The work has been real!

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This last week has been the most work I've done in a week! It was tough and physically, mentally, and spiritually draining and I definitely think we pushed ourselves a little over the top. Mosiah 4:27 is my go to with finding the balance between too much and too little. From Tuesday to Friday it was from lesson to lesson, constantly biking and constantly a little late. The cool thing about it is that we've been able to find a lot of people along the way! I'll go through a few people we met and lessons we had.

First was with Brother Mackey! Now he isn't a member yet, but is excited to be. His wife is a member and we got to tell him about the temple and the work that we get to do there. He was especially excited when we shared with him the family history work we do to help our ancestors. He has several family members he was close with that have passed that he wants to do their work for them. Look out for more on a Brother Mackey in the future! 

We had an appointment with a member family, the Blancs, and they are so willing to help. They offered to help us with two friends that we are teaching and then fed us in about 15 minutes because we told them we didn't have much time to stay. We weren't expecting to be fed with the short time, but Sister Blanc was almost offended and so we couldn't refuse, haha! Then we had to hustle over to the Etienne family who had a son recently baptized and we are helping to prepare for the temple. We talked about the importance of family studies of the scriptures and invited them to do so before we come again. They fed us as well and we were stuffed. The bike ride home was a tough 1 hour ride. 

We met with this one member who invited us to his home of like 10 other people who mostly are members. A lot don't come to church and haven't been in a long time. I'll let you know how we were greeted, "Hey white boys, you lost?!" Haha that guy turned out to be a member. We talked with him and the one who invited us over and they're cool guys. There's a lot of potential in that household and I know the Gospel can really help their family. 

I can say that hitting the bed has never felt so good as it did this week. However, getting up did hurt a little from the bikes the day before haha. As always, it was worth it. There will be discouragement, disappointment, and sometimes it seems like everything is thrown at you. Don't give up! Remember the blessings and remember that God does love you. I love you all and I love these people so much! 

 

-Elder Jensen

Saying bye to our friend Nahum, who's returning to his home country

"I am a child of God!"


A member dropped this off for us! They are just the best!

A boat port on the south end of Fox Hill Road

Fish from the Etienne family

Elder Nichols first time in 2 years having McDonald's, haha, he enjoyed it

A bridge over to Paradise Island

McKenzie's is a pretty good restaurant

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