12-26-11/Christmas

Dear Family,
Well these are some of the things that I received for Christmas. I bought a new coat, a new fountain pen (yes, I like them haha), a new wallet and a new watch. It was a good Christmas haha. On Christmas Eve we ate at our recent convert´s house and we ate turkey, ham, bucalau (cod fish), otopus (I didn´t eat it) and rice and stuffing kinda stuff. But it was really good and I almost exploded cuz I ate so much haha. Then on Christmas Day our branch had a lunch thingy at one of the members´ house and that was pretty good, pretty much the same food. But all in all it was a good year. I can´t believe I have been gone this long, the time has flown. It seems like I was just in the MTC and listening to Elder Russell M. Nelson haha. But it has been a good year. I hope all of you had an awesome Christmas and got lots of awesome presents from Santa Claus haha. Write me and tell me what you guys got.
The rest of the week was pretty good. On Christmas Eve we found 11 new investigators in one day, which is my new record. The standard of excellence is 14 in a week and we almost got that in one day. So, it was a good week and we got a lot done.
I only have one more week left in the transfer and then I might be going to another area. So, don´t send any letters til I know so they don´t get lost or have a hard time getting to me.
I lvoe all of you so much and thanks for all that you guys do for me.
Love,
Elder Spencer Jensen

12-19-11

Dear Family,
This week we had a couple cool experiences. We found a girl walking down this road at night and Elder Evans stopped her and contacted her and then asked if she was happy because she didn´t look very happy. Well, then she started to cry and we said a prayer with her and she let us come to her house and teach her, but when we showed up they didn´t have too much time so we have an appointment to meet with them tomorrow. It was a really cool experience.
And now the reason why we don´t like to take members with us to lessons. So, we brought our ward mission leader with us to a lesson with an investigator that we were going to mark with a baptismal date. So, we get there and she had been reading 3 Nephi 11 and then some into 12. Well, in there the Savior says that a divorced person who is gets married again in commiting adultery. Well, she had a question about that because she is divorced. Well, our ward mission leader goes off on temple marriage and sealing and all that good stuff, then he says, because his first wife died that he will have two wives in heaven :/ I wanted to kill him!!! You don´t talk about stuff like that!!! EVER!!! I just hope he didn´t ruin it for us, but I don´t think so, I saved it and turned it into priesthood authority/baptism. But we won´t be bringing him to many more lessons.
We also went caroling with the Brazilian family in our ward, which was pretty fun.
I hope that all of you have an awesome Christmas and Mom and Dad will tell you how I am doing haha. Thanks for all the love ands support.
Love,
Elder Spencer Jensen

FELIZ NATAL!!!!!!!!!!!

12-12-11

Dear Family,
This week was pretty fun. We went down to Lisbon and had our Mission Christmas Party. It was a lot of fun. We had to catch a bus at 6 am to get from Porto to Lisbon and then we had to do that back, plus all the time that we had on the metro and train. But it was a lot of fun. We had Elder Texeira the Seventy of the Area came and talked to us. Also, we had a big dinner with turkey and rice and stuff like that. But it was really good. And we also had a lot of deserts, so let´s just say that I stuffed myself haha. Also, we sang a Christmas hymn which was really funny. But that was about it. Things here are good and I hope you guys have an awesome Christmas season. Thanks for everything you guys are doing for me and all the support.
Love,
Elder Spencer Jensen

Ola

Dearest Elder Paco,
Just wanted you to know we do read your blog-even if we don't post comments. Hope you're having a good time and happy almost Christmas!!!
love ya!

Marissa