Elder Chandler Miner: Elder Jensen Goes Home

So this was my last week with Elder Jensen. And it was a pretty good one!! It felt like we were always laughing at all times!!

Highlights from the week:

1 Hiked a mountain

2 Exchanges in Quincy

3 Sushi

4 2 new investigators

5 Random "Christian" bashers?

The hike last P-day was a lot of fun. It wasn't too hot and it turned out to be a pretty cool thing. Some Elders grumbled about it, but it went well.

Exchanges in Quincy went pretty good! I was with Elder Horstmann. Saw a lot of trees. Saw a fire. Met with the Quincy Stake President. Helped to wrangle up some cows. Ate a burger that was a 1/4 pound of ground beef mixed with a 1/4 pound of bacon. It was pretty good! Elder Horstmann ate a camel burger. Apparently Camel tastes good?

Elder Jensen and I went into town and got some all you can eat sushi. We ate 11 rolls together. So that was pretty fun to do! Sushi is expensive though... But we spent the whole time talking and laughing and having a good 'ole time. He is a fun companion. I will really miss him a ton

Found two more investigators this week! Part member families are a pretty good source of that! So things are going well. I get to keep the work going by myself for the next two weeks. I will be bouncing between two other sets of Elders up here and going on splits with a lot of members too. So hopefully nothing will slow down or stop!

And yesterday this crazy thing happened. We were meeting with Chris Hammond and a park by his house sitting on the grass and these two guys pull up and walk up to us with their bibles. One of them has a shirt on for a local church. They ask if we were Mormons and we said yes and Chris said " I'm a Mormon in training". They said that they were here to warn us about the mistakes of man... Chris asked them if they wanted to start with a prayer before we got into "discussing doctrine" and they said no.... They said that we pray to a different God? So Elder Jensen and I looked at each other and quietly mouthed flip to each other. So for the next hour they tried to prove us wrong, but we agreed with just about everything they said, so they got really confused and we got one of them to agree with us on everything. The only thing we didn't agree on is the trinity. It was pretty annoying and I don't understand why people go around trying to do that. We kept saying that we didn't want to argue and contend and the guy was saying that he "has thick skin, so bring out the contentions". We didn't, but we couldn't leave because we didn't want Chris to be alone with them. Instead of shaking out faith, it just gave us a greater desire to do what is right and to speak the truth! Chris didn't understand what they were saying so that was a blessing. And someone from their congregation came halfway through and started backing us up. So afterwords we just kinda laughed it off. The strange things that happen as a missionary...

anyways. What we talk about is true. No one else can take that knowledge away from me. I am excited for these next two weeks and the chance to proclaim the truth with so many different people

I love all y'all and each y'all

Elder Miner