Another interesting week!

Sorry bout the lack of letter last week. We went to the temple on thursday so that was P-Day and i had limited time to email.

The last few weeks have been really busy... We found 2 new investigators and so that was exciting.  We had Zone Meeting and Zone conference. We went on two different exchanges... that was interesting. You learn alot about what you want to be as a missionary and what you definitely don't want to be when you go on exchanges.

As previously mentioned i got to go to the temple on thursday! I love going to the temple and learning there and finding out so many interesting things! it was just amazing... Going to the temple meant we got to leave the mission! 

It has been quite the week and i have quite thoroughly been enjoying it out here.

 As i study and prepare for each day i learn so much about myself and how the gospel works in my life! it is just amazing!!

Hope that all is well and everyone is doing good!

Love

elder Jensen!

PS. The temple was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So good. It was so nice to be able to renew those covenants and learn a little more about what we are actually doing. I noticed some really cool things this time... also some of the extra symbolism too aaah it was fantastic.

We went to this  mexican place called Los Alazanez and I don't really know how to explain it. It was just your typical rice and beef and beans and cheese and sauce. but it was really good. also I had horchata for the first time. It's a mexican drink... milk and rice and cinnamon but it was really good. Look it up you'd like it.

Since I last wrote not a lot has happened. We went on exchanges with the zone leaders. we went to a baptism... we went to a ward party with like 25 people there... including 4 missionaries...our ward is about 180-200 people but only about 85-95 come every week. so we do a lot of less active work.

But all is well we are keeping busy with more lessons in a week than i have ever taught in a week. so that is awesome!

Love 

elder jensen

Memories of Grandma Jensen

(this letter was received after Elder Jensen heard of the passing of his grandmother, Jean Jensen)

WOW! sounds like quite the week. I am glad to hear that Grandpa is doing good... i was really worried about him... so whats going to happen with the Jensen house hold now?

Glad to hear that every one is ok. Dad told me Danes profound statement about Grandma being able to walk and jump and skip again.

this week was awesome ( all things considered) but i'll keep it real short. Zone meeting, Zone conference, meet with president, Interview with president, food at a great mexican place. FOund 2 new investigators... Exchanges. Going to the temple today.

As far as things i remember about grandma:

"Now save some for the other Kids!"

"Now dont wreck that TV"

"What do ya got over there? a pair of sevens well that won't do" - when we would play cover-your-butt, or golf or go fish or rumikub

"Now what was trump again?".....oh yes thats right"

"Do we have enough chairs?"- every family dinner .... EVERY

"You have the most beautiful voice i have ever heard"- hahah yah ok grandma. Time to get you off them pills!

Quilts... so many quilts

"Well I remember when me and uncle keith would walk to school..."- or whatever it was her and keith were doing.

"And my dad owned a house down at the Y for us kids to go to school"

the next two go together...

"Now if you go down to my room and on the blue chair there is my purse..."- oh yah you knew it was pay day!

"And inside that purse is a pack of mints. could you get me them?" -Well played grandma well played.

these are some simple memories i have

And obviously: her wheel chair

lifting her up the stairs

cruising around in the power chair

chocolate bar game

money in birthday cards

weird inappropriate grandma jokes... ya know typical Jean move

going to waterton and her being worried about every piece of wildlife that we saw... "now be careful around that deer"...

Seeing her and grandpa fall asleep together in the wierdest public places

When we went to the movie The Croods and after she asked..." Did you guys follow what was happening? cuz i sure didn't" hahah good ol' Jean

well this is all i have time for.

but on monday i will have regular email time again.

lots of love

Elder Jensen

A Very Interesting Week!

Well i guess you could say this week was better. i guess you could say it was worse. i really dont know what to say about it. other than it happened hahah

We ran in to a guy this week that had some interesting views on the church and some beliefs in Christ and what He taught that were utterly blasphemous. simply put we didn't get along. but it has turned out for the better my faith in Christ and how we are supposed to live as His disciples has grown immensely. 

We recieved an interesting phone call from a less active lady on Tuesday. This doesn't really happen... ever. usually we have to initiate contact so we were really excited/confused. turns out her boyfriend, who is also a less active member, had been drinking for about 4 days straight and she was really worried and didn't know what to do so she call us to come sober him up. well when we got there he was to drunk to talk and was in bed. but we had a good convo with her and told her we would come back the next day. on our way up to see him.. we got a text from her inviting us over for dinner with him! awesome except  for the fact that we had an extra hour to fill! haha so we weer able to meet with him and he said that in 8 days he would be 7 day sober... not what we wanted to hear but it was better than  nothing. we are hoping to fully activate him and get him ordained and preisthood worthy.

It was definitely one of our more successful weeks numbers wise. we taught 7 less active lessons and 2 member present lesson's with one of those becoming a new investigator whose mom is a member so we have a fair amount of support there! our new investigator is very interesting but has genuine interest in the church and so we are hoping we can make progress with her! 

We had a very good ward correlation and were able to help our WML ( ward mission leader) draw up some ideas for our new ward mission plan, which i am really hoping will help the ward. things between us and the ward seem to be working better now. before they were willing to help us and feed us and give us rides but now it seems that they are a little more missionary minded and hopefully we will be able to continue the progress. it was like we were two gears that weren't adjusted right and so sometime we worked and sometimes we slipped. a few more adjustments and we should be a well oiled machine...( hopefully)

With all this considered we still had a lot of down time to fill and so that was spent finding. hopefully some of the potentials we met with will feel of our's and the Lord's love for them and become investigators soon.

hope that all is going well back home and that the snow isn't too... well ya know snowy!

love 

elder jensen

PS.  It has been a very interesting week but i have come out in one piece. Next week i wont be emailing on monday so dont freak out when you dont get an email from me. i will be emailing on thursday becuase we are going on a temple trip!!!!!!!!!! so that is super awesome... we get to go with a recent convert who is going to do baptisms for some family members and so that is super duper awesome... we even got to help him do that genealogy work at the fam. history center and print out the records and everything!

 this is it really. hope that all is well back home! 

love elder jensen