Elder Andrew Jensen

  Pahrump is pretty fun!   It's a lot different than Vegas and makes me feel like I'm in a completely different mission. There's desert everywhere. We do have a couple neighborhoods in our area, but for the most part the houses are very spread out. The one thing that isn't great is that there are so many dogs. And for those of you who know me, you know I don't really like dogs. And their pretty scary dogs  A lot of the work here is with members who don't really come to church which is different than what I'm used to, but it's still good!  We had quite a few lessons with our friend Jimmy this week and he said he wants to be baptized   But he will be moving very soon so we're going to have to figure that out. But it doesn't matter where he gets baptized because the covenant is the same everywhere. He came to church on Sunday and absolutely loved it! He also brought free circus tickets and started to give them out to everyone. Basically, he's ju...

  How's it going? There was quite a bit that happened this week. On Thursday it actually rained! That never happens in Vegas. Because of that the roads were super oily and very slippery. But we still went out biking! This member gave us some BYU ponchos so we looked really funny biking around with our BYU ponchos. And my brakes sounded sounded terrible. We had dinner at our Bishop's house that day and we had to sit on towels cuz we didn't want to get there chairs all wet because our pants were soaked. After dinner it was pouring but our Bishop just drove us around for the rest of the day which was really nice. Friday we help to build the pergola again which was pretty fun. We then had dinner on our own that night because it was Valentine's Day and apparently nobody wanted us to join their Valentine's date. Which I think is weird because I think we're pretty fun. But I guess it's understandable. We had two people come to church this week which was super aweso...

  I was set apart as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 6 months ago today. That's just crazy This week was full of ups and downs, but hey, that's just life for you.  On Wednesday I went on an exchange with Elder Faires. He's been out for 1 month, but he's already doing amazing. But I definitely wore him out biking   His area is not a biking area and we're all bike, so he was pretty tired at the end of the day, but that's alright! Thursday was kinda sad, because one of our friends just flat out said he doesn't want to be baptized. We testified a bunch, but it didn't change much. And then we got rejected the rest of the day. But Friday was pretty amazing. I was not really looking forward to it, because it was so windy, and biking in the wind isn't super fun. And while we were almost blown into traffic a couple of times, it was honestly awesome! We met some really cool new people and we were able to get members involved. I...

  What's going on everyone?! I hope y'all had a good week! On Wednesday we had our interviews with President. He's just so wise and always helps out with anything. And it's also always fun geeking out with Sister Nielson about the Book of Mormon. She's an absolute legend These past few days have been gorgeous outside. I don't know why, but I feel more like a missionary going put in a short sleeve white shirt. But it's gonna get kinda cold again later this week  We've had so many bike problems this week. Elder Gates has gotten so many flat tires. We bought a new tire and started pumping it up and then it exploded   It sounded like a gun shot. It was honestly so loud. We got it fixed and it lasted one day before both his front and back tires went flat   What's super funny is that he has a mountain bike and I have a road bike and we go "offroading" a lot (only when there isn't a sidewalk) so I should be getting these flat tires, but mine h...

  Hey everyone! We had Zone Conference on Wednesday which was awesome as always. There were so many amazing trainings. I also got to see my kid Elder Empey again which was really fun.  Holy cow! The amount of time my companion played Jesus Take the Wheel by the cast of VeggieTales is crazy! He would put it on when he went in the shower and then have it autoplay the whole time. I've probably heard that song close to 50 times. So now I have the whole song memorized.  We had our housing inspection this week and the couple who did our inspection said that we had the cleanest and most well organized apartment they had ever seen. See Mom, I told you I wouldn't be super messy when I was on my own (it was mostly Elder Gates who kept our apartment clean. I did my part too, but he's definitely the MVP). OK now it's miracle time. We went to go knock these two people we're teaching that we hadn't gotten in contact with for a while. We got there around 7:45 and it looked lik...

  What's up? I hope y'all are doing well! On Wednesday we had exchanges with the Zone Leaders. It was super awesome! He's 28 years old and he's super smart so I learned so much from him. We did some service for some recent converts where they had us reorganize their living room. So basically I'm an interior designer now. They kept asking what we though looked good and we didn't really have any idea, but we moved a bunch of stuff around and they said it looked great   Maybe I need to go into interior designing. They also had a fish tank and one of decorations inside was the Dory Disney infinity character. That kind of hurt my soul because I love Disney infinity. Also it was even colder this week than last week. The wind was insane. I'm probably just a baby because it still is like 50 degrees every day. I'm going to get back in a couple years and absolutely freeze to death. Vegas winters are not for faint of heart through.  On Sunday we were calling some o...

  Yeah it's pretty cold out here. Now a high of 50 might sound pretty nice to most of you right now, but when you're biking around all day with freezing cold wind and not really wearing a lot of winter gear (because you're in Las Vegas, who needs winter gear in Vegas) it gets very very cold. I didn't think this would actually happen, but I'm actually looking forward to the 120 degree days  Besides the cold, this was a pretty solid week. We had way more lessons than we usually do which was awesome! One of them went way off the rails though. We were talking about the resurrection, and then our friend started going off about reincarnation and her husband who can walk through walls   So that was interesting. But then she came to church on Sunday and absolutely loved it! And she said she wants to come back next week  We also went out with a priest this week, but since he isn't 18 we couldn't be in a car alone with him so we had to ride bikes again. He found a bik...