June 24, 2013

Hey dad good to hear that everything is going great, wish Brandon good luck on his talk in sacrament meeting and also tell him great job with his Eagle Scout. Whats Brandon's New Email, it should be in his call letter. OH yeah also whats Brandon W email or mailing address?? 

  The work out here is amazing its doing great, has I said that we got a new Elder in our Companionship and it's great. His name is Elder Burnett and he's a visa waiter, heading the Brazil on his mission. He is from New Mexico. We've been able to go out tracing a lot more and we have found a couple new investigators, other then that nothing much is going on just teaching a couple of people and tracing a lot. The most crazy days are always on Thursdays because we have usually the same people with other new investigators in the mix of it all then we play basketball on Thursday nights with couple of members and one of our investigators. His name is Mike and he is really cool. He's about 6'something and playing to play basketball over sea's he just needs to find a place where they are doing tryouts. 

         President Holmes leaves this Wednesday which will not be really fun but it will be cool the have our new mission President Gerber. He sounds like a good guy, according to Elder Uptain ( In MTC distract with me)  because his sister had him in high school. 

    It's crazy how time fly's by, yesterday when they had the wide world meeting about missionary work it reminded me of when I was in the MTC and how much fun we had in our distract and also how much I learned from companion.  Speaking about my companion in the MTC, he is know in the Office because he was transferred there. The office has been a new area only since like 4 months or so. But it's funny because Elder Cormiar is a hard working Elder that loves to be out in the filed knocking doors and just doing missionary work, know he is in the office for this transfer. 

  Well there is nothing really else to say but I do love the mission and love you family. 

        Tell Dan Christensen and the family thinks for the letter and also wish good luck to my 1 yr younger cuz Shelby for me haha. :)

  

 Love you family!! Have a great week with missionary work and just plain fun. 

Love Elder Cristian Jenson

March 4, 2013

Yeah he did!! :) I've been doing great, we have a really promising investigatory, His name is Randall, he is 20's half white and black. He has been to church 2 time already. We have been trying to put him on date for the 22nd of March but he really want's to know if this church is try, which I don't blame him. This week we had a Zone Conference this week and it went great. The focus was on "How to begin teaching" in PMG ( understanding, and listening)  which was great, President Holmes really focused on just really getting to know the person and not killing them with the gospel. So Elder Kotter and I have been working on that a lot. President said I do a really good job with relating the gospel in there life and listening.  I've been trying to help him with "teaching people not lessons" PMG. Elder Kotter is a great missionary and loves to do the work, he is still really excited to share the gospel and he share it all at one time.
             The sad thing is Elder Cormiar and I have only a couple more weeks then transfers, which we know one of us will be leaving. We have been able to strength each other throw talking because are companions don't understand some of the small things ,also I've been able to talk to president couple times. :) Just like little things.
    The new mission rule for every missionary is now we can email anyone out of are mission!! :)
 Can you get me, Bro. Honeys/ sis, honeys, bro. Houston Jeremy, kulbolick, Glover and who ever else like family' also.
 Well love you family!!! :) I'm loving the mission and thanks for raising me, it's very interesting to see how parents raise there kid's!!!  You Mom and Dad did a great Job!!!
          Read in the new Ensign and you will know what I mean (  http://www.lds.org/ensign/2013/03/raising-resilient-children?lang=eng)    P.S when does Brandon get his call!!!!?????  

March 17, 2013

It has been doing great!! Just put someone on date yesterday!! :) um I'm going on exchanges with my Best friend ever Elder Comier on Friday!! Lost my driving privilege for 3 months oh well, going to just laugh about it and learn my lesson on how to drive in snow. This week was kinda hard got little home sick because just flustering when I've never been rechecked in my life and I cant even explain to the people why I'm so lucky to have the gospel in my life. It seems like has soon has you say or they read your name tag they shout you off.  I love Savannah quotes it really gets me to love the week and move on from people that make dumb comments or my vocie. :)

   Transfer calls this week. :(

 Well love you fam!! Elder Jenson

April 16, 2013

Thanks for the letter is was good to hear, on whats going on with the family.  Nope I did pick out the Mormon message, it's a good one. Why do you think that Pres would give me that haha I'm somewhat of smart person.
       So has Brandon been getting ready for his mission, like all the stuff he needs and all? How have the kids been doing?
  This week has been a great week, we have been able to filter out many investigators that we have but they are not really progressing they just like us to come over and have scripture time with them, this next week we are going to work on finding and also just asking for more referrals. Today we are seeing the same family  that we saw last Monday, hope nothing goes wrong, which it should not because he is in the hospital for a couple months or so, sad to say.
     This last week has been a little hard, been kinda homesick (family, and friends in other wards) but, O' well will be able to talk to you guys in a couple of weeks, thank goodness haha. :)

  Can you get me Cassie's email, Bro Stancliff and who ever else.

