JENSEN, ETHAN

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving. Mine was pretty awesome. We had a dinner with our district and the zone leaders and it was pretty hilarious. We had golden corral cator and it wasn't the best food but we still ate most of it, there was turkey and potatoes and all that stuff. Me and elder baker bought martenellies for the district but it turns out everyone else had the same idea so we had a bunch of sparkling cider at the dinner. This older couple at the mission office gave us dad jokes to tell at the dinner and some were inappropriate and I think the joke was a little too subtle for them to understand. Or I'm just really inappropriate and made it inappropriate in my head. I'm not really sure which is true.  We did exchanges this week and my awesome companion put me and another elder together in a Spanish area (foster) who only has 2 months in the mission and spanish and I only have 1 month. It was really difficult. We have two lessons in Spanish an...

Hey everyone This week went by pretty fast.  We had a General Authority come and give us a devotional or like a council thing and he made us all feel like we need to work like five times harder. And everyone said that it was a great devotional but they felt like bad missionaries afterwards. I definitely felt that way and there is lots of stuff to work on. This week me and Elder Baker came across a girl who like two years ago had once like completely rejected the missionaries and wanted to have no contact with them at all. But we went to talk to her anyways and she was supper happy to see us and invited us in. We were very confused but very excited at the same time. We had a few lessons with her and she's is crazy happy about the chance to stand church and follow Christ.  This is a great example about how no effort is wasted in missionary work. This girl had no interest in the gospel before, but now she's following the spirit and learning so much. Every person is here to follow...

How's it going everyone,    This week was crazy busy! We had so many lessons this week and our ward gives us so much help. Our ward is always giving us more and more people to teach and were starting to run out of time for our own finding.  As you see in the pictures below, our baptism went through. The baptism was super special cause they were a Colombian family, so it was pretty cool to have my first baptism be people from, Colombia.  My trainer is actually a really cool dude. He's fun to live with and is always working his butt off for the people here and i can tell he loves this work so he's been a really great example to me. I didn't really do much cause I can barely teach in Spanish, but I like to think they're not just nodding their heads because they want me to feel better about my Spanish.  It's getting harder and harder to get up in the morning cause were always getting home late and my trainer does his calls cause he's a district leader, so he...

This week has been pretty crazy We had the most amazing lesson with a mom and her there kids. My trainer said that it was the most spiritual lesson be has had on his mission so far. The bishop was there to help us with the lesson because our ward is awesome!! We taught them the plan of salvation and we could just tell that this family wanted to have the love of God in their life and the love of their families forever. The bishop came in clutch and played down some doctrine about eternal families and then me and elder baker put the kids of date for baptism. It was pretty awesome! The family was supper cute too, the older boy kept hugging is sister's and mom throughout the whole lesson. He also has an interest in serving a mission which is supper exciting as well. My trainer is a supper awesome missionary, he is always working his butt off for the people here and I love to have that example for me in my first transfer, I know that is gonna make me want to be as good as a missionary a...

Hola amigos(hello friends) Great first week in the field. First off, I am in a hotel! It's not the greatest but it is home. It's the same hotel that elder hunt was in. He left the day I got there so I just missed him. I am speaking the Español. My trainer is elder baker and has pretty cool dude. He's a really hard worker and has waisted no time putting me to work. I feel like a little puppy just following him around and understanding nothing. I love it. All I do is pray and say my testimony when he tells me. I'm in the San Ross D area and it is verry large. Hehe. I think the hardest thing is getting the courage to open my mouth and try and talk people even tho I don't really know how to say stuff. My awesome bishop let me say the prayer in sacrament meeting and say the sacrament prayers also. My pronunciation was probably horrible but I did it.  We are teaching allot of people and have 4 people on date for baptism. It's a really busy area and there is much work ...