Feb 13, 2016 Letter

Well this week has been a really good week, it has been full of random stuff that has kept us busy but we have really enjoyed this last week.  This week is usually one of the most calm weeks in the change for the secretaries and the other office workers but we had a couple of emergencies in the mission, nothing really that big or exciting, but just enough to keep us busy.  and then this next week that is coming is the week before changes (so fast!) and we have a ton of stuff to do to get ready for all that we have to do! 

So lets see... where do i start... well on monday me and elder briceño were just working and we didn´t have lunch, so we were just getting ready to leave to go buy something and president cook walked into the office, and was kind of surprised to see us there cause it was 1 30 and usually we are having lunch at this time and he looks at us, and then asks us if we had lunch, and long story short he offered to take us out for lunch! so we had lunch with President and it was super awesome just to see the more relaxed side of president, cause usually when we talk to him it is always about what we have to do in the offices and al the work we have, but it was super awesome to get to know him a little bit better. 

Sorry i don´t have any photos this week, but i will send some next week! Sorry about the short letter, but i am sure that nexts weeks is going to be full of stuff! 

Elder Jensen

Office Fun with me, Elder Cuessy, and Elder Cannon

Feb 6, 2016 Letter

Hello!!  

Well... where to start....not really sure, this week was pretty normal and not a ton really happened.  the lady that we found last week, wasn´t home every time when went to go see her, but we have been able to find a couple more people during this week, even though we didn´t have a ton of time to leave and do proselyting this week, we were able to go out and find some people.  Well honestly i can´t think of much to write about... there was a temple conference with melo... so i got to see elder hunt again and he gave me a couple of photos from back when we were in parque del plata so i will send you guys the photos.  so it was nice to see him again this week.

Then we had "Concelio" which is a big meeting between all of the zone leaders and president so that was really fun and exciting, and our job for the meeting was to make sure everyone got there on time and that they had a way to get back home, which wasn´t too hard, but still kinda stressful! :)  

other random notes from the week...

      Elder cuessy had a bird poop on him and the it also landed in the bag of chips he was eating.

      My comp almost fell asleep during his driving classes,  I did fall asleep.

      and life is doing good! 

Well thats about it! sorry there isn´t much else to write about! 

Love you guys!!

Elder Jensen

Zone Pictures:

Pictures from Elder Hunt: 

this is hermano Esposito, funniest guy ive met here! and all his family became active again! (after we left!!)

a couple that was working on going to the temple to get sealed... haven´t heard if they made it...

me elder hunt and elder lawson

Bautizate!!!

Hey!!!!

Well another week in the offices! but like always it was really good, and slightly stressful, and a little sad but it was a good week.  Well i will start with the sad part... this week two of the missionaries from my group that came here with me went home this week, well one went home and the other is going home on monday.  but luckily being in the offices i get to go with them to the airport and say goodbye to them before they really leave.  but the elder that already went home was really sad cause he was such a good guy, and i was supposed to go to the airport with him but plans changed last minute and i ended up not going aand so i never got to said goodbye, but oh well...

Well now a little bit more about the good things that happened this week! well first of all we finally found someone to teach!!!! we haven´t actually taught her yet but we found her in the street on thursday and sadly she is leaving this weekend but we have a lesson set up with her on monday night.  she really seems like she could progress but i will let you know how it goes next week!! then things in the office are normal and we are keeping busy.

Then on p day last week, we went walking a long the coast line looking at little shops and fun stuff like that and we ran into this really cool naval museum with all this random stuff outside, like a huge boat so we decided to have some fun and take some photos of me elder xavier and elder cuessy and elder briceño, it was a nice p day.  

But ya that was about it this week, i don´t really know what to write about but that is about all that happened, oh and we found out that elder Bednar is coming to the mission in Febuary (the 27 i believe...) and he will be coming here to the offices for an entire day!!! i don´t know what we are going to be doing or if we are even going to be there, but im still super excited!!! but that means we got some cleaning to do! ;)  

But anyway thanks for everything! love you guys!

