#9-General Conference and the Temple

 Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great week and a fantastic general conference weekend!


Other than conference, this was a pretty typical week, but there were still a few couple things that happened.

We spent most of our week trying to get people to watch general conference. We had these cards that we would give everyone we saw. And more people watched than we actually thought would! So that was cool. I know that listening to the words of the prophets is super important and cam help us feel the peace we all need in our lives.

We also got to go to the temple with one of Elder Judd's recent converts. And the Las Vegas temple is so cool! It's in the east mission so we don't get to go a ton, but President did give us permission to go. It was so nice to be back in the temple. The grounds were really pretty and there was such a sweet spirit inside the temple. The peace you can feel in the temple is unlike anything the world can offer. Right after the temple we had interviews with President and it was really cool and I could definitely feel the love he has for me.

General Conference was awesome! We watched 3 sessions with members and 2 sessions at the church. All of the messages were so good and I got a lot of answers to my questions. One theme that I noticed from this conference was how important it is to submit our will to God's will. We need to cast off everything that is holding us back from Him whether that is an addiction of any kind, our pride, or anything else. We need to be willing to give everything we can to God. I also loved President Nelson's talk. He said that there is no better time than now to prepare for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. And we prepare by aligning our will to God's 🤯 Isn't it crazy how basically every conference talk connects with each other. If you didn't have the opportunity to watch or listen to conference or even if you did watch it, I invite you to study some of the messages again this week. I promise you that you will find new things that stand out to you and you will know what God needs you to do to come closer to Him and His son Jesus Christ.

Other than that, not too much happened. We should have more lessons this week than we did the past few weeks so that'll be fun to actually teach. Also transfers are next week so we'll see what happens with that. I can't believe I'm already almost done with my first transfer.

Have a great week!
Elder Jensen

1. Temple selfie
2. Random picture of us on the bikes
3. Another temple picture
4. Another
5. One more temple selfie (the sun was super bright)
6. It's a really cool looking temple
7. The sun shining over the mountain was pretty cool









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