I'm moving!!

Hey everybody!!!

So I am moving to another apartment at the end of August don't know quite yet which apartment but I'll let you all know in the future. Last Thursday we went to Cadillac Ranch and put graffiti on the cars there which was way fun. We baptized Justine (10) and Dorothy (70) on Saturday and we confirmed Dorothy on Sunday but Justine didn't show up cuz her mom slept in.... And I was supposed to do the confirmation so hopefully this Sunday she will be confirmed. Also on Saturday we went knocking and found a 3 families that were Persian living next door to each other and they are all cousins and what not. It was hard to explain to them who Jesus Christ is because here everyone believes in Him. So they want to know more it's just that they only speak Persian but the daughters speak some English. A few days later we met a family from Tanzania and only the 12 year old son spoke a little English and so that was tough. Tanzanians speak Kurundi and it was fun hearing the 12 year old translate. Yesterday we taught Yazmin who I think I wrote about she is the one who has uncles named Lehi, Nephi, Abinadi, Alma, and Moroni and she doesn't know why they are named so we are teaching her all the stories and praying to know the truth. We also taught Sierra who is 12 and she is getting baptized the 13th. She is what we call a golden baptism meaning she is getting baptized no matter who tells her not to. Kelly and Cary are so fun to teach because they love having bible study. Cary is really quiet so Elder McAdams and I are going to teach him seperately (however you spell it). Kelly says she is already converted but she doesn't understand everything even though she thinks she knows what we are saying. We have also been teaching a less active family and the daughter is 18 and her name is Megan and her best friend's name is Ashlee (hmmm sounds like two people I know at home). So we commited Megan to teach Ashlee the Gospel and now tonight we are going to see how that went and check up on that. Megan texted us and said hey come on over so it sounds like she has good news.

Okay I meant to tell this to you last week but I learned some great food tricks. Everyone go by oreos and milk. Put a full oreo in your mouth and DO NOT CHEW IT. Then drink some milk and start chewing. It's so good!! Next is you take like a fried tortilla and pour honey on it and fold it in half and then eat it. That's pretty good. One more food trick. Instead of putting berries in pancake batter to have blueberry waffles just take a Yoplait blue berry yogurt or something and throw it in the batter and it taste the exact same.

Until next time Love, Kade Jensen

P.S. Now we are going to go shopping at Wal-mart and take pictures of us being spider man, bumble bee, captain america, and thor so pictures of that should be up next week.

And also everyone keeps asking hey where is Elder McAdams from and I'm tired of the same question. HE IS FROM CLEVELAND OHIO!! Anyways have a good day and refer investigators to the missionaries.

This is Kade's mission president and his wife, President Arnold & Kathee Augustin!

This is Kade's mission president and his wife, President Arnold & Kathee Augustin!

Pop Tarts and Cereal

Elder Kade Jensen

1550 Bell St. #218

Amarillo, TX 79106

Hey yall,

I named this pop tarts and cereal cuz that's all I ever eat here cuz nobody feeds us anything. The members don't feed us at all so we eat cereal most of the time and usually skip a meal from time to time. I thought I wouldn't be gaining much weight but I have gained 7 lbs so I am at 125 =) Today is P-day so after this we are going to Cadillac Ranch. This week as been pretty chill. Pretty laid back and all. I'm last Sunday I asked a 12 year old to be baptized and she said yes she would on August 13th so that's pretty cool being here for five days and already having a baptism. The Mission President called and congratulated me for excellent work so that was nice of him. We have two baptisms this Saturday but I didn't set that up. My companion just reminded me of a story. Last Sunday we saw this guy his name is Guy standing in the back of the chapel wondering where he could sit. I told Elder McAdams to have him sit by us and he did so Guy came and sat with us and started bawling and crying it was really cool. So for all of you at home if someone is lonely go sit with them and be their friend!! We met a family and this family was Catholic but extended family was Mormon and the mom and kids were wondering why their uncle's names were Lehi, Nephi, Abinadi, Alma, and Moroni. We gave them the story of Abinadi and they said cool and are now reading the Book of Mormon. The daughters are interested in the church and the mom says she probably won't join but her kids are free to choose.

