Dear Family and Friends,
First off sorry for the lame letter last week! We have only been able to leave our apartment every 2 weeks to go get food and so when we actually get to leave and go to the store we may or may not spend a decent amount of time there! Like check every inch of the store once or twice, just to make sure we haven't forgotten anything! I have come to find the Joy in shopping! Crazy huh, look at what quarantine does to you ;)
But glad to announce that we are now allowed to leave ever preparation day now to go buy food, but we can only go to the grocery store! So still no going to other stores, restaurants, and we still can't go to the church during the week to do missionary work. But I'm still loving it!
But now onto the title of my email, as most of you probably already know it comes from the song "every rose has it's thorn" which basically means that every good thing also has a bad thing with it!
But I decided to change and instead of look at it negatively, change and see that every bad thing also has a good thing that comes with it! And that's been the biggest lessson that has hit me this week!
So many of you may already know this, but I lost my grandpa about 3 weeks ago now! And it has been hard on me, but I have still been able to see miracles that have come from it!
So this week we contacted a man named Nelson and he picked up the phone and said that he would be interested in learning more, and so we called him and sent him a text later in the week and no response! (And then the real latino contacting came in! For some reason, I don't know why, but the majority of the people we contact won't respond to a simple text, but if we make them a 2 minute video and read a bible scripture they will!)
So that's what we did with Nelson and then he responded but said that it has being really hard for him right now because his mom died like a couple of days ago! He then sent us videos of her funeral and casket and it was so sad! We then started talking a little more and he sent me a picture of her, so I sent him a picture of my grandpa and then was able to testify of forever families and able to send him some more things! We then contacted him a couple days later and texted back and forth about Jesus Christ and basically taught him a full lesson and were able to set up a video chat lesson with him tonight!!!
So just remember that whenever there is a tough situation and you get caught in a "thorn bush" just look for the roses and they will be there!
Love your favorite Corona Missionary,
Elder Jorgensen
Pics:
1-2: our ride this morning through historic downtown frederick
3. Me and Elder Hiserman
4. When Corona hits hard
