Feliz Pascua

This past week was very hard.   Hard with the area and a member (don't assume anything bad its not).  I learned that you need to be open to others and always try to take out your best self when you can, and the way you think your companion is feeling isn´t always right. I learned that he is actully out for my best (hope that makes sense).  My English is not looking so good jaja. I learned you need to not worry too much, seek the spirit and to be yourself.  There are many things that I learned this week. One is to be yourself. Yesterday I took time during my study just to say a prayer and meditate. That was a great experience. The key is to have the spirit guide you.

For Easter, it is traditionally recognized as the week. Which I like, but now a days it is, for some, not recognized as it should be.

Wow that is cool you could go to the condo with Conrad and the Palmers, and that Conrad does not eat as much as I. jaja. I am glad you could go hike Angles Landing.
 

Well some sad news Karina told us straight up that she does not want to listen to us or go to church and she wants to do things on her own. She hopes she did not offend us. but it's sad.  We can't do anything about her agency.

Some good new Jonhithian and Susana accepted the invitation to be baptized. They are really good people.  She told us that she felt that this is the path she need to take. They are son and mother. I think it is also results form our zone fast.

 You are great Love you God loves you

Love Elder Bransen Gene Jensen

PS your quote "Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what your going to get" is from Forrest Gump. Your quote´´I ve always been 40 years younger than my dad´´.

Photos from Mission President Interviews

I'm back from a crazy week

Thank you so much for your love, and care for me.  I am starting to understand loving others. I really do love my investigators.  I don't if I told you but Juan Carlos was drunk really bad one day, because his dog that meant a lot to him was slowly dying. I remember praying to see if we could do something for the dog. I remember praying to save it or something. But overall I felt bad for my friend. The next day we talked in the Church hoping he a his friend would not be drunk, but he was. Afterwards I really hurt inside, almost cried inside to not see him in his true character.  I remember having hope inside and prayed that he would recover. I knew he would so I didn't hurt too bad, and he did recover. 

First to Answer your questions: Yes I did get to listen to all conferences.   Priesthood session yesterday. Si things are pretty normal again but some of the streets are bad in some areas. Now we are back to a normal schedule. The last week we had work around this block for three days total.

This was the schedule last week basically like this. Mon, Tues, Inside the pension .Tues we had permiso to leave and stay in the church at end of the day. I think that save some missionaries from death by boredom.jaja. Wed, shopping district meeting, then service, thurs, write you guys, lunch service. Friday interviews with President, and one lesson woohoo, Sat, service all day, and one visit. Woohoo.  And we did not work like those zombies. jaja.

 

Oh, by the way we have clases de ingles. That is going well for right now and pretty fun.

 

Thanks for the update on Josh and Neerapa. 

Thanks for your update of the Family. Have fun with the cousins jaja. One of Zone leaders looks like Devin. jaja

 

Congratulations to Emalie, that awesome you have you blessing. Feilzitaciones.

 

Thanks for your stories and inspiration.

I absolutely Love you all. and the Lord loves us more.

 

Love Elder Bransen Gene Jensen.

 

PS.Your Quote "I'll be board if I never get a wife" is de Collin. I remember that.

Your quote is ¨I am robot.. I am robot.........´´

 

pss Spanish word is ´´ sopa´´ y ´´jabon´´

Todo bien - I'm good

Sorry if you were worried because I did not write. There was a big storm and we could not leave for two days.  To be honest we were board to death.  I enjoyed a little rest, and we had to stay inside on Tuesday too.  Wed we were busy

My Companion is Elder Ruiz, de Peru. He has been in the mission 2 weeks more than I.

Conference was way awesome. I had the opportunity to listen to it in English live. There is a lot I could talk about conference. I like the quotes you gave me. I think Pres Uchtdorf´s talk about being a grateful soul, not just grateful for things.  I think that´s key in life. I´d like the tree allegory form Elder Anderson.

That is cool that Dad, Collin, and Ryan could go the priesthood conference.

Yesterday we did service. Because the rain brought mud and some parts of the roads had 4 ft extra sand and others were missing 4 ft sand.  The service was to take out dirt with shovels, a lot a shoveling.  It made me feel good and like I was at grandpa Gene´s. jaja.

Sometimes the work goes down. and it´s hard but the Lord will help us rise it again. Things are better with Karia. And I want to focus in planting seed more as well.

There more I could talk about but I´ll share it later.

Love Elder Bransen Jensen.

ps- i remember Mr. Moody and Jolley. Sorry I don´t have a quote for you. But i still love you.

God is a God of Happiness

That's crazy that Nate my childhood cousin it actually getting married.  Congrats to Nate, How strange. I love that man. Tell him to write me.