I finally got to meet Kelly and Cary. They are the funnest people I have ever met. Kelly is the wife and Cary the husband. Cary is quiet and Kelly loves to talk. Her prayers are the funniest it's so hard not to bust out laughing but I keep my mouth closed and silent thankfully but she says Dear God, Dear Heavenly Father, Dear Daddy, then she goes into prayer and just goes on about how daddy needs to bless this person and thank you daddy for this thank you daddy for that it's really hard to focus but hey every prayer counts right? There were two days this week where it was just bashing Elder McAdams is a pro. It's pretty fun but it gets nothing done either. We took the bishop to Kelly and Cary's house and it turns out the Bishop and Kelly graduated the same year at the same high school in 1988. What a small world. Bishop told us he knows so much about Kelly and we told him she has told us everything and I mean everything. That's one thing I love about being a missionary. No one is afraid to tell us their life story they warm up to us so fast. And everyone here is friendly and willing to talk about Jesus Christ. The worst I've been told so far is BEAT IT! So I guess that's good.

Oh last night the apartment complex smelt like smoke in someone's room so someone else called the fire department and 9 cars were at the apartments. It was nothing dangerous though. It stinks at night cuz people have fights and what not in our apartment parking lot so that's why I know we have to be in at 9 every night and we have to be in bed by 10:30 which I think is funny watching people yell. But anyways every night some guy comes out at 11 and just starts yelling and cussing and nothing then he goes back inside after 3 minutes. Also there is a truck and every two hours or so some other guy just burns his tires and then gasses it. It gets old but whatever which reminds me I saw the Nascar track in Dallas when I was flying in Dallas and I took a picture of it. It was big! Okay I am uploading pictures finally found a computer that works for that. There is 7 pictures so hopefully you get them all. Love you all to!

P.S. Good luck with Utah Laine and BYU.

New Contact Information

This address should be good through the beginning of October 2011:


Elder Kade Jensen
1550 Bell St. #218
Amarillo, TX 79106

Amarillo Texas first area. Amarillo 4th ward!

Hey guys its Kade. Today is Thursday which is now my new P-DAY. I am doing fine here in Amarillo Texas and my new address is 1550 Bell St. #218 Amarillo, TX 79106. Send everything thing to this place. Idk what the mission office is I'm sure it's lying around somewhere. I should be here for 12 weeks which is two transfers. Ummm my trainer is pretty cool Elder Brett McAdams. He runs too. His brother is an Olympian named Josh McAdams so that's pretty cool. He always talks about him. It was good to talk to you on Tuesday I got to Dallas fine and then we had a two hour lay over and my plane kept getting more and more delayed so it ended up being three and a half hours of sitting around. We had biscuits with the Mission President and his wife and then stayed at the Assistant to the Presidents house aka AP. The next day we woke up and had more meetings talking about what to do in the mission field. I was so tired. I woke up at 4:20 to get to the bus at the MTC. What a prison that is!! After our meetings we went to a Chinese restaurant and Sister Poulson and Elder Tuckett had a baby octopus. Then went to look at bikes for people to buy. Le tour de France which was cool. Then went back to the mission home and had more orientation. After that Elder Moss and I got on the bus to head to the Amarillo zone. The sisters were balling when I left and I had a few tears come out. They are like my big sisters like Kaycee and Darci. Driving up there is nothing!!! No mountains no bushes no trees no green just all brown stuff. Kinda what I was expecting anyways. I want to upload pictures but it's dumb so whatever. After this we are going to play basketball. Yesterday was a successful day I met Dorothy who is getting baptized on the 23rd of this month. And we went knocking doors and I met Cain who said he will read a chapter of the Book of Mormon so we will go see him on Tuesday. And we met Kris. Kris is so smart. She knows everything about the Bible, the Koran, some Zorianstrom thing I think it's Native American because she is somewhat Cherokee. So she speaks nine different languages one of them being Cherokee now that's a fast language!!! We told her that the Book of Mormon is about her people and she told us she will read it all in two days. So we told her to take her time and highlight things she likes and she said okay she will finish it in a week but we are going to visit her on Saturday just to see how it's coming along. Right after that I met the Bishop and he is 43 or something in that range of age. Then we went knocking on more houses and we went to Lewis Browns house and he was saying that yesterday he was just talking to his wife about the Book of Mormon and we showed up and wall la here it is! His next door neighbor is Brian who is also interested and is going to read a little bit too. They both have tons of potential. My companion loves to talk. That's all he does is talk so each lesson I may squeeze in 20 words or so but it's all good. I got a new nickname. My new nickname is Baby Jensen or Baby J. In the MTC there were three Elder Jensen's on my floor!! And here in the field there are three but I think one just went home. Oh Yeah!! Tell Trae I met Ammon Woolbert aka Wooly Mammoth in the MTC he was in my zone. He is from Camano Island and he is serving in Anchorage Alaska for his mission. I have thirty more minutes to type and Idk what to say now =) but I am alive and doing well. The heat is not that bad to be honest.

