Elder Brody Jensen

Wow, what a week!? Well after a good days worth of flying on Tuesday we made it and so did all of our luggage! It was a group of 3 Elders and 2 Sisters. We walked out of the plane and it is no longer winter Kansas guys. I will say that there has been a lot of things that have made me grateful I have already had the chance to visit this beautiful island. So the humidity and heat change wasn't too surprising, but that wasn't the experience for a couple of the other new Jamaica missionaries.  When we walked out of the airport it was 8:30 Jamaica time and we found another Elder that actually got there 5 hours earlier... poor guy. Apparently there was a miscommunication so no one knew he had got in so early. But not long after we got there our APs, Elders Beach and Brown, came running up and loaded our luggage into the mission van. We got to a hotel in Kingston and passed out after a day of traveling. The next morning we headed out of the hotel at 7:30 and was able to grab some b...

Sorry for the delay but I'll explain later. Covid continues to suck and somehow be a blessing in disguise! It has been hard with so many people we have contacted and begun to teach and now can't meet with because they or someone they know is sick. There is a lot of this going around everywhere so I'm sure anyone reading this has seen it a little, but maybe not. With it being so hard and such a trial in our street-contacting work, we have had time to strengthen our Facebook work and we were able to contact a lot of members to get them in on lessons! It is really cool that even when certain areas of missionary work are restricted, we see no less miracles!! Now with transfers coming up Elder Henrie and I were really wondering what was going to happen to our area. Because of many reasons we were pretty sure our area, the Rock Road YSA, was going to get two different missionaries assigned to the area. So we were trying really hard to get the people we were teaching ready for t...

It has been a great week! Hard, exhausting, but great. Basically this whole week was a lot of contacting. Elder Henrie and I, this whole transfer so far, had been working up our goal of how many people we would be finding. The week before this last, we got 2 new people to teach and this week we planned on finding 3. We spent a lot of time at the college in colder and warmer weather throughout the week and finished the week with 6 new people to teach! Then 2 of our friends from last week came to church!! It was a very rewarding week.  One of the people we taught was named Ottis. He is an awesome dude! He loves sports and Jesus Christ and visits the campus all the time. We walked up to him and didn't walk away 'til 45 minutes later! He loves to be in what he calls "the spiritual zone"! So he wants to meet with us more! Funny story though: when you talk to everyone, you talk to a lot of different people. We were in this neighborhood knocking on a door of someone who ...

Another week has flown by so here's another email! Half way through this transfer and I can't believe it. With that I have definitely realized how much of a blessing it was to have a baptism early in my mission because these last few weeks have been a bit slower. HOWEVER, the miracles have not ceased. One thing I feel like has been brought up over and over is to look for these miracles. Here is a few... We got snow!! May not have been a white Christmas, but this year started right with a nice snow with wind chills that brought the temperature to negatives 6 to 10!! It was awesome and honestly so much fun. It has been so funny to talk with my companion about living in the cold because he is from Utah and I've never lived with snow before. Sure I've gone snowboarding, so I have seen snow but there has been so many things that I have never thought about before. I can't remember but my companion has gotten a few good laughs. So because of the cold, there were even less ...