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Santa Barbara!!!

HEYooo!

This week I was transferred out of Ocotepeque, and I am now in Santa Barbara Centro. It is a super cool area, and we have some work to do now (like the scooby doo song.) For reals though, it is really beautiful here, and the people are very nice. The only problem is that every direction is uphill. I now understand the saying "uphill both ways". The branch here is awesome, they are all super supportive and President Lopez, the branch president, is awesome! He is organizing a Christmas choir and he asked me to play piano for it, so I have to get practicing again.

Anyway, there is a recent convert here named Carlos, and he has been amazing. He always takes us to new people to teach, and all of his sisters have been talking with us and they are all excited to continue to learn more. We also have an investigator named Kevin. He is a super cool guy, and most of the time when we teach him something he has already read about it in the Book of Mormon or in the pamphlets. Really cool.

I am doing well and I hope everyone has a good week!

Elder Jensen

Funny (dumb) Story: Yesterday we got to the house and found out that we had lost our keys to the house. So, after asking if there was a spare key and finding out that there isn't, we proceeded to saw part of the lock off to enter the gate. My comp then climbed on top of the house to go to the back door to kick it open and open the front door. Kind of interesting and everything, so we have to go buy a new lock today hahaha.

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