Nov 3, 2013

Hey Family and Friends, the missionary work is going great in the Michigan Detroit Mission!! Elder Carter and I have been blessed to be able to have a baptism over this last week! :) It's amazing like I said last week to see someone you meet couple of months ago for the first time and then seeing Terrell Baker in the baptism font with Elder Carter. It was also great to see Elder Carter, doing his first baptism every. I will be doing the Confirmation next Sunday :)
   Alright to start off the week we had an appointment set up with Terrell and Larenda, but they wont able to make them because Terrell was not able to get work off the day we scheduled the appointments. We also set up the baptism for Saturday and  I found out on Thursday through an text Terrell that he won't be able to make it because his boss would not let him off from work. We already announced that he was getting baptized the Sunday before in church. Hahaha the funny thing about all this it happen all when we were on exchanges. So it was kinda crazy on that Thursday because I had to make sure that everyone in the ward knew that there was no baptism. Then I had to figure out if we could do it just on Sunday. It was kinda crazy because we had everything ready and set in stone. But I (Elder Carter was gone in another area) was able to figure out and get everything back in place.
        On Sunday I was able to bear my testimony, and it's so crazy to be able to feel the love for people that you don't know much and in a matter of a couple of lessons you feel the love you have for the person. I know that if it was not the Lords work to send out 18-26 year old young men and woman you would not get the same feeling for someone you meet.
    Yesterday before the baptism service I was able to talk to a member in the ward that is a service missionary from Bloomfield Hills. The Mayo's but Sister Mayo asked me if the mission was getting tiring because she has a son almost exactly my age and left at the same time as I did for the mission and Sister Mayo said in his letters she can tell it's getting tiring. I told her that it was kinda just because you saw the year of a missionary and you live it everyday also do the something but meet new people each day. I told her that you just have to keep moving on, and finish when you pass the finish line of being a full time missionary. :)
           Well love you Family and Friends!
  Keep up the good work kids in sports and Derek keep up the piano, the mission needs Elders that can play! :)  

Love Elder Jenson

Oct 28, 2013

Hey Family, haha thanks for the sad update :( Kinda just cried right through the email, didn't think I would cry when I found out because I was not that close to Grandpa Wadley but I was thinking all that he did for our family.  also just hearing how mom was doing. I know that Grandpa her dad meant a lot to her even if I thought he was a little crazy.
     Well to move on to the great news from Warren West area in Michigan Detroit Mission. The investigator that we have been working with, Terrell. B will be getting baptized this Saturday at 2pm :). He did pass his first interview with President Gerber but during the interview two Sundays ago there was a miss communication with what President Gerber heard from what Terrell was explaining. President thought that he said he was still doing the thing. Terrell said he was doing it a lot before he met us (Elder Tripp, Carter and myself)  but Terrell told him that he has been done with it the last 3 weeks. President thought he was still doing it, so I call President Gerber after the interview and told him that he did stop what he stopped and that there must of been a miss communication. Elder Carter and I fixed the problem and Terrell had a small interview yesterday with District Leader Elder Uptain (came out with me) and he passed. :) This week will be a great week for Elder Carter and I. Elder Carter will be baptizing Terrell because it's his first baptism ever and I will be confirming Terrell on Sunday! :) It's way cool to see that I've been able to meet him the first day with Elder Tripp then start teaching him with Elder Carter and now will be seeing him to get baptized. That does not happen much, being able to see some you start teaching get baptized!! :)
       Elder Carlson of the seventy came down and we had a Zone Conference with him. Elder Carlson and President Gerber talked about how each of us missionary can become concentrated Elders and Sisters.
   Other then that we've just been still working with many of the less actives in the ward, I've been able to see a couple of the less actives starting to come back to church! :)

PS. Oh yeah President Gerber used me in front of half of the mission. President Gerber was talking about faith, then he called me up and told the missionary's that I'm a great example of faith and how I've strengthen his testimony. Then while I was up there he explained what happen to me when I was a little baby and how it took lot's of faith for me to come out because of my voice. Then he had me read a paragraph from Preach My Gospel.
  I don't know why everyone thinks it took a lot for me to come out kinda bugs me....I just tell people it's my duty, want to and I love the Gospel . The people expect a different answer, don't know why.

