Serving in Hesperia

Hey sorry.  Just have a few minutes today... i am bumming them from my trainer, Elder Robbins! Life is good! I am well. This place is just like home. hahaha I will have more next week.  Glad you got the pics. Tell everyone that I will respond more next week... just have to get a library card....

OK nevermind got a few more hahah No mass email tho.  I'll do that next week! However I can talk a little more about life here. I am in Hesperia, in the Bear Valley ward. It reminds me a lot of home. A lot of old couples and a lot of brand new families and only a few middle age families. There are 6 active young men and that is all there are in the ward! So we get to help with the sacrament a lot! I spoke yesterday... just my testimony but still! Me and my trainer get along good. He is from Rexburg and almost has fewer months than i do years left in my mission. I can count on one hand how many yards i have seen with grass in them... mostly just sand! But it reminds me of home. We are biking everywhere so i am getting in good shape. Also that black/charcoal suit no longer fits... I'll hang on to it for a bit to see if biking helps bring my waist down ... but I doubt it. This means that I will need/ really want a pair of black slacks... but I can get those later. I will however need a sweater soon! Its cold enough when we bike to need more than a shirt but not my big jacket.  In the christmas package send Oh henry bars!!! Hand written letters coming sometime.... as soon as i write them hahah miss home but not to much!

love elder jensen!!!

OH and we did get to go to the provo temple. it was cool but not as cool as cardston!

Touch down in California!

We haven't yet heard from Elder Jensen, but we received these two photos....evidence that he has arrived in the California Rancho Cucamonga mission borders.  We look forward to hearing from him regularly on Mondays.

Week #2

This week went way faster!! Its crazy! Love the work! Dont know what to say..... the food sucks...... my zone is rad. I can't wait to leave this place  but then again I don't. I'm conflicted. Also thank you mom and dad for reading the scriptures with me since I was ever a thing. I am not a scriptorian but I would definitely say I have one of the most practical, comprehensive and realistic understandings of scriptures in my zone. Which I think is sad. Also thank George and Larry for making me work 18 hours a day...that makes the 15 hour days seem easy. Also work ethic is everything out here. I have so many stories in my journal but i don't have it with me so I'll try and remember next time. Tell aunt Corinne that i got her packages! Also i got the Laytons package too! There is another letter coming.... i think? 

Anyway we leave at 330 tomorrow so that sucks. Everybody here thinks its cold.... I just tell them not to come to Canada . Everyone makes fun of me for how I say bag and aunt and pop and spell colour ...... i always bring up the fact the we have a better education system which typically puts everyone in their place. hahah Its hilarious how ignorant everyone is down here.... one kid actually thought i had maple syrup for blood. Also the "maple" syrup they have here is corn syrup... no maple flavouring added. Another kid didn't know what a sugar beet was he just assumed that all sugar magically came out of the factory. Hahaha its ridiculous. 

love it here

Love elder Jensen

PS. the computer i am on doesn't have a sd card hook up... so I'll have to wait. Also your pics are tiny.... grandpas were not. Don't know what to say... life is good the food is not. My branch president reminds me of grandpa F which is cool! This is life now. did one stamp do the trick to get the letter home?

love elder jensen

1st P-day!

Hey so it so crazy here! but its all good. My district and Zone are just the best! Instant brothers. So sad some of them aren't coming to Cali with us! But its all good! Aunt Corinne Bonsteel I got your package. Thank you so much!!!! To my Canadian Family start sending stuff to Cali because it won't get here before I leave! Loving the doctrine and am getting lost in it. Like a night ago i fell asleep thinking about seraphim and cherubim.  hahaha yah crazy. Also praise and thanx for sister missionaries!! Us elders need some moms in our lives. Mom did you get my letter??! 

love you lots more to come when i have more time!! only have an hour.

Elder Jensen

Hey so i have a little more time. Most of my Zone and Branch ( basically all of us) have gone through something way more terrible than any one should ever have to go through. and because of that we can lean on each other so much more. So cool to be with people that understand! The Gift of tongues is real!!! While i cannot speak any other language at all fluently i can understand many languages now!!! So cool also i am learning tiny bit and pieces of spanish as i go!!

Met up with like ten missionaries from Canada and we are gonna try and have a remembrance day ceremony here! Love gpa-J!!! Also americans are all patriotic and stuff but its a terrible facade that i hate!!! Only one other elder knew that it was veterans day and that is cuz his dad is in the navy core. so yah its a struggle. however i am now Captian Canada hahaha it's awesome!!

Please share this with my friends back home as i have not had an opportunity to add them to the email list yet!!! 

My comp is from Birmingham Alabama and was in a band before he came out. We get along pretty good and teach together even better! Idk if you did this when you were here but we have this thing call a TRC and they are an actual investigator that the MTC brings in for us to teach so we got to meet him yesterday!!

 Life is good doing fine. Miss home but not too bad.

Elder Jensen

18 year plan becomes REALITY!

Elder Reed Brody Roane Jensen

Since the day this boy entered the world, we have planned for this moment.....and now it is here!  Elder Reed Brody Roane Jensen entered the MTC in Provo, Utah on Wednesday November 5.  He will be there until November 18.  Then he will fly to Rancho Cucamonga, CA to serve the Lord for 2 years.  We now anxiously await the first email from him.

Feel free to write him at the MTC

Elder Reed Brody Roane Jensen

NOV18  CA-RC

2009 N 900 E Unit 128

Provo UT 84602