Dear mom,
I am working on getting the letters sent. I planned on doing it yesterday for pday but we had to take a 2 hour bus ride to have a zone meeting with the president. It was really cool and we learned a few tips. Now we are supposed to walk with a book of mormon in hand everywhere. So i then planned on mailing the letters today while we were out. But we decided it was time to clean the house. We literally cleaned every corner. We moved beds and the couch the fridge and oven everything. So that only took about 6 hrs. So my pday is shot. But whatever i will get them out. Tell Frank that i will send it very soon and it will still probably take another few weeks for it to get there. We only get mail everytime we have a zone meeting. Which is generally every couple of weeks.
As far as wild dogs yes there are a lot of them and they even travel in packs. But i have no problem with them. They are all more or less afraid of humans. I saw those pictures and am impressed with the turf. Yes colony deffinitely needs to fork out the dough for an ambulance. I thought that Jerry was going to be done with all that last year? He said last year was a liquidation too. Oh well. Yea it took a while for my first paycheck to come through at the theater too. Im suprised that they dont let you do movie previews at the theater. Thats supposed to be one of your perks. Huh it doesnt sound like that new guy is very nice. I told you working at the theater was hard. You guys always said
Come on how hard can it be to make popcorn ;)
Well speaking literally yes these are pretty big shoes to fill. :) Oh speaking of which could i get you to send me a pair or two of new pants? I have already ripped a hole in one of my pairs. Stupid public transport busses.
Anyway yes we have people that are so close to baptism. A lot of people just need to get married. We taught a family that hasnt gone to church in 4 years because they think that all the churches are false. We told them that we had a message for them about this exact thing. We then taught them the lesson about the restoration and the spirit was really strong. They seemed very welcoming to the news and seemed excited to investigate the church. But its been a couple of weeks and they have yet to go to church. They said that they were travelling when we finally did find them.
I cant believe that Hayden is coming home so soon. It seems like he just left! But then again things are passing by really fast here too. In three days i will have been out for four months. Ive gotten a couple emails from Tammy root and they say that they are building a new house. That should be a fun adventure for them. Seth says he leaves for the Air Force here in the next month or two. Thats gotta be fun for him.
Anyway i gotta run. Love you all and i promise i will send those letters.
Love
Elder Jensen
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
August 14
This is one of my favorites to date.
Dear Mom,
I will for sure let you know when they get here. The truth is i havent sent any letters yet. My companion has yet to show me where the post office is. I will press him to let me send letters this week. But it is a little hard when your this busy. We have to travel pretty much every day to this other city thats about a 30 min bus ride away. So as you can imagine there is not a lot of time that we can spare. But its all good.
I got a letter from Magen Vinzant. She sounds like she is having a rough time with Utah. But she says that she has a friend that is helping her out a lot.
That is pretty cold for Alaska. It sounds like its going to be a cold winter. And while you will be freezing i will be roasting alive in 115 degree weather :/
I am super excited for Derek! I think he will be an awesome missionary. Did you end up doing what i asked about Joe?
So funny story the one time i remember to bring my camera to the computer house the computer they gave me doesnt have a place to put the SD card in to upload photos. So i will try again next week.
So I was having a rough time a little while ago. We are just not having sucess here. I started to wonder why i was on the mission. I thought about it and thought about it and i knew that i needed to be here but it felt like there was just something missing. So i decided to go through some of the lessons we teach to our investigators and really study them. I finally figured out that I had never prayed about the book of mormon. I have never doubted it was true and i never had any doubts about the truth of our doctrine or church but i had never prayed about it. Now that i prayed and received a witness of its truth i just feel better about my purpose. This book is truly the key to our work. Any way i thought i would share that little tidbit about whats going on.
I have to go now. As we say in portuguese Até mais! (see you later!)
Love Elder Jensen
Dear Mom,
I will for sure let you know when they get here. The truth is i havent sent any letters yet. My companion has yet to show me where the post office is. I will press him to let me send letters this week. But it is a little hard when your this busy. We have to travel pretty much every day to this other city thats about a 30 min bus ride away. So as you can imagine there is not a lot of time that we can spare. But its all good.
I got a letter from Magen Vinzant. She sounds like she is having a rough time with Utah. But she says that she has a friend that is helping her out a lot.
That is pretty cold for Alaska. It sounds like its going to be a cold winter. And while you will be freezing i will be roasting alive in 115 degree weather :/
I am super excited for Derek! I think he will be an awesome missionary. Did you end up doing what i asked about Joe?
So funny story the one time i remember to bring my camera to the computer house the computer they gave me doesnt have a place to put the SD card in to upload photos. So i will try again next week.
