#10 Transfers and Dia de la Familia

 

Andrew Jensen

AttachmentsOct 15, 2024, 6:51 PM (3 days ago)
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What's up everyone?! I hope you all had a fantastic last week. Mine was very eventful so let's get into that.

First I'll start with the transfer news. Both me and Elder Judd were sorta transferred. He is now a zone leader and he has one of our wards (Alexander) and a Spanish ward. I have our other ward (Painted Desert) and then Mountain Crest. My wards are in two different stakes which is weird for my mission. My new companion is Elder Hansen. This transfer should be pretty good. It's also different because it's only 5 weeks because of Thanksgiving so it'll be pretty fast. I'm sad that I'm leaving my papi Elder Judd but Elder Hansen will be a great companion.

This past transfer had been hard to find lessons, but this week we had so many miracles. We met new friends who are awesome and very interested in progressing. We had some great lessons this week. The best one was with this older lady in our ward named Sister Sy. She wanted us to come over and teach her caretaker. It was such an  awesome lesson.

We also had a couple of lessons at the house of the Alexander Bishop. His daughter has a couple of friends that are interested. That family is so cool. They are so missionary minded. 

On Saturday there was this huge Hispanic party for the whole Las Vegas valley. All of the Spanish Elders and a lot of the English Elders from both the Vegas West and Vegas East mission got to go and help. It was from 3-9 so we were there like the whole day. We helped with thw kids bouncy houses for the first little bit and then we went and were supposed to go talk to everyone there. I didn't feel like I was helping because I don't speak Spanish but it was still fun. The music and dancing was super cool. 

On Monday we spent the whole day packing and cleaning the apartment because we were both leaving. What's kind of annoying is the bug people came that day and finally got rid of the ants. I wish that had happened like 4 weeks ago.

My spiritual thought today from the Book of Mormon. In the Book of mosiah we see two different groups of people who go through similar challenges. They were both in bondage and they both were really struggling. The people of Limhi complained to the Lord and because of that the Lord was slow to hear their cries and it continued to be very difficult for them. The other group, the people of Alma, were going through the same struggles. But instead of complaining, the turned to the Lord. And because they turned to the Lord, their challenges were made easier to bear. This is the same for our lives. When we turn to the Lord in all of our challenges, he will make our burdens light and we will be able to make it through our challenges.

Have a great week!
Elder Jensen 

Pictures
1. Silly Sunday morning photo
2. Last district council 
3. Dia de la familia
4. Bouncy houses
5. Winnie the Pooh
6. We baked a cake for fun
7. More bouncy houses
8. Last day with Sergio 😢










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