Dear family,
So some big changes this week,
which I will explain in a minute. For now it's enough to just say that I am not
in Ambohimanarina anymore. Yay for emergency transfers!!
So it all started on Tuesday.
Elder Bassett and I had a split with the Elders in Ankorondrano, about an hour
away by bus, so we woke up at like 5 in order to go out and meet up with them
and still be home in time for studies. I spent the day with Elder Sweeten. He
is one transfer ahead of me and we have lived together a couple of times so we
are old friends and it was great to get to work with him again. Anyways, about
halfway through studies the phone rang. It was President Foote, looking for me.
He told me he had a new assignment for me! That unfortunately meant having to
leave Ambohimanarina. I was super sad to have to leave so many great people
that I have met along the way, But Elder Bassett is an amazing missionary and I
know that he can take care of business. Wednesday went by in a blur of
goodbyes.
Wednesday night I was picked up
at my apartment, and after helping with a zone conference thursday, President
Foote, Elder Walker and I headed out Friday morning. Elder Walker is my new
comp and is also the oldest missionary in the mission. He has about three weeks
left, and we are going to spend them together. Right now we are in Antsirabe,
and yes, that is the same Antsirabe I was trained in. It has been a great
couple of days of reunions and old friends and I have loved every second of it.
Elder Walker and I are here until Nov. 22, and then we will be off again. We
are going to spend the week going on splits with different companionships,
fixing problems, doing training, finding as many new investigators as possible,
and basically just blowing up the city with missionary work. It's going to be a
great time and I am way excited to be out working here again. Yesterday I was
on a split with Elder Baggs, who is currently in his second transfer being
trained in the same area I was trained in. We gave their whole program to Elder
Walker and Elder Baggs' comp, and the two of us went out tracking. Despite a
mad dash to the church bathroom due to the long lasting effects of a deworming
pill (not mine, Elder Baggs') we managed to tract in to 5 times. One of those
was actually really special.
We were walking back from the
bathroom in an area far from where we had been tracting when we passed a young
married couple just leaving their house. They just looked so happy that I
couldn't help but stop and talk to them. They agreed to give us a few minutes
to share the message, and we taught them a great lesson on the restoration! It
was so awesome! After that Elder Baggs and I had a great talk about just how
much our Heavenly Father makes sure we are in the right place at the right
time. Who would think that the fact that he had gotten worms would have put us
in a place to find such an awesome family!! The Lord works in mysterious ways I
guess.
So due to all of the traveling
and just the all-around tight schedule, I really haven't had much of a chance
to study. Even with that, I sure learned a lot this week. Only our Heavenly
Father can make weak things become strong. Without him we are nothing. Love you
all so much! I will talk to you next week!
Elder Jensen
Scripture of the Week: Ether 12:27
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