First Week

Area: Chanute, KS
Companion: Elder Hansen

 

I Finally made it to Missouri... for like 12 hours. We landed in Kansas City and spent the night in the mission presidents basement. It was good we got to go to the liberty jail visitors center and we stopped at the temple in Kansas City. It is really pretty. I met my companion the next day. His name is Elder Hansen, super cool guy we seem to be getting along well. He has been pushing me and I've been trying to take it all in stride. I have already eaten lettuce, Onion and tomatoes so that's been just super....great! I was assigned to go to Chanute (Sha-noot) Kansas which Is literally the furthest we could be from the mission home. We drove for about 2 and a half hours to get here. Not only did we get the furthest area away from home it is a brand new area that has been closed for about a year. So no area book no investigators we dont know anybody. Its definitely been one heck of a ride.

It seems like a really cool area and everyone is Super excited to have Elders back in Chanute. The ward is Huge it covers about 100 square miles and we have about 100 ish active members. The primary sang in sacrement meeting yesterday and they did a very good job. There were only 11 of them but they all did really well. I havent taught the lessons to any investigators yet but we have some lined up soon. Its been pretty crazy but fun the days have flown by already.

We live in a super old house that is kinda split into two levels we live upstars and then someone else lives downstairs. But the house has to be at least 100 years old and our outside doorknob fell off so closing it is always fun. We just kinda have to slam it shut.

We eat a lot of dinners with members so thats always a plus. And I can read emails throughout the week but I can only respond on Mondays.

Thank you all for everything you all have been a major support. I'm sorry if i can't email everyone back I only have a little bit of time but thank you all. I encourage you to look up and ponder Moroni 7:13 and some surrounding verses.

Elder Jensen

 

Elder Hansen and Elder Jensen

 

This is our closet. It's really short as are a lot of the doorways.