Hey guys!
So.. this week was pretty bomb. Super bomb actually. Numbers wise, it
was the best week of my mission. We taught 35 lessons and found 18 new
investigators. Most days we didn't have time to take a full lunch!
Freaking the only problem is that NO ONE WILL COME TO CHURCH!!! 


That
is the current frustration... Beaverton is a blessed area, there are
hispanic people all over the place, but thus far we've only had 1
person to come to church...
anyways... story time... so my companion and I were talking about how
much we hate cats.... and I don't remember how the subject came up...
but we were talking about what we'd do if we were going to propose to
a girl who had a cat... (edited/deleted for content...not exactly missionary focused...:) so... those are
the spiritually uplifting things that my companion and I discuss....
other than that.. nothing is really new. I'm excited to go home but I
really am gonna end on a high note, I've loved the last couple of
months!
also.... this pic is a pretty good representation of how our morning
went this morning...


we both woke up and weren't really... well...
yeah. By 930 halfway through comp study mayer was sitting in his chair
screaming "JORGENSEN!!!! I CAN'T DO THIS!!! WE NEED TO LEAVE!!! I NEED
TO PDAY!!!!!" and of course I Had to make some smart comments such as
"elder Mayer... I think we should take some extra hours of study
today. Let's study until 12 and then nap for the rest of the day...


:)
I love you guys! talk to you soon!

  May 10th update

 

Hey guys!

So there's really not much else to update you on other than what happened yesterday... just a few conversations between Elder Mayer and I that I thought would make you smile:) So the other night, we had a late night, and didn't finish planning and whatnot until about 11... And Mayer was SUPER tired,

he was struggling to make it through the prayer... so me... being me.... I decided to say something along the lines of "bro, I'm feeling an all nighter. let's just stay up and talk"... to which he just looked at me like I was the scum of the earth and very bluntly said "go to "somewhere that is hot and eternal'  (edited for content...:).

Also, yesterday, during lunch, we got kinda bored. Aunt Heather sent me a slingshot for christmas... we live on the 3rd floor and there is a cat that hangs out kind of at the bottom of the stairs, but aways a bit. So we started shooting advils at it from our balcony.... we got kinda close but no cigar. So we decided to move in closer for the kill, and took some close range shots (we ended up hitting him and haven't seen it chilling there since:).... and that just made us feel so happy that we talked about how maybe we are gonna take the slingshot with us during the day and just do driveby shootings... for example when we see random people. or when someone who we are trying to teach runs inside and shuts the blinds to avoid talking to us:) And, of course, we wouldn't be able to resist shooting the occasional cat:) we decided that some nights we might go cat hunting... so anyways as we were driving around last night I totally could have run over one cat and then we saw like 3 others... so we decided it was a sign to go cat hunting later in the night:) and as Elder Mayer was saying a prayer before we went into a lesson, he said, "please bless that we can....." and then paused for a long time, so I said under my breath "go cat hunting.".... to which he finished by saying, "Father, you know our plans, please help us make them happen!".... we were laughing pretty hard after that!

not much else is new... just working too hard and sleeping to little... last week was the first Sunday in this area that I haven't fallen asleep at some point during church...

. If I sit down for an extended period of time with nothing to do, I fall asleep:) Aight guys that's all, love ya!

This will be framed in my house one day.  'Nuff said.

so, to start off with.... we had a couple of really cool experiences this week... I already wrote Pres about them so I'm just gonna copy and paste...

Miracle. This week's miracle was pretty personal to me, a very big answer to prayers. When I was with Elder Bair, we met a LOT of really cool people who had already been through some rough patches in their lives (aka drugs, youth going to prison, alcoholism... ect.) And, although it's great that they have made it out of that phase of their lives, because they've made it through that, they don't see the need to come to know Christ anymore, He has already saved them and they are fine the way they are, because what they are is a result of what Christ did for them so they don't need to change anymore. So in my prayers lately I have been asking God to be able to find and teach someone who is in the middle of a crisis or hard time, and wants help out. This week we got a call from on of our investigators, TLTL . He called the mission office a couple of weeks ago asking for us to stop by, we ended up teaching him outside of a taco time, but that was the last we heard from him because we never knew where he lived. This week we got a call from him, he said he would be home, he told us where he lived, and he asked us to stop by. We did. During the middle of the lesson (the restoration), he told us that he was struggling with an addiction to pornography, he has had it for 5 years, and he wants to kick it. So in our second lesson with him we taught him about the enabling power of the Atonement.

How God can strengthen us to bear up our burdens and act and change our circumstances. And as we were teaching him, I was watching the gears fit into place in his mind as he applied and understood what was taught. He has a baptismal date for May 30th, we've fasted and are praying that it goes through.

Studies. During sweet hour of prayer yesterday, some scriptures kind of clicked into place in my mind. Elder Mayer and I had an experience this week where we were stopped and talked to by a " another religious person" he asked us some questions, and when we answered, asked us where our answers came from, and when we told him the Bible and The Book of Mormon, he told us "uhh... I'm not so sure about the Bible. I know it pretty well. You could pretty much read to my from anywhere inside it and I'd be able to tell you where you are reading... and I've never read anything about that." As Elder Mayer and I were discussing it, scriptures from the Bible came to our minds that referenced what we were talking about. So I was bugged by how stubborn and prideful that guy was. I was just kind of thinking about it during sweet hour of prayer, and I remembered all of the times that the bible says something along the lines of "seek, and ye shall find." The Book of Mormon teaches us that "God grants unto men according to their desires, whether it be unto salvation or destruction" (Alma 29:4) Which just reiterates that what we are looking for, we will find. Hence is it is important that we are always trying to do God's will, which we discern through prayer, and the scriptures we are commanded to 'pray always, that we may come off conqueror.'... So obviously that other religious person was missing key points of doctrine, because he wasn't looking for them.

So that miracle was super cool... I've been getting kind of frustrated because we've found a lot of cool people but no one is sticking it through. One of our baptismal dates fell through, the other one is being postpned.... But TLTL is super cool so our fingers are crossed on that one.

Anything else?  As far as Eric goes... their family is still in Beaverton, Eric might actually start coming to play morning sports with us. And we are about to go frisbee golfing with him. Do you still have Jose's number? that's for sure a family I want to spend time with when we come back for vacation!

I love you guys! Wes nice job vaulting bro, I'm still waiting on those pics!Enviado desde mi iPad