I hope this letter finds all of you happy and having a great life! I do have to apologize, it's been a crazy couple of weeks! It seems like we never have time to email and I never have time to write everyone! But alas, I am alive, happy, and well :)
These last couple weeks have primarily been crazy because we have helped a member of our area prepare to serve a mission, just like us! So that involved going to the temple, and that messed with our preparation days. Anyway, it was an awesome experience, our dear friend Emily is now training in the Utah Missionary Training Center, just like I was some 7 months ago! It was really exciting to get to go through that adventure with another missionary. Overall things have been good, we have a few investigators that we've been consistently working with and the work is moving along!
The best part of this last week though, was a new class that we have begun teaching in the local elementary schools. All Spanish missionaries in Houston are certified to teach English because it takes up a large chunk of our service time so thus each set of missionaries has 1-3 English classes that we run, and they're always super fun! There has also been a huge influx of members f our class because of the large amount of refugees that are arriving from African nations. One of the biggest and hardest problems in the Greater Houston area School District has been making space for the refugee children, many of whom have never had formal schooling and come from backgrounds with very different cultural practices then our own. A few weeks ago the school board met and asked anyone if they knew where to find the LDS missionaries.
Coincidentally enough, our English class coordinator is a member and sits on the council sometimes so she decidedly volunteered us to become English teachers for the school! It's been a few crazy weeks of coordinating but we finally have begun teaching in the school! :) It's such an awesome experience! We get to teach 6-16 old boys and girls from Africa how to speak English! It has been a humbling and awesome experience to be able to work with them. They are all so sweet and kind and treat us so nicely. Though they have suffered abuse and many of them have been damaged emotionally and physically but they are still the most loving people on the planet.I have been so blessed to work with them and they have changed my life forever. I know no matter our backgrounds, who we are, we can always find hope as long as we keep moving forward! I hope y'all have an amazing week!
With much love,
Elder Jensen
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