Elder Andrew Jensen

  What a past couple of weeks! A couple weeks ago we had transfer planning. So we got to sit in a room all week with President to plan the upcoming transfer. The first couple of days were kinda fun, but by day 3 I was just wanting to get out and work. The most tedious day was when we had to type up all the information to send to the ZLs. We thought it would take until 2PM, but it ended up taking until 5:45   But we got it all done and that's what matters.  The next day was so cool! President D Todd Christofferson came and visited the mission. I'll take more about what I learned later, but it was so awesome to meet a member of the first presidency. It really strengthened my testimony that the Lord calls ordinary men to do His work! The coolest thing was when he walked in the room, we were all signing "A Child's Prayer" and the Spirit was so strong! It was a pretty awesome day. This past week was absolutely insane. On Monday we had a training meeting for all the new...

  How's it going everyone?! It's been a wild last couple of weeks! We had Zone conference a couple weeks ago. We did both zone conferences on Wednesday because it was a special conference. We came in our pday clothes and went hiking at Red Rock. We brought our patriarchal blessings and got to take time to ourselves and ponder what the Lord thinks of us. It was so uplifting and helped me see myself more like Christ sees me  It was a little stressful trying to get 200 missionaries in and out of Red Rock, but it all worked out. My respect for Brigham Young increased a lot. I have no idea how he was able to help thousands of saints cross the great plains if it was this hard to get 200 missionaries to cross like 5 miles. I then got to go on an exchange in Costa Verde. My Spanish is still terrible, but I did testify of the Book of Mormon which was pretty cool. I was with Elder Fristoe who was actually my very first exchange back last September. It was cool to see how much we've b...