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