Saving Souls

Hi Family,

It's Elder Jensen here. Hey I just wanted to say thank you for your emails. I really love it when everyone writes. It's always good to hear how everyone is doing. Megan, it sounds like you are having a lot of fun. I'm really proud of you for how hard you are working. Jake, I heard you're picking up the P90X again... that's the way! We do the ab ripper sometimes for our exercise! It's a good one. Whitney, word has it that you are doing great. The southern winds whisper that UVU has grown exponentially in terms of whitty jokes. Mom, you sound like you're a mother--not busy at all, just lounging around, nothing to handle. Nah, just kidding. Thanks for those quotes. They are great! And Father, here in New Zealand they use the term "crack-up" to describe something funny. You are crack-up. The ward can really count on you to give a great spiritual opening prayer!

I will quickly sum up what happened last week so that you can see how great it was. Here you go: We had transfer planning preparation, then transfer planning, went to a district meeting in South Auckland, visited a district leader council out west; in one day we drove down to Cambridge (two hours away), picked up some missionaries, drove back up to Auckland and dropped them off, then drove up to Whangarei (another two hours) and picked up a couple more missionaries along with a car that was in the panelbeaters (repair place), then drove back down to North Shore and had dinner with President. The next day we picked up the new assistant, Elder Espino! The same one who I was in the MTC with. We're kicking out Elder Kaufusi tomorrow and Elder Espino and I will be continue on. Elder Espino is a spiritual giant and it is very good to have him with us. I am so grateful for Elder Kaufusi and probably will never be able to express the impact that he has had on my life. The day following the pick-up, we baptized a nine-year-old girl named Jadelynn. She is so smart and pretty funny. She is Niuean. We also got to see an investigator named Alumita get baptized in a different stake (we taught her the first time and she has made a huge change--her whole countenance is brighter!).

Well, I love you! Bye!

Love,
Elder Jensen