Hey family, this week has been a slow week in the Warren Area, we were able over the week to check more of the less actives off the ward list, sad to to say. There a lot of people in the ward that are less active because they are either left the area to find a job or flat out do not like the church at all.
We have over the last couple of weeks picked up a couple investigator which we have dropped all but one this last week. We are hopping this week to go over to Terrell the investigators house this week and just drop bye because when we do set up an appointment he always has to cancel. I will call him later on this week to see if everything is done with the death in the family and when we can start coming over more often.
Thanks for the email, it made me think, a lot more because I was not call to train this week. Elder Tripp is going to a new area. I'm kinda disappointing in the fact that I'm not training but after reading the email, it made me think of before the mission and how I did not know much about leadership in the mission' all I knew that I was going to teach people and bring people to baptism. That which matters more then leadership, not because I give up on being in a leadership place on the mission but as you focus on just doing what your called to do, you will hopefully be rewarded with a calling of Training, DL or whatever President Gerber and the Lord need's use to do.
Well I will let you know who my new companion is tomorrow. :)
Tell Savanah to have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY on Wednesday :)
LOVE Elder Jenson
Elder Cristian Jenson serving in the Detroit, MI Mission
Monday, September 9, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Sept. 2, 2013
Thanks so much, Dad and Mom your the best parents ever and remember that I have two, well really one parent if you wan't to get technical. hahah.
This week has been another good week, we've just been working with less actives and checking them off the list if you want to say that. There are many people that have moved out of Warren because the the job situation and all. So we have just lot's of people we don't even now and just going to all the less actives. The tough thing is some don't even want to be in the church and when we do find the less actives if they have not moved yet, they don't let us say really anything. I don't know really how hard it is to get you'r name of the church records, but I've seen and heard that it's pretty easy. So we have lot's of names that are less actives that either moved or don't want anything to do with the church, which is sad because the church has done a lot for me and the people in the church. We've not been able to see Terrell and his girl friend (LA the girl friend) because there was a family problem in the family. We are hoping to see him today around 5!! :) Terrell is a great man that want's to change his life also the same with his girl friend. The cool thing is that he calls us when he won't be able to make the appointment. That shows me that he does care, there are lot's of investigators that don't even call if they have something come up.
Well as you know this week is week 6 which means transfer calls. So it should be interesting if Elder Tripp is leaving or not. I think he might leave just because of his thoughts of the area and he knows it like the back of his hand. It would be great to serve with him another six weeks but I would like to get someone new out or train. Elder Tripp has been are to long and he his not very positive about the area, which I can see why. He's thoughts are if the ward can't even keep there members in the church, why do they need more members. I can see where he is coming from because you have at most 30 family's at church every Sunday, when on the list it shows over 300 family's in the ward. But I see it as that and also we have to give the people the chance to come into the church even if the ward is trying to keep them self up in running.
Well I hope that I can be able to train this transfer but if not O'well, not to big of a thing.
To answer some of you questions, 1.Church is amazing being able to see how each ward does many things different but The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints is still the same were every you go. Troy to Warren! 2. We've been only teaching about 12 discussions each week, but we are hoping to fix that. 3. One thing I love about the mission is just being able to help people out and has they see you do care about them they trust you. So you can be able to start teaching them. 4. Um the hard thing is probably not being able to teach anyone. 5. we usually just hang out with the other missionary's in the ward and either just throw the football around or write letters. 6. Well here we don't get fed a lot just because the people don't have the money or time. :/ In Troy I had a dinner appointment every night for about a month in half which was really nice because we had $40.00 or so $$ left for the month and her we run out the 2nd to last week of the month. We split the coast when we do go get food. So that's nice and it works lot's easier.
Love you family, Yes I did get the cookies haha all mashed up but still taste really good. Tell all the kid's that I did not have much time to email them back but I will do better. That would be nice, to have the card just in case. For emergence, yes I will do better with managing my money.
P.S wish DAN a Happy Birthday!! ( don't have his email, pleas get for me)
Also tell Caitlin Ellis (that I will email her next week, meant to write back but been busy and writing other people back that wrote first.)
This week has been another good week, we've just been working with less actives and checking them off the list if you want to say that. There are many people that have moved out of Warren because the the job situation and all. So we have just lot's of people we don't even now and just going to all the less actives. The tough thing is some don't even want to be in the church and when we do find the less actives if they have not moved yet, they don't let us say really anything. I don't know really how hard it is to get you'r name of the church records, but I've seen and heard that it's pretty easy. So we have lot's of names that are less actives that either moved or don't want anything to do with the church, which is sad because the church has done a lot for me and the people in the church. We've not been able to see Terrell and his girl friend (LA the girl friend) because there was a family problem in the family. We are hoping to see him today around 5!! :) Terrell is a great man that want's to change his life also the same with his girl friend. The cool thing is that he calls us when he won't be able to make the appointment. That shows me that he does care, there are lot's of investigators that don't even call if they have something come up.
