Dear Family
and Friends Monday,
October 07, 2013 at
12:15 (EDT)
Well this last week was really
good.
Monday: We went hiking like I
talked about last week. In the evening we didnt do anything really crazy. We
just walked around Berlin. For
Preparation day today we are going over to the Foust family and playing a game
called Dungeons and Dragons.
Tuesday: The Fousts a family that lives in Lancaster
took us to a restaurant called the Dairy Bar in Berlin. The place was really
good and surprisingly cheap. After lunch
with them we looked for volunteer opportunities in Berlin. We stopped in at the
Chamber of Commerce and we might be able to volunteer for an event called
Riverfire. Every fall they light the boom piers on fire. The boom piers are
rock islands in the river that are spaced about 40 yards apart. They run up the
river for 10 miles. They used them to separate the logs flowing down the river
to the two sawmills. Now they dont use them. We met an awesome potential
investigator named Celena. We were walking down the street and a teenage kid
yelled out at us, making fun of us. We went over and talked to him and his
sister on the porch. He wasnt interested but his older sister was. We gave her
a Book of Mormon and we are going over on Wednesday with a recent convert in
the ward, Brother Botha.
Wednesday: We went to Bartlett. It was a pretty good
day. We talked to another potential investigator, Mark. On the drive back a
bunch of people were stopped in the road. There was a moose out in the trees.
We stopped and took a couple of pictures of it, and we took a lot of pictures
of the tourists oohing and aahing over the moose. Out here they call the
tourists "Leaf Peepers" because all year nobody lives up here but in
the fall its super crowded until the leaves are gone and then all the tourists
leave. (leaf haha)
Thursday: We went to Milan. It is really pretty up
there and no tourists go there. Also every time we drive to Milan we get to see
the giant ski jump. We contacted a few people up there. We came back to our
apartment for lunch. While we were eating a bunch of cop cars pulled in
front of our apartment. They were all outside of our neighbors house
talking to the people that live there. We watched for a while and what we've
figured is that one of our neighbors died. We dont know if she committed
suicide or just accidentally overdosed on prescription drugs. After that we
tried to fix a ladys car horn. I tried to figure it out as best I
could without tools. I really just needed a test light and I could have
figured out what was wrong, so we just played with it to see if we
could get it to work. But we couldnt.
Friday: We had interviews with our mission president
in Plymouth New Hampshire. We had to drive our car down. We picked up the
Colebrook Elders in Lancaster and then drove down there. On the drive to
Plymouth, there is a stretch of the only 2 lane freeway I have ever seen,
through Franconia notch I think. Im pretty sure that is where the Old Man of
the Mountain was. New Hampshire is so proud of the Old Man of the
Mountain. Thats whats on the back of their state quarter. The old
man was a rock that looked like a mans face. He fell down in 2003,
but they still have his picture on just about everything. Zone
Interviews went pretty well. The Zone Leaders taught us a good lesson. After
all that we drove back. We helped a lady in our branch move to a new apartment,
and then had a lesson with Jules, a less active member.
Saturday and Sunday: Were both really good days. We got to be
at the church all day both days and watch General Conference. This was one of
the best General Conferences I have ever watched. I really enjoyed Elder Hales's
talk as well as Elder Christofferson's talk. There were also a lot of good talks
about Missionary work. Well thanks everyone for supporting me and reading my
letters and sending me mail. I really enjoy getting mail. I dont have a lot of
time to write back but I sure do enjoy it!
Elder CWJensen