Our Mission President, President Michael R. Jensen and his wife, Camille

Our Mission President is a dedicated and inspired man. This is an excerpt from a letter I prepared for President Jensen. I have to admitt that the schedule part would need a little tweaking for different stages of life, but I thought of it as a release letter for both certain stages of life, such as parenting, as well as for earth life.
"Isn’t it amazing how quickly time has passed since your arrival in the New Hampshire Manchester Mission! You have now completed your mission and are ready to depart for home. Thank you for your valiant work as an authorized servant of Jesus Christ during your mission. I trust that your mission is burned into your soul and that you will take home with you and use the spiritual confidence you have gained. “Cast not away therefore thy confidence, which hath greater recompense of reward” (Hebrews 10:35).
You will find that it will be wise for you to continue living many parts of the missionary daily schedule, including arising at 6:30 a.m., exercising each morning for 30 minutes, daily scripture study preferably early on in the morning before the day gets hectic, and going to bed at 10:30 p.m. Also, you will want to be at Church each Sunday partaking of the sacrament to renew the covenants you have made at baptism and to always have His Spirit to be with you, and to regularly place yourself in the temple to renew your temple covenants.
Remember you are a returned missionary and your responsibility is to set a righteous, inspiring example for the children and youth of the Church so that they can grow up to be just like you."

Latter Day Sons of Helaman

These are the great Elders we work with in our ward.Elder Miller from Salem, Utah and Elder Gonzalos from Salem, Ore.

Whale Watching

Grandpa and I went to Glouchester to go whale watching with Captain Jim's Whale Watching charter boats. Wow What did we see?!

Chris & Kaleigh Gillen's Baptism

Chris Gillen, 43yrs old, and Kaleigh, his 15 year old daughter, wanted to find a church. When Chris went to church with his Uncle Jim, he liked it. So he decided to go to the same church, the Church of Jesus christ of Latter-Day Saints with a friend who was a member. It felt right to them. They were both baptised, Saturday, Aug.15th
We have been encouraging them, meeting them at church, going to class with Brother Gillen, taking Kaleigh and her brother Shane to mutual, and doing some teaching. Grandpa (Elder Longmore) paid for Kaleigh to go to camp on the sly. Her Dad had just started a new job and they were really short on money. We think the world of them. They are just wonderful people. Shane has been coming to church too. He carries a Book of Mormon which is the media copy Chris's Uncle Jim gave Chris quite some time ago. Shane is a nice young boy, 12 years old. In the picture below notice the man in white standing in the back middle. That is Uncle Jim. He came from Maryland to baptize them. Chris is on the left and Kaylee in the center front. Who are those other two oldies?!
Chris and Kaleigh asked us to speak at their baptism. I spoke on Baptism and Grandpa spoke on the Holy Ghost.
Sunday the Mission President, President Jensen, had a investigator fireside at his home. Chris and Kaylee both told about their conversion. Their experience was simple and wonderful. Another girl who was there committed to baptism after she heard Gillens speak.

Chris & Kaleigh Gillen's Baptism

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