Dear Family and Friends,
What an interesting week it has been! Right after preparation day last week as we were on our way to our first appointment we got a text saying, "Go home you are in quarantine don't talk to anyone, go straight home!" So that started our quarantine and it has been a full week now, and we dont know how long we are going to be inside for. We had a call with our mission President and he said that it's only getting worse, and he doesn't see us being released after the end of these two weeks! But we are staying optimistic and loving the opportunity that we still have to be representatives of Jesus Christ everyday and continually wear his name on our chests! I love it!
But we have seen some really cool miracles from this past week!
So back in Baltimore we found thus guy on the street who was just really awesome and super willing to meet up with us again, we had two lessons with him and he just asked for money both times to get back to El Salvador, but we told him we help out with Spiritual needs and not temporal needs. So we gave him a Book of Mormon and promised that if he would read the Book of Mormon everyday he would find a way to get back to El Slavador. And then we didn't hear from him again!
Fast forward to this past week. We get a random call from him, so we answered it and started talking to him. Turns out that he made it to El Salvador and is reading the book of Mormon almost everyday!!!!!! He said how he didn't believe it at the beginning, but as he saw that it strengthened his testimony he wanted to learn more! So we got his address and are going to send him to the missionaries down in El Salvador!!!!
We also had a video call with a family in the Branch, and we just taught them a little message from Come Follow Me this past week about members being apart of the gathering of Israel and how, "Scattered Israel Hangs around Gathered Israel!" We then just simply expressed how much we loved their family and how much they mean to us, and then right before he hung up. He said wait wait wait, before you go, let me give you my sister's contact information and I want you to reach out to her! He then told us a couple of stories and she sounds super super super awesome and hopefully we can bring her the peace that she's searching for!
But this week has been a little sad. All the older missionaries are being sent home, and basically everyone from my first district in the field is gone! But the Lord's work will still go on! Hoorah Hoorah For Israel!!
Elder Jorgensen
Pics:
1.Quarantine cuts
2. Quarantine!!!!
