Subject: Week 68!

This week has been pretty good on Tuesday we met a cray guy named Franky.
He was mowing his lawn and hoped off the mower and ran over to us and started
to tell us what he new about the name Jesus.I honestly don't know what his point
 was, he really didn't have anything against us he just wanted someone to share
his ideas with I guess. He was just really upset because the English work Jesus
 is not what they actually call the Savior in Aramaic. Then he told us that since
we didn't speak in tongues that we did not have the Holy Ghost but he did.  Then
 he said that Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon and anytime we would have
 something to say. He would cut us off by just talking louder. Then he taught us
 how to pray by getting down on his hands and knees and praying for us. It was
 pretty good.

Other than that we have had some pretty good lessons with people. We met a
Part Member Family and the guy kinda hesitantly let us in and we shared a short
 message and then left. It was a good contact and we will continue working with
 him but we will see if it goes anywhere.

We have also had several people who just want to bash with us and tell us to
repent or we will be Damned, its been fun.

But if everything works out well we will have 2 or 3 members returning from
inactivity in the next couple week so we are super excited for that.

On Saturday we were able to drive to my last area (Ottawa) because Twila Got
 baptized!! It was so awesome to be able to see her enter in to the fold of God
and be one with the Saints. A good friend of hers who originally introduced her
to the church was able to baptize her. It was great.

Thank you all so much for the support. Being a missionary is the best



I found a goat



Elder Jensen

Area: Harrisonville, MOCompanion: Elder Cope
 
Email address:  kenneth.jensen@myldsmail.net  
 
Mailing Address:
Elder Kenneth Jensen
Missouri Independence Mission
517 W Walnut St
Independence, MO 64050

So to start off the week we went to a members home for dinner and quickly observed that they love to travel the world. So they took us on a tour of their home and showed us all the cool stuff they had collected from all over Europe and Africa. They also had a page out of the first edition of the King James Bible. That was cool, apparently it's worth enough to be insured. 

On Tuesday we did some service for a member and we burned down his burn pile. It was awesome he let us throw gasoline on the fire and make explosions. Then as we were standing there a baby rabbit ran out of the flames and Elder Cope caught it with his hands. I just turned around and saw him sitting cross legged on the ground with a rabbit in his hands trying to feed it a carrot.  I didn't get any pictures sadly, I really wish I had though.

Wednesday we had Zone Conference which took pretty much all day. It was awesome but a 7+ hour meeting is long.

Thursday we had a sweet lesson. There is a recent convert who has moved into the area with her husband's parents (who used to live in Provo and investigated the church). So we went over and had a really good lesson about the restoration and it was kinda weird because the RCs grandpa was there and he had read the Book of Mormon and the D&C and knew the BoM and Joseph Smith was a prophet but didn't agree with some of the things Brigham Young did. So it was awesome to see a non member testifying to our investigator about the Book of Mormon. It was great. We hopefully will meet with them again this week.

Friday we made some good contacts and had a few cool lessons on peoples doorstep.

Saturday we drove down to the bottom of our area to contact some less actives that have recently moved in. The first guy was in a trailer with Confederate flags all around and had a huge Ford truck with window stickers about the marines and biker gangs and guns all over it. So we knocked and the guy answered, he had tattoos all over, was wearing a leather biker vest, had huge metal skull rings on 8 fingers, and had a big fu manchu. He was the nicest guy, he told us that the guy we were looking for didn't live there anymore and that he wasn't interested but he was real polite and laughed and made jokes with us.

Sunday we met another character just sitting on his porch, kinda the same feel as the biker guy. Chain smoker with a bottle of whiskey in his other hand. He was super nice also, we sat down and he talked for almost two hours.  It was kinda funny he said "you guys want something to drink? You look like you do, I know something that you'll love. But first I have to ask how old you are." So we told him and he came back with some orange cream soda and it was really good. Then he showed us all of his "collectibles" and we left him with a Book of Mormon and have an appointment for later this week.  

Then we had dinner with the Kelleys for Easter and it was super fun, we played a personality quiz. Apparently my spirit animal is a mix between a Golden Retriever and a Beaver. So that was informative.

Thank you all so much for what you do. Being a missionary is awesome. Finding and teaching people about he gospel is the most rewarding thing I have ever done.

Thanks!

Elder Jensen

Kinda hard to see but its a snake :)