Bps, I have 3 loaners out right now: a brownie pan to the Haynie's, ETB biography to Pam Derfler, Conference CD to Hal Demke. I can pray and reach out more than I ever have at any time in the past. It is fun and it is suspenseful. Here is the letter I wrote our 5 missionaries yesterday and the email I wrote Sister Diana Larsen, the old owner of Cameo Florist, located right next to the cemetery.
ICU 3:56 PM (18 hours ago)to diana Dear Diana,2 weeks ago you were one of 3 people the High Priests group mentioned needed prayers. Jeff Whipple, Diana Larson and then Duane Derfler raised his hand and told us to include his wife Pam because she was having hip surgery the next day.\Today Tom Lamb announced you were doing poorly and in the intensive care unit. You are my music lister/ our ward program typist/ copier/ folder. How can you get sick?\I prayed for you that week and wondered if there were anything I could do. I prayed for the others as well. After Tom Lamb made that announcement today I asked if there was anything we could do besides pray? He shrugged his shoulders. His stiff back shoulders.\So I had my hour nap this beautiful Sunday afternoon and I am still wondering about you. Let me give you a list of options of things I could do and see if any of these work for you.
1- Tell you a joke.
2- Tell you a silly story about me.
3- Ask you about you.
4- Ask you to tell me something about your children.
5- Write you about our weekly church meetings.
6- Write you about all that is going on in my life and thoughts and general conference talks that are impressing me at the moment.
7- Record stories from the biography of GBH or ETB, in my own voice.
8- Read or record pages from your choice of a book you would like to listen to.
9- Tell you about my kids.
10- Tell you about my fishing excursions. This is only an option in the springtime when I am fishing.
11- Listen to you tell about things you are learning in the gospel.
12- Share with you things I am learning in my Thursday night singles book of Mormon class.
13- Share with you the most difficult thing I accomplish each day.
14- Have you share with me the most difficult thing you accomplish each day. It never hurts to brag on yourself. It gives us credit as well as HF.
15- Visit with you about our 6 ward missionaries.
16- Write a letter you dictate to me to our ward missionaries.
17- Give you a puzzle page helping to study each of the OT scripture mastery scriptures and compare your results with mine.
18- Bring my dog over for you to pet, or walk.
19- Make you some brownies or a cake without frosting. I don't do frosting.
20- Make you a ham dinner. I have done two of these for neighbors this year.
21- Sing you a hymn, and even the different parts if you want.
22- Read to you my favorite novel.
23- Write you verses of limericks outlining your life.
24- Pray for you and listen to your aches and pains and worries and concerns. This one comes in 5 minute increments. I'm not very good at it and would have to build up to longer time periods.
25- Help you write your personal history.
26- Take your husband out to dinner.
OK, so at least you can't say I did not give you any options! I have offered! And the offer is sincere!\I did not say, call me if you ever need any help . . .\I absolutely love General Conference talks. I listen everyday.\I do strange weird things sometimes. Hopefully helpful things. Since we have early morning church I have written our 5 missionaries with email addresses three times this year.\I will send you each of my letters to them. You don't have to read them but you can if you want. I try to keep them short. I have had nieces and nephews on missions and they only have an hour on a computer to write home each week and long letters would take up too much of that time. I have none out on missions right now.\
#3 only. I changed my mind. I'm too shy to send you #1 n #2 unless you request them.\vern jensen <phonev6@gmail.com>\4:07 PM (18 hours ago)\to diana \Seth Ostler Nielson<Seth.Nielson@myldsmail.net>,jeron.hardman@myldsmail.net,walker.spencer@myldsmail.net,BrockBernellJensen<brock.jensen@myldsmail.net>,thatcher.boyce@myldsmail.netSunday, 5/28/17 Hello 5 Bhills 2nd ward missionaries. Since our church is 9-12 this year we have a long afternoon and evening free to do good works! God bless you 5.\I visited with Greg Walker in the library today. I told him how awesome it is that I can write once and send it to all 5 of you! I served in Guatemala '74-'76 and let me tell you. . . it was not like this!!!\1- Bishop Quincy Adams announced that they will need 600 temple workers for the Cedar City temple when it opens in December. Please let him know if you would like to serve. Isn't that exciting! That is so awesome! Last Sunday the French temple was dedicated.\2- Temple dedications haven't been that big a deal to me up until now. But I index everyday. That world is opening up to me. And every month and sometimes twice a month I get a note in my indexing box inviting everyone to learn to index in a new language, without having to know that language. They hold online training classes every Wednesday at 10am from SLC.\3- “Did you know there are 20 times more records available in English than any other language. Help us by learning to index in another language!” that is their byline.\4- We did D&C 76 in SS today with Jesse Bird teaching. He makes us think. I love it. There are a lot more question areas in that section than I thought there were.\5- We have a Snow Canyon HS basketball coach living in our ward. He is married to Kacee Randall. They are living with Tony and Michele Randall.\6- Kacee Randall Payne has 3 kids born 3.5 years apart and the oldest getting baptized. Monroe just got his Master's in exercise therapy and his now working at the hospital. It was fun to hear their pioneer stories today.\7- New Harmony to Pinto trek will start on Wednesday and end Saturday. Some of you remember going on that stake youth trek. We needed drivers for 35 youth and Mark Jensen, counselor, wrote them on the BB as assignments were accepted in priesthood opening exercises. Isn't it wonderful our stake does stuff like that!\8- Our “instant choir” was filled to overflowing today with visitors. Lots of Schroaths. They must be having a family reunion for Memorial Day weekend.\9- I knelt behind Tom Schroath on the last row before the meeting and told him this story: Just like Tom, GBHinkley had a cane in his later years. His doctor visited with his Counselor TSMonson and told him Gordon needed to use his cane and stop waving it to the audiences! Would TSMonson please follow up on that? President Monson said, “I am his counselor. You are his doctor. You tell him.”\10- I dissected section 124 this week and then I got online and read the institute lesson for it. I felt disgruntled as I studied. I don't like it when I can't understand. Since I was out fishing (it is still Spring in the mountains! Fish biting time!) I decided to make 2 lists. Things I can understand. Things I don't. There were two main things I did not understand. There were dozens I did understand. Now this may sound crazy. . .but by listing all the things I did understand the two little things I didn't understand receded into the background and became almost unimportant! That was not what I was expecting to have happen. What would have happened if I had ignored my feelings and not made any lists? I would have been frustrated inside and carried that disappointment around with me. Is this a secret? What do you do with your questions and doubts? Are you allowed to have doubts and questions?\Test my secret. See if it happens to you. Did I learn anything? Yep, tons! Why? Because instead of getting stuck on my doubt, question, non understanding, I looked at the other side, at the things I could understand from that section and they were beautiful concepts.\We are to feed our spirits everyday. If we don't the beautiful truths get forgotten.\I am memorizing Moroni 7. Wow, talk about beautiful! Moroni thought his father's talk was so beautiful he copied it for us. What do you think of Moroni's opinion?
Brock
Bernell Jensen
11:14
PM (11 hours ago)to
me Brother
Jensen,
Thanks
for the amazing email!
I
love all of your thoughts, stories, opinions, experiences, insights,
and desire to serve and uplift others!
You
are a great example! I enjoy reading your emails, they cause me to
think a little deeper on the simple things of everyday life! I truly
appreciate your desire to learn and grow, and bring others up with
you!
You're
awesome!
Keep
up the great work and have a fantastic week!
Love,
Elder
Jensen
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