Elder Jensen Cox

Monday, August 29, 2011

Periódico El Origen Agosto 2011

5 Baptisms

Romilia

Carlota

Micaela, Rosendo, Herminio

5 More Baptisms - August 29, 2011

Hi Mama, it was pretty crazy to think I have been out 6 months now. I now am serving a female mission - 18 months haha. I love David and hope he enjoys the letter, I really enjoyed his. I got the package on the 23rd. It was a lot sooner then I thought. I love the cds and the photos. I like the photo of all the family and of Kimbree and me. I showed our house to many people and they love it, so pretty with all the flowers. The inserts are perfect and I needed them because my Rockport shoes are not doing as well as I hoped they would. The insert is worn out so I threw it away, the soles are very worn and the heel on the inside is coming apart also the material inside the shoe is falling apart. I'm a little disappointed with that brand right now. So my cd player I bought here stopped working. It only plays 31 seconds of the first song and pauses and it won't play any other song. It only worked for two months so I was a little mad that I paid 150 quets for 2 months. I tried to take it back but because it was past 8 days they couldn't do anything. I found a new one though that is more expensive then the first but it is a Panasonic and very nice so I trust it. I talked them down to 260 but to use my card there was a charge so it was 282 quets about $35. Not to bad and I'm very glad to have music again. Yeah I didn't think about the news letter being in Spanish, my bad. We have our pic in the news letter 3 months in a row because of our success here in our zone. The peaches and peach shakes with bacon sandwiches sound so amazing I really miss those. The party sounds like fun and that is so nice that everyone talked about me and sends their love. So Saturday we had some baptisms. We told people it started at 4 so people would be there on time cause people are always late. 2 of our investigators were there but we were missing a family so we went to get them. The mom was still gone selling food, the son was flying a kite somewhere but no one knew where and the daughter was washing clothes. We got a member to wait for them and bring them in a taxi. As we were leaving we met the mom and she said she will come unless it rains then she doesn't want to bring the kids. The rain is a big problem here and it ruins activities because people do not go out. We got to the church and were waiting. We called the member and the family was getting ready to leave to San Antonio. We talked her into coming to the baptism first. Then because of the rain the power went out. The family arrived but the little girl did not want to get baptised and would not say why. We started the service and Elder Paz and I had a special musical number. We sang "When I am Baptised", the primary song. I sang part in English and he sang part in Spanish. It was really good but I was nervous. I was a little mad too because a less active member that was there was laughing as I was singing in English and really loud so that annoyed me but other people sad it was really good. Right before I baptised the first person the power came back on so kinda a miracle there. I baptised a girl Carlota, Micaela, and her two sons Herminio and Rosendo, and Elder Paz baptised another woman Romilia. We had 5 baptisms. That makes my total 14 baptisms in 6 months, 4 months in the field. That is pretty cool. Sunday, the son Rosendo was in another city with his uncle to buy a white shirt so he wasn't confirmed which was disappointing but in church we had 11 of my 14 recent converts there, it was cool. It was a pretty good week. Changes are this Wednesday but I won't know til tonight or tomorrow if I have changes. I kinda hope I do. It will be hard to say goodbye to the wonderful people here but I want to see other places. I will let you know what happens. I am planning to write Nana a letter. I really enjoy her letters and pictures. They are wonderful and uplifting. Your letters are the most uplifting. I love hearing about your week and I know you love me and support me so much. That is why you're the best mom ever. I love you Mom and send my love and hugs and kisses. Have a wonderful week and I'm already excited to write you next week. Love you more. Love Son

Monday, August 22, 2011

PERIODICO DE LA MISION JULIO 2011

6 Month Mark - August 22, 2011

I'm glad you had a good birthday and liked the video. Dinner at Canyons and Javier's sounds so yummy. That is cool that the El Salvador temple was dedicated yesterday. I did not know it was that soon. I did not know that it's the 4th temple in Central America. Before I know it the Xela temple will be dedicated here. Can't believe school started again. Crazy that people think trees are comparable in price to air conditioning, especially for a whole school. Good luck with the calls, ha ha.
So we had a missionary activity in our area with some games. There was musical chairs, a foot race with a lime on a fork in your mouth, another game I call Spirit (someone is blindfolded and follows the other partner's voice as they navigate through obstacles of chairs and other objects and is to explain how we listen to the soft voice of the spirit and avoid dangers), pin the Moroni on the temple (I drew the temple and it looked pretty good). It started an hour late and at first had very little people cause when it rains everything stops here and people don't leave. However later people came and it turned out pretty good. They won cash for some games and spiritual games they won Spirit cash. These they used at the store to buy lolly pops and chips and other little things but the spirit cash is no good there. At the end people with the spirit cash can sit at the high level and people with less sit in the middle and with no the bottom, it is the 3 celestial kingdoms. We got 13 references. Not too bad. I feel bad though because I did not talk with the investigators that much. That is the whole point of the activity. So next time I am going to talk with everyone, that is my goal.
Tomorrow I will have 6 months in the mission that is so crazy, time is going by pretty fast. I now only 18 months left. For a little while I was kinda in a funk and not feeling like my normal positive happy self. But now I am more like myself. Happy, positive, more enthusiastic, loving, and looking for the good. That is my focus right now too - looking for the good in everything and having faith and more love. I'm normally a very loving person but it is important to be more loving especially with the differences of my companion and other things. People know me as a loving happy positive people person so I'm going to work on being more like that person again and be even better. I'm so grateful for your love and support and the love of all the family and friends. I love you so much and you're the best mom ever. Love you more forever. Love, Son.
PS - I sent a letter today to David so let him know to keep an eye out. Love you Mom. Until next week, which will come very fast.