May 17, 2021

(no subject) Jana Christensen Mon, May 17, 2021, 9:00 AM to Joseph Good morning! I just want to thank you so so much for a lot of things but for particularly the book of Mormon challenge. It is wrapping my heart and mind and life in gods love. Because of you I am listening all the time and reading all the time determined to finish the book of Mormon before June 16. Thank you thank you thank you for that invitation challenge and witness. How are you? I’m so anxious to hear about your new area and how things are going. We’re praying so much for this last 30 or so days of your mission. There is so much going on right now for me I have Compost in the garden in Highland which is turning out to be an absolute incredible challenge. I think you’re going to be there a lot if you want to because they’re offering a very good wage but it is just an incredible amount of work right now getting everything set up and planted. I have all of my students and our own yard and garden and I just excepted the invitation to be Miss Hannigan. The reason I did that is because now that I don’t have seminary I will be starting a children’s theater company and it will be a perfect opportunity to launch that business. At the end of that play I’ll have 200 little friends that are the target age and they will have just finished a play and they’ll be wondering what to do next and I can give him a flyer and we will be on our way. I just need to figure out where dad theater teaching is going to happen over the summer and get my plans together. I think that’s what’s going to happen and so that’s why I’m going to be Miss Hannigan in Annie this summer. So we have Compost which is pretty crazy gratefully and we have the Highland garden and we have the students and we have youth conference. Youth conference is going super crazy right now it’s in about six weeks and we’re hoping that you could be a part of it. We’re asking you to teach a class it’s on Friday and Saturday the 25th and 26th of June. Do you have any plans that weekend yet? It’s gonna be pretty awesome we’re doing service projects then we’re doing a whole afternoon of life prep activities that are also mission prep activities kind of be the best you children and youth program Missionary prep stuff and we’re hoping that you can help teach that part. We want you and Paige for Bush to teach thatSocial class and how to start a conversation with people how to meet people and how to control your use of social media and use it for good. Is that OK? Anyway along with all of that we have I am in meetings and things to do almost constantly to get that youth conference all put together. In addition to that I have our own yard and garden and house which has been sorely neglected while mama was getting her college degree but I want to attack every corner of it and get it spotless before McKay and Lydia move in for a week on Wednesday so that’s not gonna happen but will do our best. I am ashamed and grateful for how much housework Grandma Jan has done. She’s an angel. She comes down with her five little toes and does her dishes all the time she really got me through that last month of school. We had tons of help and support in 1 million ways everybody was helping at one point I had three people helping me finish homework projects :-). I think if the world had the kind of love that we have the world would be healed. Anyway those are the surface things of what we’re doing that takes up most of our time right now but there are deeper things going on too. There’s Nate and all he’s going through and there are hard things that people experience and my point of sharing all that’s going on is that I want to say how incredibly grateful I am for the Savior Jesus Christ and for his infinite atonement. Because he met the depths of any possible human suffering he covered all of these things. When I was really thinking about seminary I came to an even deeper realization that if I could not preach a gospel that has total restoration total forgiveness total healing then I wouldn’t want to be a part of it. I look at Nate and what he’s been through and go away as well and other difficult difficult things. I serve in the garden in Highland and watch that mother weep over the loss of her missionary. If it wasn’t complete if if we couldn’t be all the way fixed if we couldn’t be all the way healed if everything wasn’t going to be all the way OK someday then I wouldn’t want to be a part of this that sounds bratty but I’m just so grateful that it’s true and that we can be healed and things can be fixed and that Jesus is going to make it all OK in beautiful ways that we don’t even understand. I love the law of compensation and Joseph be Wirthlin tight. He stood up and just Mike dropped the news that every tear we share in this life will be replaced with 1000 tears of joy. How incredible is that how amazing is that I am just so in all that these things are true and they’re so beautiful and I’m so grateful for that. I think the atonement is bigger and deeper and wider and more glorious and more beautiful than any of us can really understand. We get to shed the sins and be compensated for the pain but keep the lessons and keep the learning. It’s all so beautiful. It’s been a fun crazy wild week around our house. Yesterday was Adelaide‘s birthday and it was so so so fun. The child came up and she was having a troll birthday and they ordered wigs so everyone started putting on troll hair and after singles Ward Spencer went home with ady slichta and she did his hair like a troll and painted it blue and Adelaide was so sweet