So I was having a rough time a little while ago. We are just not having sucess here. I started to wonder why i was on the mission. I thought about it and thought about it and i knew that i needed to be here but it felt like there was just something missing. So i decided to go through some of the lessons we teach to our investigators and really study them. I finally figured out that I had never prayed about the book of mormon. I have never doubted it was true and i never had any doubts about the truth of our doctrine or church but i had never prayed about it. Now that i prayed and received a witness of its truth i just feel better about my purpose. This book is truly the key to our work. Any way i thought i would share that little tidbit about whats going on.
I have to go now. As we say in portuguese Até mais! (see you later!)
Love Elder Jensen
Sunday, August 12, 2012
August 7
Dear Mom,
Im glad that there are at least two good movies to come back to. Yes minimum wage does suck i lived it for a while. Thats awesome that you are doing so well Im proud of you :)
They are taking a class together? Wow that should be interesting. Im glad to know that trevor is doing well at football. I think he will like that turf field. Im glad Emma is doing well.
Tell Colby he is a turd for not writing me an email. But also tell all of them that i love them.
You really cant do anything new without getting a calling huh ;) Well the Lord blesses us for that kind of stuff so its all good. If you read 10 chapters a day of the book of mormon you will finish it in a month btw. I dont know how fast you want to read it but there you go.
I would love to have a usb drive with a bunch of music on it.They have these cool things called music boxes. They are small speakers in a box that you plug a usb drive into it and play music. Oh and i need a favor. I need you to find the best tie i have and put To Joe From Coulson on it and ,obviously, give it to Joe. Then tell him that i love him and am proud of him. Other than that...a book to read would be nice. Reading the same books over and over will get boring. And really anything else that you can think of that a bored person would be needing. Because we work for so long in the day when we have time to ourselves sometimes we dont know what to do. So yeah i will love anything you send me.
So funny story. We found this one lady in my second week who had already talked to the missionaries and loves the people of the church. We started to teach her but she just would not read or pray about anything. We were stuck on the first lesson and could not progress. So finally one day we just went by to visit and read some scriptures with her and she finally said what her problem was. She thought that we worshipped Joseph Smith. Because the Elders before us had talked so much about him that we worshipped him. Then we invited her to church after she was good about that. Then she said that she already had a church she liked. Then we were like umm you have never been to our church...
It was pretty dumb but i hope that that was her only concern.
As far as my chubby cheeks go i think that they are pretty much gone. I am losing a little weight. I do a lot of walking. Thank you for all your love and concern
Love Elder Jensen
Im glad that there are at least two good movies to come back to. Yes minimum wage does suck i lived it for a while. Thats awesome that you are doing so well Im proud of you :)
They are taking a class together? Wow that should be interesting. Im glad to know that trevor is doing well at football. I think he will like that turf field. Im glad Emma is doing well.
Tell Colby he is a turd for not writing me an email. But also tell all of them that i love them.
You really cant do anything new without getting a calling huh ;) Well the Lord blesses us for that kind of stuff so its all good. If you read 10 chapters a day of the book of mormon you will finish it in a month btw. I dont know how fast you want to read it but there you go.
I would love to have a usb drive with a bunch of music on it.They have these cool things called music boxes. They are small speakers in a box that you plug a usb drive into it and play music. Oh and i need a favor. I need you to find the best tie i have and put To Joe From Coulson on it and ,obviously, give it to Joe. Then tell him that i love him and am proud of him. Other than that...a book to read would be nice. Reading the same books over and over will get boring. And really anything else that you can think of that a bored person would be needing. Because we work for so long in the day when we have time to ourselves sometimes we dont know what to do. So yeah i will love anything you send me.
So funny story. We found this one lady in my second week who had already talked to the missionaries and loves the people of the church. We started to teach her but she just would not read or pray about anything. We were stuck on the first lesson and could not progress. So finally one day we just went by to visit and read some scriptures with her and she finally said what her problem was. She thought that we worshipped Joseph Smith. Because the Elders before us had talked so much about him that we worshipped him. Then we invited her to church after she was good about that. Then she said that she already had a church she liked. Then we were like umm you have never been to our church...
It was pretty dumb but i hope that that was her only concern.
As far as my chubby cheeks go i think that they are pretty much gone. I am losing a little weight. I do a lot of walking. Thank you for all your love and concern
Love Elder Jensen
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
August 1
So i got lucky and have a chance to email a little today. I forgot yesterday to tell you that i got another email through dear elder. Its from one of the betridges in our ward but i dont know which one. If you have any light on that i would appreciate it. I want to write a reply but i dont know who to write it to.
