This week was a good one, but a
tough one! Elder Pereira was sick all
week again, so I was still with Elder Guerra working two areas! We sure did learn how to walk well . . . Haha
. . . But it was good. Numbers were
super low, but we still had one baptism of João Paulo on Friday which made it
all worth the hard work. Gosh the week FLEW
by. I gave my first training for my
District on Wednesday as well and well that went way better than I thought it
would!
It was so incredibly delicious to
talk to the fam bam on Christmas! Yeah
afterwards was a little tough so I just got up and forced Elder Guerra to work
even though he didn’t want to because it was Christmas . . . Haha. There was nooooooo way I was staying in the
house all day just to think about home! I
have too much work to do! But the Skype
Conversation completely rejuvenated my Spiritual Jibes and I got out there with
more energy than I had had before for sure. Talking with family and friends and letters
and all that gets me pumped up and makes me want to make everyone proud. Soooo keep up the good work everyone!
I had a pretty darn cool experience
yesterday! This week when Elder Guerra
and I had a few extra minutes we decided to visit a few other churches to see
what they are really like. Seeing as I
had never actually visited any other church I thought I would use the COUNTLESS
number of churches here to my advantage and try to understand other peoples’
views a little bit better when it comes to religion. We visited a Pentecostal church that was
insane with lots of yelling and a Baptist church that was just some old guy
talking. Lots of Apostasy going on if I
may say so. Even at the Baptist church,
the pastor pointed out something that was wrong in the Bible and of course . .
. No one seemed to take note . . . Ummmm . . . HELLO!? You just admitted that the Bible isn’t
complete! Anyway . . . Last night we
visited some other Pentecostal church and I wasn’t there for 45 seconds before
the Spirit started working reeeeeeally strongly inside of me. The pastor started yelling to teach and
everyone was shouting "amen" and all that good stuff. And it just hit me SO HARD the religious
confusion that this world has. The
majority of people don’t get it that all these churches are different and they
can’t all be from the same God. God isn’t a God of disorder and confusion. On the contrary, he has PERFECT explanations
and PERFECT order. We have so many
churches that speak the words of the Bible, and yet lack the true authority of
God. All think they have
"authority" from God. But God
gives authority to every church and every man who reads the Bible and teaches
things in his own way? No. Absolutely not. If God really exists, he has an order. To have an order you need leaders. To be a real leader, a leader CALLED BY GOD
HIMSELF, you have to have the authority of God. All these people in our day today are so lost
because they "like" their church. Not because it is true or really of God, but
because they have good music and friends there. It was the first time in my life that I felt
legitimate sadness for the confusion in our world. I felt what some of the Prophets in the Book
of Mormon have spoken. How they want to
help these people, but the Devil has blinded their eyes with the thiiiiickest
lace on Earth.
In that moment I realized just how
much work we truly have to do. And not
just missionaries. Every member. We have
so many souls to save. We have to get to
work. I learned all this in a matter of
two minutes, and then the Spirit told me it was time to leave. And honestly, all I wanted to do after was
knock doors. And so we did =) The
Church is true. God exists. The Church of Jesus Christ has been restored
and thus, so has our Salvation.
I love you all! Be good, be safe!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love, Elder Jensen
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