Week 63: 14 Months And A Rough Week

I hit 14 months on the mission crazy crazy


Tuesday me and my companion went on the radio with our branch president to talk about our beliefs and answer questions it was super cool and such a fun experience. The two hosts spent about an hour asking us questions about the church, about our missionary work and stuff like that. It was a great way to get people to know more about our church because the radio show is super big here in monteros and everyone listens to it so we used it as a platform to invite people to the church open house and invite people to come to church. It was super cool. 


Welcome to the most negative email jajaja... enjoy: 


Our friends:
Long story short we have no one jajaj 


but story time: 
If you remember a few weeks back we were teaching the kid of our branch president and how he kept rejecting us and rejecting us well...he rejected us again but.. heres what happened. So on friday we went on visits with our branch president and his wife and freakin Rafael came along and participated in every lesson we had. While we were walking along our branch president brings up the topic of baptism to Rafael and he literally asked Rafael why he didnt want to be baptized. We had a LONG LoNg lOnG lllooonnngggg talk with him and wow the spirit was so strong literally one of the most powerful lessons of my mission. I am talking shaking with the power of the spirit kind of lesson we could see the spirit testifying to him we could see him literally sHaKiNg with the spirit and with all the power, authority and just everything we had we invite him to be baptized. We see him literally full of the spirit and he said no. Me and my companion ask him directly if he can feel the spirit testifying to him that its the right thing to do and he says " yes i feel it but my answer is still no" it was like a gigantic balloon literally exploded inside me and I had to turn away because I started crying. I literally was so sad because we saw him feel the spirit we saw him testifying to Rafael. The spirit was telling us to invite him like screaming at us to invite him so I thought when we extended to invitation there was no way he could reject it but he did. His dad started crying and it was just the sadest moment of my life. I was speechless, angry, upset i wanted to punch a wall. But thats that. 


We were going to have a baptism this saturday but our friend gabriela is not doing anything so we have offically stopped teaching her because we just couldnt do it anymore.


We were teaching a family and they ghosted us so that was a just another knife in the heart.


Met a new girl and she gave us her number and then when we called her she told us to go away and some other stuff as well. 


A guy yelled at us following us telling us we belonged to the devils church. 


We had our church open house and wow what a flop jajaj we had about 8 people come throughout the whole day but 6 people gave us their number but 2 of the numbers are out of service. It was a rough day because the members were super depressed and we had to be the ones to keep up their spirits even though we were depressed as well. It was rough to say the least.


Week was rough and trying. During our companionship review yesterday all we needed to say was " wow what a week i am sad are you sad?" and that was it. Nothing more was needed to be said. God is really pushing us and its been a huge test of faith and patience and wow just so hard and exhausting but its been good. The miracles will come. We are working so hard and its been a very discourging time over here. The branch is suffering but we are not loosing faith this branch will stay open. 


Satan is trying to discourage us but thats not going to happen. We will remain postitve!!!! 


The weekly miracle of me and hermana Cunha is that we have offically reactivated one person!!! Lets go!!! one down many more to go. Keep praying for Monteros!!! 


Los amo 
Hna Jensen 








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