hey everyone, thank you all so much for your letters and packages. i~m loving it here nowe but i still wanna get out in the field. i~ve had such wonderful experiiences here and have learned so much about the gospel and the language is coming so well. here us on eof those experiences i had this week.
we do this teaching role play thing once a week called the TRC. it makes me really nervous but it is so awesome. this week we had to do the first part in portuguese and just get to know the investigator a little bit and that went ok. then we had the had the chance to actualy teach them a lesson. well when we knocked on the door she opened and we greted her in portuguese and she looked a little confused and answered back in spanish which made me confused then the lady at thhe desk laughed and said she didn't speak portuguese but that she was a last minute for replacement for our investigator. so we went in and got to knwo her a little bit. the scenario was that we were meeting her for the first time but the other missionariesd had taught her the first lesson already. so we started the lesson about the plan of salvation and i had these little visual aids to use. but even though it was fake you could still fell the spirit and my companion when we were studying found this scripture D&C76:51 which is about baptism. so we go throught the lesson and we focused on the Atonement and the Celestial kingdom and we would have her read sciptures and she would read them and think for a second and then smile. the spirit was so strong it was awesome and me and my companion were working together so well it was amazing. but we got towards the end of the lesson and my comp had her read that D&C scripture and she did and she asked like what every sentence in it meant and we explained it and she was smiling the whole time and my companion asked her if she would follow the example that the Savior had set and be baptized by one having authority and she thought for a second and i asked if she would be baptized in jan 9.... she thought for a second and then said................. YES!!!!!!! me and my companion sat there for a second dumbfounded then i said we'd keep teaching her lessons and get her ready and check on her everyday... it was amazing (even if it wasn't real it was still awesome) that is the best job i'd ever done teaching the lesson me and my companion worked so well together it was awesome. and our teacher said we did an awesome job. but that was the highlight of my week. we do this teaching role play thing once a week called the TRC. it makes me really nervous but it is so awesome. this week we had to do the first part in portuguese and just get to know the investigator a little bit and that went ok. then we had the had the chance to actualy teach them a lesson. well when we knocked on the door she opened and we greted her in portuguese and she looked a little confused and answered back in spanish which made me confused then the lady at thhe desk laughed and said she didn't speak portuguese but that she was a last minute for replacement for our investigator. so we went in and got to knwo her a little bit. the scenario was that we were meeting her for the first time but the other missionariesd had taught her the first lesson already. so we started the lesson about the plan of salvation and i had these little visual aids to use. but even though it was fake you could still fell the spirit and my companion when we were studying found this scripture D&C76:51 which is about baptism. so we go throught the lesson and we focused on the Atonement and the Celestial kingdom and we would have her read sciptures and she would read them and think for a second and then smile. the spirit was so strong it was awesome and me and my companion were working together so well it was amazing. but we got towards the end of the lesson and my comp had her read that D&C scripture and she did and she asked like what every sentence in it meant and we explained it and she was smiling the whole time and my companion asked her if she would follow the example that the Savior had set and be baptized by one having authority and she thought for a second and i asked if she would be baptized in jan 9.... she thought for a second and then said................. YES!!!!!!! me and my companion sat there for a second dumbfounded then i said we'd keep teaching her lessons and get her ready and check on her everyday... it was amazing (even if it wasn't real it was still awesome) that is the best job i'd ever done teaching the lesson me and my companion worked so well together it was awesome. and our teacher said we did an awesome job. but that was the highlight of my week.
love elder jensen
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