September 28, 2015

Querida Familia,

Sounds like you all had a pretty crazy week! I love hearing about the kids, I miss seeing them and all you guys. There aren't too many little kids here on the bluff, so it's really special for me when I get to hear about them. Jacob, have a happy birthday tomorrow, and keep the family in check. I'm super excited for you to get the priesthood and I hope you are too. You are a very organized smart young man, and I know you'll understand the importance of working hard and serving your very best in the different priesthood callings you'll get. Keep up your good work with studying, and let me know how your nuclear reactor is coming along.

I did get to see the lunar eclipse and that made yesterday all that much greater! We had our first Baptism yesterday, and I like to call it the blood moon baptism because we saw the eclipse just after we got out of the Baptismal service. The guy that we baptized was a 66 yr old man named James Armstrong, and he is super awesome! He is the man that flagged us down on the side of the road and asked how he could become a Mormon. He is doing super awesome, and he told us this morning that he is excited for his new life and glad to be a Mormon. He already wants to serve a mission of his own in the future, and has been trying to help one of his friends, Margo, to learn about the gospel. I love visiting him, he is a super friendly old man, and he lives just down the street from us. His baptism was very special, and I'm really excited for him to get to know the people in the ward a little better.

I'm learning a lot about setting goals and making plans, and I'm really trying to implement those to things into my life right now. It's super important in making progress, and I want to make the best of this mission and my life. I feel like the Lord has blessed me with a good mind for organization, and I want to develop that in order to progress in all the other parts of my life and the work. Also, I'm using Brandon's workout program he left me for missionaries to help me grow physically. Thank him for me, it's been a huge help. I'm feeling very healthy and definitely getting stronger, and it's a lot easier to have motivation In the mornings when your workout is already planned for you. I will finish the set program in about 8 months, and then I will look like captain Moroni. More or less... After that, people will be too scared to refuse when we ask to teach them the gospel and get baptized. So yeah that's the plan! I also have a lot of other goals as far as my personal and language studies, as well as ways I can improve my obedience. So set goals. They're fun and you can see how you progress overtime.

I love you guys a lot, and I love seeing the pictures you sent with me in the folder. I was looking through them this morning and really wished I could come visit you for a week and then come back. Paciencia Elder Jenson. Paciencia. I hope you all have a great general conference this weekend and learn a lot! I'm more stoked for this conference than for any superbowl we ever had at the house. It's amazing that we can receive modern revelation from real prophets of God; especially when the world is going absolutely crazy. I'm very grateful for the gospel we have to keep our lives intact!

Con demasiado mucho amor...
El Elder Jenson