and so happy and so grateful. She just sat attentively with a gift in her lap and listen to everybody say things they loved about her and there were about 30 of us and it took a while but she just smiled and said thank you to everyone. She was so excited and her cute dad made the cake all by himself well with her health and frosted it all to look like some kind of troll something. She was so cute and so precious I’m just so proud of her and so in love with those kids. You just wait till you get to come home and fall in love with Levi all over again he is so fun and yummy such a loving little boy. Now that he talks it’s just so fun to have that kind of relationship with him or you can talk about everything. They are so yummy. Of course Ivy was there to help 100% with opening presents and helping make sure everything went just great. And tater tot’s little Lyla Anne is so yummy and so funny and so precious. Oh I love those kids with all my heart. Spenny is a beast. He got up at 6:45 and did a compost run on Saturday morning while I got all the landscape fabric and everything we needed to start the job at Highland at nine and then we worked Intel four and it was so hard. It was such hard work we were till a row and then shovel the entire row 100 feet long our garden is 50 feet just for reference and then put down the weed landscape fabric and then fill the troughs with Compost wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow all the time try not to disturb the soil underneath us so we’re carrying the little brown wheelbarrels of compost over these rows it’s just incredibly crazy and tedious work aunt physically very very exhausting. Anyway he came home for that and had a crazy night with all of his friends got a weird group of friends together. He got Gracie Gene and her boyfriend Gracie Christiansen and McKay and Jenna one of his other friends and Kaden and ady went there so this kind of eclectic group of kids who might not all know each other and they went disco skating and then they went to someone’s house and played games and he’d almost been up for 24 hours by the time we got home. He’s trying to figure everything out socially right now because he knows he’s going to school in the fall and Lizzie has been his social life for a year and Kaden has a girlfriend so it’s just kind of weird because you know the second you guys any attention to any girl at singles Ward she’s going to get her hopes up and that just gets so awkward if he’s not into it that way so he’s making it work but it’s a little weird right now. He spending tons of time with Emmy and ady and he’ll sit on the couch with one of them on both sides of him and I’ll talk about which one he’s going to Mary it’s pretty funny. Annie Angell is a very yummy darling little precious girl who is quite busy right now as well. She just has a couple weeks of school left and that’s really going to take a lot of pressure off. She Scott there’s so much going on with dance in SPO and Sam and she’s speaking at the fireside this week I’m super excited for her and she just always has things that she wants to work on. She’s doing this big birthday gift for Sam. Oh kind of fun news they get to go to the temple with Sam on his birthday which is May 27. Tempo appointments are pretty much impossible to get. Right now every single appointment is full and they haven’t published August yet so that’s it. I love fasting, love it and hate it. I hate going without food but I really appreciate how by the end of a fast I can usually see my way clear Lee and feel like I have an idea of what heavenly father would want me to do about a particular problem and I’m so grateful for that tool. I fasted yesterday and I was just so worried about the Highland garden and it’s not quite looking and turning out exactly like I had hoped and I think the clients are a little worried about it that it’s going to be ugly and messy and I am too and youth conference just felt like there were some really stressful points that I couldn’t quite solve one of which was a Brad Wilcox. We sent him a thank you text for being willing to speak at youth conference and just verifying that he was planning on it and he didn’t answer for a week and I nearly couldn’t handle it so I fasted and he answered things like that. It’s not always that cut and drive it kind of is I feel like by the end of the fast and even if this problem isn’t solved I know what to do or what the next step is. I fasted almost every other day through the cemetery process and that probably wasn’t a smart idea either but I needed to know that I did everything I possibly could and I was so busy with school that I felt like that was one of the only gifts I could lay down on the altar. We are having a beautiful night that just got approved just for the seniors who are graduating. We’re going to do a beautiful amazing dinner for them and have Grandpa Jello speak about life prep temple prep mission prep moving on taking healthy habits and righteous routines into your future adult life etc. and we’re so excited that that got approved and then we’re inviting them to be youth conference ambassadors another words counselors because they feel kind of awkward coming to youth conference I think when they’ve already graduated. That’s not doing this to super hot. We’re having a problem getting his leg to communicate with well the nerves in his like to communicate through the muscle. He’s in a lot a lot a lot of pain right now and I feel really bad about that. Sethie that dude is freaking awesome. I love that kid so much he is just rocking life. He felt