Goodbye Elder Jenson and Elder Campbell

So much stuff happened this week it was so much fun! Also, welcome home Elder Newbry!!


On Tuesday, Elder Jenson and Elder Campbell had their last district meeting! Before we got to the meeting, we woke up right at the break of dawn and went to a service project! Our investigators in San Antonio asked us to help them in their field before the rain ruined all their corn, so we became the Bangued Corn Huskers for the day and went to work! It was super fun, we cut down about 200 yards of corn and husked it all. They take some of the corn here, dry it, and take it off the coba nd turn it into almost rice! It is pretty interesting and cool. I cant wait to try some once its been dried and prepared! Pretty much this whole week I have been saying "Woah, this is the LAST-" Because Elder Jenson and Campbell were going home haha, but we had a good laugh from it!
Anywho, at district meeting, we couldn't meet in the Church because they were repainting it, so we sat under a tree in the shade. Little did we know, there were some Bombers (not richland, but birds) in the tree that locked in on Elder Jensons slacks and nailed the target right before the meeting started hahah. After we laughed it off and started the meeting, a second wave came in taking our his other leg. It reminded me of the clip in Ace Ventura when Ace gets speared in both his legs and he screams pointing back and forth at the two spears, and right on que, Elder Jenson had almost the exact same reaction. BUT he has learned real well the last two weeks how to hand wash his clothes so it was easy to get out the marks haha.
Elder Hennessey read a quote by Elder David. A. Bednar about repentance that I really liked. It was "The Holy Ghost operating again in your life is the surest indicator of forgiveness by the Lord." It really helped me undersatand why it is we need to repend, and one of those reasons is to feel the Holy Ghost and to be guided thought it.
I also had a super good personal study from the New Testament. Because of the footnotes in the Church's scriptures I was able to cross-reference verses and different books in the Bible and Book of Mormon.


This week was full of traveling! From bikes, to tykes, jeepneys and buses. and yes, a carabao, we traveled so far! hahah We went to San Fernando thursday night for a meeting with other missionaries in the mission, I got to see all of the Elders who are going home soon or left with Elders Jenson and Campbell earlier! The meeting was really good! We will be having a Seventy come at the end of August to meet with us. Im super excited! We traveled back Friday night and got home at about 12 am. Got to bed, woke up at 6am. and traveled for an hour in a jeep to a municipality close to Bangued to meet with the members there! On the way back, the jeepney was full... so what did we do? Hopped on the top and rode it back! It was a nice breeze and a nice sun burn as well haha it was great! Got quite a few looks too from people up in that area who dont see a lot of Americans often.
Once we got back to Bangued, we went to San Antonio later in the day and got a ride back for free! (Thank you kind stranger!) Elder Jenson got halfway done with packing and washed all his clothes! Elder Campbell as well. It was fun watching them pack and seeing the smiles on their faces hahha. I miss you both!!


Church was awesome on Sunday, the picture I sent at the Church is of all the people who come from San Antonio. Its awesome to see their faith and determination. We got the Elders on the bus at about 9pm which means they got to San Fernando around 1am haha. Its gonna be a long couple days but they wont mind too much! My new companion is Elder Lloyd from New Zealand! Cant wait to get to know him and learn more about his life!


I love you all so much! Have a great week and Happy Anniversary Alyssa and Dallin!!






Elder Pitt