Elder Dannon Jensen

  Welp. That was fast. Still not used to mission time and how fast it goes. Well to sum up everything in a few words... it's been rough. The work has been slow but hey, we still working and we are still trying, keeping in mind that God's timing is always perfect timing. Just doesn't always seem that way to our imperfect minds. This week I gave a talk in church. I chose to speak about Christ-like love and how the scriptures describe how disciples of Christ should love. John 13:34-35 says "That [we must) love one another; as [Christ] have loved [us]... [and] by this shall all men know that [w]e are [his] disciples." So we must love as Christ loved. And what did he do? He  loved  everyone like they were his very best friend,  shared  His gospel with them, and  invited  them to come unto Him. And that is what he expects us to do as disciples of Christ. I could go on explaining how I explained to my ward how we could do it better, but I think we all can fig...

Buenas Días, Tardes, o Noches!! Ojala todos esten bien!! Last week I had a pretty bad fever so I didn't have the ganas to write an email last week so sorry for that one. Oh my goodness, has this transfer been so good and rough at the same time. The rough part so far is our finding drought. We are having a hard time finding people that are actually interested in the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. We have been putting a lot of effort into meeting people these two weeks and have maybe only found one person that is somewhat interested. Please pray for us that we may be better guided to those who hunger for the truth!! The good part, though, is that Élder Salisbury is just awesome and a ton of fun to work with!! His head is literally just a library of scriptures for almost any situation. He's from Queen Creek Arizona and loves to sing and all things musical so we have had fun sharing musical talents we have. Speaking of talents. Talents are really interesting. Each ...

Boy will I tell ya. These last two cambios with Elder Watson have flown. Literally has felt shorter than my first Cambio in Genova. And guess what! I'm staying another!! And to be completely honest ... I'm stoked!!! I'm so excited to lead the area and show my comp all the people we need to help and to find the people that hunger for the truth, the white field that is ready to harvest. Speaking of my new comp... I'll  be receiving an Elder named Elder Salisbury. I know just bout nothing about him but am stoked to get to know him and to get to work. This week I have had something on my mind. Y de hecho today I came across the scripture about what I was thinking. Marcos 8:35 Porque el que quiera salvar su vida la perderá; pero el que pierda su vida por causa de mí y del evangelio la salvará. This scripture reminds me of what obedience does for us. This scripture speaks of giving all your life to God so that He can give you a better one. But I also like to view this scriptu...

This week was amazingly insane! The past two weeks have been a little hard since we have been losing a lot of people to teach and visit. But this week began to change all of that. Miracle 1: Our friend Hector Hector is a good friend of ours that we found about 3 weeks ago. When we found him, we were just walking down a street to the next appointment when an old man from his front door yelled Élderes! We turned around and got to know him. Come to find out he almost got baptized when he was in Peru for work. But he had to leave for work 2 days before his date and couldn't return. He then ended up here in San Bernardino, not knowing that the church and missionaries were here too. Sadly though, he was about to leave for a 25-day work trip to Costa Rica and back in his big truck. So he left, and we were just going to wait. But then God started working. God said, "no, you're getting baptized". And when Hector was out of his truck for a short stop, his engine blew up. So he ...

  Sorry about forgetting again. Well tbh. I didn't forget. I just didn't have the ganas (desire) to write an email last Monday. Every now and then there's a rough week. But they are always rough in different ways. Just like these past two weeks.   The first week was just physically and mentally exhausting between the heat, our friends that would never be home, and trying to help keep a ward from falling apart. It's been a crazy transfer, that's for sure.   This week however has just been a different type. This week we had Zone Conference and boy was it good!! We learned about something that I'll share later but also how important it is to extend baptismal dates to see what our friends really want. If they just want to hear scriptures or as a chapine would say  "la palabra de Dios" which they truly are. Or if they were really interested in repenting, as in changing from the old ways of doing things for a better, more divine, Christ-like way. And...

  ...in our stomachs. That's right. I got a parasite!! Wahoo. But now I'm all better. And Élder Watson is pretty much all better. He was a tad bit worse than I. But that was the majority of our week. Staying in the house too sick to go out or hospital trips for ourselves and helping out another sick companionship when we did feel better. That was like the first half of the week. The second half was sooo much better! So about three weeks ago there was a cousin of a friend of ours that after a lesson that she listened to from the front door walked up to me and asked how long is the process to be baptized? I then told her about two or three weeks. And then she straight up told me she wanted to be baptized!!! Was awesome until we tried teaching her and she kind of just didn't show up a couple of times. But now she's showing up and she's got a date for her baptism!! Its so awesome to see how God has been blessing Élder Watson and I and His work here in San Bernardino. 1 ...

This week was crazy!! To start things off transfers went well, other than the fact that the actual transfers didn't because it took until 1030pm at night for the new comps to get to their areas due to blockades due to strikes. But good thing I'm staying with Élder Watson so we just got right to work when Archaga left the night before for his home in Honduras. Well actually, we tried to get to work. Élder Watson has been pretty sick this past week so keep him in your prayers! So due to that, there were some days we spent more time in the house than others. One of the times we did leave the house when he wasn't feeling too hot was this friday. As District Leader, Élder Watson now has to do interviews to make sure the friends of the missionaries in our district are indeed ready for their Baptisms. This interview took us to Oriente on the outskirts of Mazatenango. As we were rolling up to Mazate (Mazatenango) the clouds rolled and the rain came. Once we got out of the bus we bo...