One Heck of a week

So this week was crazy.

On Monday we got our Two week missionary ( I think I mentioned him last week, if not well now I did). 

Then Tuesday was Zone Meeting. Really good.... but really long and dry at points. Then we started working and Elder Latu (our two-weeker) got two flats on his borrowed bike. 

Wednesday we were on exchanges and me and Elder Latu were back with my old comp Elder Clark! So we fixed the flats and then like 10 minutes later he got another one so we fixed that one too hahah.

We were still able however to teach Darion and it went really well. After we finished teaching the plan of salvation we had him re-tell us it. He did it very well, something  I thought he would struggle with. At the end of the lesson his sister (one of the many that are there) asked if next time she could join us! We said ABSOLUTELY!

thursday.... can't remember... nothing too crazy obviously...

Friday-weekly planning. A little bit of service moving a couch for a member. then we taught Darion again. We taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ or the first 4 principles and ordinances of the church and the Word of wisdom! He committed to live the word of wisdom and said it would help him in his life! and Now he has a baptismal date of AUG 15!

Saturday we were supposed to go to two child of record baptisms ... but didn't... we thought that they were the same one... and we properly excused our selves from one... but not the other....................... so that happened... but it worked out better for us. Then my seat post broke on my bike... that also happened... so then my bike looked like it fit in with Victorville... gotta have something Ghetto about you. As missionaries are encouraged to embrace the culture so... hahah then we walked in the evening... cuz my bike was hard to ride. and Elder Roberson got a really bad sunburn... like lobster bad hahah. During our walking Elder Latu asked us what we talk to people about when we street contact them... and we were like..."pretty much whatever" so we decided we had best teach him what street contacting is like: 

        So we are walking and we see this guy who is working on his old car ('67 mustang it was really nice!!!!!). As we walk up I see a sticker on his other car for a church that does a lot of anti-mormon stuff. so I am thinking to my self " Welp!... We wanted to teach him what street contacting is like and he is gonna figure it out." We start talking to him about his mustang ... I know enough about cars to fake a convo ... but Elder Roberson doesn't know much so he was 100% faking hahah. So we chat about his car for like half an hour and its really cool. Then the conversation turns to God and religion and for like an hour we have an amazing Spirit-filled conversation about the differences and similarities between our churches and our beliefs! Turns out this guy is a teacher/leader of sorts at his church. It was really cool because normally when you talk with members of this church (which we do a lot), especially leaders, they like to get up in our grill about things but this was a very polite and easy conversation. It was also kind of interesting to see how his attitude changed while were there. At first he was at a 9 on the uncomfortable scale and you could tell he was very nervous around us. He was stammering a lot and fighting really hard to stay the leader of the conversation. But as it went he got more comfortable and stuttered less. He was probably at a 4 when we left.

Sunday was church and dinner with one of the funniest guys ever hahah! Just one of those members. hahaha

Love

Elder Jensen

Good times!

So this week was crazy busy!!

We found 4 new investigators.  Thats the most I have ever found in a week... sounds sad... but its true... also that is like 2 or three times the average of our mission. hahah anyway

We taught a lot of miracles this week! So one thursday we go looking for this guy named Trayvon who is a referal... knock on his apartment door. No one is home... as we are leaving the Apartment complex we pass a group of younger guys (teenagers). I asked them if they knew Trayvon and the one guy was Trayvon! So we taught him right there in the grass and he became and investigator. As we walked away my comp asked me how I knew that he was Trayvon... quite frankly I didn't... but the Spirit told me to ask them! So miracle one of the week!

Miracle two. As we are biking away from our second lesson with one of the investigators we found this week, my comp sees a family with a little boy out playing in the water. So we go back to talk to them and it turns out that they are looking for a new church because they were offended at their old one. So we jump on that and give them our church building address. As the conversation goes on we learn that they both have family members that are suffering from dementia. So we bore testimony of the resurrection and the healing it offers. after we did that Jesse (the husband) said he wished he could have a hope like that.  We offered to come over and share our message with them. They accepted and we taught them Sunday morning before church!!!

Last miracle. SO we had a pass off lesson with one of our investigators. For those of you who haven't served missions that is where two sets of missionaries get together and teach an investigator the same thing at the same time and then who ever was previously teaching doesn't anymore and the new set does... sorry that is confusing hope you figure it out. Also for those of you who haven't yet served, pass off lessons rarely go well... just too many people trying to teach at once! However the miracle is that this lesson went very well and smooth!

That is it for this week!

Love you all!

Love

Elder Jensen

A classic week in Victorville

So it was the standard 105 degrees out pretty much all week except for Saturday and Sunday when it was 97 and like 50-60% Humidity... which is super rare here in the desert. It is " Monsoon season" here in California... which I think means kinda cloudy with a few sprinkles here and there for a few days...

Anyway the work has been going good! We have found success in the evenings when it is cooler and people are out walking around. We also have received a lot of referrals so we have been trying to contact those people. We have a lot of return appointments which is awesome!

This week! We were able to teach Damyeune again and he is progressing really well... sadly we have to pass him off to another set of elders because he doesn't live in our area. Also sadly he wasn't able to come to church because his aunt came and took him and his mom to a different church to prove to them that he will go to hell if he joins our church hahah. After that he sent us a huge text explaining why he loves the mormon church! It was super cool. He has even hit a new stage in progression. The return and report stage. We give him a reading assignments and such almost daily. When he has read it he will text us back what he learned or what it meant to him! It is so cool to see how God prepares people!

Also working with Damyeune has made me appreciate role models who aren't afraid to be bold. Damyeune has had two (his English teacher and his Karate Sensei) huge roll models in his life who are Mormon and both have helped him come closer to God and Jesus Christ and have willingly taught him the gospel when asked! So cool!

Well thats it this week!

Love

Elder Jensen

 PS. .... yeah nope the fire we reported didn't get big enough to make the news... well maybe if every fire makes the news it did... but based on how frequently the sirens go off I doubt it... we see houses that have been burnt all the time... it is super sad.

There have been two fires raging close... i mean Canada close ...to us. One is actually really close and inside the mission boundaries... close to an area of a couple missionaries out in the middle of nowhere... but where I am is fine... the air is fine... but some days it is still pretty smokey out!