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!

Into the Silverlakes Ward!

Alrighty so like a lot happened this week... but first I have to tell you about something I forgot last week.

So last week in Ranchero ward... right before we left we had the pleasure of attending the baptism of the eight year old daughter of a less active family that we were working with. We played ball with the older boys and had been teaching the family. It was super cool to see her baptized. It was definitely a spiritual and testimony building experience for the family... Hopefully I have pictures of it next week.

This week was super busy and hot... like 42 degrees... way to hot... and we didn't have our car because some other elders crashed theirs and so they had ours so we were on bike the whole time....

So Tuesday we taught a super awesome lesson with a new investigator... turns out he is golden... he approached a member of our ward ( who was his high school teacher) and asked if he could learn more about our church. So we get to teach him... as we start teaching about the Book of Mormon he's like " yah didn't Moronee show it to Joseph Smith?" needless to say we were floored. he came to church on Sunday and we taught him again after. He has a baptismal date of July 17. so that was super exciting!!

Friday evening we were headed to a lesson with our super solid investigator Carlos (more about him in  a second) and we see this fire in the bushes... surrounded by other dry and dead bushes.... in a desert ditch... like 30 feet a way from some houses.... in the 40 degree-45 mile an hour wind weather...so our member calls 911 and reports it... lucky the wind was blowing away from most of the bushes so it wasn't spreading toward the houses very fast... anyway Fire department comes and puts it out... and that is the story of how we were with a member who saved all of Victorville hahah

So Carlos was actually baptized on Saturday! It was awesome! He is an amazing guy! He was found like 2 months ago and was taught very fast and was ready for baptism! He is the kindest guy... and all he says is "I need to work on my anger" hahah he doesn't have an angry bone in his body! It was a great day as it was me and Elder Roberson's first baptisms on our missions! yay!

So yup love you all! and hope you all are well!

Love

Elder Jensen

PS. so the pics are a fire selfie... after it was mostly out and Carlos at the baptism... Carlos is mexican, ... in case you hadn't put that together yet, but he speaks only English.