Well as you know this week is week 6 which means transfer calls. So it should be interesting if Elder Tripp is leaving or not. I think he might leave just because of his thoughts of the area and he knows it like the back of his hand. It would be great to serve with him another six weeks but I would like to get someone new out or train. Elder Tripp has been are to long and he his not very positive about the area, which I can see why. He's thoughts are if the ward can't even keep there members in the church, why do they need more members. I can see where he is coming from because you have at most 30 family's at church every Sunday, when on the list it shows over 300 family's in the ward. But I see it as that and also we have to give the people the chance to come into the church even if the ward is trying to keep them self up in running.
Well I hope that I can be able to train this transfer but if not O'well, not to big of a thing.
To answer some of you questions, 1.Church is amazing being able to see how each ward does many things different but The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints is still the same were every you go. Troy to Warren! 2. We've been only teaching about 12 discussions each week, but we are hoping to fix that. 3. One thing I love about the mission is just being able to help people out and has they see you do care about them they trust you. So you can be able to start teaching them. 4. Um the hard thing is probably not being able to teach anyone. 5. we usually just hang out with the other missionary's in the ward and either just throw the football around or write letters. 6. Well here we don't get fed a lot just because the people don't have the money or time. :/ In Troy I had a dinner appointment every night for about a month in half which was really nice because we had $40.00 or so $$ left for the month and her we run out the 2nd to last week of the month. We split the coast when we do go get food. So that's nice and it works lot's easier.
Love you family, Yes I did get the cookies haha all mashed up but still taste really good. Tell all the kid's that I did not have much time to email them back but I will do better. That would be nice, to have the card just in case. For emergence, yes I will do better with managing my money.
P.S wish DAN a Happy Birthday!! ( don't have his email, pleas get for me)
Also tell Caitlin Ellis (that I will email her next week, meant to write back but been busy and writing other people back that wrote first.)
Monday, August 26, 2013
August 26, 2013
Yes this week was another great week like last week. Has mom said in email, I guess life is like that one week pain in the butt but the other week the greatest week. As I would put it.
This week we have been able to find two new investigators, which is always nice. One of the new investigators that we were able to find was throw a media referral from Mormon.org. His name is Terrell, he has lived in the center of Detroit most of his life and had a rough time with somethings. But does want to make a change in his life. Terrell told us (Elder Tripp and I) that he at once was meeting with the missionary's and he could feel a change in his life and also he stopped some of the stuff he was doing. Then Terrell lost contact of the missionary's and went back to the stuff he was doing. He wants to I guess I would put it, make a new chapter in his life. He has a girl friend that is a member but she is less active and was baptized 10 or so years ago in the Palmer Park Ward, which is in the Heart of Detroit! But she wants to comeback to church and also wants her boy friend to hear the message also that has blessed her life.
Other then that we have just been working with more less actives and checking them of the list because most of them have moved and did not tell anyone or we find out why they less active and see what we can do to get him back to church.
Yeah Elder Tripp and I get along, We've always got along since the first day and we teach like we know what were saying with out planning, which is not great, I know we should always be ready. The funny thing is that we did 15 
mint Distract instruction the first week of the transfer together because Elder Uptain (DL) asked us to do it. On "My purpose" both Elder Tripp and I knew it, so it took us like a minute to think of what we would say in Distract meeting. After Distract meeting the Elders asked us if we did prepare and we said not really, they said it was one of the best they have seen. It just tells us how much he Holey Ghost plays a role!! :)
Well tell Jaxon "I'm very proud of him and I wish I could be there".
Love you Family
Monday, August 19, 2013
August 19, 2013
This week has been one of the best weeks I've had here.
We were able to find two new investigators. One was a referral that someone gave us and we have not had time to stop bye because we have not been in the area. But we were able to stop bye on exchanges with the Distract Leader ( Elder Uptain, came out with me) and we were able to teach part of the Restoration before she had friends coming over but we did get a return appointment with her for this Wednesday which is way cool.
. The Other new investigator that we were able to pick up was actually some guy that we saw in the GPS that said he was a less active. So we did stop bye and the guy who answered and said "yes this is me but I'm not a member". We starting to teach the Restoration and answered some of his questions, did set up a return appointment but he was not home. we will teach the Restoration or whatever he might need in he's life. The two new investigatory were on the same day!!!
Other then that we have just been stopping by many less actives, have a couple appointments set up with less actives this week. Elder Tripp and I are really working on getting less actives back to church because we only have about 50 that come to church in the ward and the ward list at lest have 200 members in the ward. Sad right, but we will fix it!!
Spoke yesterday in church on my conversion story and what I got out of "For The Strength Of Youth". Talk for about 15 min or so.
