Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Missionary Moment - Puerto Rico San Juan Mission and Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West Mission

 













Buenas! How is everyone?? I hope you all had a better week than last,  and maybe a little more growth than last week as well. I know I have. 

This week had a very tough start, It was difficult for me to wake up and not know what to expect, and sometimes wake up and go out walking in areas that aren't the safest. Although I go out and feel just fine it's that hesitation before that tends to give me a little fear, but one thing that was said at that very big devotional was that we as missionaries tend to wake up with fear everyday and need to stop practicing that. So I stopped, and got to work. Things that have been helping me have been talking and communicating more with my companion.  Reading the book of mormon back to back English to Spanish everyday, and your prayers have been a huge help! This week our goal for finding was 10 new friends, we ended with a little over 20. We got another awesome kid baptized named Emmanuel. Our ward called a ward mission leader and we've been communicating with him a bunch now trying to get him more involved with missionary work and get him on the same page as us. It's a little lame that he doesn't hace a phone or address :(

Life with my new companion is sure different from my last with Elder Nelson and my step dad Elder Thomas, I realized that when he doesn't eat he gets super grouch and negative, and I also realized that he is hungry all the time hahaha! It's a party honestly. There are so many things that I take for granted with him, he supports me in all that I try to do and quite honestly is the only one on the entire island who has been patient with my Spanish! Many people here really just want to cat call at me to get themselves a good ol green card or get me married, never too interested about the law of chastity either, or the message about Jesus Christ in general. It's also amazing to see that I've never seen so many penis's in my whole life, kids below the age of 4 maybe 5 just don't wear anything, even some full growth men dont wear much after Saturday afternoon.  Winners if I didn't know any better. Bienvenido a República Dominicana I guess! 

Sorry for scaring you all like that but to bring the spirit back a bit, I'd like to share my testimony of something that I haven't thought to testify of much before, only ever implied of it. 

It is the simple but extraordinary true that Jesus Christ lives, he has a body of flesh and blood and his voice can be as soft and the wind and as loud as thunder, I know that same voice commands even Death. He is our Savior, His Father, Our Father in Heaven is like unto the same.  He lives and dwells in a place that we cannot go unless through the atonement of Jesus Christ.  They live and their love is infinite and eternal and hard at times for me to comprehend.  They work together with the Power of the Holy Ghost to comfort and bring us all back home. I know I can feel my saviors love. I know my Heavenly Father loves me.  The voice that commands even Death speaks to me and works with this mission and missions all over the world to further His work before His coming. He is coming,  heed to the words of President Russell M. Nelson. Attend the temple often, if you have been inactive,  come back to church, renew your covenants with our Heavenly Father, follow the example of the Savior in all things. Be more centered with your families as you build and strengthen that foundation on His rock. Keep his commandments and Love God and one to another.  

 

I testify of those words and hope that you all find truth and happiness in them as I know you will. I love you all so very very much! 

Elder Jorgensen 

 

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