Hey Everybody!
Guess what!? I've been on my mission for a MONTH! kind of crazy huh? My perception of time is so weird here. The days seem pretty long,  sometimes by the end of the day I can barley remember what we did or talked to that morning. Because we talk to all different people and drive to all these different places. But the weeks do seem to go fast. I've been here in NJ for almost 2 weeks now.
We have really nice members here in Medford. They are all really friendly. Though we don't get to eat with them very often. We usually only have one meal a week with a family. Except there aren't a lot of members here.. so that makes sense.
We met with a lot of people this week. One thing I've learned out here, is that nothing rarely goes how you expected it to go. This week we expected to have 2 people with baptism dates. Well we had Zero..  haha. One person would we think is suuuper ready to be baptized, canceled on us! the other person just needs a little more time. but i'm sure eventually they will both have a baptism date.. soon.
I Loved all of the pictures you sent me with the Philly sign. Keep em coming!
So Wednesday, we didn't have like any appointments.. so we went to the library so that my companion could set up his missionary Facebook page. After that we decided to go tracting...ahhh. We knocked around an area, and no one was interested. In fact they were all pretty rude. A lot of people when they answer there door, act like they are annoyed that we knocked. they ask us what do you want? or What? but in a rude way. Or they will say: I'm good, I'm catholic... And i think in my head, are you good? haha
Anyways we always laugh at people when we are walking away from their house. and say, If they only knew!
So as we were out tracting we had a lady that let us talk to her for a second. Well she was a born again christian... I didn't really know anything about their religion. But lets just say they have unique beliefs. :) She basically told us that she believes that she will NOT be judged for her works and what she does here on earth. And that because she believes in Christ that she will be saved, because he has done the rest for us. We talked for like 20 mins on her porch and i was Freezing! and we didn't have our Scriptures because, we were planning on just saying hi to some less actives and handing out pass along cards. So I could pull out my bible and kindly tell her that she is wrong :) But she brought up the usual bible scriptures: the one in Revelation about not adding on to the bible etc. We asked her if she knew much about our church and she said, yea I know a lot about your church. And so we asked her what does she know. She said that she doesn't have time to say everything she knew. But we pushed her. She said she knew how we have a book that Joseph Smith wrote ERRRR. and that we base our beliefs and religion on the Book of Mormon and not the bible ERRR. Anyways basically everything she said about our church was WRONG. So we explained about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. But the whole time she was just telling us how none of that matters etc because we can't add on to the bible and how what she believes is already enough so we don't need anything else. and by the end she basically told us how she felt sorry for us. And ready for this?? She told us that she would pray for us, that we would be able to find the truth so that we can be saved. HAHA She said I know what I believe is true, and I know that you guys think that what you guys believe is true. And I told her I don't believe, I KNOW that it is true.  But she seemed pretty proud of her self. I was a little frustrated after that and really cold.
Lets just say tracting is not very effective at all. But anytime that we don't have something scheduled or something to do. That's kind of what we turn to. And I'm not a huge fan of it.
But not everyone we talk to is rude, luckily. Some people no matter what they believe are open to talk about religion and are really nice to us. We will have people that are smoking right in front off us on their porch or in their house but will be open to talking about what we believe and what they believe.
We have District Meetings on Thursdays. And sometimes we go eat together somewhere after. This week we went to a place called La Vita's. They probably had the best pizza I've ever had! it was pretty good! We do A LOT of planning and little eating :( I'm always hungry and can't wait to get back to my apartment to eat.
We had Stake Conference yesterday in Cherry Hill, NJ. Vai Sikahema is in our Stake Presidency and he talked at the Conf.
They take Stake Conference a lot more serious over here. At least it seems like it. They have people out in the parking lot, telling you where to park. They had head sets for translation. And they had a lot of people there! Anyways it was good, they talked about temples. And shared a lot of good stories about going to the temple with their family. We went and watched the Church Christmas Devotional last night. It was pretty good.
Well I've got to go but. So far so good! I've met a lot of people here! Still trying to get used to the Area. They have townships here instead of cities. Or something like that. It doesn't make sense to me. A lot of people put up lights and decorations for Christmas. And I've actually seen a lot of nativity scenes in people's yards.
I love to hear from friends and family! So write me! Even just a quick note/letter is awesome!
Hope everyone has a good December.
 Love, Elder Jensen