April 19, 2021

(no subject) Jana Christensen Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 8:43 AM to Joseph Good morning Joseph Ross. I just feel so much joy when I wake up on Monday mornings and think that we’re gonna be able to connect with you. I love you with all my heart and soul and I can’t believe we’ve passed the two month mark and you have one month 29 days left. We’re just so excited to wrap our arms around you and squeeze so hard that your innards get bruised. How are you doing? How is everything? I feel like I don’t know much about your new companion. And what is your life like right now? I want any little piece of news it doesn’t matter how small it seems to you. We hang on every word. Love you with all of our hearts. I’m excited to hear about your week. There is so much going on here I hardly know where to begin. Yesterday was a beautiful church day and then we had a fantastic stake youth Council meeting preparing for youth conference. We found out this week that Brad Wilcox is approved to speak at our youth conference and I’m way excited about that. After that we ran down to Ramen and Jenn‘s house and Mooks and Liz came down and Camie and Lindsay and her new husband came over and it was just so so so fun. It was just one of those nights where you just talk over everything. For some reason we got on the subject of when Raymond Jan dad and I were all dating other people in college and told all of those stories about how we knew we were going to marry each other in Raymons experience I am when he was prompted by the spirit that he should marry Jen etc. it was so fun and funny and meaningful. I think Ramen did that on purpose to comfort Spencer. It’s been a rough week with Spenny. I’m so proud of Spencer I’m so so so proud of him because he did something that he felt like he should do even though it felt like an Abraham and sacrifice. That way would rather lose a limb and hurt someone and he had to hurt Lizzie it hurt to break up but he knew it was the right thing and so he did it and I’m just so proud of him. It’s really rough though. Saturday of both Mary couples came up and We had a very crazy morning. We were supposed to deliver and install 3 yards to a Bluffdale home and Seth was leaning over a metal garden bed and sliced his front leg wide open. You’ll see that on the family chat but Spenny left and ran to meet me so I could take him to the emergency room. After that and after he got all sewn up there was nothing else to do but watch Honey I shrunk the kids and honey I blew up the kid and so everyone kind of laid around and took naps and ate things and we gotten all this candy from grandma and the bread run and everyone was just eating candy and watching movies and it was really weird and then that night we went to a play. Still Magnoli us. We didn’t really help anyone or do anything incredibly noble. Dad and I went and did one more Compost run together dad and I are a good team because he can’t unload with his hip and I can’t really drive the trailer very well so we are good together. I’ll probably spend a lot of this week on the Compost track doing my homework in the passenger seat and then unloading the trailer when it gets parked. I just need to take it over to the church and work with it for a while till I can drive it better. My week can pretty much be summed up with one word. Seminary. I poured at least 20 hours into each of those lessons and I just wanted to be able to walk away knowing that I had given it all I had so that if it doesn’t happen it wasn’t because I didn’t try. I’ll find out on Thursday but the first lesson was kind of rough I didn’t feel super super great about it I may or may not of cried all over Bluffdale and driven the long way home if you know what I mean. The second lesson went a little better. I just want everything to land and kids to be solving and translated and know that their heavenly father loves him and never want to sin again maybe my expectations are a little too high for 188 minute seminary lesson. We had one part where we talked about family history experiences and this kid shared that his grandpa had been on a boat and got whacked in the head and his eyeball came out and rolled across the deck of the ship and he retrieved it and put it back in well a doctor put it back in and his vision was restored and he cross the plains and had perfect vision after that. We had some fun moments we talked about the Savior as gatherer and how he doesn’t just gather Solsberry gathers the sins of those souls and the weaknesses of those souls and turns him into strength. We talked about how we can gather right now. I asked them what they thought of the gathering and they thought will someday I’ll participate in that when I go on a mission. But we try to talk about how we can gather now at home at school and in doing family history. I do want to report to you about how much love there is in our lives. Grandpa Jello spent those 20 hours with me and I came down at 5:30 in the morning on that last lesson day and he had been sitting there for half an hour