Elder TJ Jensen - Idaho Boise Mission - Gracious Savior Representative

What a week. Heres highlights: *we finally got one guy at our weekly Book of Mormon class we started so thats a start *a Spanish speaking missionary stayed with us for 2 days so that was fun *we stayed super busy for about 2 days straight helping the Spanish speaking Elders move in all their furniture into our place and still managed to teach in between that *ate dinner at the haunted house with the couple there and we talked about repentance. On another day they let us explore there old basement too *had our interviews with our mission President which was good *played some basketball with some people and the special needs group *went to Meridian as a whole mission and we heard Elder Anderson (one of the 12 Apostles) speak. He spoke on how God cares about our personal lives, mentioned Matthew 10:29-30, even the hairs on our head our numbered. Also talked about how as far as Christ goes we need to put that "he lives into our bones". Got pictures ne...

*Played volleyball with an exercise ball with some other missionaries back on Monday which was fun *Had a conference in Boise with a bunch of other missionaries,  took some good notes from our mission President. One good thing he said was "if we can't think of a reason to do missionary, then at least we can trust in the Lord" *Had a meeting with a man from one of our wards and after we had a meeting he was looking at me and said "whats sports did you play in high school because you're jacked!" It's been funny on the mission to here stuff like that because if you had seen me 3 years ago you'd never guess anyone would say that haha *I've been thinking about going into physical therapy after the mission and so of course Monday night we ate dinner with a physical therapist, Tuesday we ate with another one, and Wednesday after dinner we ran into one at a youth activity.  *Went to Meridian to a presentation on temples. We went to a cla...

What a week.  Tuesday we visited the temple, the temple is a pretty amazing place because the Holy Spirit can be very strong there. I thought a lot about the Plan that God has for us to be able to return to him again. We went with the Spanish missionaries to the Eureka caves which was fun. That evening we taught a man about repentance.  Wednesday we had a good Council with other missionaries and Elder Nelson shared a good quote  "Finite vessels cannot contain the infinite blessings and love of our savior".  That afternoon we talked about the book of Romans and talked a lot about how we are saved by Christs grace, but his grace is also what helps us to become more christlike through repentance, baptism, and endurance.  Thursday was good, the spirit prompted us to go to a house that has some Ghost issues so we went there and the lady there told us how in their office room a nasty odor would be there (from a spirit) and then she had the Book of Mormon we gave...

Monday we went up to Boise and we played sports and hung out with a bunch of other missionaries. Stayed the night with my cousin Elder Baker and his companion. Had Chic Fil A for dinner. Also saw the guy that died and came back again.  Then Tuesday Elder Nelson went to a meeting and I stayed with Elder Bakers companion and we helped move a lot of furniture and had Chic Fil A for lunch. We also had a car swap with some missionaries so now we drive a white minivan. We got back to Boise and we met with a friend of ours and taught him about what happens after we die.  Wednesday we had a meeting in Boise with other missionaries. Then we looked for ways to help a man we know with getting some food since he didnt even have enough to eat for dinner. One lady we saw just turned around and filled up a whole box of food for the guy we were helping out.  Thursday we set a baptismal date for a truck driver were teaching. Then a member drove us to Bruneau and Grandview (2 small t...