General Authority Visit, New Contact, Spanish Is Hard

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 Christ but sometimes it takes a long time, if at all to find that path. 


I am not that good at Spanish but I've been getting lots and lots of practice in this area which is awesome. There was a lesson where Elder Baker just had me play with the little kids the whole time while he teaches. I feel very helpful! 


We did exchanges and I was able to teach a couple lessons in English and I felt like I had so much power. I could actually say things that were gramaticly correct and also answer questions without asking my companion what they said. 


Also, we figured out that after 9:00 we can get free mini dipped cones at this ice cream place here. I am going to be very large, very fast.


This phone is really annoying to do emails on so I'll talk you you all next week.


Elder Jensen 

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