Elder Jensen redeems himself with SNAIL MAIL

After today's email was a bit bland, save a brief faith-promoting story about prayer......we were blessed to receive the following snail mail letter from Elder Jensen today. And the letter arrived just in time for Family Home Evening!! Lucky boy! He is back in his mom's good books tonight.   Here's the letter!

Hey Guys!
So I guess Mom and Dad still wanted me to be able to participate in FHE even though I am like 2000 miles away....Hahah
Anyway a little birdy told me that this week's topic is on proper and safe internet use.  All I can really say on that is this: It has been designed for us to do good with it.  God wouldn't have allowed it's creation if it couldn't be used for good.  For us to use it safely we have to want to do good with it. If all we want is to not do bad, Satan will eventually tempt us into doing something wrong, but if we want to do what is right he cannot have any power over us.  As a missionary I see that a lot of people want to stop being bad, but aren't willing to start doing good!   In our last zone meeting, we talked about this.  So this is my commitment to you:

STOP doing something bad/not as good/could-do-something-better 

AND 

START doing something good/better/ or BEST!

Otherwise I am kinda outta touch with the technological world and don't really know what's going on

Love your big brother
Elder Jensen

Quick Week

Well we had a very fast week with two exchanges.

First exchange was in Rancho with the APs. I had a great day... but I want to stay in the desert.

I had a really cool miracle though. I lost my bike key after I had unlocked my bike ( yeah the AP's bike for some reason). Anyway the keys fel out of my pocket and we biked like a mile farther...  we started looking for them and couldn't find them... then Elder Bennion was like "what are we doing we haven't even prayed"... so we prayed and found them like a minute later... Power of prayer for you!

We had a pretty standard week... aside from two exchanges hahah.

Life is good... here is a picture from exchanges... And a food creation we made.

Love

Elder Jensen

Well it was a good week

Well it was a good week. Friday and Saturday were our most successful days but they, combined with Sunday, were also the most physically draining. Me and Elder Markham seem to have together contracted a terrible head cold... but I think we are getting over it finally.

 Friday we were able to teach an investigator that we haven't been able to see in a while. We set some expectations with her and asked if we could teach her whole family. She agreed but was very hesitant. We were also blessed with a new investigator on Friday. He lives with a semi-active family and previously has been set in his catholic background. However recently he has had his heart softened by some experiences with his kids. With a lot of faith and a little luck we should be able to help him come unto Christ.

On Saturday we were able to teach Brad again. It was an alright lesson. We just went over the first three lessons with him checking for understanding. He is retaining well, but he needs to gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon. We also were able to teach a man named Geonvanni. ( yeah I know that isn't how most people spell Giovanni) He is the husband of a member and a teacher at a local high school. We taught with two of his former students there and he was very receptive. He said the reason the church became appealing to him is because members continually came to visit his wife, even after a period of inactivity. He has a lot of potential!

Life is good and I am well. I hope y'all are doing well!

Love 

Elder Jensen

PS.  Here is the cuff I converted.....

A crazy week!

Weeeeeeellllllll this was one heck of a week!

So we had a mission conference this week.... and a member of the Seventy came to speak with us. Elder Falabella. 

So because of my new responsibilities, most of my week was filled with counseling with a Seventy on how to hasten the work of salvation in this mission. It was quit an experience.

We serve in one of the zones where the mission conference was held we had to be early to help set up chairs... then we had a Desert leadership meeting... then the Mission Conference for like 6 or 7 hours....then we had a coordination meeting with our ward mission leader. Then Friday we had another meeting for all the zone leaders and sister training leaders in the mission. We left the desert to head down the hill at 1 and we didn't get back till 9. the meeting started a half hour late... and ran an extra hour and a half. So we were driving for like forever it seemed.

We did however manage to proselytize a little this week. We have a super solid investigator, He is a young man that live with and is cousins with an awesome member family in the ward. He has had a rough start on life but he has made some awesome decisions and is choosing to follow God now!

He will probably be baptized really soon!

Oh and we had a crazy awesome thunder storm this week... i got a cool video... but i can't take the frames with the lightning in them out to send to you! Thunderstorms never happen here!

Love,

Elder Jensen

Transfer Day

Well it seems like I send this email like every other month. But it was transfers today and I got transferred.  I am now serving in a city called AppleValley.

Elder Jensen and Elder Topham, the elder he's been training

I was really sad to say good bye to Silverlakes. Especially because I finally felt like I knew what I was doing with training. And I felt like there was unfinished business in that ward for me. But its all good. I am excited to still be in the desert. it is almost a guarantee that I will serve more than half of my mission up here now.

Not sure what else to say.

The last week was really busy. We found 3 new investigators, but I won't ever see them again :(

Life is good and busy.

Darion is well. With his new job, he says it will be hard to find a church to go to, because he can't leave the premises.

Elder Jensen and the ward missionaries

Elders with their ward mates, the Sisters

Elder Jensen and Elder Markham, his new companion

Love, 

Elder Jensen

PS. I am a ZL in AppleValley... I must have messed up training so pres. wants to keep a closer eye on me. hahaha just kidding.

10 months......!

Well this week was wired... i got to go on exchanges in a Tongan ward... so much food!!!!!!! And it was great to teach with a experienced elder again, not that I don't love training... it's just hard sometimes hahah

We met with our investigators a few times this week. Andrew is doing great! But we will have to pass him off. :(

Angel is also doing great, but we need to get him to read the Book of Mormon.

Darion is up in Sacramento area... some little town half way to Lake Tahoe. It was really sad to have to say goodbye to him. :( he asked us to say a prayer with his family every once in a while. so  our adventures with his family are not yet finished!

So not a lot of time this week!

Love

Elder Jensen