Also just wanted to let you know that I had my "baptism" in menudo this last week. It was a little strange, but it was acutally pretty good! That's all, I'm true mexican!
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Derek Jenson <derek.jenson@myldsmail.net> wrote:
Querida familia,
Okay, sorry I wigged out on you last week. My computer was having some loading issues for the first little while, and I had a few extra people write me that I wanted to write back to. I hope Savannah had a very merry little birthday! I have a little letter/package I'll be sending home, but it'll be a few days before I get it out. I'm super glad to hear about Nate, I miss him a lot. I've been telling my companion all about you guys and about Nate too. I wish he could serve here on the bluff with us, everyone living here would be baptized if he was their missionary! Tell him I miss him please.
These past few weeks have been a little crazy. My baptism unfortunately didn't happen last week, it was the weirdest situation every. Our investigator, Wes, was completely prepared, as far as we knew, to be baptized. He passed his interview on Friday, and everything seemed fine...
(The investigator left town, not to return, kind of a tough story so we left out details at Elder Jenson's request)
It's been a pretty crazy deal, but things are getting back to normal. Anyway, we didn't get that baptism last week, and that's why. I was super sad about that. Our other super good investigator decided to drop us as well that week, so were trying to get things going again. We also got our bike lights stolen from us while we were in a lesson with one of the recent converts in one of the poorer parts of the bluff. We were frustrated at first, but that ended up being a pretty cool thing. I'll tell you the story another time, but it ended up being a great blessing for some people we met later that day.
Besides all that stuff, it has been super awesome here. I'd say that I've been very humbled, but I feel very close to my Savior. We had our first Zone Conference, and I learned a lot of things I am going to try and apply over the next few months. I'm starting to understand the importance of having good studies, and sincere prayers always. I'm really trying to give my spiritual preparation a lot of attention and be as obedient as I can. I've felt the spirit a lot this week, and I see the Lord's hand in everything a lot more. It's not that it wasn't there before, I'm just starting to be able to recognize it more. I'm reading the scriptures like I would a normal book right now because I've never really done that in the past. It's amazing how much better I can follow the stories, and it's actually very interesting when I read. I've always loved the book, but every time I read it my testimony grows a little bit more. The truthfulness of that book is something I can never deny. I feel like that is something I have always believed, but every new chapter I read I feel like the Lord gives me another little witness of it being his word. There are some things in the gospel I have a strong belief in, but I Know of a surety that the Book of Mormon is true and that Jesus Christ is real and is our Savior. God has given me countless personal witnesses and spiritual manifestations in those two things, and I cannot deny them.
I love you guys a lot. I miss seeing you and being able to talk to you, but I love it here as well. I hope you all have a wonderful week and will forgive me for missing last week. Also I just want to encourage you to have a food and water storage that will last a while. I don't know how much the prophets have recommended, but I feel it is very important, so please try to keep building one according to their teachings. Les amo mucho!
Con mucho amor, Elder Jenson
Thanks, Jeff!
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