March 15, 2021

(no subject) Jana Christensen Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 10:26 AM to Joseph Good morning my precious wonderful amazing son! I’m so excited to be able to connect with you today! How are things? How is everything? Abbi Roller gets home from her mission this week! Isn’t that crazy? We’re going to have a drive-through welcome home little party in front of our house. I’m so excited for her family they’re so excited to see her. Marla is engaged did we tell you that? I can’t remember if we did. Her wedding is July 15 were so excited. It’s been a super fun weekend last night John and Kristy and all the kids were here because Dallin and Megan blessed their baby and Logan. They stayed with Jello‘s Saturday night and drove to Logan in the next morning. I love playing with Bryce. It’s so fun to be closer to those cousins. Ella is staying here for a week and that’s been super fun. This weekend was much taken up with getting ready for and competing at ballroom nationals, and also spring break for me. I wanted to get tons and tons of things done but I only got some things done. I did organize the pantry, clean the kitchen desk, and clean outAnd organize the fridge, but I wanted to get tons more done but here we are. I’m starting a six week marathon this morning which will end with me graduating from college. I have so much to do it just takes my breath away. I have all the school to finish, I’m teaching 17 students, I am in 18 credits, we started delivering Compost, I am in the throes of the seminary program, and also planning youth conference. It’s going to be pretty intense for the next little bit. I just keep thinking I’m earning my summer if I can get through this then in the summer I can just be a mom and I’m so excited. If I am asked to student teach in seminary I will start in the fall. There are two cut off‘s between now and then and if that doesn’t happen will just build a big theater on to our house and teach children’s theater to get the resources we need to live. We were up late last night talking about Spenny‘s life. He had a great talk with uncle John and it looks like he might go to SUU. He’s feeling really good about that. We were looking at housing last night and the possibility of maybe buying a mobile home or something instead of just renting. It looks pretty awesome. He would be really at the Gateway of five national parks and all the rock climbing in so much fun right in Cedar city, he could get a skiing pass to Brian head and go with John and Christy‘s family all the time, life would be pretty sweet I think. He’s feeling pretty good about that consistently over a long time. He would be majoring in business and then he would minor in agriculture and they have a great greenhouse management program and some super great classes like plant identification which you take on horseback and go up in the mountains to look at all the plants, and plant propagation so I think he could learn everything he wants to know there and he got a scholarship to. He also got a scholarship to your testate so he’s just trying to decide. Annie might run for SPO not the election one that the interview one. She’s considering running for historian. We’re trying to hurry and get her students against slavery club up and going so that she has that to show how involved she has for her interview. I don’t know if you know about the students against slavery club or they are rescue stuff that it is so heartbreaking. There are more slaves In the world right now than there ever have been in the history of the world and almost all of them are sexual slaves. She’s helping to raise awareness and collect donations and help people be active and do something about it.She’s got a lot going on this month as well. This week is prom and next week is Gem state in Idaho and then all of her competitions are over. Sethie boy is so dang cute he is so beyond his years. I’m so excited for you to be home and spend time with him. He is just changed 1,000,000% and he’s growing up so fast. He’s really wonderful insightful deep and committed. He is a great boy. Dad is doing a little bit better this week I think and that’s exciting I am I am really glad that he’s not in as much pain. Hopefully that blood clot is just working itself out. Things are super exciting with the houses are very close to handing Nate over to the subs. There’s gonna be plenty for you to do probably mostly on Jeni and Smitty‘s house when you get home :-). We’ve really been ramping up the compost business and I think we can offer you a great wage not wage but I think you can make a lot of money delivering compost and additives when you get home if you’re interested. I sent the video of Brad Wilcox‘s talk the one called his grace is sufficient to both Destiny Dowdle and Dena Robinson this week. I just felt so good to share my faith and my love for them. I don’t know that anything will come of it but Dena watched it which was cool. This summer I just want to start knocking off the neighbors one by one just invite them all over one by one and just be friends I’m so excited about that. Every time I think of reaching out to all of our cousins and having our neighbors over I just get the biggest surge of the spirit. Yesterday was ady slichta‘s homecoming. She absolutely killed it. It was so fun to go hang out there with her yesterday. I thought it was so funny that Spencer was sitting at the table with ady slichta who he has dated, Halle Tucker who is also kind of dated or is she at least like to him, and Lizzie who he is dating now and himself and that was the entire table. Oh Joseph I want to help. I want to help help help. I want to be there to celebrate people, listen to people, think about them, be there in their time of need, thank them for everything everything everything, and help them to bolster their faith and feel loved when they don’t feel loved. I want to help. Seminary has brought up a lot of crazy feelings of inadequacy and I know that I am being evaluated which is a nice word for being judged, but I really came to a place of peace when I just realize that I want to help and however God wants me to do that that’s what I want to do. I want to give him my life but I hope that’s an asset and not a liability. I remember when Cami Roberts started her mission Ramen could see in her eyes that the language barrier and some interesting challenges with her companion and the gravity of it all was getting to her a little bit and she was shrinking. He looked straight at her and said Cami -do not shrink. You have so much to give. Love and give everything you have and do not shrink. The shrinking was manifesting specifically and pulling back so that she didn’t take over or offend anyone or anything like that but God needed her bowl testimony hope your strength and everything she had to give.I think Raymond for that conversation this week because I felt myself wanting to shrink too. There’s a weird sense of arrogance but it could also be looked at his faith to think that I could be a seminary teacher. I was feeling weird and scared about that and thinking I just wanted to run for the hills or be a crossing guard or a Walmart greeter, so I think Ramen for the inspiration about Cammy’s conversation and he sent me back this quote: " On the plains of hesitation lie the bleached bones of millions, who on the dawn of a great victory laid down to rest and in resting died. " Thank you for going at with your whole heart Joseph you are an inspiration to me. We got to visit with the CHILDS!! It was heaven! We’ve seen so little of them! It was just fun! Brigham is doing home MTC so you get to see him! He was going to leave the day before you got home! We had fun on Thursday night we were feeding Annies‘s dress and realized we didn’t have the right blue. Walmart closed at 11 and it was 1050 so Sam and Grandpa Jello and I jumped in the car and Sam actually broke into Walmart the doors were closed but they were open up all the sliding door so he just opened them and we ran in as fast as we could and got the glue and checked out it was epic. Isaiah 65:24 Love Momzies