Dec 1, 2014

ok well life is going great in the airport Ward, right now things are going great my comp is a stud and we had the best week of my misión, we contacted a  ton this week and found some very interesting investigators. My goal was to try and focus more on the spirit and let it guide me to people. and what do you know? it did.

It was kinda funny this last week when i got here and  my companion told me that contacting in my area was really lame, he said that they averaged like 15 contacts a week or more sometimes and that they got alreadador of 4 new investigators. so we put it to the test and found a ton of news this week it was funny when the first door we knocked a young man answered and smiled when he opened the door and saw us.   we asked if he would like to hear more and he said i would love to i talked with the missionaries like three years ago and then moved out of town for  like a year, and when i got back i never heard from the missionaries again until now when you guys knocked my door. after that first contact it was all up hill. we found many other people that said the exact same thing, oh my parents are members of your church almost all of them gave us citas for this week so we are really excited to find out wich ones will progress.

I feel like this would be a great area to finish my mission but the way our president works he changes us about every 3 or 4 changes, and for some reason or other he loves changing elders from their area one or two changes before they head home. and its fine because all of the areas are super small by the end of your mission you can get your way around the whole mission pretty well. I think im going to miss the city a ton when i go home im starting to get the hang of buying groceries from the little stores in street corners. and taking public transportation is just so normal now.

Ok more info about my companion he is from neiva, colombia he said its like five hours from the capital. he is twenty one and has been in the mission almost a year, and he playes soccer pretty well, but yeah we are getting along pretty well,

I heard that our investigator from my last area is getting baptized on saturday and she asked if i could come, so i will see if president gives me permision the only down side is its on the other side of my mission so i doubt i will get permission, but right now we have some baptisms planed for the next few weeks and we put some dates last week so we´ll see how it goes.

glad to hear that you had such a good time playing ball, hows the cold weather treating you, mornings are starting to get cold wich is super lame, its like 40 or 50 degrees, but i cant complain its like 70 during the day.

hope you have a great week you guys are the best love you lots, and found a great scripture this week DYC 136:27-29!

love elder jenson.

Nov 24, 2014

 this week was actually filled with some pretty good sleep and some great sadness. depression hit me two nights ago when the zone leaders called me and told me i didnt have changes. i was ecstatic. my comp and i were jumping up and down and we celebrated with the sister that lives in my house. then half an hour later president called me and told me that i would have changes and that i needed to pack up my stuff and head out the next day. i was so sad. until the next morning of course because then i just was ready for the chance i would have in the next area. so i got changed with an elder that is from colombia, whooo His name is Elder Henao

and he is a stud. he is about to hit a year in the mish. so if you had to pick an area to send elder jenson where would you send him.... based on my mission to another hill, but no even better i got sent to the airport area. i try not to get distracted to much by the low flying planes that pass by every five minutes. and it is a pretty sweet area, definitely better than my last few areas and its in the districto federal, so thats nice. im going to miss my hill so bad...

So p-day wednesday, and what do i do? well go to the zoo of course and it was a ball, i forgot my camara in the house when i came to write so you will have to forgive me, next week i will send about 20 pics and 4 or 5 videos. dont have wifi inthe house any more so i have to wait until monday. just kidding i found it. this email will be short cause im going to send pics. but im really happy hear. and super excited to work with my new comp. ok i lied again sorry the pics wouldnt upload... so lame next week promise lots if internet is fast.

love you all so much and i hope thhat you have a great week!

Nov 17, 2014

and btw i will write next wednesday we will ahve p'day after changes.

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Jeffrey Jenson <jeffrey.jenson@myldsmail.net<mailto:jeffrey.jenson@myldsmail.net>> wrote:
glad to hear that things are going alright over there, sounds like i might have to take savy for some ice cream when i get home. although i wouldnt be to concerned just tell her if she wants to live long and happy she has to listen to you guys its a commandment.jaja love you savy be happy all the time. im a little scared to come back home now that some of the children of my parents can use a gun....