Update!!

Kade leaves the MTC this Monday, July 11 at 5:00am heading to Lubbock!!

Once he arrives we will get his new address.

Week 2

Hey everyone. The clock is ticking. This clock is really irritating. That is such a cool dog Jody. Sadie will be good to you I'm sure oh and Happy Birthday to you and dad. Mom don't send me anymore packages from dear elder everyone is getting them and giving away the disgusting cookies..... But I do love the dear elder mail. Last Wednesday Elder Moss and I walked around with our name tags on backwards running around looking for new missionaries and we kept asking them where we get our name tags engraven. HAHAHAHA that was fun so tomorrow when the new missionaries come I get to be host and show the new missionaries around. This time I will be a Host to Elder Moss and he will pretend to be a new missionary coming in. I will ask hey where are your bags??? Then he will turn around and notice he has no bags and start running after his "moms" car haha good times good times. This week went by so fast I'm going to try to upload pictures but idk what this computer thinks about that. Oh and mom I don't have my camera charger it's either on the floor by the printer... in my room on that green chair.... or in my closet in that black and gold bag.... If not that's okay.... The computer is charging it now. Anyways the food is getting kinda old. We have choir practice today my district decided to sit in the bass section. We listened Jenny Oaks Baker when she came to a devotional on Sunday she is really good. Ummm today is the last day of gym inside because they are redoing the floors. Ummmm Oh yeah I ran a 5:27 and puked in the trash so next time I'm going to beat that 4:48 record and have it be outside when I race..... I think I can do it. I need to do more abs. I have gained 3 lbs so far so I am at 120.8. Hmmm what else other than that it's been pretty chill. Class gets really boring and we do lots of role play which gets old. But our actual investigators are awesome!!!! So..... I get to fly to Dallas then to Lubbock on Monday I have to leave here at 5 a.m. So today is like the last day pretty much to send me mail at the MTC unless you use dear elder just because letters take 4 days to get here. Ummmm dad I'm still wondering where Kyle Singler and Jimmer Fredette went???? And also what's with Ron Artest changing his name to Metta World Peace??? Welp Have a wonderful day I don't know what else to say. Ha that rhymes and I am making a rap song for my district it's coming along well and it's pretty funny. Take care of ALEY!!!

Love, Kade Jensen

P.S. We watched the fireworks on July 2nd at the Ring of Fire (Byus stadium) Yeah welcome to Utah.... =) Oh and my companion is from Wenatchee I think I told you something different last time.