May 24, 2021

(no subject) Jana Christensen Mon, May 24, 2021, 2:59 PM to Joseph Hi baby boy! We are praying for you to finish your mission strong leave everything on the table leave the best you have in Vegas and come home with a peaceful and happy heart! I’m so excited to see you I just can’t even breathe. I think every person I drop off Compost to knows that I have a missionary coming home in 3 1/2 weeks. I am so so so excited for you. I hope this last three weeks is the best you’ve ever had and you try harder than you ever have. Things are literally beautiful at home. The iris have bloomed in the front yard those purple spiky flowers and I bought some flats of flowers from the polygamist family and the yard is just beautiful and I love it so much and the mantis is smelling good and it rained last night and everything is just beautiful. The backyard looks awesome and amazing because we cleaned it all up for having Lydia‘s family over for her birthday party on Saturday. We don’t have anything in the garden but the Highland garden is looking good. Heavenly father has really helped me through some rough patches this week and last. I was so worried and concerned and stressed and confused about what to do to make the Highland garden work and Spencer kind of figured out a beautiful idea which I think was inspiration because I fasted and we prayed about it and we got a system that just is beautiful and working really well I think it’s gonna be awesome. I expect that you’re going to be down there a lot earning some money Hanzi another thing he’s really helped me on is figuring out youth conference and Camp Williams MWR Wendy do youth conference down there for leader ship activities teambuilding activities and the high ropes course. We got it all figured out and worked with everybody and prayed and fasted on that win and we looked at this morning. I think it’s gonna be super fun. Do you want to come as a counselor or helper? Ailee Jane‘s birthday party is on Wednesday. She is the cutest we’re having a Christmas fairy party and everybody supposed to dress up in costumes or Christmas dresses and making gingerbread houses and she wants plants and a red bow for her hair and a picture of heavenly father and a picture of Jesus. Mckay and Lydia‘s place so so so so so funny I can’t even tell you. They are just amazing it’s so delightful. I don’t remember laughing that much that often and that loud in that long in a play for a long time. It seems like there’s a laugh out loud line every two or three minutes. They’re so funny. I’ll send you some little snaps. McKay and Lydia are moving to Texas in the morning. I think they’re going to come home from Marla‘s wedding which is July 27. Wesley Kyle Stokes is getting married on June 26 in the temple! Isn’t that so fun I’m so excited. Both of my adopted kids are getting married this summer. I love the gospel of Jesus Christ. I hope hope hope that you know that you’re doing more good than you may realize. Just your smile can have a lifelong impact on people. I’m so grateful for your testimony and your sacrifice and your dedication and your light and your example and your love for everyone. You are just an amazing young man. Last night Brigham Child was ordained an elder. So excited for him. He’s about is pure and sweet As they come. I still have a bad sad feeling when I think about seminary. I just need to know that the right thing happened and I didn’t mess up what God wanted me to do. I’m still working on that. I’m going to go away for a night with my friends and we’re going to get in our swimsuits and jump on the beds in a hotel to celebrate my graduation. I’m looking for the next steps. I’m looking for the next steps regarding career and such. I do feel like heavenly father just wants me to chill for half a second and spend the summer with my family we’ve got three great jobs all paying $20 an hour or more and that the right answers will be there when they need to if I keep working on it not that I just sit there and do nothing but when I need those answers they will be there. Sometimes that kind of faith is harder to muster than doing something and having all the answers in front of you Dad‘s not doing that great. We can’t get his leg to stop hurting at from a five to an eight out of 10. He’s been to the ER four times in the last month and a half. We