Hello Family and friends,
How's everyone doing! It's been a fun week getting adjusted to this new companionship, but we've already made so many connections its insane.
Elder Nelson is from Arizona and it turns out that he lives 5 minutes away from where I used to live. If we would have stayed in Arizona we would've gone to the same High School! So crazy!
Also our new Elder just came from the CCM in Mexico, and he had both of my teachers in the CCM, Hermana Torres and Hermana Lechuga, and he was in my same Classroom! So crazy!
This week has been super long and tough at times because a lot of our lessons fell through this week, but that gave us so many opportunities to talk with so many people!
We were walking around one day and this guy named Brad, just stopped us on the street and said that he has seen us around a lot and he has always been interested in what we do! He also asked us for a Book of Mormon and said he was looking for a Book that could answer some of the questions he had in life! Super awesome and we have a lesson with him tonight!
We were also walking and we ran into this lady named Darleen, who just shared all these things with us about how she has had such a hard life and really tough experiences, but every time she felt like God was with her and saved her life so many times. She started breaking down crying and just bore such a powerful testimony of the reality of God and his love for all of us! She even said her old husband was a member of the church! And she would love to go!
The story doesn't stop there, we called up Brad on Sunday to set up an appointment. And he told us we contacted his mom. We were a little confused and then he said his moms name was Darleen! It was so so crazy! He even said they were reading the Book of Mormon together, and his mom was reading faster than him! Such a blessing showing that the Lord just places elect people in your path and exact obedience brings forth miracles! The only thing is they speak English so we will eventually have to pass them off, but it was definitely a blessing from the Lord!
There were also so many cool things that happened... like usual!
1. We were knocking on a door of someone we were teaching, and this random dude just came up to us. He asked us if he could knock the door too. We asked him if he he lived there, he said no, and we asked him if he knew anyone who loved there, and he said no. But he just knocked anyway, and then waited a little bit and then just walked off! It was so so funny, just knocking doors with a random dude! Haha
2. We were walking home one day and there was this guy who was pushing this lady in a wheel chair. They were going up a hill and he was really struggling. So we went and helped him out and we would go like 15 feet. And then say a prayer of strength, and then keep going. We would go 15 feet again and then say another prayer of strength again. And we did that all the way up the hill! The next day we saw him and we greeted him and called him by his name and they were so surprised that we remembered his name! So cool!
3. A homeless man came up to us and asked if were were Christians, and we said yes. He then told us how he was Christian and how a big part of Christianity is charity. And then he asked us for money. We said we don't have anything and he told us we weren't Christian's because we didn't give him money and he walked away! Pretty funny!
I hope everyone has a happy new year and will have a blessed 2020! I can't wait to see what this year has in store!
Elder Jorgensen
Pics:
1. The bay
2. The generations
3&4. Happy 2020
5. Me and President
