Hey! April
13, 2013
We had a pretty good
week! We also had some really good teaching appointments and some miracles. We
set somebody with a Baptism date, which I’ll talk about later in the
letter.
Well hope Jared and
Grandma Great had a good birthday! It's cool that Dad was able to go spend time
with Grandma up in Idaho for her birthday. Glad Jared liked the shirt. I got it
made at a t-shirt shop in Philly. They have a lot of pre-made designs, and you
can choose what color design and shirt, size etc. And it's $5. I want to get
some for the rest of the family; I just would need to know preferences on
sizes, colors and what you would want on the shirt. They have like the LOVE
park logo, or ones that say Philadelphia like on the back of Jared’s
shirt, Philly skyline etc.
Mom - I’m pretty sure
the Halloway's are the ones replacing the Weyland’s. So I will be working with
them a little or a lot. They come out pretty soon! Exciting news, we found out
who the replacements for the Houses (office couple) will be. And I think you
will think it’s cool who they are & where they are from. So their names are
Craig & Glenda S. from... Price, Utah. So the Boyack’s will have to let
me know if they know them or not! Elder House actually grew up in Price also! I’m
going to send you a picture of them too. No word on a replacement for the
Baileys yet, not sure if we will have one for a while... So me and Elder
Prestwich do something’s together but we also have our own
personal responsibilities for our positions. So I am
the Financial Secretary as well as an Office Elder and he is the Records
Secretary. So for example he will never be paying the bills and I will never be
entering in baptism records etc. We picked up 5 new Corolla's this
week. Yup your right that totals to 17 new cars in the last bit. This morning
we have Elder Jensen from the transportation department Under the
Missionary Department. He told us that because of the age change they have had
to purchase an extra 3,500 cars for the US and Canada. He said that totals to
about $60 Million dollars in extra cars. Then he said think of all the new
apartments that have been bought. And with the 58 new missions, that's 58 new
Mission homes that need to be bought etc.
Mom I will see what I
can do about getting that email sent to the Moms of the new missionaries. Haha,
this last transfer I actually got a call from a Mom in Utah asking if the group
of missionaries had arrived safely. I didn't catch what her name was.
But it's definitely possible; I will just have to talk to Sister House about
it, since that's in her territory. She may just like it how she's been doing it
for the past while... But we will see ;)
I went over to the
Mission home this morning so that Sister Schaefermeyer could look at my pants
to fix them, since they are baggy. So she's going to see what she can do. Well
Kenzie H. will be here in 4 weeks! Sister House always displays all the
pictures of the incoming missionaries that everyone always looks at when they
come through the office and her picture is one of them!
Ok well I think that
answers most of your questions.
Here's a little bit
of what we did this week:
On Monday us and the
other Broomall Elders went over to Brother R. house for dinner, he's a
really nice old single guy in the ward. He’s the Choir director; he takes good
care of the missionaries. Tuesday - we officially started driving the minivan
as our assigned car. I was sad to lose our Chevy Cruz.. But the van has some
cool stuff - automatic doors and all the seats fold down into the floor. It
will definitely make things nice for picking up missionaries and other things
for the office. Tuesday night Elder Prestwich got to meet J.P. because he got
dropped off pretty early for mutual and we were still at the office. So we had
him come into the office and watch some conference with us. After that we
decided to stop by one person before heading home for dinner. It was the
Dixons. I’m not sure if you remember me talking about them, Part Member family.
Just the Dad and 3 kids, the Dad is the member. Anyways they were home which is
super rare, and he let us right in, offered us cinnamon rolls. We talked to the
boys, Taft the older one (12) had been reading the Book of Mormon Stories book
we gave him. So we read some of the stories with the two boys. One of the
stories talked about people getting baptized and then they both asked how they
can get baptized. So we explained it a little to them and their Dad's fine with
it. So we didn’t want it to seem like we had only came over there to get them
baptized. So we set up an appointment for Sunday night (dinner) and were going
to set them with Baptism dates then. Their Dad isn't able to make it to church because
of his work hours so we’re going to have a member pick them up. President has
had interviews this week, so he's been busy with that and we've been making
sure he has all the right mail and packages and other missionary supplies for
him to bring to each of the interviews. Wednesday - was another good day. Did
office work, made the sickle thruster. Then we had a teaching
appointment with one of our new investigators - It is a member’s Fiancé. His
name is Moylan. Anyways it went super well and he kept telling us how he's been
feeling soo good as he has come to church the past few weeks etc. And he
explained how it was totally the spirit. It was pretty cool. But we were able
to set him with a baptism date of June 23rd, which it will most
likely be sooner because he's going to be ready pretty fast. So we were excited
about that. Yesterday was kind of a long day. We were in the office for a
while. The Baileys and Houses left the office a little early so we were in
charge of answering the phones etc. We also had some service to do, but some
other missionaries needed the truck for a few hours. So once they were done
with it, we headed to Jersey to drop a few things off for missionaries. We got
home around 11 last night. The truck is going to be in the shop all next week
to get a lot of stuff fixed on it from missionaries. I found out we’re opening
6 new apartments this next transfer. We have 13 sisters coming out. The
transfer after that we have more sisters then elders coming out. Not sure if I’ve
told you all this.
You may have also
heard, but there is a new leadership position for sister missionaries. It’s
called Sister Trainers or something like that. Basically they just go on
exchanges with other sisters and they will be part of the new Missionary
leadership council, so that will be interesting. The church said that all the
regular leadership positions will still be held by Elders. The number of
sisters we have is going to almost double in the next two transfers. And they
are all pretty much going to have to be training even if they are new. Which is
just crazy, but it seems normal now. That wouldn't even be considered a year
ago.
Well I think that's
about it. I’m curious I heard that when missionaries reach the point where they
have 6 months left that the Family gets their travel plans or something like
that. I guess I should know since I work in the office. Let me know if you get
anything in the future.
It's starting to get
closer and closer to the senior couples and President going home. It’s really
weird. They repainted the mission home this last week. They are starting to get
things ready for the new Mission President. They are starting to contact President
about when to come and pack his stuff up etc. But it's not until July so we've
got some time.
Well that's it!
Later!
-Elder Jensen
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