This week went a little rough at first, but better towards the end. I´m getting to know my compañero mejor. We get along just fine. It was hard for me at first but we talked for a good hour on Sunday, to let each other know what our feelings are and things we can work on. I feel a little bit changed every day. I'm just grateful to be here and being part of the Lord´s work. I know he is helping me. My compañero is form Peru Lima Callao.
 

Carina told the other elders in our district that she is willing and ready to have the lessons. It´s cool we work as a team.
 

Thank you very much for your letter and youth conference experiences as they are very applicable to missionaries. I´m touched a little just reading them, I am truly excited for the future of the Church. I am grateful for your letter, because I forgot the power of Youth, and the love and goodness of the ward. I feel like the ward is super close. Tell all the Youth that I said ¨hi´´ and send my best of feelings for them and tell them the keep it up, they are great.
 

Well I know with out a doubt this is the work of the Lord. He is very involved with our salvation. Don´t forget it and be happy therefore obey with your will in agreement. God is a God a happiness.

Oh and the language is getting better and think the Lord and my comp will help me a lot too. Get to play the piano a little too and the Lord is helping me improve in this too.
 

I love you and the Lord loves you more.
 

Love Your son, bro,..... Elder Bransen Jensen.
 

Ps your quote I think is form Collin, or EM or Hanna
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Pss Sí the word was sanctuary is from a hinmo que me encanta. Your word is just that´´encanta´´ you might accidentally translate directly.
 

Psss. I will try to write the Priest quorum a letter this week if I can.

I'm staying in Neuquen and I'm happy for that

One thing I´ve learned is to pray often, more often, and have a prayer sempre in your heart. In order to withstand and be happy, good, and with the spirit, I invite you to do the same.  You just always feel better, even when things don't work out.

Sorry if this saddens you guys, but Cadolina ( the lady at the bus stop) approached us in the street and told us that she won´t be able to listen to the ´charlas¨ (lessons)  because of family problems.  We told her that is why God sent us, for helping the family. But I think we will be good friends with her. I have a bright hope for her that she will take the charlas de the missionaries in the future if not soon. I think she´ll realize.

The other missionaros in our district had a bautismo. It was very nice and beautiful. Four of our investigators came. I played the Piano. Over all the spirit was so strong. And we ate lunch with them on Sunday. They are awesome.

And the son,who got baptized a mouth ago, has gone on visits with us. And he was a little surprised when two of investigators who don't want anything. (story for another time)

We will be starting English Classes. I excited to do that.

Transfers are today and sometime today I will be getting a new companion.

I like my companion that I have now. We had our ups and downs but really we get along just great.

To clarify I´m staying, and I´m happy for that and my companion it not.  He told me he does not want to go. I´m glad to stay, because I love the ward and our districto they are all copos.

Love you God loves you

Love Elder Bransen Gene Jensen

ps your quote "I hope my kids are cute, I don't care if my husband is" I think is from mom. The quote of the week: "He brought a wadder."

 

pss Your Spanish word is ´´santuario´´

Miracles happen and the people are ready

Well, sounds like Ashley´s party was fun. But took a lot of time.

Well some update on the work here. We had another miracle wherein Dio (God) was very involved. We were walking to go visit someone and this lady on the street asked us if the buses were down.  We did not know so we went across the street to ask at the fire station to see if they knew. They told us they were down and we then told the lady. She was actually reaching out to us. En fin, we got her number and address. The day we went to search for her, it took us a while to find her house. But we found her the same moment she came home. We taught her outside and she told us about her life which was hard. We taught.  She was very receptive to the message of the Gospel. She wants to be baptized and almost accepted a date to be baptized.

Saturday, we did intercambios de compañros (companion exchanges). It seems like miracles happen when we do them. I worked in the area del los otras misionaros (other missionaries).  We then went to my area to teach Elias an investigator. We were sure he was coming to church but he didn´t. We will most likely going to drop him as an investigator, because he does not go to church, and we have taught him basically all the lessons, and we have had him for months and  is not progressing (in some ways he is worse.  He´s angry with God), it is a little sad but I hope in the future he´ll be ready for the missionaries again. And he is better than when I and my other companion found him.

Sunday, Juan Carlos and Caldalia(the neuva de este semana) came to church. Wohoo!! I don´t know what more to say.

Miracles happen and people are ready. I love this work.

My companion is a good one. We get along. His English is mucho major. He prays one prayer in English each día. The end of this week is transfers and it went by fast. mas o menos. I´ll let you know if get transferred or what.

Bueno Gracias por todo. I love you God loves you.

Love Elder Bransen Jensen.

Ps. my guess your quote "Emalie is pretty, but not enough to marry" is from Ashley the stinker pants. Your quote is: "It's because I´m green isn´t it.´´

Pss  Your Spanish word Is ´´escribir´´ diga me palablas españoles que quieren apender, that I might not know.