So if there are any errors in my emails it could be because portuguese is messing with my brain. Its gotten to the point now where when i speak english i sometimes use portuguese words because its just a habit. Sometimes i dont even remember what it is in English. Its kind of cool actually.
So yesterday we went to Salvador to visit a friend ,who is a member, of one of the missionaries in my house. He is our district leader and this was his last pday so president authorized it. Elder Demille is his name he is from Ceder City and he is pretty cool. But anyway like i was saying we went to visit this guy. Im pretty sure i told you that brazilians love people who eat a lot. So he brought us out lunch and we started to eat. I took some and then waited for everyone to be done. Then i continued to eat all the rest of his food. Brazilian lunches are their biggest meals. After he saw how much i ate he loved me. Its really funny to see it. After that he sent his sons to buy some soda and when they got back he took the cup i was going to use ,which was about the size of a coffee cup, and hands me this giant tin cup. He says that anyone who can eat that much needs to drink a lot. He poured me this giant cup of soda before anyone else. It was super cool. :)
So i found out that there are a lot of slacker missionaries here. I am fortunate that i got a good worker for my companion. A wierd thing about the mission is that every missionary has their own like thing they do. They all have some trait or habit that makes them unique and recognizable. Its really funny to see the brazilians give the missionaries nicknames and joke with them about it. So far i have been called Polar Bear and Polar Seal. The alaska thing is way cool to them.
So we were teaching this one lady for a while and we thought it was going well. She loves the missionaries and the members but for almost a year now nobody could get her to go to church. On monday we finally found out why. This is the first time she has talked about it with anybody. Because the missionaries before us talked so much about Joseph Smith she thought we worshipped him. She said that she didnt believe in worshipping images and thats why she didnt ever go to our church. So we cleared that up with her and invited her to church again. She said that she would visit but she already has a church she likes better. Then I was like but you have never been to our church... So she said she would go. Its super wierd to hear all the wierd myths out there.
Anyway i have to go now.
Love Elder Jensen
So if there are any errors in my emails it could be because portuguese is messing with my brain. Its gotten to the point now where when i speak english i sometimes use portuguese words because its just a habit. Sometimes i dont even remember what it is in English. Its kind of cool actually.
So yesterday we went to Salvador to visit a friend ,who is a member, of one of the missionaries in my house. He is our district leader and this was his last pday so president authorized it. Elder Demille is his name he is from Ceder City and he is pretty cool. But anyway like i was saying we went to visit this guy. Im pretty sure i told you that brazilians love people who eat a lot. So he brought us out lunch and we started to eat. I took some and then waited for everyone to be done. Then i continued to eat all the rest of his food. Brazilian lunches are their biggest meals. After he saw how much i ate he loved me. Its really funny to see it. After that he sent his sons to buy some soda and when they got back he took the cup i was going to use ,which was about the size of a coffee cup, and hands me this giant tin cup. He says that anyone who can eat that much needs to drink a lot. He poured me this giant cup of soda before anyone else. It was super cool. :)
So i found out that there are a lot of slacker missionaries here. I am fortunate that i got a good worker for my companion. A wierd thing about the mission is that every missionary has their own like thing they do. They all have some trait or habit that makes them unique and recognizable. Its really funny to see the brazilians give the missionaries nicknames and joke with them about it. So far i have been called Polar Bear and Polar Seal. The alaska thing is way cool to them.
So we were teaching this one lady for a while and we thought it was going well. She loves the missionaries and the members but for almost a year now nobody could get her to go to church. On monday we finally found out why. This is the first time she has talked about it with anybody. Because the missionaries before us talked so much about Joseph Smith she thought we worshipped him. She said that she didnt believe in worshipping images and thats why she didnt ever go to our church. So we cleared that up with her and invited her to church again. She said that she would visit but she already has a church she likes better. Then I was like but you have never been to our church... So she said she would go. Its super wierd to hear all the wierd myths out there.
Anyway i have to go now.
Love Elder Jensen
July 31
Oh cool how was Brave it looked really good? I feel honored that you got the job because of the work i did there. I think that you will do very well at that job. I dont have a lot of time today so i will be brief. I would love to write to Jake. Dont worry about Colby and Trevor. If they are anything like me, Which i think they are, then all of their motivation has to be internal. When i got the job with Adam i wasnt sure that it was something that i wanted to do. This was because i felt like i was pressured into it. If i do something because i want to i have much more motivation to do it and end up being better at it. Colby i know for sure is the same way. The things he has motivation to do he is very good at. Anyway i dont want to seem like im trying to give you parenting advice but im just writing my thoughts as they come. I have received letters from Frank Sabrina Joci our relatives in Idaho and whitney. Anyway i have to go i will talk more next week.
Love Elder Jensen
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