Well this week we have the second part of training! :)
Love You Family and Friends
Love Elder Jenson BTW: Random picture back in Flint, found a stray cat!! :) Named it Lucky. 
Monday, August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013
Hey family, this week as been a very slow week and not the best week of the mission I have had on the mission.
Warren West area seems like a place where no one really does care about the gospel and does not want to make any changes in there life. Elder Tripp and I are going to work with the investigators that we do have and really make it a point that they can have a better successful life if they will let the message change there life.
Elder Tripp and I are going to be lot's of finding, meeting with Less actives and also going to stop by many of the members in the ward council and we are planning to have missionary lesson's and just encourage them to do member missionary work and also really have them invite less active family's to church and activates.
We got a new Elder in the distract which is okay, the Elder's that we share the ward with is right next to us, so we see them a lot during the week. One of the Elders got mind knighted so Elder ------ one of my last companions is here with Elder Plant (really nice and hard worker) in the same ward as us so that's kinda hard because E. ------ is not the best and he is like a Elder ----- when I was with him and still has not made a change. So I've been trying to block off he's mean things he says.
It just reminds me off what President Holmes told us at are one year temple trip, that he hopes we do have a hard time in the mission some time during the mission because are transfer that came out has had a pretty easy going mission with everyone in the transfer that came out with me from the MTC has had more then 2 baptisms each and also President Holmes has not had any really big problems with are transfer. Haha I can kinda see where the hard part is just mentally with coming into a dead area.
Well love you family, hope everything is going great. Keep up the hard work.
I will do the same,
Love Elder Jenson :)
Warren West area seems like a place where no one really does care about the gospel and does not want to make any changes in there life. Elder Tripp and I are going to work with the investigators that we do have and really make it a point that they can have a better successful life if they will let the message change there life.
Elder Tripp and I are going to be lot's of finding, meeting with Less actives and also going to stop by many of the members in the ward council and we are planning to have missionary lesson's and just encourage them to do member missionary work and also really have them invite less active family's to church and activates.
We got a new Elder in the distract which is okay, the Elder's that we share the ward with is right next to us, so we see them a lot during the week. One of the Elders got mind knighted so Elder ------ one of my last companions is here with Elder Plant (really nice and hard worker) in the same ward as us so that's kinda hard because E. ------ is not the best and he is like a Elder ----- when I was with him and still has not made a change. So I've been trying to block off he's mean things he says.
It just reminds me off what President Holmes told us at are one year temple trip, that he hopes we do have a hard time in the mission some time during the mission because are transfer that came out has had a pretty easy going mission with everyone in the transfer that came out with me from the MTC has had more then 2 baptisms each and also President Holmes has not had any really big problems with are transfer. Haha I can kinda see where the hard part is just mentally with coming into a dead area.
Well love you family, hope everything is going great. Keep up the hard work.
I will do the same,
Love Elder Jenson :)
Monday, August 5, 2013
August 5, 2013
That is way cool what you are doing with the videos!! :) Well this week has been a great week being able to be in a new area and also with a new companion. Elder Tripp is recently from VG but he move's around a lot because his dad working for the Military. Elder Tripp has been out four about 9 months and he is a great Elder, he knows his Bible and the Book Of Mormon off the top of his head which is really cool. Elder is a very positive Elder.
The New area is great, it's Warren West area which cover 14 mile down to 5 mile in Detroit, but we don't go down there much because we have only like 2 member's that are down there and they are less-active, just because it's really far from the church and they don't really have the money to drive that far. We went down to Detroit just the other day and it's really cool and crazy, the less active person we saw is a older lady
that loves the gospel and doing great just needs the money to come. So we are working out how we can ask someone to bring here to church.
The Warren ward is great, the people are so nice and love the gospel but the sad thing is the ward only makes up of about 50 family's that show up each week. We will be working with many less actives and try to get them back to church.
We bike almost every day which is great, love it because it's really flat area, we only get about 20 miles a day with the car so, in the morning time we bike then we use the car later in the evening time.
Other then that not much, just trying to get to know more of the area.
LOVE You Family and Friends :)
The New area is great, it's Warren West area which cover 14 mile down to 5 mile in Detroit, but we don't go down there much because we have only like 2 member's that are down there and they are less-active, just because it's really far from the church and they don't really have the money to drive that far. We went down to Detroit just the other day and it's really cool and crazy, the less active person we saw is a older lady
that loves the gospel and doing great just needs the money to come. So we are working out how we can ask someone to bring here to church.
The Warren ward is great, the people are so nice and love the gospel but the sad thing is the ward only makes up of about 50 family's that show up each week. We will be working with many less actives and try to get them back to church.
We bike almost every day which is great, love it because it's really flat area, we only get about 20 miles a day with the car so, in the morning time we bike then we use the car later in the evening time.
Other then that not much, just trying to get to know more of the area.
LOVE You Family and Friends :)
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