The Bomb

Well life got really crazy these past two days. We had transfer calls last night and i was really excited because president had told me i wasn't going to be junior anymore. So i was excited to find out where i was going to go. So we get the calls and i am told i am going to Downtown Naluns with Elder Amacher again as junior. so needless to say i was upset. So i packed last night and just thought well what the heck. So i packed and got ready and then this morning we got calls from the Assistants telling us that we are going to have a change in assignment because two missionaries that got put together cant drive. So i figured i would be getting to be junior again with the senior and Amacher would get the junior. But i am actually going to be Senior! I am going to New Orleans to Train Elder Lujan from Chijuaja? Mexico. I am so stoked!!! So that will be the bomb to be with someone from Mexico that can help me with my spanish. So yeah that is the bomb. One of my roomates Elder Bare that is from Eagle Mountain has been out 7 months and is going Zone Leader. So thats crazy but he is the bomb and we have plans when he gets done to hang out at Betos and JCW's. So thats all good and dandy. Um i am so excited that i cant think of anything else that happened this week...um...yeah i am drawing a blank but i am way excited. I am finally off the bike and back into a car. Oh yeah and another interesting thing. They have combined the area that i am in now with all of new orleans. so our area is pretty much huge. But i am way excited because we have a ton of members that are the bomb and we will get a ton of amazing food.

Love Elder Jensen

Two White Guys

Yes i am feeling much better, just a little bit weak from not doing anything for a week and then having to ride a bike all day, but i will recover fast. Um i really have nothing to say about what happened this week because i didn't even leave the house until thursday. We chilled with these gangsters on saturday and they made us some Jumbalaya and some amazing chicken and we just talked about Jesus and played some ghetto basketball with them, it was pretty fun. Nothing like two white guys in shirts and ties destroying three dudes that look like AI. So yeah thats about all that happened. On sunday we had one of our good investigators at church and he seemed like he enjoyed it. I cant wait the day when i only have to worry about getting myself to church and not finding rides for everyone else and trying to get them to wake up. But oh well i enjoy it. I hope you enjoyed the Draper Temple Open house, i sure have missed not being able to go to the temple at all and i am way excited to go this saturday.
Well i got to go thanks a ton for the update and have a great week.
Love Elder Jensen

Joram's new diet

sorry for the delay. I have been bed ridden for the past week and not been in too good of shape. I got a sore throat last wednesday and it got worse to the point on Thursday that i couldn't swallow. But me being me i thought it would get better. But it didnt' so i went to the Emergency room on sunday because i was vomiting, couldn't eat and had massive pain in my throat. so they ran a strep culture, came back inconclusive and told me to take amoxycillin. Well that took a few days but i am doing much better, I was confined to the bed so i haven't done much. I am still a little weak from not eating for a bit but i am better. I discovered a new diet though, i am now 15 lbs lighter, although it was all muscle and no fat that i lost. So yeah this week was really challenging and not very enjoyable. Nothing makes you homesick like being sick and not having anyone to take care of you. The Senior couple that is in our area brought me some oatmeal and orange juice and then some chicken noodle soup and i almost cried. I had been living off of cranberry juice and... well actually that was it. but anyway lifes better now, i am still week but going good. Thanks for the package i haven't had the time to go to the post office to get it but we will do that soon. I got the letter from dad about Jaces game and hope that he is doing very well and that he did good in his game. I am going to go write him so thats all about that. I am trying to think of anything interesting or good that happened but nothing has happened in the last week. so yeah tell Tyson i will think about what to get him. I am a little poor because of the doctor but i will find something. Thanks for everything and i love you.
Love Elder Jensen

Sandra's Baptism

From Joram's 3/9 email:

Thanks a ton for the letter. It seems like this week has been made to make me be humble and realize just how blessed i am. I was talking with a missionary who just got back from argentina and he was talking about how he lived in a shack without AC and heat and how he walked 2 miles just to get into his area. He just acted like its what you do and i was like man i am freaking spoiled. Then i get this letter and i am like wow i didn't really have a hard time getting here, i never lived in a car, didn't really work that hard, so yeah i feel like garbage but oh well i guess i will just try to be more thankful for the things i have. Well we had an amazing experience this week.

We finally baptized Sandra. Elder Shepherd flew back from Utah and it was an amazing experience. I did the confirmation on Sunday. She was kind of freaking out before the baptism so we gave her a blessing and the one word i wanted to use more than anything i couldn't remember. I gave the blessing in English because she speaks better English than Spanish and i couldn't remember the word for comfort, all i could think of was consuelo. So yeah i am retarded, I gave a prayer in Zone confrence and realized that i hadn't prayed in English in over 9 months, needless to say it was a little rough. Any way that was an amazing experience. For the confirmation i was worried about what to say and what she needed to hear and then all of a sudden i was just remembered a scripture in DC that says something to the effect of "treasure up in you mind the words of god and it will be given in the very minute that you need it" so i just sat and had faith that i could be an instrument and that everything would go well. And it did, i don't remember a single thing i said but my mouth was saying words and my mind was just thinking i hope this is coherent because i am not in control. It was a wierd but also an amazing experience. So that was very spiritual and gives me a testimony of the power of the spirit. Well thats about all folks.
Love Elder Jensen