Take Me Down to the Paradise City

WELLLLL. Hey everyone

  Turns out I got changes, and I'm finally going to the COASTTTTT!!!! Yup, I'm in the city of Esmeraldas. I'm in a sector called paraiso, but that's just the name of the ward..  I'm like in the mountains and it's cool. There are a lot of people here, tons! really big city. Should be fun.

Sad to leave mi hijito elder chiroque in Otavalo, but I left the sector better than I found it. We have a pretty decent investigator pool right now. Hoping he can take advantage of it, we actually extended 2 baptismal dates there. But ya, yesterday I traveled all day from Quito to the coast, soo I'm here now, partying it up in the heat. It's like the orient, super humid here. Excited for my next adventure here, I'll send pics next week,

have a good one

Elder Jensen

 

One week til changes

Wow, time has actually flown here in carabuela! Can't believe that we're almost out of the training! Not sure what exactly is going to happen, but I do know that if I have changes, I'll be writing from a different place next week! Getting psyched for that!

Well this week has been a pretty normal for the campo. Not finding too many people.  Really I do not want to get comfortable with these results here.. if this really is my last week, I want to finish here with a bang. hoping to see some success in the finding aspect and I want to put some dates down on some people. 

Well right now is carnaval.. soooo we're in the house for 3 days..  Yesterday, today and tomorrow.  Really kinda a bummer. Puts a damper on the week, but we're hoping to come out strong on wednesday and work hard.  Yesterday I was able to read a lot of Jesus the Chrsist. Something I've learned a lot in my mission is that Jesus, although he was a perfect person, really was exposed to the same feeling that we feel. I'm sure he felt pain or sadness sometimes. I feel like that sometimes, we don't realize exactly what he went through for us. Something I learned is that in these times of difficulty, Heavenly Father sent him angels of ancient prophets to speak with him and comfort him, to help prepare him for the great task he was about to undertake. I feel like that has increased my love in Him and His sacrifice. I've realized it wasn't something easy at all, and he did it 100% out of love for his fellow brethren. Christ leads this church and how lucky are we to be apart of His church.  His promises will never fail. When we feel down, Look unto Him in every thought, doubt not fear not. We are his sheep and we need not fear. We have soo many blessing, we just got to find the positive and build off of that. I was also reading about Alma this week. I really like how he left everything to magnify His calling and to bring to remembrance the duties of the prideful members of the chruch by bearing to them pure testimony..  I feel like that wa a call to strengthen my testimony and to bear it more often to the people here in my sector. welp one lil lesson I learned in my time being a missionary this week.

probably the only good thing that happened yesterday being locked in the house all day was getting a time of 54 seconds on the rubik cube 😎 haha ya pues

que se cuiden

Elder Jensen

Hello my Friends

Que mas ve?!

Welp another week has come and gone.

Nothing too special this week. We did find a pair of New Inv who were references. actually super stoked to work with them because they are excited to listen and learn and the member is super excited that they have accepted us and wants to do visits with us. always cool to get the members involved. 

Que mas

We went to Quito this week for 2nd verifications for my companion. that was cool. he got to teach lessons 1-3 to other trainers and get other feedback and I was able to listen to 3 other trainees teach the first 3 lessons. Cool experience. We left super excited to work and get things moving in our sector. President Murphy said something that really inspired me and I wanted to share it with you, I hope it can inspire you.  He shared a quote that Pres. Monson shared a while back he said in essence,

  "And I always want the Lord to know that if He needs an errand run, Tom Monson will run that errand for Him"

that really called my attention. I want the  lord to be able to trust in me and to know that I'll be willing to run His errands. I hope that we can all have this goal in mind.


I know the Lord loves us and that this is His church. have a great week and enjoy some really dumb fotos of me, sorry,  haha

Elder Jensen