Elder Sam Jensen

 ¡Hola! I hope you had a great week! Last pday we had a mission wide pday where we all met at a park and played sorts all day. The latinos had never played kickball before so I crushed them at that. I also played a lot of volleyball. By the end of the day I don't think I was that bad at it. Everyone also got a t shirt with their name and the mission on it. The next day we had our final mission conference with Presidente Hinostroza. Elder Palhua packed up all his stuff since he got the news he was going to be transferred. But he cut it very close and we were only late by 30 minutes. I told him it started at 9 but he insisted it started at 9:30. It got to the point where there was no way we weren't going to make it before 9:30, so I gave up trying to push him. Presidente expressed his testimony in both Spanish and English, which is "Yo sé que Jesús vive," or 'I know Jesus lives." It was a powerful final talk and testimony from this man I didn't spend very m...

  ¡Hola! I hope you had an amazing week full of goodtimes and spiritual experiences! This week we decided to order some pollo la braza from a restaurant called Roky's. We made our order and my comp said it would probably take an hour. The zone leaders then asked us to pick up some bautismal clothing at the chapel. Right after we got it Roky's called us and said they were outside our apartment. This was only 30 minutes after we ordered. So my companion starts running and calls them to find a new place to meet. We left the soles we were going to use to pay for it back at the apartment, so I had to buy a bag of Lays potato chips that was half full for 10 soles with a 100 sole bill so we could pay the right amount. I'll say that I didn't feel like a missionary running down the street because we were running for chicken. We could've just called from the chapel and had them deliver it there but my comp just broke out running. Sometimes I'll get separated from my compa...

  ¡Hola! Once again this week seemed to go by very fast! I hope you had a great week and saw the hand of God in your life. On Wednesday morning someone came and turned on the hot water! But then that night the water shut off again, exactly 2 weeks after it did the first time. I don't know what the cause of this one was. Anyway of course that was night we were given the messiest hamburgers I've ever eaten for dinner, with sauce leaking through the bag. It was one of those ones where once you pick it up you can't put it down until you're done because of how messy it is. So no water means no exercise on Thursday because of no shower to clean off the sweat. Of course the day we don't have water is the day we have our final interview with Presidente Hinostroza and his wife. Upon seeing this unfortunateness I couldn't help but burst out laughing. We had our interviews, got some photos, and had some fun with the other missionaries from our zone. When we got back, we fo...

  Well this week really seemed to fly by! I hope you had a great week too! Our pensionista always delivers our meals late. Breakfast at 8? No at 9:30. Lunch at 1? No at 2:30. Dinner at 8? No at 10. Because of that at 7 or so on Wednesday I was just sitting there, daydreaming about peanut butter. Then I remembered that I had been given 4 packets of peanut butter to bring with me just in case of emergencies! That's when it clicked. I looked at the Cua Cuas (one of my favorite Peruvian candies, it's kinda like a Kit Kat with wafers covered in chocolate) sitting on my desk and my future as a  revolutionary candy maker started to take form. I took one of my packets of peanut butter and squeezed a bunch out onto the Cua Cua, laughing the whole time at my genius. And as you probably expected, it's heavenly. (I mean, it is chocolate covered in peanut butter) I felt like Remy at the beginning of Ratatouille when he's getting all excited about what he should use to cook that mush...