Elder Brody Jensen

So last Monday was our Zone P Day for the month, which means that it is the one day that we can meet up with all of the other missionaries in our zone and plan something fun to do. Sometimes with these activities, President Odonkor, our mission President, and his assistants join the missionaries. So our plan for Monday with the zone was to go to this Crocodile Safari in Black River area! Then President and the APs decided to join us and paid for the Safari and lunch afterwards as well! It was so cool and I didn't even know there were Crocodiles in Jamaica. We all got on this Safari boat and got to ride down the Black River and see all of these Crocodiles swimming around. There was around 4-5 that we saw out there, the largest being 7 feet long. The boat driver said that the biggest one in in river is about 16 feet! Wow! Then after the Safari we went to Las Vegas Cafe and I got myself some jerk fish. Now when I say fish, it was a fish, straight up! It took me by surprise at first bu...

This week was an abnormal week in a good way! Tuesday and Wednesday we had exchanges planned with the Zone Leaders in Santa Cruz and with the other Santa Cruz Elders as well.  Tuesday was with the ZLs and they drove down to Junction in the morning to start the day. I got to have Elder Grant come with me to our area and that was great! Elder Grant was actually the Elder that I got to hang out with for a day in Kingston when I first got here to Jamaica. So Tuesday we had planned to go to Bull Savannah to visit Kirk Burke and all of his neighbors again! This time we got to teach 2 more of his neighbors and just had 4 back to back solid lessons! I also love exchanges because Elder Grant brought up so many perspectives on things we have already taught but really helped the people we were teaching. By the last lesson we also had a little squad walking down the street with Elder Grant, myself, Kirk, Adory (Kirk's 10 year old grandniece) and a dog named Gucci. Elder Grant said it felt a ...

Well, this week started off with a great day of everything getting cancelled on us. We were blessed to find out before we paid the taxi fee and decided to get some other things done for the day instead, one of which was finishing the Annual History Report for the Junction Branch. We were planning on doing this later for 30 minutes to an hour but thanks to beautiful internet, it took 2-2.5 hours. At that point we were thankful that our day cancelled so we were able to finish the report and send it in before the deadline!  Now Wednesday we did not have very many lessons scheduled so we decided to go visit an area we have not been to before. The biggest reason we have not been that way was because almost no taxis drive that route. So that meant an hour walk for us there, and an hour back. Of course a lot of the walking was stopping to talk to people and actually have people talking to us, so it was not bad at all. We actually had a car stop right in the middle of the road, open...

This week was pretty exciting! Right after P Day it started off with a guy who somehow got our number, calling us and asking for marriage advice. Haha, we were thrown back at first but got into a good discussion about prayer and asking God for help.  Now with all of our planned lessons, we saw so many miracles this week. First, we were at one member's house and were recommended to go over and check up on another member, Brother Thomas, that lived near by. When we called to say we were going over, Brother Thomas told us that that would be perfect because one of our friends we were teaching over the phone happened to be there as well!!! It was great and we were able to teach both of them!  We also planned this week to find Henry, one of our investigators, that we tried forever to find last week. We got some better directions and found him in about 15 minutes, haha, so much easier.  On Thursday we planned to go and visit a less active member and in our companionship st...