April 12, 2021

(no subject) Jana Christensen Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 3:14 PM to Joseph Good morning sweet boy. I hardly know where to begin. There’s so much going on around here lots of good and a little hard. Most of our week was wrapped up in helping Annie prepare for student body office interviews on Friday. That girl knocked it out of the park. She was so prepared she had a bully printed portfolio notebook for every single person in the room called them by name and hand them their notebook. Her photography website was absolutely gorgeous. She is absolutely gorgeous. I’m just really proud of how she handled that whole thing it was tons of work but I think she just pull them out of the water with her preparation, her experience, or leader ship experience, and her photography education and photography skills. Everyone is helping mom prepare for tomorrow and Thursday when I teach seminary. Those two lessons will determine whether or not I can go on to be a student teacher or whether the door is closed to me. I Fasted yesterday and I’m fasting again today mostly just to repent and cleanse my soul and then for some things I’m really worried about. The lesson is just one of them. It’s quite intense right now. I am just in absolute are at how many people love us and how many people care about everything that we go through. Jayna and Darrell are fasting for me, Grandma Jan has come down and folded the laundry and down the dishes two or three times and washed out the microwave. She worked so hard at our house she had to go home and rest and then come back. Love like that just makes me weep. My parents have been over every single day doing everything they possibly can to help. My dad comes and helps me with my lesson all the time and my mom is actually doing my homework! I have this huge capstone project and I’m doing a project about families talking at the dinner table, and making these little menu cards with questions games and activities that families can do together instead of be on their phones. I had all the information in there but she is organizing it all and it’s so much work I bet she’s already spent 15 hours of work doing my homework for me :-). Dad is not doing a super super great, the muscle is not attached to the lake and they’ve never seen it before and don’t really know what to do. We are hoping to avoid another surgery. Spring is upon us and Compost is going absolutely wild. The new trailer that dad bought with his stimulus money, even though he needed hearing aids and an air conditioner for the main floor, is helping so much. We are now competitive at the bigger load prices and it is amazing. We’re delivering four or five loads a day. We also took a job planting a greenhouse and planting a garden and caring for that garden and selling the produce for a sweet family who lost a missionary on her mission last October. There’s a missionary that fell down hiking in Sweden or Switzerland and fell off a cliff and passed away. The missionary and her mother used to do the greenhouse together so it’s just simply too painful for her to be out there very much. We planted hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of seedlings on Saturday. It was super fun work and we all really really enjoyed it save the sadness that was there. It is a spiritual place though. The hard this week is that Spenny and Lizzie broke up. He just can’t feel good about moving forward. It’s very sad and hard, but I’m so proud of him for doing what feels right even though it’s hard. He walked in at 5 and we knew something was wrong. He cried, we cried. She has been in his life, our life for a year and we all just love her like crazy, including Spencer. This reminds me so much of my experience with the missionary I waited for. I loved him, there was nothing wrong with him, but I just couldn’t feel good about it. I tried, I wanted to. Hard hard hard stuff. Pray for both of them please.