4 days left

JENSEN'S HOMECOMING WILL BE JULY 28 @ 9AM 

570 WEST 1402 SOUTH PROVO

welp, i guess this is it...i don't think this day would have ever come! haha it just kept getting put off and now finally it's here sneaking it's way down into my brain! i honestly wish i could stay here because the area is really starting to grow and flourish with investigators and the members are just so dang awesome!!!  i will defenitley be coming back here when i go back and visit iowa. i also know that i need to get on with my life and i am super excited to come back to all the friends who aren't on missions...and who aren't yet married and hang out and play soccer and dance...i miss dancing so much. i have to be honest. i have been wanting to dance for some time now. everyone and their dog knows that i dance...not that i played soccer in college but that i am a national champion. some how they know that. and it has spread like wild fire in the ward here!!!! 

anyways this week will be dedicated to packing and taking lots of pictures. they want you to take these next few days and pack. make sure that you get every thing taken care of and stuff like that and it doesn't help that we are both getting shipped out of ankeny. super lame. elder berthold was only here for 6 weeks! he is super bummed too. 

i love you all and as i sign off for my final email i just want to say thanks for tuning in on the spirit filled emails from my missionary experiences!!!!

love

Elder Jensen Andrew Smith

i forgot to ask last time...did you do anything to celebrate the 4th of july?  

we just went to a families for dinner and then went home. we had to be in by 10 but the fireworks didn't start until ten or ten thirty. lame but oh well. 

favorite food this week?  

mmmm...prolly huhot!!

any last words of advice to future missionaries? 

learn from chapter 3 in Preach My Gospel!!!!!!!!!!!! memorize the order in each lesson and read and study from each lesson and then also go to chapter 6 and study that whole chapter!!!!  

What are some of your plans being your last week?   

take lots of pictures and pack...haha pretty lame. 

11 days left

Well we have been fairly busy this last week. lots of reevaluating the less active we want to work on getting to church and stuff...we don't have very many investigators who are progressing but we are working on getting more for the next elder to come in and have something to work with when i leave so i don't squeeze the area dry of investigators. we are also trying to use the members a lot more since the work of salvation was broadcast throughout the church. i hope that we can as a family be reading and studying Preach My Gospel and the Scriptures. man so i heard that they are having a temple run on the 24th from the city center temple to the Provo temple. 5 k run. kinda like a fun run. i think that would be super fun to do so if you could look that up for me so i can do it that would be super awesome and anyone who wants to run...this is for ANYONE... not just my familia who wants to join totally should!!! 

so i don't have much time left but i only have one more p-day left next monday and then i'll be coming home that thursday! (friday actually) i can't believe that i come home that soon! we are going to the temple tomorrow and will spend all day there and will be sleeping over at the AP's house with elder herrin and then will come home wednesday morning. 

i love you all and can't wait!!!! 

love

Elder Jens Smith

questions

what are you going to do for pday?  

well we just got done playing soccer with some boys and it was awesome!!! i miss it sooooooo much!!! i can't wait!!! 

Favorite thing this past week?  

this past week...was zone conference. so awesome and i got a girls number from a member in ames that she wanted me to contact when i got home...funny. haha 

What did/do you love about your new president?  

...they have my name...    :) haha no i do like them cause he is very bold and straight to the point and he has just started running with the same pace that president Jergensen was running at with the mission. 

How did your last "testimony" meeting with the mission president go?   

it went well. just a simple short powerful testimony is what is needed. i will have my "final" interview the thursday night of the 18th. 

18 days left

haha yeah this week was good. lots of visiting members. it takes a while to have everyone on board with what the missionaries are wanting to do. as well as visiting them and having a time work for us to go visit with them and give them a message. 

well i do have to say that i have been having dreams about playing soccer and i can tell you that i am so excited to come back a get back into shape. i know i only have 18 days left but i can't let it get to me and frankly it hasn't been a big problem on my mind. prolly cause it hasn't hit me yet that i go home in just a few short weeks. can't believe it. anyway...

i can't believe that brandon will be with the LA Clippers!!! thats sick!!!! 

actually i have met mark. he was there with sheryl at my setting apart. i got to meet him then but only briefly cause of the confusion of going on a mission and the mind set i was in at that time. haha i apologize for that and hope i can be some what of a better nephew when i get home. ;) haha but are they staying in our house while i'll be there? cause if so i can always sleep outside while they are there. build my self a cake or somesing. or a fire and sleep on a cot in a tent in the patio. that'd be sweet. :) 

well thats about it for me! i love you so much!

love 

Elder Smith

questions:

did you get to watch the worldwide missionary conference? last sunday? june 22?  

yeah i did. they required all the missionaries in the world or they said that it was really important that we be there. so we watched it and it was awesome!!! the way we are moving right along with the world in using our resources and using them for good in the world unlike the world using them for filth and terrible things but i am happy that the bretheren are able to relate to the youth today because that is truly where our future lies right now. that is why the age for missionaries have been lowered and the hastening/sped up process of the work of salvation. i know what was said there was inspired and was pondered and thought out very carefully. 

best thing this week?  

best thing this week was probably being able to pray for our mission president and getting the same feeling i got when i usually prayed for our mission president and i know that we will just take off running!!! im so excited for our zone conference tomorrow. i will be giving my going home testimony tomorrow as well. 

pday stuff today? 

we will be playing soccer again!!!!!! WOOHOO it'll be with some 13 year olds but still it's soccer! they play for the nation wide team the rush. i think we used to play them back home as well. 

how is your new president?  president jensen?  did you kinda smile at that?  

haha i did when you commented on it. silly momma. :) haha we haven't met him yet. we will tomorrow.