Montego Bay Conference

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Phew, it feels like it was just last week I wrote an email. 

Something really cool with this week and being in Montego Bay is that I remembered someone I taught a few months ago named Romain. He was in Yallahs and was preparing to be baptized when he moved to MoBay and got super busy and stressed. We ended up sending his dot over to the Elders here and they were never able to contact him. Well my first day in this area I thought about him and we gave him a call. He answered!! He is still busy but really wants to make time to meet us. Hopefully we will see him this next week. 

 

Having a truck for the companionship is way different. There's the obvious perks but I'm finding a good amount of disadvantages as well with doing missionary work. One is we often become delivery boys for the Zone, haha. Another is that parking in town is very, very hard. However, because of the blessing of the truck we were able to visit a member who lives very far out in the bush. Brother and Sister Clarke were so kind enough to feed us fried chicken and rice and peas, a classic! It was way good until I ate the scotch bonnet pepper in the rice, yikes! It was all good though and their family is ready to love, share and invite those around them to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

 

My companion, Elder Webb, and I are very excited for this transfer. Last week we had a missionary leadership council (MLC) where we drove to Spanishtown and counseled about how we can work with members as a mission. We felt so inspired and ready to work with the members in Montego Bay Branch and to help the Elders and Sisters in our zone to do the same! 

 

I love you all and hope you have a great week of going over the wonderful things shared in last weekends in General Conference. I know that President Russel M Nelson is a man and prophet of God. If you've never heard of General Conference before, or want to hear more about what it is, I would love to share! 

 

-Elder Jensen 





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