Hey Mom,
Sorry i didnt get a chance to write you last week. My companion had some trouble sending a reimbursement and i had to figure out how to make it work. By the time i got everything sorted out the time was up. Rosy is not ringing any bells in my head right now. I hope Colby doesnt have any complications with the wisdom teeth. Those were no fun to deal with when it was easy. You know its funny i miss Colby more than i thought i would. Im not really sure why.
I was kidding about the movies. Dont stress it. There are very few things that will make me come home. Pretty much anything short of a crippling accident or some sort of disease isnt going to cut it. If i really feel that bad about a movie i will just buy it and watch it here. But im not doing that dont get me wrong. Yeah i heard all about Butthead winning again. Stupid electoral votes. As far as the scary country goes though the US is weaksauce compared to Brazil. I get a chance to watch the news every now and then at a member or investigators house and its not pretty here. This country is corrupt until the core. There are murders daily in every city and corrupt politicians stealing huge sums of money all the time.
But enough of the bad stuff. Things are going well here. We know the area a lot better now and are working with a few people on getting them baptized. There are a ton of less actives that wont come to church for who knows why. But we are working our best to bring stability back to the branch. The leadership is kind of picky about who they give callings to. We explained to them very gently about everybody needs a calling and everything. But they just dont trust a less active to do the job so they put more callings on the few members that are active. This puts a huge burden on everyone and causes trouble. The Lord does not let his people be baptized into a disfunctional branch or ward. So the baptisms stop and who gets blamed? The Elders. Then people start to not give references because they think the Elders arent working and then the elders really do stop working because they dont have support of the members. Then guys like me get put in to the middle of this mess to sort it all out. Fun stuff huh?
But things are going well. I like my companion and we are trying our best. Yesterday we had a fun time. We went to visit this member ,A young woman who is 18, that lives in the middle of nowhere. She is the only member in her family ,for now, and rides a bike about 3 miles to work and school everyday. Then we started to leave the house and it started raining very hard. We arrived in the actual city and the dirt roads looked like rivers there was so much water. We were soaking wet and covered in mud so we decided to call it a day. Its good times :)
Tell Joe i said hi as well. Did you end up giving him one of my ties? If you havent yet please do and apologize for me not getting it to him sooner. As far as who i am writing to the list hasnt changed. Since i got transfered to the middle of nowhere i have only gotten two letters. One from Joci and the other from Sister Bettridge. So i am still waiting for some news from home. Because we are in the middle of nowhere we got permission to watch Ice age 4. It was pretty cute but not as good as the others.
Love you mom
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Nov. 6
Dear Mom,
I saw that picture of Colby poor guy. He looks like he is in some pretty good pain. Coach Dahl the younger right? Why is he stepping down? Why didnt Trevor get his shirt? Ya it sucks that its such a popularity contest. But what can you do about it. Emma hurt herself again? What a suprise. She does have bad luck. Tell her to toughen up and be an alaska girl ;)
Oh dont tease me with that kind of stuff. A LOTR marathon ending in the Hobbit? Thats it im catching the first plane home ;) Thats going to be awesome and a ton of work for you guys. Get ready to work your butt off ! Thats good that the Lord is giving you a little bit of a break it sounded like you were about to explode from the work load.
Seriously a Trek? I always miss those. I almost had an opportunity in Coalville and then we moved. Then theres this one and im in Brasil. What luck. Oh well im probably a little old to go on it anyway. So i missed my opportunity to vote. President sent some information on how to vote out of the country to us and i printed off the papers but then put them away and forgot about them. Then by the time i remembered it was too late. Oh well i dont think one vote is going to make much of a difference for Romney. I assume that that is who you are going to vote for. But who knows you could be democrats for all i know. I am a little bit far away.
Any way as things are going here i have some luck. I got here just in time for the rainy season. Its going to rain pretty much everyday until january. So i think God loves me a little still. Things are getting better as far as the bikes go. My butt doesnt hurt as much anymore. And we are getting to know the area. We can find our way around the center of the city and our area. We have a few hopefulls for baptism and are working on finding new people. There are a lot of rich people here exactly like the ones in the states. They are very shut in and dont socialize very muc h.
I saw that picture of Colby poor guy. He looks like he is in some pretty good pain. Coach Dahl the younger right? Why is he stepping down? Why didnt Trevor get his shirt? Ya it sucks that its such a popularity contest. But what can you do about it. Emma hurt herself again? What a suprise. She does have bad luck. Tell her to toughen up and be an alaska girl ;)
Oh dont tease me with that kind of stuff. A LOTR marathon ending in the Hobbit? Thats it im catching the first plane home ;) Thats going to be awesome and a ton of work for you guys. Get ready to work your butt off ! Thats good that the Lord is giving you a little bit of a break it sounded like you were about to explode from the work load.
Seriously a Trek? I always miss those. I almost had an opportunity in Coalville and then we moved. Then theres this one and im in Brasil. What luck. Oh well im probably a little old to go on it anyway. So i missed my opportunity to vote. President sent some information on how to vote out of the country to us and i printed off the papers but then put them away and forgot about them. Then by the time i remembered it was too late. Oh well i dont think one vote is going to make much of a difference for Romney. I assume that that is who you are going to vote for. But who knows you could be democrats for all i know. I am a little bit far away.
Any way as things are going here i have some luck. I got here just in time for the rainy season. Its going to rain pretty much everyday until january. So i think God loves me a little still. Things are getting better as far as the bikes go. My butt doesnt hurt as much anymore. And we are getting to know the area. We can find our way around the center of the city and our area. We have a few hopefulls for baptism and are working on finding new people. There are a lot of rich people here exactly like the ones in the states. They are very shut in and dont socialize very muc h.
Anyway the power is going out and the internet is acting funny so i will let you go bye.
Love Elder Jensen
Nov. 6
Hey Pops,
Sorry i didnt have time to write you last week. I just barely got finished with everyone that wrote when the time ran out. The Lan house here is not very good as well. The computers are slower and the keyboards are broken so it takes longer. Anyway as far as things go i am doing well. I got lucky and it will rain here pretty much every day until january. So it looks like i wont die of thirst. I would upload some pictures but this computer doesnt have and sd card reader so i will have to look for a cable to buy. We have a few hopefulls that could be baptized if they go to church but they have no mode of transport besides walking so its a little hard for them. We are getting to know the area and are not completely lost anymore so things are good. This city is very well planned out and all of the roads are strait and grid like. Its kind of like salt lake but there are still a lot of dirt roads. This city is very young and most of it has been built in the last four years. Ive heard that you are super excited for the snow and were a little disapointed that it didnt come yet. That picture you sent is awesome by the way.
Well as usual time is short
Love Elder Jensen
Sorry i didnt have time to write you last week. I just barely got finished with everyone that wrote when the time ran out. The Lan house here is not very good as well. The computers are slower and the keyboards are broken so it takes longer. Anyway as far as things go i am doing well. I got lucky and it will rain here pretty much every day until january. So it looks like i wont die of thirst. I would upload some pictures but this computer doesnt have and sd card reader so i will have to look for a cable to buy. We have a few hopefulls that could be baptized if they go to church but they have no mode of transport besides walking so its a little hard for them. We are getting to know the area and are not completely lost anymore so things are good. This city is very well planned out and all of the roads are strait and grid like. Its kind of like salt lake but there are still a lot of dirt roads. This city is very young and most of it has been built in the last four years. Ive heard that you are super excited for the snow and were a little disapointed that it didnt come yet. That picture you sent is awesome by the way.
Well as usual time is short
Love Elder Jensen
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