The beginning of Missionary work in a YSA ward

So this week was nuts... we had a lot of meetings and planning to do for our zone. We had a training meeting with the AP's and President and then we led a training meeting with our district leaders. We also planned for our zone training meeting that is coming up. We did, amidst all of the meetings, manage to make it to the YSA FHE and to Institute Thursday evening. We also managed to find a new family in our family ward. The mom was a self referral and we managed to teach her and her daughter! It was an awesome lesson! We took a priest from our ward and he bore an awesome testimony of the Book of Mormon... otherwise he was pretty quiet hahah Poor guy. it was only his second time out with missionaries and the lady had some questions... (normal to us, crazy to the young man) like do we have crosses in our church? and how we pray? how she should pray? the identity and existence of our mother in heaven. Hahahah it was a great lesson though!

I love this season and the spirit it brings! If you want that spirit check out this awesome video at 

christmas.mormon.org !! you will love it!

Love

Elder Jensen

Wow.....

So this week was nuts..... today is transfer day... so we are super busy. this will be a short one.

Me and Elder Markham are the same... but we are taking over a YSA ward and another zone... so we are busy and more busy.

We had to drop Joe and Alicia... they don't want to get married and Joe pretty much told us that if he could drive he wouldn't go to our church anyway... so that was sad :(

We found a new investigator his name is Tim. He is cool. He wants to get baptized and come to church!

On thanksgiving one of our investigators had us over to his family dinner. We met his wife officially for the first time and she was really interested in what we do as missionaries! The turkey was the best turkey ever so juice and tasty!! And then at the dinner a guy for my first ward walks in! It was super cool!! hadn't seen him in like a year! Also had another dinner with a ward member that day... and pie at another member's house who had us over... so much food.. so good...

Sadly my second companion is going home to day... so that is me and him! 

and this is most of my MTC group... first time lots of us had seen each other in awhile!

Love

Elder Jensen

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