From Joram's 12/29 emails:
Thanks again for the packages and the effort of making me feel like i was at home by sending me the same stuff i would always get and giving me a few decorations to put up. [Mom sent Joram a small Lego set, Captain Crunch cereal, PJs, and a Pez] Thanks a ton I love you so much. Sounds like things are going busy there as usual. Well i guess starting to get busy, same with us. Things have been really slow, but as soon as the Mexicans come back life will pick up again. We had 15 Hispanic people at church yesterday. AMAZING!!! A monster difference between that and the 2 when i got here. So the work is progressing amazingly and the lord is blessing us. We are getting ready to start a district, we just need a bit of time.
Sounds like the usual Utah, crazy weather, man what i wouldn't give for snow. I read a poem the other day that was the story of my life, it was called "if only", and it was all about not enjoying what you have until its gone and always looking forward to something in the present. It talks about when you are in the MTC you cant wait to get into the mission field, and then when you get out you wish you could go back to the MTC. I will send it next week. Anyway my point is that when it was cold I would wish it was hot, and when it is hot i would give anything for cold. Anyway my random stuff for the day.
We talked to P. yesterday and he told us some amazing stories. When he was in Mexico he was a member of the Zettas (Z's) a massive gang in Mexico that has hook ups all the way up the political system there. He was a smuggler that would bring Marijuana across the boarder to the United States. He was also a Coyote, which is the people that take people across the border. I asked him what made him look and find God. He told me that when he got caught and thrown in jail in Houston and lost his job and his wife, he decided to start a better life. So he moved here and started reading the bible. He has read it through, i think three times now. So a pretty amazing story. He got confirmed yesterday, so that was pretty amazing.
So thats all folks. I am pretty sure i will get transfered next week but you never know.
Thanks for the packages and the love.
Love Elder Jensen
Monday, December 29, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Pablo
From Joram's 12/22 email:
Like literally all of our investigators and members have gone, we are down to about 5 investigators, so we teach the same people everyday and spend alot of time in spanish stores and Wal Mart looking for new people. On the good news we baptized yesterday, his name is Pablo and we have been working with him for a while and he was struggling with the fact that he didn't think he knew enough to be baptized, so i told him that when i started my mission i knew pretty much nothing, i mean i knew the stories and stuff, but doctrine, where to find stuff, nothing, so i told him he knows that the Church is true and that it will be an act of faith to be baptized and i promised him a powerful answer to his prayers if he asked as Moroni and James promise, with real intent, and faith, he would recieve his answer. So he prayed that night, called us in the morning and told us he wanted to be baptized. Miracles, the Lord apparently gave him his answer. So yeah that was amazing miracle that happened this week.
Thanks so much for the packages, i have been a good boy and not opened the presents like you told me. So they are just sitting on my desk waiting. Anyway thanks so much, i cant wait to do my puzzle. Thanks for the stories of Tyson, those are always exciting and make me sit here in the Library and laugh and everyone stares at me. Well thats all i've got, I hope you are having an awesome Christmas holiday and remembering the importance of this day. I hope you are having a good time celebrating the birth of our Savior. Cant wait to talk to you in a few days.
Love Elder Jensen
Like literally all of our investigators and members have gone, we are down to about 5 investigators, so we teach the same people everyday and spend alot of time in spanish stores and Wal Mart looking for new people. On the good news we baptized yesterday, his name is Pablo and we have been working with him for a while and he was struggling with the fact that he didn't think he knew enough to be baptized, so i told him that when i started my mission i knew pretty much nothing, i mean i knew the stories and stuff, but doctrine, where to find stuff, nothing, so i told him he knows that the Church is true and that it will be an act of faith to be baptized and i promised him a powerful answer to his prayers if he asked as Moroni and James promise, with real intent, and faith, he would recieve his answer. So he prayed that night, called us in the morning and told us he wanted to be baptized. Miracles, the Lord apparently gave him his answer. So yeah that was amazing miracle that happened this week.
Thanks so much for the packages, i have been a good boy and not opened the presents like you told me. So they are just sitting on my desk waiting. Anyway thanks so much, i cant wait to do my puzzle. Thanks for the stories of Tyson, those are always exciting and make me sit here in the Library and laugh and everyone stares at me. Well thats all i've got, I hope you are having an awesome Christmas holiday and remembering the importance of this day. I hope you are having a good time celebrating the birth of our Savior. Cant wait to talk to you in a few days.
Love Elder Jensen
Monday, December 15, 2008
Christmastime in Louisiana
From Joram's 12/15 letter and email:
It's interesting because it doesn't feel like Christmas but at the same time it feels more like it. Like I am not thinking about snow, or movies, or awesome dates at temple square or traditions I normally associate with Christmas so it doesn't feel like it that was but in the other way all I think about is Christ so it just seems like the norm.
Reina keeps finding people for us to teach so that is always amazing. Yes she harasses me if i go over there and don't wear the coat. She is an amazing person and always gives us tons of food when we go over to her house to eat on sunday. She just pretty much buys two of everything and gives us half. So yeah i will be way sad when i have to leave. We didn't get any snow down here so that was way disappointing. I was in the hospital with my companion and saw a piece of the news the morning it was happening and Baton Rouge got about 6 inches and pretty much every school shut down. if they did that is utah we would never go to school.
Missionary Gingerbread House (made from: Cheese, Raman, Cheerios, Flour Paste, Year old suckers)
It's interesting because it doesn't feel like Christmas but at the same time it feels more like it. Like I am not thinking about snow, or movies, or awesome dates at temple square or traditions I normally associate with Christmas so it doesn't feel like it that was but in the other way all I think about is Christ so it just seems like the norm.
