Well today is transfer call day but as usual I still haven't received my call and everybody else has. But other than that my day has been great haha. It has been a pretty nice week just being able to meet with all of our investigators and our member's.
But I do want to say happy father's day to anybody reading this. As usual I got an e-mail from Tawns telling me they were sitting around talking about the torture they put me through as a small innocent child. Leaving me behind on snowmobile trips because the Puma (very small snowmobile) couldn't go as fast as their brand new ski-doo's. I have been thinking about what I wanted to say today in this e-mail and all I could think about were those kind of stories I experienced growing up haha. That's all I could tell some of our member's about last night as we were visiting them. We were sharing a message about love and I was telling the children that they need to learn from their parents and I went to go share experiences and everybody was laughing at all of the stories about how our Dad taught us lessons haha. And Brother Kim thanked me for sharing some new techniques for raising his children that he wanted to give a try. And as he said that his children looked terrified and I apologized to them for spreading that kind of torture haha. But as I was showing them my family picture book and telling them about all these stories I couldn't imagine growing up any other way. I tell everybody that I'm a person who shares experiences and I do that because everything I have experienced growing up was just so great. The trust I have in my Dad is a little different. As I think about how he taught me to swim by telling me to jump off the diving board and he would catch me.... he didn't. Most people would say that I couldn't trust him but I do have the trust that whatever torture he is about to put me through and no matter how much he's going to laugh he really has only one purpose in teaching me in a way that I will never forget. Here I am years and years later telling these stories to these Korean people and it always makes for such a great time. These are the kind of memories I never want to forget and I hope I can continue to share with so many people on my mission.
I was reminded of another couple stories at church yesterday. Every week we have a youth give a talk and as he was coming down from the stand to sit with his family in front of us, he sat down and told his mom thanks for writing the talk and everybody around us started to chuckle. I remember when I was starting to go back out to our Providence ward and I was given the same exact assignment. Being on a mission has made me realize so many of my weaknesses and one of those has been my knowledge in the gospel. So there I was as a 14 year old with an assignment to give a talk on agency. I was completely lost, and had no idea where to even begin. My Dad recognized that and he had a talk ready for me by church the next day. My Dad has always been supportive with any decision that I have made especially as I have chosen to serve a mission and continue in that direction. Especially when I got back from Texas the first time and I went in to work that monday and asked if we could talk. We sat down and I told him that I needed to give my two week notice and he was very professional and said okay and said now that was done he told me that he was now asking as a father and wanted to know what was going on. And I told him everything that was going on and how I wanted to move to Salt Lake to prepare for my mission and there wasn't a second of delay. It was immediate support and that kind of support has always provided so much guidance in my life. It's hard to even put into words the things I have learned from my Dad but I hope if any of you get anything out of this is that my Dad's children love him. And who knows where we would be without those kind of lessons we learned from him growing up. Sure we still put the fun in dysfunctional but I know that if I am ever in trouble that my Dad will be there to help me. That kind of knowledge just makes every big decision I make in my life so much easier and I'm so grateful for that.
Have a great Father's day and I love all of you. I hope you have a great week and I hope all of you know that I will have a great week. And don't worry I still haven't gotten my transfer call yet.
Elder Jensen
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