Bread from the Kearns 34th Ward

 hahahah so I will explain the heading in a second.

Life is good and I am well. It is cold here in California.... like all the way down to 32...it is awful. Not sure how I will survive in Canada.

Brad: Had ( probably) our last lesson with him. If all goes well he should be back with his family next week! Sad for us but good for him.

Douglas; had a good lesson on following the prophet. We talked a lot about commandments and why we have them and the blessings of keeping them. We also watched Pres. Monson's conference address from preisthood session.

Joe and Alicia-  We taught the word of wisdom which from what they said they were already living and revisited the law of chastity. They need to get married, but both are unsure if they want to. Joe is more of the hang up which is really sad, if it was just Alicia she would probably be being baptized next week. This week we are going to give them a bit of an ultimatum and move no from there. We might have to drop them :(

Debra- Debra is new investigator! She actually found us! We were walking with a guy and she walked up to us and started talking with us as well. She has just recently moved in to Apple Valley and is looking for a church. we  got her number and set up a return appointment. It was and interesting lesson (as always in the desert). But she really focused for the first vision and the book of Mormon part. She has already started cleaning up her life... so most of the commandments will be easy for her to live. She has a baptismal date for December 26... weird day I know... but we felt it was right.

So about the bread.

Last week our district (not the whole zone) decided to have a special fast on Sunday to find new investigators. We started Saturday night after dinner and went until Sundays dinner. So Saturday after church and studies we are out trying to proselyte on empty stomachs... which is not that bad really but it seems bad when you are doing it. All of our plans fall through and we still have like and hour before dinner. So we pray and to know what to do and to have strength to continue. we decide to go try a couple of less active people that all live in one house. No one answers (bet you coulda guessed that). We feel prompted to try a house across the street. A lady answers the door and says

" Oh Brothers . Its so good to see you! Come in. Do you want some warm peach cobbler?"

OF COURSE WE DO!!!!

We go in and she gives us some cobbler and we start talking. she tells us how she likes to bake and how her son has  Syliacs and can't have gluten. Then how her most favorite recipe is for cinnamon bread... like a loaf of cinnamon rolls... but all bread. Then she tell us how she made Funeral potatoes. at this point we are wondering who the heck she is. 

*She knows about funeral potatoes?! Who is this lady?*

So we say "oh yeah MORMONS love funeral potatoes"... and then she pulled out her favorite cook book( where she got the recipe for the brad and funeral potatoes and cobbler)... and it is a ward cook book from the Kearns 34th ward of Utah... yup. Turns out she loves Mormons but doesn't think that any one religion can have all the answers...but she was really nice to us. Then she showed us her farm( backyard farm). and on the way out the door she gave us a huge loaf of  warm cinnamon bread.

#BLESSINGS!

Love

Elder Jensen

Over a year!

Well I have been out over a year... and on my year mark day guess what I did????? nope didn't party or burn anything or go for food a fancy place.... I sat in a leadership meeting for like 8 hours. I am not bitter or upset or anything... its just not how most missionaries spend their year mark day hahah. 

So lets see...saturday we went on unexpected exchanges with the AP's... some other missionaries had to switch their exchanges so we got to go instead. I was in Rancho again but this time with with Elder Hancock. There was a missionary that had just come in from Chile with us as well because it is the middle of transfer. We had a great day it was cool to be back with Elder Hancock again.

Douglas- he is well he has decided to hold off on baptism for a while... but we are still going to try and teach him and get him there.

Brad- didn't get to see him a gain

Joe and Alicia - they came to church again!!! They will need to get married... but they should be baptized on the 5 of December.

Kelly- Elder Markham and Elder Findlay saw them on exchanges. 

Jeff- he is doing good we just read with him... he won't be able to be baptized on the date we set... but he is still super awesome and solid. we are hoping to start teaching his three kids.

I think that is it... this week we made a casserole that Presidents wife gave us a recipe for... it was awesome!! I don't have a picture sorry... but I do have one of exchanges!

love

Elder Jensen

Less than a year left.....

well this week was really weird... like really

So we taught a lot but it seemed like we didn't teach at all. 

Douglas- We taught him the baptism standards and he committed to baptism... but then he didn't come to church... so we are going to have to figure out what is going on. 

Brad- didn't get to see him this week

Jeff- He is a guy from like a while ago... he committed to baptism... but then he talked to friends and decided he had concerns... so we went back and  resolved said concerns and now he is back on date... unfortunately he couldn't come to church but he should be there next week!

Joe and Alicia- they are the referral from the sisters. We were able to teach them the restoration and committed them to baptism! They came to church and we are seeing them tomorrow!

Kelly- hahahah what a guy haha we helped him understand the Resurrection and the need for faith.

Geovani- cool part member guy. Hi wife is less-active. We taught him the plan of salvation... it went ok he just needs to actually commit.

On Thursday I had the glorious opportunity to be back on exchanges with Elder Depew. He was my second comp and he is now one of my district leaders. It was a great day... but we didn't teach any one.

On Wednesday we had our ward Halloween party... Me and Elder Markham went as each other. hahah no one really noticed.

Also as of Oct 31 I have less than a year left.... weird... really weird

Love

Elder Jensen

here is some of the chicken we made hahah