Words from Elder Trent Jensen in South Africa

"FROM ELDER TRENT JENSEN – country: Lesotho--Durbin South Africa Mission July 20, 2014

Mabali M. might be my favoritestest baptizee ever shes been a member like 6 weeks and yesterday she brought a girl she just barely met to sacrament meeting, we had a lesson with them last night, we asked her what she expected from us and she said she wants to be a full baptized member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints... she said from what she has seen, there is no way its not true. we taught her the restoration and she said i want to know everything and i want it now! i dont want to be a damned soul! i want the happiness you have to offer. by the way, how long does your churches marriage last? i asked her what she ment. we hadnt spoken of eternal marriage that i was aware of. she said she could just feel that we could make marriage last forever.

yeah i was kinda freaked out about this point. ive never been in a lesson like that where the person already knows the doctrine before we teach it. i asked her if this doctrine sounded familiar and she said yes but she knew she hadn't ever heard it before on earth. her wording is so wonderful. we taught her about the veil of forgetfulness,and she said that it feels very thin. it was like we were teaching a member! that was the crowning moment of my week.

i went on exchanges with Elder Matlala, in Maseru on Wednesday and Thursday. hes a month out on mission and it felt weird to try and train when i myself was in his shoes not 4 months ago. where is the time going? 6 month mark is august 6th! not possible! wow. Unreal.

i taught a member about the history of the country and the constitution and of scouting. he was impressed. it came about while i was doing a "good turn daily". taking out the trash for a truck shop. i also found a couple of improvement eras dated july of 76 and oct. 62! old old old. the 62 one had an article on scouting

so the (stolen) coat thing, the guy walked up to me and said give me your coat. i was shocked to think he would ask me to do that. it was cold. he had a knife but it was still in his pocket, so i told him no. he moved toward me and him being quite a bit bigger than me i thought it better to acknowledge his request rather than possibly be locked up in jail for self defense for a while, (the law would be on my side), i totally could've whipped him too. he was drunk he was about my height but weighed another hundred pounds of muscle more... i could've done some thing if needed. but im a representative of Jesus Christ so im not to be the aggressor. I hope he enjoyed the Book Of Mormon that was in the big pocket."