Buenas felices dias!
Another week has passed in the strangest, most redneck, and happiest place on Earth! Another week of clear skies and rain (those happen at the same time here) and quite a plethora of oddly entertaining stories. The highlight of this week was the one time that Elder Montierth and Elder Jensen discovered the apartment we were living in had an "Ultimate Juicer" and we decided to play a few rounds of "Will it juice?"- which ended with a lot of laughs and a huge mess of Cran-apple-grapefruit-lemon-lime juice all over the kitchen.
That or the handful times we hung out with the Houston Police department this week.
Before anyone starts filling out bail forms don't worry it wasn't anything we did, they just happen to always show up at places we are! Every Wednesday we have the opportunity to work at the local food bank and this week was definitely interesting. We had a couple fights, a couple of people get angry because we ran out of peaches (which necessitated restraining orders), and a lady fake death twice too...in a matter of 4 hours we talked with the Houston Police departments 4 times or so...just another day in Houston,Texas! It's a lot of fun to work at the Food Bank, we always have interesting stories afterwards.
Elder Jensen and his companions have also gone full swing detective mode this week. We've been working hard to narrow down our 600-strong list of members to figure out who still lives in this area and who doesn't. We've had a lot of success and actually ran into old investigators that wanted to get the lessons again! Other than that, this week was full of meetings, lessons, and a lot of new investigators. Our area is finally picking up speed and having success, and we're all really excited about that!
The absolute best part of this week though was yesterday. This is A: (sorry A and her brother are super super cute but I am always uneasy posting pics of other people's kids without permission!!)
A is one of the first friends I met here and is also the newest member of our ward!
Typically, in our church we baptize kids when they turn 8 years old. However, A's family was inactive a year ago and missed her baptism...so the Sister Missionaries have been teaching her and she finally had the chance to be baptized! When asked she claimed that she wanted "Elder Gigante" (Giant) to do it so I had the privilege to be the one to baptize her yesterday. It was such an neat experience and to see her afterwards, smiling from ear-to-ear and the happiest I've ever seen her was so awesome.
I love my mission and love the people I've been called to serve and I can't imagine life any better. I know that I was called here right now for a specific purpose and every time I get sad or down that thought pushes me forward. Whenever you just want to give up, remember that nothing is impossible, don't look backward, and just keep moving forward!
Con amor,
Elder Jensen
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