really good yesterday you could tell he got dressed went to church early helped the sacrament stayed after and washed all of the sacrament trays and he’s just sweet and wonderful and thoughtful. I love to talk to him. He’s trying to decide if he wants to be good at acting, football, or ballroom dance. He wants to do everything but he’s decided he wants to do one thing really well in life and he’s trying to decide what that is and what he should focus on. I think it will be so good for my brother Spencer and Kaden to live here for Seth. I think he’ll be able to sign up and do a lot of physical activity with them or I can drive him up to their house and he can work out with him in the mornings or something like that which would be super awesome. One of my favorite night this week was when I found out that I got a 4.0. Not because of that but it kind of made me laugh because I don’t know if I really earned an a in math. I think I earned all the other A’s but I think either my teacher was kind to me or she graded on a curve which could be the case because I think the smartest person in the class struggled in the same areas with the final that I did but anyway I was hoping for a B I was hoping and when my 4.0 came in I just started giggling I just thought it was so funny anyway I took the kids and we got ice cream cones and iceberg and then we drove up to Mountain Ridge high school that parking lot has a beautiful beautiful view and we just sat and talked. They were really cute they talked about being glad they were born in our family even though we’ve been four and how they wouldn’t want to be in a rich family we talked about a lot of other things too. I love those kids those are my favorite nights just could text us talking it all over spending time together. I want to tell you three sweet things that dad did for me last week. We were trying to fix the teller and get it to make a deep row and we had a fire aware but it was really skinny that would make a furlough in the garden but we wanted a nice deep row big wide row that we could actually plantain and he went and bought a shovel and bolts and made it all figured it all out and created this new furrowed tiller for the tiller. He also got up real nice and early and took Seth and went on Compost runs last week that was Saturday because he knew we had a full full day and he got up and did the first couple. I was very grateful. I just got an a in the car from a Compost run to this sweet guy in Kearns. He had cats and earrings and it was smoking and everything but he was just telling me that he understands why the church tells people to get their food storage and he thinks they’re right on. It was an awesome conversation I loved it. When fun thing about this business is you just meet I’ll kinds of people and I just love that. I love talking to them and seeing their projects and everything. Grandpa Jello is such a beast. I just do not know how he does it. He’s literally carrying all of us on his shoulders. He’s building the houses he’s taking care of me every chance he gets he spent so many hours with me on my seminary lessons he takes care of grandma Jan he comes and takes our garbage is out when we’re perfectly capable of doing that and he takes care of the ward in the world and as so many people coming to him for help that all of us don’t even know about. He’s been running a marathon lately trying to get ready for sheet rock and Nate‘s house they kind of came early earlier than expected and so they had to hurry and do all this prep so he’s been doing hard physical labor from 5:30 in the morning until midnight. He does it all wild while being so cheerful and positive and faithful and grateful and loving and always focusing on the other people in the room. I want to be like him so much. It seems there’s almost no end to what that man can Indore. I think we’re in for it Joseph. That guy I just left talking to he’s an electrician and he said his supplies have doubled in price in the last couple of months. I think things are going to take a major major turn for the worse. The housing market is absolutely ridiculous you can’t even believe. I think Spencer and Rachel paid $1 million for their house in Herriman and sold theirs in Colorado for $1 million. Everything is so inflated and ridiculous and gas prices are shooting up and there was a gas scare last week and it was in like the North Carolina area and all of a sudden there was no gas. Lydia‘s parents had to save the one tank they had to get to the airport so they could come and see her. People are hoarding gas and freaking outr I’m so excited to talk to you today. We’re on our way to do some butt kick and work all day at the Highland house. I know you’re not calling home anymore but I hope you know how much we love to talk to you love you how much we think about and pray for you. It was fun to see Brigham last night he’s doing all of those end of senior year things getting ready for the temple having a temple prep session with Grandpa Jello getting ready for the priesthood scheduling I’ll kinds of things to be ready to enter the MTC ““June 15. It seems I’ll have quite a bit of freedom he can exercise with his family have lunch with his family and go out with the missionaries on splits at night and things like that. They’re still trying to figure out all the rules and guidelines of home MTC. Thank you for riding in the Compost truck with me. This morning. I love you very very very much. I’m so proud of you I just don’t have words to describe what joy you bring into our lives. I’m so grateful to be your mom. Love you love you