Family and Friends,
What a crazy week it has been! We had 8 zone conferences this week, which were are super amazing and spiritually uplifting! I love these weeks, but they are definitely very exhausting. We put about 750 miles on our car this week, and I can now officially say I have visited every part of my mission! So Woot woot!
But this week we had some pretty cool experiences on exchanges!
1. We gave an instruction on how to properly respond to objections with the Book of Mormon and we were able to put in in practice this week! I worked with one Elder this week and we had a member lesson set up, and all he told me was he is a returning member and had a couple of concerns last time, but we talked about the three kingdoms so I think we are good. But what he didn't tell me was this member had been excommunicated.......
So we jump on the zoom call, and the member sees me and says "it looks like we got fresh meat tonight, how well do you know your bible?" And I told him that I know my bible pretty well, but I know my Book of Mormon really well. So then he started bashing, but in a lowkey kind if way. So I didn't know the answer to every question, but I stood my ground with my testimony of the Book of Mormon! And I felt the power that comes from it. So eventually after a while, I just said it was nice talking to you and ended the call. And I told my companion, That man (referring to the member) is not ready yet
2. We went and did some Jamaican construction this past week. A Jamaican man is redoing his business, and he told us he was going to teach us. And it was a lot of fun. So for most of the time he said that he needed to put tile on the wall but it was too smooth. So gave me a little hatchet and said make the wall rough, swing hard. So for most of the time I was just going ham on a cinder block wall with a Hatchet! So much fun hahaha
3. Definitely grew in faith this week. Just like what Elder Nelson said in his talk, if you don't have the faith. Act like you do. And that really came into play this week with our finding efforts. So there was one exchange were both my companion and I were tired to being left on read by people on messenger. (Basically when they see the message but don't respond). So we just started calling them right off of messenger. And Ohhh my goodness it was so nerve racking, but we did see a lot of success! So be brave and have the faith in Christ
4. Our friends from Ecuador, left this week. So now it's just back to the normal family Buzaitis, but before the nephew left, he said I will remember you forever and he have me an apple tree. So random, but so kind
I hope everyone has the bestest week ever!
Elder Jorgensen
1. The Jamaican Construction
2. Our friend José, with the apple tree
3. Elder Stika
4. Exchanges
5. Professional photographer at one of our zone conferences, so I had to throw it in there haha