Well this week went alright. first i had divisions with the zone leaders and it went really well ha i contacted one guy that had lived in the united states for 15 years. he was part of a gang in los angeles and spoke really good english. so hopefully he can keep listening to the missionaries. seemed more interested in speaking english than anything, but im sure he would be a good investigator. in my area everything has been pretty chill we have some investigators with fechas for 2 3 and 4 weeks from now stoked for that if i dont have changes this  next week. and my district is working great.

I also had the opportunity to interview an amazing girl whose parents arent members, she goes to my church so i have been able to know her story a l ittle. her parents are really against her being baptized and it actually caused her fecha to fall through, but she should be baptized this week, back to the point, she has had to make some really dificult decisions, all of her family drinks and goes to parties and she is with them and when they offer her drinks she says no i dont do that any more, not many twenty year old girls that are that dedicated, then she goes to church by her self quite often, and somtimes brings her sisters to the sacrament meetings. last saturday her dad wouldnt let her but she is pretty determined to get baptized in the next two weeks.

also stake confrence was this week and elder anderson spoke to us via satalite, it wasnt as cool as when he came but it was still a great message, and they talked to us about the importance of tithing temples and service, all the sacrifices that we have to make as members of the church which are really just letting god bless us.

mom and Dad hope you have a good week i love you tons. y a los demas de los hijos de mis padres, pórtense bien y espero que sepan que los quiero mucho!


con mucho amor elder Jenson ( cuando me preguntan como me llamo yo les digo elder Handsome. es muy chistoso cuando entienden un poco de ingles. bueno les quiero a la luna y de regreso.

November 10, 2014

This week was great for me down in mexico, and by great i mean that i had some great studies because my comp was sick all week so i was at home other than when i did divisiones thurday. they went great and i cleaned out a nasty fridge, it hadnt been cleaned in like 8 months but we got it taken care of. i cant say much about the week other than the book of mormon is awesome. i started nefi again this week and i love when nephi breaks the cords after praying for strength. that story is one that i feel everyone can use. in a talk by elder bednar he talks about the enabling power of christ, and he uses the story of nefi to explain that sometimes we need to pray not that our problem is changed but that we are changed to handle our problem, i also liked that after he broke free he didnt freak out and beat up his brothers, he was humble and in spanish it says that Nefi perdonó a sus hermanos sinceramente, in english its frankly i do believe. my translation was that he really let go their tresspasses and invited them to correct it with god too, it was a great,  it was great to see his example i dont know why i loved taht story but i really did.

hmm other than that sunday was good until my comp had to go home early because he wasnt feeling well, it was a week to learn patience me hizo falta, then today we played soccer and a little basketball i could still dunk! and we ate little caesers it was sooooooo goood!!!!! made me a little nostalgic but thats fine. valió la pena.


well thats all from me folks i hope you have a great week savy smile for me! and the rest of yo keep being great! love you all!"

November 3, 2014

hahaha we are quite the pair today we played basket ball! it was so much fun elder ferrin is a decent player and i couldnt shoot after shoulder press and curls in the morning.... so it was really close but i pulled out a win! also i could dunk it still on cement on a ten foot hoop hills are definately my friend. i bought a jump rope also so hopin that i can get legs back a little.

this week was really wierd because a few setbacks passed but i am still ok im happy better said. we had an investigator that had a baptism date in two weeks and she moved out of our area... total bummer. but we have  another investigator that is awesome and is asking if my companion and i can both baptize her... she is so fun but we are trying to get her to like the idea of her dad or a ward member baptizing her! i feel as though the mission gives me attributes of bipolarity because i get really sad when people dont commit or dont follow through, but when someone does one good thing it makes me sooooooo happy!

