Letter 61 Goodbye Elder Peterson, Hello Elder Clark!

August 26, 2017

Hey Everyone!

This week was super fun because it was transfer week! Saturday night we got a call for our transfer from our mission president for Elder Peterson. He is going to Hacienda Heights to be a zone leader again. He was pretty pumped because he really didn't want to get transfer trashed but now it looks like he will stay there for his last area.

My new companion is Elder Clark. He is a Spanish missionary who just came from East LA and this is his first time in English work. I'm excited to have him as a companion and so far this week with him has been really fun. It will be nice to contact people in Spanish as well now because my Spanish contacting is trash.

Anyway, this Monday we worked with all the missionaries going home and there were a lot of good
missionaries in this group. It was sad to to see them go. Then Tuesday we took them to the airport and picked up the new missionaries. It was a lot of fun to meet them all!

Also, Monday and Tuesday evening we were able to meet with one of the new investigators that Elder Peterson and I found. His name is Adrian and he is the same age as us. He is super awesome and really wants to change and so we challenged him to be baptized and set his date for September 30th! We will probably pass him off to the YSA but we are still looking into it. We were able to meet with him almost every day this week and his best friend Alissa though and they are planning on coming to church tomorrow after we give them a chapel tour tonight.

It has been awesome to see things picking up here and really cool that he meets with us everyday because that has been really hard to for most people in this area. The Smallwoods also came to church last week and he has already received a calling! We are super excited for how well things are
going.

I know that this gospel is true and that we can be changed by applying the teachings of Jesus Christ. I hope you all have a great week!

Pictures: Goodbye Elder Peterson and my new companion Elder Clark. Sorry the pictures are kinda bad.

Elder Jensen

 

Letter 60: Missionary Meetings

August 19, 2017

Hey Everyone!

Sorry I'm writing again so soon but it's transfer week next week so p day is early and next p day will be Monday. Nothing too big happened this week but we did have a few fun meetings. There are also a ton of missionaries coming in the next two transfers so I'm pretty pumped because this will make up for the lack of missionaries we had earlier this summer. I guess they all just came a bit later for some reason.

Anyway, transfer calls are tonight so I will let you all know what happened next Monday unless I got transferred because if I did I would be having p day again on this Monday. Elder Peterson and I both think we will stay though so we shouldn't have to worry about that. This week instead of district meeting we had another meeting with half the mission one day and the other half the other day that president out on about controlling thoughts and anxiety and stress and depression and all that good stuff. I thought it was a great meeting and I learned a ton of stuff I had no idea about.

Another great thing from this week is that the Smallwoods will be coming to church! They are a less active family that we have been working with for a while but I haven't really mentioned them in my letters. They have come to church once already and their commitment is growing a ton! Brother Smallwood really has a desire to go to the temple and he is pulling his family along with him and really helping them to progress. He is now on Jacob in the Book of Mormon and is doing great and we are super excited they committed to come to church again. Well that's pretty much it this week I guess.

Sorry no pictures, but I hope you all have a great week!

Elder Jensen

Letter 59

Hey everybody!

I feel like every time it is time to write an email I just forget everything that happened this week. We had MLC which was really good and this week we are going to have a mission meeting which I am really excited for.

We pretty much had this week open to proselyte and so we were able to find some great new investigators and we are really hoping they progress. One of them is a mother of a family and that was really exciting because she sounded really interested in ways she could help her family which is awesome. There are so many broken families today and so it was nice to see a fully functioning family who wants to hear the gospel. Last night we were able to go by the Ibraihims as well and we are probably going to work with them again.

They have been struggling with a lot lately and they have been coming to church (just the classes unfortunately) and I think they really do want to do the right thing. This week we had exchanges and I went into the Spanish area which was a whole lot of fun. I am really starting to enjoy biking a lot more! Well, that's pretty much all for this week!

Here is a photo of the district, we have transfers coming up soon though so we will see what happens!

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Letter 58

Hey Everyone!

This week was our first zone conferences with President Wells and they were great! We went to them all and it was a great experience to learn from them. We learned about the importance of following the spirit which I really want to apply more in my mission.

Yesterday we had a stake wide fast for missionary work and so we hope that the work will move forward strongly! We had the chance last week to speak in sacrament meeting which I really enjoyed. I used to hate speaking in sacrament but now I just love it and it's great practice.

That's pretty much all that happened this week but we have a really open week next week so hopefully it goes well! Have a great week!

Elder Jensen