#21 Merry Christmas🌲and Happy New Year

 Merry Christmas everyone! And Happy New Year! Hope y'all had a great week and enjoyed your Christmas!


Our Christmas was pretty good! We had Walmart brand cinnamon rolls (they tasted so fake but it was ok) and fancy chocolate milk for breakfast. We then opened the presents Santa brought which included a sweater, ties, and a book. We then got to talk to the family. After that we weekly planned before going to lunch with a member. That night we got together with the mission and sang hymns. It was super fun! 

We also got to go to the giving machine this week. Our shift was from 10-12 and hardly anyone came the first 1 hour and 50 minutes but the last 10 minutes it was packed. It was super weird wearing regular clothes and not being able to wear my tag.

We also got to be in a trio a couple of times this week. It felt like we were in a biking gang riding down the streets of Las Vegas. We were able to see so many miracles yesterday! We were able to have a lesson with someone we've been trying to meet with for a while. And some of her family are members and she has a cousin who is going to Chicago (shoutout Elder Ord) and she's interested in what he's going to be doing. So that's awesome! We were also able to find some more people this week that we are really excited about.

One verse I loved this week was Mosiah 28:3. "Now they were desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble." I love this because this it's so true. The thought that some people don't know about Jesus Christ is just unthinkable. Everyone deserves to hear about the strength Jesus Christ can give them. Even if people are super rude or if they don't want to listen, it's so amazing that we get to invite them to come unto Christ. So just go out and love, share, and invite. Because that's what the Savior did.

Happy New Year!
Elder Jensen

Pictures
1. Christmas Breakfast
2. Christmas messenger call
3. We had 41000 calories of junk food that was given to us throughout the past weeks
4. Santa came!
5. Giving Machine







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