Elder Jensen

Jan 23, 2016 Letter

Hello everyone!!! 

Well this second week as one of the secretaries has been a lot less stressful than the first one and i have been able to actually get a good amount of sleep ;)  but this week was super awesome! We had a world wide mission broadcast on wednesday from Salt Lake and Elder Anderson, Elder Bednar, Elder Oaks, and a couple of other people gave some talks about the missionary work and it was absolutely amazing! The topic of the broadcast was "Teach Repentance, Baptise Converts" and after hearing the conference, me and my comp left to go do some contacts and we felt like we were going to baptise all of Uruguay! unfortunately we didn´t.... well at least not yet :)  But Elder Bednar gave an amazing talk about the importance of the spirit in the conversion of the converts.  And he said something super interesting.  He said that a lot of the times we think of the spirit as a "tool" that we use to help people come unto Christ when really the spirit is the teacher and we are the instruments, and how we need to be humble and recognize that.  

Also these week, my comp Elder Briceño started his driving lessons! everyday in the morning we go to driving school and he is learning how to drive! its kinda scary cause he has never driven anything but a motorcycle in his life, and our teacher is just like hop in the front seat and lets go! but he is learning fast and i am hoping that he learns quickly!

Other than that, nothing much is going one here... we are trying to find some investigators to teach, but we still haven´t found anyone, all our proselyting time consists of knocking doors and contacting people in the street and we have been able to find plenty of nice amazing people, but no one who is willing to listen to us! but we will find someone! 

Hope you guys have a great week! thanks so much for everything!! Love you guys!!

Elder Jensen

Us working hard like always ;)

Offices!!!!

So this was my first week as the secretary of the mission and it has been the most stressful week of my mission!!! so i showed up on Saturday and immediately we started preparing for the changes on Tuesday--Wednesday.  so what we had to do for these 2 days is make sure that the new missionaries got here on tuesday and then we took them through the whole new missionary orientation, then on wednesday we had to help them get them to their new areas with their new comps and make sure that all the other missionaries in the entire mission that were going to be changed got to there new area, which was a huge mess but luckily everyone made it to their new areas! then wednesday night we had to get all the "valiente" missionaries catch their plane to go home, and it was so unbelievably stressful that and being in the airport with missionaries that are going home is awful!!! all you can think of is when it is your turn to go home, its hard. And on top of all that we got about 2 hours of sleep wednesday night!! so this week has been super stressful but super awesome all at the same time!

Luckily i have a super awesome comp who has help a ton during this last week, his name is elder briceño and he is from tornillo, peru. and honestly during all the crazy stuff we had to do during this last week, we haven´t been able to get know each other really well but he is awesome and i am super excited to be able to work with him for these next 2 changes! but anyway that was my week, i hope you guys all had a great week, love you all! 

Elder Jensen 

Chilling with the van! 

This is my job

Waiting at the airport

my job part 2

¡¡Fotos!!

Photos from Elder Plada. Dated Jan 10, 2016

Surprise!!!

hey everybody!!! 

Well last night, friday, we got a huge surprise! i show up with my comp elder padilla from working and we had a great day and were feeling super good about the work here in a colón, and we show up and the assistants are in the house! so we are just talking for a little bit and then out of the blue they ask to have a personal talk with me... long story short, they asked me to be the secretary for the mission!!! starting right now! so i am here in Carrasco, where the mission offices are, i packed up last night and i left early this morning.  so ya for the next six months i am going to be enjoying a nice air conditioned office as my area! :)  but i am kinda sad to be leaving colón after just 3 months...

But the most important thing that you need to know is that my P-day is now going to be on saturday.  i don't think they are going to give me much time today to write or send any photos just this one letter, but i will talk to you guys on saturday!!!

Love you all! 

Elder Jensen

Elder Jace Jensen with Elder and Sister Anderson

"At work" in the office!