March 22, 2021

(no subject) Jana Christensen Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 6:08 PM to Joseph Hey big Mac and fries! How is everything? And he was bawling yesterday because she was so excited for you to come home and so excited to see you. How are you doing? What is going on? How is every single tiny part of your life? How are the investigators? How are the prayers going? How are you feeling? How are things with your companion? We went all the news. You passed the three month threshold this week. I think you probably don’t want to think or talk about that but I’ll talk about it for you because were way excited to wrap her arms around you and squeeze your balls right out. We had some fun highlights this week: yesterday South Spencer and I went to the Calvary Baptist Church downtown. It was a singing and clapping extravaganza of faith in Jesus Christ. It was amazing. We loved it. The preacher sermon was called dirty laundry secret recordings and the dysfunctional family. He had an interesting take on I Jacob a Israel from the old testament he thought they were pretty dysfunctional but in the end his amazing and passionate sermon was a plea for every family to base their lives and their family on Christian values. When he testified of a savior it was so powerful and from the heart. He was quite amazing to watch. I needed to go have a cultural experience for my multicultural education class and it was so amazing. Ella went home yesterday. She’s been here all week and it was really really fun. On Saturday ady and Kaden and Spencer and I went to a compost run where we did installation. It was the funnest. We were laughing so hard and having so much fun I wish every compost ride could be just like that. The client was so happy and so grateful and everything was just beautiful. Afterword we went to Grandma Jan‘s because she gotten 20 pies from the bread run and so it just got so funny we had pie and then we found pizza in the freezer and then she found her a beer and then she got ice cream and then all these other treats just come out kept coming out and we were just laughing so high grandma was telling us about one of her grandkids that said to her grandma I’ve never seen you with clothes on! She meant that that grandchild had only seen her wearing muumuus but it just came out so funny oh we also had garlic bread. It was just so funny and then ady cut Grandma Jan‘s hair it was awesome. Saturday night we did a murder mystery dinner at our house the kind where you walk around. It was really fun it was a little hard to understand but we had tuna and Darrell and Colby and Rachel Sims and then our crew that lives around here so I think we had 12 people playing and it was really fun. No sorry that was Friday night because Saturday night Grandma and Grandpa Jello and Seth Ella and I went over to the city to try on costumes and play improv games and just have a fashion show and have fun. It was pretty awesome. Thursday night Ella and Seth went down to spend time with Quality and Becca and Mook and Lids. It was so incredibly funny I checked Sethie out we got early to the train station we bought the tickets I put them over there and then I was standing on the car singing to them while they were waiting for the train and the train came in the train left and they were still standing there. They totally missed it it was so funny so I drove them down and Becca met us in Pleasant Grove so they could have a fun evening. They toured BYU went to the creamery did some embroidery and smashup and very sweet. We did a few other fun things with Ella like clothes shopping and she help down to get ready for prom and lovers Lane with Sam and McKay and Lydia one night and some other crazy stuff. I hope she had fun it was a little bit of a busy week because everybody else had school and stuff but she got a lot of baby time and she really liked that. The missionary spoke in our ward on Sunday and they absolutely nailed it. It was a really awesome sacrament meeting. They’re focusing on our ward this week and they’re seeing how many Easter messages they can deliver to members and we get to make them food they just barely change the policy up till now for the last nine months they have not been able to receive any food from members even if it was bought at a store they could not eat one bite of anything that anyone gave them. This is kind of a big week for mama I have a cemetery lesson on Wednesday night and it’s the first cut off if I don’t make it through that the whole thing is over. I’m working on my lesson. I’d love your help. What have you learned about teaching the gospel? I’m teaching Doctrine and Covenants 29 I think I’ll focus on the eyeballs falling out in the sockets and the face is melting off:-). We really teased Annies date when he showed up bless his heart. Mckay was here and Spenny and Seth so we all went in and sat around staring at him so that when she came down the stairs for the day date she would think that were making him very uncomfortable. Spenny had a funny conversation with him you’ll have to ask him about it. We were going to be polishing guns but we decided to interview him instead. And he had tons of fun… So beautiful.She’s a little stressed out of her cabana wagons lately. Here is something I really really think that you will enjoy. Here is a copy of Michael Stevenson‘s questions. I collected them because I may use his conversion story and the seminary lesson to 15 minutes of whether or not I get to advance of the seminary program or not. They are so so good. These are the questions he wrote when he started the Bible at 13 and read the entire thing cover to cover. It reminds me of Wilford Woodruff‘s converses story which I just love so much that great apostasy movie. These questions are so eloquent and profound and heartbreaking. Thank you for gathering Israel thank you for giving people the answers they need. Addy He’s so cute and fun and sparkly and wonderful and it’s so fun to have her home. Guess who else got home this week? Abbi Roller! She is super awesome looks looks so good. We had a drive-by party for her at our front yard on Wednesday. I love you so much buddy. I felt the spirit so much reading through these questions from Michael Stevenson. Thank you again for loving your brothers and sisters him you don’t even know enough to help them along the way. I hope we get to hear from you today :-). Love malmsey‘s