Dear Friends and Family,
What a blessing you get to hear from me two times in one week! Hahaha!
I hope everyone is doing well, Baltimore is getting a little colder, but one hard thing is there are less people on the streets to talk to, but it also means there is less crime. So you win some and you lose some.
These past couple days we have seen some true miracles.
About 6 weeks ago while I was still with Elder Casey, we were taking a bus and some random man came up to me and asked if I had a card for our church. I have him one with our number and address and before I could get his information, he got off the bus. I thought nothing about it and haven't heard from him since.
UNTIL this past Saturday. We get a call Saturday night from a random number saying he had our card and he's coming to church tomorrow. At this point we had no clue who this mystery man was, and then on Sunday he actually came, and it was the man I met on the bus 6 weeks ago.
Turns out that he is from the Dominican Republic so we were able to introduce him to some other Domicans in the branch. And the craziest thing is he was baptized when he was 8, and has been a inactive for a little bit and has been wanting to return, so it was a legit miracle we ran into him.
The next one started with a street contact. Last Sunday we were walking to a dinner appointment and on our way we usually see some Hispanics, but they are mostly all drunk. And when they are drunk they will not stop talking so we've learned how to properly swerve them.
But we saw a mom with her 2 kids, but they were on the other side of a busy street and so I blew it off like it was nothing. But I felt like I really needed to talk to her. So it felt almost like we were tracking her down, we had to play frogger almost and thank goodness to messed up crosswalk we were able to talk to her. She was rushing so we only got her number and have her a card and she said shes free on Sundays.
So fast forward to yesterday we were able to have lesson with her and it turns out they are a cute little family of 4 who live like 3 minutes away from us! We had such an amazing lesson with two members which was really helpful! Towards the end of the lesson, one of the members asked her about the day we met. She said that she had a really stressful day and she was actually lost when we ran into her. She saw us and took a card from us, but wasn't too interested because her family is a mixture of die hard Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Evangelicals. But after we left her son turned to her and said, "Mom I don't know why, but I really feel like we need to hear their message." After that she said she felt the same thing and she was so looking forward to meeting with us and it was such a cool lesson! The spirit was definitely there!
Funny Stories:
1. We went on a exchange this past week so I was with one of my zone leaders and Elder White, the one who is still being trained. But we were walking and this man who was drunk out of his man came up to us and it was so funny! And the drunk man would only talk to Elder White, and Elder White's eyes were getting so big. And then the drunk man pretended to be a dragon and "breathed fire all over" Elder White. We then decided to jump in and help him out and walked away. WELCOME TO BALTIMORE! hahaha
2. We were waiting for a bus and this random man came up and started talking to us. It turns out that he was also a Jorgensen and he served in Alabama! Pretty cool connection!
This week has gone by pretty quick, but it's been really good and really spiritual filled.
I hope everyone has a great week and I love you all!
Elder Jorgensen
Pics:
1. He was looking clean with his slicked back hair so we had to post up!
2. The East Spanish zone