Yesterday we had an interesting moment with a young man that wasnt of our faith he was a friend of the members we live with and he just lost his grandma. he was having a hard time coping with it and so we gave him a blessing and the sister gave him a plan of salvation pamphlet. it was really cool.

dad im not sure about the whole running thing. bridgette told me that she thought i could run a marathon and i said ya know you could be right other than i believe running is a punishment so why would i punish myself...jajajaja made me laugh that you used almost the same wording. but keep up with your exercise you gotta stay around for a while so that when i bring my kids to the gym and we get heated about how to shoot you can come in and teach them with a good form shot with some legs!  love you so much and hope you have a great week

also i will try and send you the video of my dunk. i was happy i could still get it down.

Elder Guapo( Jenson)

Oct 27, 2014

Well this week went pretty well we had some good experiences with our two progressing investigators. first off guadalupe is doing awesome she keeps on progressing and we are hoping that she gets baptized next month. also melania is doing really well this week we have talked about some great topics with her and we even had the opportunity to talk about the problems of worshiping idols ( or saints and virgins) which is a really touchy subject. but this week was great as far as good investigators go.

ha ha well last week i worked super hard with elder guachalla and we contacted a bunch, the problem is  that when we went to the next appointment no one was home... its sad because they always seem really interested but then they just arent . Well like they say the gospel will be preached to every kindred and tounge and all i can do is hope they accept. but dont worry the animo is still high and we are working hard down here!

Other great news the other elders baptized this week it was so awesome! they baptized a young man named danniel who was super prepared to be baptized! after a great service we were able to talk to melania and she asked if both of us could baptize here she is awesome!

fun stuff this week: first off this week is daylight savings time. so get to wake up later and im loving it.  today played soccer and the gringo

Not entirely sure that Habaneros will be the post mission food of choice

s won! then a family invited us to go eat tacos at their house, Elder gomez from the dominican republic and I ate Habaneros and cried dont worry i have a video and pics but i dont know if they will get there because the video was like five minutes long. we got a good laugh out of it but golly gee it was sooo hot! i was ready to just die because i chewed it up real good.

well short letter. not much to tell from this week it was just good and fast! hope you all have a  wonderful week love you all so much!

Oct 20, 2014

They say that lightning striking twice in the same place is very unlikely right... well this week Elder Anderson came and spoke to my stake!!! talk about suerte. our mission president called my district the apostle magnet because we heard from two apostles and have an ex-setenta in our ward. it has been so great to hear from apostles and their messages have been spot on for what our investigators needed! like you said dad the experience of hearing from an apostle can really inspire you yesterday we had a really nice day. frist we heard from the apostle and he told us about faith it was great. then i ate at our ex-setenta´s house, and we talked for about an hour and a half about deeper doctrine in the plan of salvation. it was a really interesting conversation. and then it rained on us all day but since we just heard an apostle and talked with our ward mission leader we got our fannies in action and started to work in the hills. we met one lady who was searching for christ now that her kids were getting to an age where they would start making there own decisiones and so we talked to her about the plan of salvation especially agency and the atonement. she was really excited and we get to talk to her this week!

other great news. We have another progressing investigator! now we have two with baptism dates! i have to say it has been a huge blessing to have members working with the two really good investigators that we have. and right now we are trying to get on track to have baptisms until christmas! wont be easy but i think we can do it!

 also fun service of the week we cut grass!!!! with a machete! I have never felt so legit while cutting grass. the only down side is that my comp almost let it slip and almost cut of my arm... but hey almost only counts in horseshoes and handgranades. it was a good service though the grass had been 4 or 5 months with out being cut , so we were dead tired after cutting for two hours.

Today i got the chance to go and visit san juanico. it was so great. i got to see some of the people that we helped come back to the church and they are all active and have callings! it made me so happy to see how much happiness they had to tell me that they were going to church and working hard in their callings. i know that God uses us a tools when we work and it feels good to see the fruits of our labors. but the real hope is that they get to the temple so we shall see!!!

i love you all so much and i hope that you ahve a great week be safe!

elder jenson