 Love Elder Jenson :)

Oct. 21, 2013

 Dang saw that Detroit lost the other night :/ Oh well I still have my Boston Red Sox's but it would of been cool for Detroit Tigers to make it so it would give the city of Detroit to be happy about.
     This week has been a good week for Elder Carter and I in the Warren West area :) We've been able to make more contact with are less actives and we will be seeing one of the less active family tonight then will be going to Anna Burlingame to have dinner and just talk. So Elder Carter and I got transfer call Sunday morning and we are both staying for another 6 weeks! :) Should go well, Elder Carter is a fun companion that reminds me a lot like Derek.
  We also this week had a clothing drive that all the missionary's in the same building as the Warren Ward, helped out with. The Deseret Industry sent 12,000 ponds of clothing for the clothing drive in the community. Elder Carter and I were able to get lot's of referrals out of it. So we have just been contacting them.
   Terrell and Larenda are doing great, President Gerber came down yesterday and gave Terrell the interview.  So we are hoping that we can talk with him on Thursday and just help him out to get to his date of baptism. :)
   This week Elder Carlson of the Seventy is coming over to the Michigan Detroit Mission to come talk with the missionary's and to inspect couple appointments. President and Sister Gerber have said that he is a 4th general in the Army or something like that. I think they are just wanting us to clean really good in the apartments and trying to scare us, but O'well if it's clean to my standards which you know we should be good! :)
  Well nothing much else has been going on, this week in the mission field, Tell Sister Honey and the girls thanks for the package they sent me. Loved the candy!!
   Hope the family is doing great! Sounds like Brandon is doing great, emailed him last Monday.
     Love Elder Jenson

October 14, 2014

 Haha gotta love the kids sure do miss them but I know that I will see them again!! Sounds like they are loving testimony meeting to much but that is great that they did it.

    This week has been a pretty good week for Elder Carter and I, we were able to find many less active and teach them. We are planning to go back this week and teach a couple of the less actives that we have found :)
 Terrell and Larenda were able to make it to church yesterday and they both said they loved it!!  We are planning to see them tomorrow and go over The Gospel Of Jesus Christ :) Terrell just needs to come to church next week then have a interview with President Gerber then we will be all set for baptism. Hope we and Terrell can do it. When we went over to Terrell and Larenda's house the other day Terrell was going through a lot of hard things and told us that he has fallen back in just some of his ways (thinking) I asked him if we could give him a blessing and he said "I would like one" so I gave the blessing and he said " everything that I was worrying about is off my mind and I know that I will be able to make it through these hard time, to make it to baptism". It's so amazing to see that if you living right, the power of the priesthood works through you.
     Other then that not much has been going on, I was able to get my new scriptures this last Saturday and I love them, They are the compact Triple combination and the Bible. They work perfectly. I've been able just over the past couple of days make all the scripture mastery and other verse I like to us. Today I'm planning to get my shoulder bag, then I should be good with all that stuff!, got my camera last Monday :) Planning to mail the recepts back home this week so expect a letter in the mail! :)
       
          Love you family!! :) tell Caitlin Ellis, love the post card from Alaska but I hope that President Gerber and Sister Gerber did not see it when they gave it to me haha.  Tell Savanah and Jordan thanks for the email and I love both of them very much and keep it up. Same to all the Kids.
  Love Elder Jenson

Oct 7, 2013

Yes, I have had a great week, Elder Carter and I have been able to pick up three new investigators which is always great!! :) One of our new investigators is a former, we both felt like we should stop bye his house so we did. He let us come in and teach him. He has been still reading his scriptures each night. The thing that is holding Alex back is from  attending church. We also have another investigator that we picked up, he lives right about us. We picked him up by knocking on his door and asking him if he knew anything or saw anyone break into the cars. Then he just asked us what we do because he see's us a lot. We told him what we do and he told us he had a couple of questions that he would like us to answer!! So we sat down with him yesterday night at Starbucks when he bought us drinks, ops (family is hoping the oops is because he bought and not because Cristian drank, but you never know: ) ) but we were able to answer he's question. We are planning to see Matthew later this week to answer another question of his that he txted us last night. The question is really good it's "sometimes in life, just to get through and defend those who we love and fight for, we have to sin, incur into doing things that are not right....It is as if we, the human race, were are own worst enemies. In times like this you do wonder, how is God going to take this? When we struggle through life there is sometimes not other way out but by throwing others under the bus,kinda thing..." This txt he sent really did make me think because it's so true. I was just thinking how it's by "small and simple thing" Alma 37:6-7 if we just do what we've been tough by parents, Bible, Book Of Mormon, Leaders. We would not have this problem but it's more then small things we have to know it, live it, act it and all the above..
              Conference was amazing!! Love what Dieter F. Uchtdorf said " Doubt you doubts before you doubt you faith" then also in the Priesthood session when he spoke about about not letting you pride get in the way, and stay on the path of righteousness. Also what is grandson told him "YOU CAN DO IT"!! :) I also love the quote I believe Thomas S. Monson said "be the rock in the river that does not get pulled" something on that line. Conference was amazing! Priesthood session was great, it brought be back to the last one in Kanab when I took Derek and myself because Dad and Brandon were in Vegas I believe. How Derek and I went out after and got Ice Cream at The Junction!  
 