because I told him I was going to get up at five waiting to help me. My parents were completely devoted my mom‘s been doing my homework the hunts brought dinner the entire week and Grandma Jan has been down there with her five toes doing our dishes and laundry every single day. I often think that if the world were as loved as we are like the rabbit story in general conference, the world would be healed. The world would be healed and there wouldn’t be any significant problems. There would still be cancer there would still be car accidents but there would be so much love that we’d be able to handle those things. I think addictions would go down to an all time low and of course there will still be problems but love is so beautiful and we are so drenched in it marinated in it drowning in it. I just am constantly amazed at the support and love we live inside of. That’s all I wanna do the rest of my life and be there for people and help them do what Jesus would do if you were in my shoes and with my people. I think it’s so beautiful that you are serving a mission. You were trying to share that love. One of your main messages is people value peoples worth. That part of our seminary lesson I think was really important and felt really good. I love teaching that worth and behavior are unrelated and that no matter what we do or don’t do God‘s love isn’t lessened. We are not worth less or worthless. You don’t have to have worthiness to have worse. Those are unrelated. Praise the heavens that that is true. I’m so excited to graduate in three weeks and start at the top of the house and clean the entire thing and then start picking off the neighbors one by one and inviting them over for Dutch oven barbecue in the backyard and just getting to know them. You will be amazed at how many new faces and families are in our ward. They read three new families in yesterday and the three houses inside the field by the sledding hill are now occupied. The house is over by Freeman‘s as well. Utah is having a housing crisis of sorts it’s there are 3000 homes available and 40,000 people looking for housing. When will and Caitlyn put an offer on a house there were 57 offers in the first hour. Last night Ramen told us a story of a $980,000 house and one of their clients put an offer for 1 million to with free rental to the current owners for six months and it was a cash offer and they did not get the house because there was a better offer than that. People are moving here in droves from Seattle and California trying to find somewhere happy and safe to live. Most of the reasons are political California is kind of A mess. Ramen and Jen sold off all the land behind their house and their scouting where they slide on the couch behind their field is not a field anymore. They have some land but there are homes back there now. It’s crazy. Spencer and I spent so much time talking about his wedding reception greenhouse and where we’re gonna put it in where we should buy land. He found a really pretty red house on redwood that has huge land behind it a little old beautiful house that he could put a greenhouse on the back and it would have an incredible view of the mountains. Friday night was so insane at our house. It was so fun. So first of all Seth had a middle school party with 20 kids. He had kids from his football team, kids from the ward, kids from school, kids from Provo.The Slichta family came over Kaden ady Emmy and Marsheee with cake to celebrate mom finishing seminary, Kaden Evans and Easton both came over in different cars, Sam came over, and then the Cedar city Anderons showed up! My parents came over with them. I think we had 40 people here. The crazy thing has it worked. The middle schoolers were playing dead or alive in the backyard with one of their heads instead of a football and then they came in for green couch games. Gracie was playing in the castle. Sam and Easton were both up in Annie‘s room because the party was too loud for Easton and Sam was trying to do his homework. Spenny entertains the Slichta‘s and everybody just came in and started playing green couch games even though a lot of them didn’t know each other. Everybody just stayed and stayed and stayed and the party didn’t end till like 1:30 in the morning. That’s my favorite kind of night I loved it so much. They had a fire and it was just awesome. Spenny did so so so so much Compost last week. I had seminary it was probably one of the most important weeks of my life and he just stepped up and did all of the compost. On Friday he was gone the entire day by himself. One day dad wrote in the truck with him which was very nice. He’s amazing. I just wanna tell you I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I’m so grateful that he test us just with loving each other or not correcting each other. It’s so beautiful. I am so grateful for all of the comforting inspiring and motivating and cleansing doctrines, and I’m so grateful to know that we are infinitely loved and that we can just share that love with each other press down full measure and spilling over.