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

Sept. 9, 2013

  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

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.)