Dear greatest Mother of Elder Jensen.
I am so over joyed right now with the way things are going at home right now. Truly I am. I have heard so many things are going so great back at home. So much so that i'm not sure if all of what you and others have been telling me the full truth. It just sounds to good to be true.
The baptism went great and this family is just so amazing. They will be receiving the Holy Ghost next Sunday since they were out of town for some rugby games. The work here is still moving on and is going wonderfully. I had the greatest lunch ever this week too. No joke i have never been so full in my life! We brought Mike Jones with us to one of our members house named Brigham Young and Issac Young( They both live up to there name too.) We had the biggest Texas dinner/ Thanks giving dinner possible. I have not eaten that good for so so long. After that we were able to have a wonderful testimony meeting with Mike Jones. We had that lunch at 3:30 though and I forgot that we had a member dinner at 5:00 so right after we had lunch we went tracting for a little bit and had to go eat again. And I can tell you that never before have I prayed to God so much to eat my food for me. I was literally begging my Father In Heaven that he would help me eat this food that was placed before my stuffed face. Each and every single bite I had to drink a cup of water so that I would be able to keep it down. And of course I was smiling and saying how good it was tasting. But the important part is that I made it and I was able to finish it all ( Even though I was the last one done.) But no hard feelings were hurt so all was well. =) We have started getting alot of set appointments now too. Alright so this next part I'm going to tell you is part of the fulfillment of my Patriarchal Blessing. Truly my testimony has grown alot after this week. Being able to see things come to pass. I'm not going to lie since I have been out God has taught me so so much. I remember in my blessing it said I was going to be a great teacher for I had a great capacity to teach. During the time I didn't even know anything about teaching and I always felt very dumb and weak in everything that I did. But these last few weeks I have been able to see how much the Lord has been teaching me and helping me. My ward missionary leader came to me and said we need to start seeing more members while we still have you here because you have a great capacity to teach. He almost said it word for word on what my patriarchal blessing said. Mom the Lord really has been helping me and teaching me so much. I have been able to do things that I have never been able to even think I would be able to do. I was also able to bare my testimony during church. It was fast and testimony meeting and no one would go up. So my companion told me to go up. Of course I had to say "If you go I'll go." So he stood up and bore his testimony and came back down. So I felt like great well now I have to go up. But I understand now when my blessing said I would be able to stand up and bare testimony of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Mom, I felt the Spirit so strong when I went up and I know that the Lord was telling me the things that I needed to say. I was pretty much telling my story how I went away from the church but at age 18 and came back because of my brothers testimony and how strongly I felt the Holy Ghost again. Then started bearing my testimony that people change and don't ever give up hope. After I sat down members started to flood the pulp-pet and started to bear testimony on how there were still members in the family that they have been trying to help come back and so on. After words a couple families came and talked with me just saying how much they needed that. Mom, I know that the Lord gave me the things that I needed to say. I'm so blessed to have a family like I have that has been able to help me receive this testimony of the Savior that I have. That night I got a call from the mission president and of course I was scared to answer. "Hello this is Elder Jensen" President:" Elder Jensen this is President Palmer how are you doing Elder? Me: "Ah, I'm doing great president" Thinking inside oh crap what have I done this time. President:" Elder I just got out of one my meetings with all the stake presidents and president Pennington said that you gave one of the most beautiful testimony's that has helped him out so much at this time in his life. Elder Jensen I cant tell you how happy that makes a president to hear something like that from one of his missionary's. We talked a little more after that and man was I happy. I am so grateful that the Holy Ghost was able to bare witness of what I was saying was true because I felt like I was speaking pretty weak. But as the scriptures say " I will make your weak things become strong" So this is my miracle of the week. But this is not the only miracle that has happen. The other miracle is how well everyone is doing back home. You have no idea on how grateful that makes me. God has been blessing us so very much. So please in your prayers have a prayer of gratitude to our wonderful loving Father In Heaven. I love you the best mom in the world. And I am sorry I was not able to write yesterday. It was a holiday and well we work the most on those days. =) So if I dont ever write you its because its a holiday.
-Elder Jensen
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