New Week

Area: Chanute, KS
Companion: Elder Hansen

Thank you all so much that helped with the package. I got it on Friday. It had a ton of candy and treats in it and I love all the hearts you guys sent. It's really awesome.

Answers to Questions

I do have a washer and dryer in our apartment but it is in the bathroom so its a little weird.

We dont have a dishwasher so everything is done by hand.

I have not got my boots yet so hopefully they are on the way or maybe they didn't have a name on it  and its sitting at the mission office until someone claims them.

Opening a new area is hard because we still dont have anyone to teach. We had a couple of things lined up but everything has fallen through. So we are basically starting over and have no one to talk to yet but we will get there.

Yes I have been able to feed myself when members don't feed us. We usually have PB&J or like cup of noodles. Or a lot of times we are sent home with left overs from a dinner so we eat those.

I have recently started a new read of the Book of Mormon where I am marking every time it refers to Jesus Christ or God and every time it says one of his doctorine( Faith, Repentence, Baptism, the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End.

I think I am adapting well.

I am knocking on doors quite a bit. It's really weird because you're like "hi I have the answers to all of your questions and can bring you happiness and eternal life in my hand - would you like one" and then they say no...

My Week

So my week has been pretty boring and crazy things have happend at the same time. We got chased by dogs out in literally the middle of nowhere. I keep forgetting to bring my camera in the car but you get in those fields and you can see forever and it is all flat. If you get on a hill high enough to see above the trees you can see all of the water towers for like 10 towns its really weird.

We had an appointment set up with a part member family. They didnt seem very solid but they told us to come back so we did and their front door was open and we could see them inside and as we pulled up and walked towards the door they totally shut it in our faces.... So naturally we knock like three times but they didnt answer. So ya that was awesome.

We had a sister on the ward roster we were going to go see. I think they are a PMF so we get there the house is way back in the sticks. We pull up there are I think about 13 really old run down cars that we could see. As we pull in and got out a truck turned on and peeled out. So that was a little weird. But we decide to knock anyways. It's a very dirty rundown house and we are expecting the dogs to run back from the fields any second to eat us and we are getting ready to run back to the car. So we knock expecting like a 50 year old meth head who has like 2 teeth maybe and then a 20 ish pretty blond girl opens the door and she was wearing a dress and looked like she had just come back from church. Well it definitely was not what we were expecting. And so it was Elder Hansen's turn for the door approach so he's like fumbling over all of his words and I was trying so hard not to laugh just because it was so strange. So we asked if the sister was there and she wasnt so we said that we would come back in a day or two. And as we walked away she complimented on Elder Hansens Tie... so we walk quickly back to the car and then just died laughing. It was a very strange bizarre meeting but we said we would go back and I still feel like an old guys going to come out with his gun and like 1 tooth yelling at us but we will have to see until next time.

Also, Dad we stopped at this guys house and apparently he restores old cars so he showed us his collection and he had (Fully restored) an old Chevell SS Muscle car and a 1977 Corvette that he bought new and has kept in extremely nice condition and an Old Camaro and another Camaro. It was Awesome! I wasn't able to get any pictures, but if we can make it back there hopefully I will get some.

Saturday, the Bishops 2nd counselor bought a house for 18,000 and therefore it was a pile of junk and an old party house. So we helped him clean in out and rip out the carpet and all sorts of stuff. We will probably go back to take out most of the sheetrock and some of the walls. We found lots of Vodka and pipes it was very interesting.

And then we helped the Smiths in our ward dig up their leaking sewer pipe. Which was Awesome we got to jump down in a "muddy" hole and hand dig a sewer pipe out. But I lucked out I wasn't wearing boots and Elder Hansen was so he got most of the "mud" on him and not me. But I did have to do a lot of digging.

So Daniel, there is a guy in my ward who is named Brice Gorrell and he lived in Oklahoma City for a while. I guess he went on splits with Christopher Robison while he was on his mission. You should see if Chris remembers that guy because I totally know him.

Anyway I think that has pretty much been my week. Thank you all for everything you have done for me. I am loving it out here and it's been a ton of fun

Scripture for the week: 2 Nephi 31: 21.   There is but one way we can be saved and it is though our savior Jesus Christ. 

 

Thank You.
Elder Jensen