¡Buenas Dias!
Hello family and friends! Reporting live from sunny Provo (where the weather is actually so cold I had to wear multiple layers of clothing more than I care to admit this week, welcome to Elder Jensen's weekly email podcast! The first story of this week...ITS FALL! For those who don't know me (yet somehow ended up on my email list) I am from Arizona. And Arizona and Utah have about a -50 degree difference. (That's an exaggeration, but still its so cold). Yet also, Utah is so cool because the leaves are all changing color! So yesterday of course the only thing Elder Babbel and I could think of was to have a cute leaf photo shoot. Here's the result:
(We'll be back in two years for any one that wants to hire us as professional models)
Anyway, so this is my last week in the MTC! It's been 6 weeks of fun, tons of spiritual moments, and just an amazing experience. My next email will be live from Houston, Texas next next Monday. Thank you so much to everyone that's emailed, helped, and supported me through the MTC I love you all muchos!
Funny story of the week: So our teacher (the one that suffers 6 hours a day with us) served in California and met a friend that used to live in the Districto Federal in Mexico. For those of you that don't know Spanish, D.F. is weird. Anyway, some of the things they say don't make sense. So anyway he's teaching me one on one and tells me in D.F. they say "Que estufas?" which in D.F. means "What's up?". It makes no sense to anyone except people in D.F. So ANYWAY, Elder Jensen likes this phrase and starts to use it literally ALL THE TIME. My favorite is "Que estufas con ese?" or "What's up with that?". One day though I walk down the hall to chat with our Zone Resource Trainer (aka Hefe) and he only speaks Spanish. So he tries to explain Passive Voice in Spanish and I'm not really understanding so I blurt out "Que estufas con ese?!" really loud and kind angrily. Hermano Hefe just looks and me oddly for a solid minute and then starts laughing harder then I've ever seen a human laugh. As it turns out he's not from D.F. Mexico and when you translate the sentence directly it means "How stoves is that?!". So now he thinks when things get hard for me, my first response is to curse stoves. Moral of the story: Elder Jensen's Spanish skills still need work.
Other than that it was a fun week, not too many crazy stunts but we did have some really neat spiritual experiences. One that happened last week was with our first investigator, Maribel. We had our last lesson with her and we were all really sad, walking in though Maribel was in tears too. As it turns out her best friend's son had been kidnapped in Texas that afternoon and she had just heard about it. Elder Babbel and I had a lesson prepared on the Word of Wisdom, but we looked over at each other and immediately dropped everything we had planned and began talking about how she was feeling. It was awesome! We had no lesson planned, no scriptures ready, yet somehow we were able to comfort her with words in Spanish I didn't even know. I would be talking and not have any idea what I was saying but she understood perfectly! Our lesson was centered around Jesus Christ and how though we're simply 18 year old kids wearing white shirts and ties and we don't understand exactly what she's going through, there is someone that does. He's the One that's always with us no matter what and the One that suffered the pains of the world to save us. We testified that Jesus Christ is our Savior and understands and comprehends everything we go through in our lives. In Alma 7:11-12 count how many times the words "sins" is mentioned. I know that Jesus Christ suffered for our sins but also for all of our experiences, pain, weakness, illness, everything. He is the only person that truly knows everything we go though.
Yo se que Jesucristo es mi Salvador y sufrio por todos personas en el mundo porque El tiene amor por todos. Yo se que mediante y porque Jesuscristo es posible que nosotros podemos vulver a vivir con Deus. Yo tengo amor para mi Salvador y por todos las personas en mi vida. Muchos amor,
Elder Jeñseñ
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