 LOVE You Mom, Dad and little one :)      Tell everyone in the ward thanks for all you've done for me!

Sept 30, 2013

Well this week has been a very good week until sad to say Yesterday. This week Elder Carter and I have been able to make more contact with many of the less actives down in the Detroit area which is always great. Also while we were down in Detroit we were looking for this one less active family that was in the area that we were in. We were on the bike just going down the street and we heard from an house "what ward are you from" haha we both stopped and laughed because we don't get that ever, so we told them and the kid's said "that there the Edward", the family that we were looking for. So we stayed and just talked on the porch about them and also how they want to comeback to church. Planning to see them again. :)
    We have been able to work with Terrel our investigator that we've been working with for now about a month or so. He is make a big change each week in he's life and it's great to see. We are hoping that we can marry Terrell and Lerenda (less active) in couple of weeks or so. Whatever works for them. We are still working with getting Terrell and Lerenda to church. They weren't able to make it yesterday because Terrell say's he was sick. This week we are planning to get him to the all of the sessions to conference and the priesthood session also on Saturday night!! :) Can't Wait!!
      Well here comes the bad news :( So I woke up on Sunday morning with a bad sickness and also a headache. Still pretty sick, with all that a text from Terrell and Lerenda saying "Terrell is sick, wont be able to make it to church". So I went out to the car to get my back pack from the car and yeah someone went through the complex and broke into cars. :( They stole my back pack, scriptures, Camera, oil, the pamphlets and couple of Book Of Mormon's. So Sunday was a really bad day for me. I really don't know what to do, either laugh or cry or don't know. I leave my back pack in the car Sunday nights because we just wake up on Sunday's and head over to Warren East apartment because we pick them up for church, also just study there. Elder Carter said he locked the car and I always ask him if he locked the car. So we don't know if we forgot just Saturday night or they broke in and we sleep through the car alarm. My back pack was out of sight, down on the ground. I'm not really a happy camper because I was so proud of my scriptures and all the marking I've done in them and not's. Really want'ed to saw you when I got home, also all the pic's since Tecumseh are gone.
    I don't know what to do, because I know that I don't have the money to buy new scriptures, bag or Camera and I also I know that you don't really have the money to do that also. What Should I do?? If I do buy the stuff I would. I need to buy a side bag because that's the new thing the church came out with I guess and President Gerber is making us all get side bags by December. Need Parents HELP!!  I've been frustrated over the last day.
  I really don't know what God is trying to teach me, Either don't leave my bag in the car or that I should get new scriptures and find new tools that I can us in my lessons! :/ Don't Know!
         Sorry no pic's don't have my stuff :/
  Well hope you guys had a better week then me.
  Love Elder Jenson
                                     p.s- how did the Birthday go and also the race for mom???!!!

Sept. 16, 2013

        This week has been going great, love Elder Carter. He is a very hard worker and positive about the area. He has been in nice area's in the pass so it's a change but he does like it. Elder Carter reminds me a lot of Derek (my brother)
       We have been going down to Detroit, the last  couple day, knocking of the people that we don't really know if there still down there or not. I believe it was last Wednesday but we were down in Detroit on bike and it was a really nice day. Then out of the blue a big rain/wind storm came in and we got really wet. It was way fun because everyone was looking at us like we are crazy for being out in the storm. By the time we got back to our car on 9 Mile and Van Dyke, we were cold, had rivers in our shoe's but we had lot's of fun!! The same day we were able to teach a little lady that loves the Gospel and speaks in tongues, well that what she says. Also meet couple more other people like her and also help change a tire on a car. We are planning to go back to the couple that we helped change there tier and teach more of the Restoration. They said we could comeback!!
    Other then that, not much just been working with the members over the last week and also stopping bye less actives.
  We are planning this week to focus on finding and finishing the list I start with Elder Tripp, just knocking people off the ward list. On Wednesday we are going out with the bishop and high priest and Elders and doing the same thing.
   
         Oh yeah Elder Jones is in my district, The PG in basketball from South Sevier.

Well Love you family!!! :)

Love Elder Jenson