Crazy Week!!!!!!!!

Well this week was nuts!!!!!!! So like it was crazy... I don't even know what to say about it.... we were just busy busy busy. 

Elder Latu was with Elder Roberson and I again for most of this week, but the Tripanionship came and went way too fast! We had a lot of fun together!

So to clarify any confusion. Darion and Damyeune are not the same person... Damyeune is not our investigator anymore... we passed him off to another set of elders and he is to be baptized next Saturday! 

Darion IS our investigator. And he is doing great we taught him three times this week! it was great! So the first time we did what is called a CPR lesson... Pretty much the essentials to living: Church, Prayer and Reading the scriptures. We had invited him to church a few times but he hasn't come in the 3 Sundays we have been teaching him.. so we cracked down on that. Elder Latu bore a powerful testimony of church and committed him to come! It was amazing...more on that in a second. The next lesson we taught the law of chastity... it went as well as expected. We also invited him to the baptism of our ward mates investigator on Friday. So on Thursday ( the day before the baptism) we are trying to find us and Darion a ride over to the baptism... and we just couldn't. (OH and did I mention that me and my companion are heavily involved in the baptism... like we need to be there?) It wasn't happening.  But as we sit down to plan... like at 9 on the dot we get a phone call and a text confirming everything for our rides! Whoosh! So Friday morning ... the day of the baptism we go to Darion and confirm that he is going... got to one of  the members house that is giving us a ride and leave me there ( with a capable Melchizedek priesthood holder) He was conducting the baptismal service so we figured that I would be there early enough to change... LOL nope not quite hahah oh well it worked out. Meanwhile, my companions go back to Darion's house and meet another member there and some how beat me to the baptism. But what matters is that Darion came to that baptism and he felt the spirit!!! it was great!

Saturday... lil bit o rain nothing too bad. We taught Darion again and made sure he was coming to church. At first we thought he was trying to get out of it.... but instead he asked if his sister and her kids could come! It was great!

Sunday! We met Darion and the ride we found for him at his house and he and his sister and her kids came to church! Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And they enjoyed it. Praise the Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we had to take Elder Latu back :( sad day. At this point it was raining like crazy!

Love

Elder Jensen

Ps. one pic is of the fire that was close to me. and the other is of Elder Latu, Elder Roberson and I.  The fire was like 20 miles from where I am. It was pretty bad apparently.  One set of elders was displaced for a day... but then they were able to go back. I think the total for the fire damages was 26 or 27 cars( some on a semi that was carrying them) 1 fedex truck and 6 or 7 houses.  

(See more about the fire near Elder Jensen that we saw on Canadian news GLOBAL TV)

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