Service Project Monday

Well sorry for the delay but we were doing service all day yesterday and didn't have time to email. I don't want to take too much time to write but i just want to say that all is good here and thanks for the postcards and letters. I always appreciate getting mail and its always exciting to see the pictures attactched to it. Things are going better here, i am lessed stressed and the work is picking up. Well Sorry for the short letter but i only got permission to write really fast and tell you that i love you. So i love you and cant wait to talk to you in a few weeks. Tell all the kids hi and i cant wait to hear from you.
Love Elder Jensen

Home Teaching

Well this week wasn't anyfun and was really hard, but I am still alive and still going and trying my best. It is difficult to actually have the responsibilty and make the decisions but it is better than not doing anything. We are doing well in teaching a few guys that want to get baptized but i am just waiting to see if they are really ready to get baptized. This ward doesn't really function down here, so i need to make sure these guys are good to be a help not a hinderence to the ward. So i am just waiting to teach them the restoration more in depth and hope that they have a strong enough testimony to not be like the last couple hundred baptisms down here that are no longer to be found. But i have faith we can help this ward get going, President Woods is helping alot and this past week we had quite a few less actives back at church and our numbers are growing. We just need people to do home teaching. It is critical and it isn't happening. I have come to the realization that God sent me here to show me that you cant be a hinderence, if you aren't doing what you are supposed to it doesn't just affect you, it affects the entire group around you. Well thats my home and visiting teaching lecture today. DO IT!!!! Anyway it is good to hear from you. Did you ever get the thank you letter i sent? and would you call hunsakers and ask if they got the one i sent too. The mail here is well very very very very bad to say the least, they haven't taken my letters in like 3 days. I hope you get the memory card, i sent it on monday. If not i did back up all the pictures on a usb so i can just send them another way. Well tell Alyssa congrats on her ACT and good luck with school. Tell Jace to be nice and Tyson as well. I love you all and miss you, only 20 more days till i get to call. I will be probably calling at about 7 because it is the only time that i can find someone with free nights and weekends. I will let you know if that changes. I love you and thanks for everything.
Love Elder Jensen

Easter in New Orleans

I did have an awesome birthday and an awesome easter. For my birthday i did make my cake and added some sweet additions. I have the pictures that i am going to send you today. For easter we went over to the Bishops house for dinner and it was pretty crazy there with alot of people there. I was thinking it wouldn't be a ton of people, i am not sure why, but needless to say there were a ton of people there. So we enjoyed that but it was a little akward and i can only imagine how crazy it was at grandmas. THanks so much for the package. I hope you got my thank you note, if not the mailman i gave it to is a craphead. But thanks anyway and tell all the kids thanks for the gifts and notes attatched to random object :) I am having a good time here and enjoying being senior companion. I am trying to remember the things i didn't like about my senior companions and trying to not be these things, like not being obedient or not letting me talk in lessons, so we switch off every principle. But yeah i am enjoying it and we should have a baptism of a guy this week and then hopefully another one next week. President Woods talked in Sacrament Meeting and gave an amazing talk about the Savior and our investigators enjoyed it very much. So that was cool to have an entire block just about the Savior. Tell Jace sorry about the riding lawn mower i have begged for that for 10 years and still to no avail. I was thinking about that the other day and was thinking how much i would love to be able to go walk around and listen to music for an hour and just relax. I am wierd i know. Its wierd though but all my companions and people i am around tell me i am very serious, which i have never thought of myself as serious in any way but everyone keeps telling me i am uptight. so i don't know but anyway. Tell Alyssa to have fun in California and enjoy. Tell Matt and Colton whats up and good luck with the real (hard) life. I love you all very much and miss you. I am going to send this memory card today, you are going to enjoy the pictures. And no i am fine the mission office is ordering a new one, and with your birthday gift i wont starve. I took Elder Lujan to Chilis on Friday, it was the closest thing to Wingers! :)
Love Elder Jensen

Conference

I am doing pretty good. This city is trying to eat me but i am still going. I am enjoying life in general and am excited for this transfer. We had an amazing miracle during a lesson. We were teaching this guy that got here last week from Honduras and came to church with the guy that he was living with. At church we found out he needed work, like everyone, but we talked to a few people to try to help him out and to help him find work. We took him on monday to a place that one of our members owns that helps hispanics find work. But after a few days we still hadn't heard from them so we went over and taught him a very good first lesson. We told him that if he followed God he would be blessed imensely. So as we were getting ready to leave he recieved a call telling him that he had full time work starting today. So I was way stoked to hear about that and it was cool to see how he realized that is a blessing from God. So that was cool. I enjoyed confrence a lot and i hope that you made all the children sit in the stake center in their church clothes for all 5 sessions. :) Just kidding i didn't even have to go to the stake center for all of the sessions. We went to a members house for the sunday sessions and their two year old girl kept sitting on my lap and giving me hugs. It was hilarious because her mom is a returned missionary and so she knows what is going on and kept yelling at her daughter to quit tempting me. So i now have a new girlfriend. Well I got to go but thanks for including that piece of letter from Uncle Bruce. Thanks for everything.
Love Elder Jensen

Note from Dad's letter about how big his area is: "Um our area is huge, it goes as far east as the ocean, as far south as the mississippi river, and as far west to a city called Kenner, so yeah it is the biggest spanish area in the mission."