Reina keeps finding people for us to teach so that is always amazing. Yes she harasses me if i go over there and don't wear the coat. She is an amazing person and always gives us tons of food when we go over to her house to eat on sunday. She just pretty much buys two of everything and gives us half. So yeah i will be way sad when i have to leave. We didn't get any snow down here so that was way disappointing. I was in the hospital with my companion and saw a piece of the news the morning it was happening and Baton Rouge got about 6 inches and pretty much every school shut down. if they did that is utah we would never go to school.
Missionary Gingerbread House (made from: Cheese, Raman, Cheerios, Flour Paste, Year old suckers)
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Amazing Reina
From Joram's 12/8 email:
Wow i am so behind, i had no idea Elder Wirthlin died, i don't know how i missed that but oh well. This week was good, we had two baptisms. We finally got the 13 year old girl Odet to get baptized and then we got a guy named Enrique from Honduras. So miracles. The story of Enrique was pretty cool. His is from Honduras and he had a baptism date there and had attended church but then left for here and got lost in the process. But our amazing member Reina who is the best member in the world just was talking to random people she worked with about how awesome the church is and how it is a blessing in her life. So he approached her and she invited him to come over to her house. We then had an awesome lesson with her and him and two weeks later he was baptized. Blessings. So cool. She is amazing, she was harassing me about being outside in the "cold" (50 degrees) without a jacket, so she went and bought me one the next week. It is good to know that my mother sends her spirit to other people wherever i go. When i was arguing with her about taking the jacket she bought me it reminded me of the arguements i have had about a billion times with mom, so that was funny. She loves the missionaries and the program so much. She used to have the missionaries live in her house in Honduras with her family and take care of them and everything. So she loves us and buys us tons of food every week. So she is pretty much amazing. That was our week pretty much. We are rappidly loosing investigators that are heading back to mexico for christmas, but the lord will provide something for us to do. Have a great day.
Love Elder Jensen
Wow i am so behind, i had no idea Elder Wirthlin died, i don't know how i missed that but oh well. This week was good, we had two baptisms. We finally got the 13 year old girl Odet to get baptized and then we got a guy named Enrique from Honduras. So miracles. The story of Enrique was pretty cool. His is from Honduras and he had a baptism date there and had attended church but then left for here and got lost in the process. But our amazing member Reina who is the best member in the world just was talking to random people she worked with about how awesome the church is and how it is a blessing in her life. So he approached her and she invited him to come over to her house. We then had an awesome lesson with her and him and two weeks later he was baptized. Blessings. So cool. She is amazing, she was harassing me about being outside in the "cold" (50 degrees) without a jacket, so she went and bought me one the next week. It is good to know that my mother sends her spirit to other people wherever i go. When i was arguing with her about taking the jacket she bought me it reminded me of the arguements i have had about a billion times with mom, so that was funny. She loves the missionaries and the program so much. She used to have the missionaries live in her house in Honduras with her family and take care of them and everything. So she loves us and buys us tons of food every week. So she is pretty much amazing. That was our week pretty much. We are rappidly loosing investigators that are heading back to mexico for christmas, but the lord will provide something for us to do. Have a great day.
Love Elder Jensen
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
3 Thanksgivings
From Joram's 12/1 email:
Our week was pretty awesome. On thanksgiving we went and had three meals with families from the ward. So yeah i was stuffed for about three days. Everyone gave us food so our frigde is so full we cant eat it fast enough before it goes bad. We ate with the Gores, which is an awesome family who fed us turkey, sweet potates, stuffing, and pecan pie, then the Alberts which was a hawaiian thanksgiving so we had sweet pinapple ham, and more sweet potatoes and some oyster salad, nasty, but i ate it anyway. and then we had just a normal thanksgiving with Turkey at the Fontenotes. I ate so much freaking rice you would be proud.
Our baptism that was supposed to happen last saturday fell through because they had to leave to houston for some reason. But we should baptize her this saturday and also another guy named Enrique that we have been working with but we will see what happens this week.
In other news the guy i baptized two weeks ago, Noe, he got back from Mexico earlier than planned. So we talked with him yesterday and he is doing awesome and his wife and 2 kids are recieving the missionary discussions, so miracles. So thats about everything the Lord is providing massive amounts of blessings. I have been a little discouraged because on December 15 pretty much everyone we teach will be leaving for mexico, but the Lord has provided us with new people that will be staying, so blessings. Thanks for the love and the support, hope you have a merry holiday season.
Love Elder Jensen
Our week was pretty awesome. On thanksgiving we went and had three meals with families from the ward. So yeah i was stuffed for about three days. Everyone gave us food so our frigde is so full we cant eat it fast enough before it goes bad. We ate with the Gores, which is an awesome family who fed us turkey, sweet potates, stuffing, and pecan pie, then the Alberts which was a hawaiian thanksgiving so we had sweet pinapple ham, and more sweet potatoes and some oyster salad, nasty, but i ate it anyway. and then we had just a normal thanksgiving with Turkey at the Fontenotes. I ate so much freaking rice you would be proud.
Our baptism that was supposed to happen last saturday fell through because they had to leave to houston for some reason. But we should baptize her this saturday and also another guy named Enrique that we have been working with but we will see what happens this week.
In other news the guy i baptized two weeks ago, Noe, he got back from Mexico earlier than planned. So we talked with him yesterday and he is doing awesome and his wife and 2 kids are recieving the missionary discussions, so miracles. So thats about everything the Lord is providing massive amounts of blessings. I have been a little discouraged because on December 15 pretty much everyone we teach will be leaving for mexico, but the Lord has provided us with new people that will be staying, so blessings. Thanks for the love and the support, hope you have a merry holiday season.
Love Elder Jensen
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