Love you favorite adopted son Elder Cristian Jenson :P


Your son Elder Cristian Jenson

May 28, 2013

Hey sorry, Idk what with the emails, I'm sending them but it's seems like you are not getting any of them. The last week email was.................Dang sorry just erased my big letter I had for you, But this week has been a great week. We will have two baptisms this next Sunday. One is an investigatory who've we been working with for a good couple months or so and the other is a LA son (9 yr) that has gone through all the lessons in the last year or so but just needs to be baptized.  The LA mom is starting to comeback to church which is great, she just showed up a couple of weeks to church and said hey my son wants to get baptized but I did not want to do it with the last couple of missionary's. The little kid asked me t baptize him which will be really cool. Elder Hoffman will baptize the other investigatory, and I will confirm her. It will be same with Chantealle Elder Hoffman baptize her and I will confirm her.

       This week will be a great week because the baptisms on Sunday also on Thursday, it will be sad but cool because it's President Holmes and Sister Holmes last fireside the cool thing is Pres Holmes got the #1 Draft pick for the Detroit Lions, Ezekiel Ansah come and speak to us about he's conversion story!!! 

 Well love you family, home I get a email next week!!!

       Thanks for being so great parents and siblings   ................,,,,,, That Was last weeks email.   BTW what email do you look at, because I have like three email accounts that I can send it to you....................which one do you check the most????

       

           But this week Elder Hoffman and I had a amazing week!! :) We had to baptism this last Sunday and i baptized Robert the 9yr old, I had to do it twice because the first time he did not go under the water all the way hahaha..........but it was so amazing for the fist time ever baptizing someone and it happened out on the mission. Most missionary have at least done baptisms for the dead baptizing someone or there little sibling. 

      Anyways, Got to get an autograph by Ezekiel Ansah and a picture with him, he has a really cool story has you know!! The really cool thing is that one of the missionary's out here that just went home last week knew Ansah from BYU. The kid that served out here was from Africa and they meet each other at BYU on the Track field and because they did not know any other kids from the same town in Africa Ansah and Elder Bwahim become best friends then Ezekiel Ansah encouraged Elder Bwahim to go on a mission, so he did. The funny thing is they meet back up in Detroit when Elder Bwahim found out that Ezekiel got drafted to the Lions. So Elder Bwahim and Ezekiel spoke to us. 

             We've been able to do a lot of service projects, built a new deck/ ramp out to the pound  for a members friend next door neighbor. Hope to be able to teach the family!! The cool thing is it's in a neighborhood just like ours with nice houses and all :)) 

  Well hope you go this message hahah love you family  

May 20, 2013

Dang sorry just erased my big letter I had for you, But this week has been a great week. We will have two baptisms this next Sunday. One is an investigatory who've we been working with for a good couple months or so and the other is a LA son (9 yr) that has gone through all the lessons in the last year or so but just needs to be baptized.  The LA mom is starting to comeback to church which is great, she just showed up a couple of weeks to church and said hey my son wants to get baptized but I did not want to do it with the last couple of missionary's here because they were dumb. The little kid asked me t baptize him which will be really cool. Elder Hoffman will baptize the other investigatory, and I will confirm her. It will be same with Chantealle Elder Hoffman baptize her and I will confirm her.
       This week will be a great week because the baptisms on Sunday also on Thursday, it will be sad but cool because it's President Holmes and Sister Holmes last fireside the cool thing is Pres Holmes got the #1 Draft pick for the Detroit Lions, Ezekiel Ansah come and speak to us about he's conversion story!!!
 Well love you family, home I get a email next week!!!
       Thanks for being so great parents and siblings

June 10, 2013

Wow, it is I just notice that today is the 10th of June. This Thursday is our 1yr temple trip with President Holmes and Sister Holmes, which should be fun. :)
             This week has been a pretty good week, yesterday was Robert's confirmation. We had his home teacher do it (Bro. Green). Brother Green has been in the church for I think about a little less then two years. So it was fun to be able to see him give the blessing. Also we had many referrals that we had to contact and we have been able to get to new investigators out the referrals.
     On Friday is transfer calls and I have a feeling that both of us will be staying but who knows.
         Nothing else is really new just the same good missionary work.
 Hope you have a great farther's day this Sunday, Happy Farther's day!! :)

