I am called of God. My authority is above that of kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him--to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my doctrine is His doctrine. My Commission is to do what He wants done; To say what He wants said; to be a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling! • My Missionary Commission • Elder Bruce R. McConkie •

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • January 18th, 2011

Dear wonderful great mother of mine. =)

Sorry I wasn't able to write you on Monday. We had our P-day on Tuesday since yesterday was a holiday. We celebrate holidays here by knocking on doors. ;) Anyways can you send me some of our ancestor stuff in your next email? Ever since I have been out I kind of want to know about how we got here. You don't have to go way into detail but I would like something. =) This week has been really good and we are keeping busy. Nothing way amazing has happen to us just knocking on doors and having our normal lessons. Slipping on ice and all that good stuff. All the snow has melted which is really great because I decided as a missionary snow is your arch enemy and it just gets in the way of everything. All the families here are just wonderful too. I'm sure I wrote that in my other letter but I'm telling you they are all so great! Brother Estock is our ward missionary and this guy is just awesome. He's someone that I will come back and visit after my mission. Our transfers are coming up this next week so I might be going some where new soon. Also lost my first name tag. It was sad to because I was joking about me losing half an hour before I really lost it. No joke. I said to my companion " Elder Robb I bet you I'm going to lose this name tag today. Watch now its really going to happen. Ha ha ya that would be so funny..." Then it really happen and we spent half an hour trying to find it. Mom we have so many families that we our teaching right now. I cant really write what were teaching them but it has been wonderful. So many our coming back to church and so many are listening to us. The lord has been helping us so very much. Mark and Vickie are doing great and are thinking of baptism and so is the Blest family who has come to church 3 times now. Also Susan's husband is starting to come to church now and Jared Teel is being alot more open with us and we are able to see him alot more. Sister Walker is starting to come to church every Sunday and has started doing family home evening every Monday. Michel Bowswer is also trying to quit smoking still and she's doing better and better every week. There are just so many families. I'm hoping I don't get transferred though. I would like to keep talking with these families. =) Also we have this 12 year old Vashon Jackson who comes out with us alot. This kid is so cool. He is going to be the greatest missionary ever if he stays well in the church. He's very mature for his age to and he will just randomly call and ask if he can come out knocking doors with us. His family doesn't go to church at all though so he just goes with brother Duer who is his grandfather. Bro. Duer is also a wonderful member here too. This guy just loves to say Buh buh alot every time he sees us. Whats up Buh buh! One of the bus drivers here knows us very well also. His name is dean and he's a gangster. He knows some of our beliefs also so when some Young guys got on the bus and started to swearing a little bit and dean asked them " Hey you like ridding the bus? Better keep your mouth shut." As we leave he calls us his biblical brothers. " Alright my biblical brother take care" Ha ha there are just so many great people here. =) Ill tell you about all the not so nice people when I get home though. But don't worry about me. Things are just going fantastic. I love you beautiful best mom. =)
-Elder Jensen.

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