Jan. 14th, 2013

Jan. 14, 2013

So I'm getting transferred...Tomorrow. It was definitely a surprise! I was totally expecting Elder Rabe to leave cause he's been here for 6 months and usually after a new missionary has taken over the area and finished being with his 2nd companion they will usually get moved. But I guess not. Cause he is staying and I'm leaving. I found out late Friday night, and then I had to have all my stuff packed and ready to be picked up by 6 on Saturday night. They come pick it up early because we don't have a car, so they drop it off at the mission office. So on Tuesday I will just have my backpack and my carry-on bag with just a few of the things I kept so I could still get by until Tuesday. It kind of stinks, I've been using 2 towels as blankets and all my pictures on my wall and everything on my desk is gone. Brother Carter from the ward is driving us. It's only 30 minutes away but if we were to take the bus it would take us almost 2 hours and we would have to get up way early. Anyways so that's all the transfer news. Sounds like this is going to be a big transfer. All but 3 of the companionship's have somebody getting transferred, and that's just in our zone. We're getting like 17 new missionaries, and about 5 are going home with 25 new missionary’s next transfer. Ok here is a quick review of the week. Monday- we went down to center city, saw the rocky steps, got a picture by the rocky statue. It was actually a nice warm day. We stopped by the Philly Temple site and they have finally started!! It's a parking lot right now, but they were digging, they have to dig deep because they are going to have a parking garage. Then we stopped and ate at subway. After that we took a subway to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. We got a tour of the place where they signed the Declaration of Independence etc. We had to have all our stuff checked for weapons and stuff when we went in. It was pretty cool to finally see the Liberty Bell that I've been hearing about my whole life. After all that we went to Bro. P had dinner with him then read the Book of Mormon. Then we just stopped by a couple people. Tuesday - nothing to exciting in the morning, we met with Cinquetta that night with Bro. Walker. We talked about prayer, fasting and tithing. She is going to try to move out so that she can get baptized, but it might take a while because she wouldn’t be able to pay for it all herself right now. So she’s going to try to get a job etc., possibly move in with family. Oh that day I also converted one of my new fat ties into a skinny tie. I was pretty proud of myself it looks pretty good. Wed - Well not much to say for that day all of our appointments fell through, so we mostly just had stop by's throughout the day. Thursday - Had district meeting and weekly planning. We taught Debbie with Bro. Payne. We decided were going to drop her. We had her read Moroni 8 (about baptizing little kids) and she said she didn’t agree with it, and she just doesn’t get the whole one true church thing. So we don’t think it’s worth our time anymore. But she is a really nice lady, just not ready to change. After that we saw Nicole, we read Alma 32 with her then set her with a date for March 3rd. Friday - stop by's in the morning, we finished the new member lessons with Shamoya, we taught Ayanna, a recent convert and her sister who is going to get baptized. Then we stopped over at Mom's house at the end of the night. Then late that night I found out I was leaving. Saturday - I started packing in the morning. Then we went out to see people. Kept packing during lunch. We went and taught Nikki the plan of salvation, then more stop by’s, then came back for dinner and more packing. Ugh. I hate packing my stuff up, it just takes forever and it’s like a puzzle I got to make everything fit just right. We also stopped by Cinquetta to let her know that I was leaving. She was sad that I was going. Sunday was Ward Conference. They told us we needed to be there early as usual for the stake leadership meeting. Then they ended up telling us that they actually didn’t want us in there... Church was good. Cinquetta and her two boys were there as well as Nikki and her husband. I got pictures with some members and handed out my contact cards. We had lunch then went over to Cinquetta's. We were there for a while and just talked about a lot of stuff. She is way cool and really solid and we’re teaching her because she found mormon.org on google! How cool is that! Then we had dinner then went over to a few families houses throughout the night to get pictures etc. Today us and the other Elders are going to get pizza and play monopoly at our place. And I have letters to write. I’m just going to try not to think about transfers so I don’t get stressed or nervous. Mom is going to feed us tonight since I’m going. Well I will let you know where I end up.

Peace!       

-Elder Jeremy Jensen