Love Elder Jenson  

May 5, 2013

Hey, family I'm doing great, sadly to say we did not have a baptism this last week because it was a busy time for the family and we also did have stake conference yesterday, It went great very interesting because went was a prod cast from SLC.  Well I'm getting a new companion tomorrow, staying in Flint :) starting to love it. It's still kills me how people live down here and how many people die in just a week, it seems like 1 or 2 people die in a week just on a street that we have members living on or investigatory's.
         That is great to hear that the missionary work is working out down in Kanab, it was pretty bad when the Elder's were there, there was only 2 Elders there that were really good Elder's.
  I will call around 3 or 4 are time it would make it 1 or 2 you'r time back in Utah I believe.
  Alright I will work on the sending pictures, have you gotten my Credit card yet hope so or you that's no go.

Well talk to you on Sunday, cant wait love you family  

Pretty Cool Day!

June 17, 2013

Dear President Holmes

Hey President Holmes, This week has been one of the best weeks for me in the mission. I have been able to learn a lot over this week about what I can change to be a better missionary.

On Thursday and Saturday, was a really great experience for me with going to the Temple with my group and also just being able to be at the meeting on Saturday with Elder D. Todd Christofferson .

It really hit me on Thursday that I can change things that are keeping me from progressing in my mission. I've always have had an Ipod on my mission with only church music, this last week I traded Elder Hoffman for his Ipod touch that he has because he did not want it anymore and he knew that he was braking the rules. So I gave him mine, putt church music on my new one and Mormon messages. I was not thinking of it being bad at all because I was only having church music on it and the messages. Then when I went on went with Elder Wilson and Cormaer I used it to just listen to church music on the way to the mission home. Elder Wilson and Cormaer told me that I was not suppose to have it because it can get wifi on it. I told them I knew that and I was only using it for church music and Mormon messages.

Then with giving up the weapons of war was great because I was able to just putt the music and Ipod in the box because I knew that that has been a little distracting for me when every we just jumped in the car. So I was able to putt it in my suit case and told my self and wrote a letter that went with the Ipod touch that said I wont every take it out on the mission again. Has soon as I did that I could feel a change.

I'm really happy that we will be able to have a companion to are companionship already.




Thanks for Everything President and Sister Holmes

Elder Jenson


As I said in my letter to President Holmes that has been most of the week. :)


This week has been a great week of another learning experience for me. Elder Hoffman got a touch the other Monday and putt music on it then he said he did not want it anymore because he's feeling on having it, so I told him we would trade so I did. Then putt music on it. Then what I explained to President Holmes.


That was just he learning experience for me but to go on with rest of the week, we were able to pick up couple new investigators and have many lessons,which is always great.




The temple was amazing learnd a lot from asking President Holmes in the temple which was way cool. On Thursday it kinda made me a little sad but did not cry, it reminded me that about a year ago I went with you and dad.


Well I'm staying in North Flint w/ Elder Hoffman but we will be getting another Elder with us because the mission is growing a lot and we don't have much room in the Michigan Detroit Mission. We have 30new missionary's coming in on Tuesday but most of them are waiting to head out of the country.


One thing I've been able to learn a lot on the mission so far but the biggest is obedience, with just the small things that I have ran into. Like with the watch and going to places only on P-day then with the ipod. Another is just being able to be understanding with all your companions. Also how much you do have to rely on God because I knew at home as I was able to explain to President and Sister Holmes on Tuesday that I did read the scriptures when I wanted to and also prayed when I needed it but other then that I had everything I needed family, friends, golf and money, But being able to be out here on the mission and see that you don't have any of that only family on Monday through email and in you heart, you don't have anyone to talk to if you have a problem in the companionship. But I've been able to pray much more the I did at home and also relate thing to the scripture instead of T.V., Internet or whatever is in the world. If you know what I mean.


I was able to see Elder Todd D. Christofferson, the preceding Bishop, Elder Mayne and other quorum of the 70's


Love you family, I will keep Savanah and Derek in my prayers :) hope they get feeling better.


Is Brandon going to the Provo or Mexico MTC? Just wondering because I've heard that the Provo MTC does not have any more room for Spanish speaking so they are all sending them to the Mexico MTC.


Did Dad every get my farthers day card???



Love you Family!! :) Elder Jenson