I emailed you last. But we were able to go on exchanges with one of the tri-panionships in our zone. I had a really good day in their area... It was nice to be back on bike for a day. We were able to watch a session of conference with brad. he really like it actually. His own words on it So not much has changed since I emailed you last. But we were able to go on exchanges with one of the tri-panionships in our zone. I had a really good day in their area... It was nice to be back on bike for a day. We were able to watch a session of conference with brad. he really like it actually. His own words on it are : "Wow! that was a lot less boring than I expected"

Today we went to the temple it was awesome!... the picture is of me and Elder Markham at the temple.

Love

Elder Jensen

Conference!!!!!!!!!

So this week was awesome... mostly because of General Conference. To the few people who aren't members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, General Conference is where we get to hear from the leaders of our church, Modern Abraham's and Moses's and Peter, James and John's! Literally learning what God has to say about the world at this time! Advice and commandments for now and not 2 or more thousand years ago. Not that scripture isn't important, but the world is always changing, so we need always need God's help.

Anyway. conference was amazing if you didn't get chance to watch it I would extremely encourage it. This week was good.

Tuesday we were able to teach alot of people. We taught Douglas ( I think I have mentioned him before) he is a super cool old southern guy... ok he is not that old ... but he is old. Anway... we asked him if he had read any of the book of mormon... and he was like "sorry guys I was only able to read up to chapter 10."  And we were just sitting there like... "its ok... most people don't read the first ten words." hahah so that was awesome! We also taught Brad... he is doing well not much new there.

Wednesday was our only full day to proselytize.... and we were only able to teach one lesson :(

Thursday- we had missionary leadership council... basically like 6 hours of figuring out what the mission needs to do better... kinda long and dry and taking up a whole day because we have to go to the mission office for it.

Friday- planning the Zone meeting we have to give tomorrow.

 We did teach a few recent converts so that was good.

Saturday- Conference!!!!!! and more Conference!!

Sunday- More conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pretty much awesome

today we hiked a mountain and that is what the pictures are of!

Love

Elder Jensen

PS. 

my verse is Mosiah 27:36. seemed appropriate for my current vocation.

I don't know what to tell you/ grandpa... where I am very few of my investigators actually work... so we can visit them whenever... and coincidentally not very many people work so we can just try people. However with a huge emphasis on families...I guess I would say that contacting at a park would be the best option. Typically it is a lot of moms which is perfect! You can find families... and then set up return appt for the evening when everyone is home.