Things are picking up!

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This week felt really good here in Nassau! It did consist of a few flat tires... We were all going to down town to go and meet people but on the way my tire tube popped. We found a near bike shop and had to wait for the mechanic to show up so we walked. It was about lunch time as well so we walked all the way to a McDonald's here in Nassau. Then we walked back and got the new tube put in. Then this last Saturday, Elder Provost had a flat and it turned out that I had a few broken spokes on my back tire! Didn't know how far back that happened but that's not so good. We couldn't get them fixed Saturday evening so they were going to have to wait until Monday. Thankfully the branch president here in Nassau, President Smith was kind enough to pick us up for church while the other two biked. It was pretty funny that the 2 who broke their bikes got the easier ride to church. I'm just glad we didn't have to walk...

Now what went so well this week? We got to meet with the Etiennes, a family in the branch. It took us four times to make it to their house. On the fourth time they invited us in and fed us some good chicken and rice! We then were able to share a great simple message on how families can be together forever and we actually sang the song "families can be together forever" with them haha! The spirit was so strong there and I felt such a love for the family, and not just for the food of course. 

We also tried going to find people at a mall here and it was way different than when we tried it in Freeport. There were a lot of people and we got to talk to a lot of them. 

We saw an amazing miracle at church this Sunday with a member we met: Sister Whitney. We had only talked to her over the phone once and she came up to us and said hi I'm Sister Whitney and let me show you my son so you can work to baptize him! Haha we were able to meet her kids and set a time to meet her husband with the rest of her family. 

 Things are looking up and I'm excited for the miracles to come! 

 -Elder Jensen

McDonalds!

Brother and Sister Etienne

Dinner from the Etiennes

Lunch from the Bamboo Shack (thanks to President Smith)

It was pretty good!



A lot of people do this here

The district (last transfer)

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