January 18, 2016 New Ipad

Hello everybody!

Well it turns out I had to get a new iPad and it is now here. I have
some pictures and video of us having fun destroying the old one. It
was quite the occasion. We had a sweet time on Saturday when YSA had a
baptism for this guy named Andrew. Ron and Wendy came, our
eternigators you could say. They are doing great but have missed
church a couple times. We are not sure what is holding them up for
baptism, but we just keep meeting with them and the Ward is
fellowshipping  them great.

Not much has happened, we just are working and trying to see people in
our area book and it is raining quite a bit now, and California says
its in a drought! Good thing we are in car or we would always be
soaked, like I was last year in Santa Rosa. It's good for this area
though.

Don't forget how important each of you are to your Heavenly Father, he
loves you individually and infinitely, I promise you. I see it
everyday when I talk to people, and don't get discouraged yourself. It
can be easy, but don't let it happen. The Holy Ghost isn't the one
telling you that you are worthless. I hope you all are positive and
think how you can be better than yesterday. That's the goal of the
gospel, individual progress to bless others around us.

Love you guys!

Elder Janson

California has weird roads

The insides of an iPad!

January 11, 2016

Dear Family,

Well I'm emailing on a computer because i have to get a new ipad! Craziness it is. We have a new investigator named Rob Perkins, his wife is a member and he has been coming to church forever, and now he finally wants to be baptized! just happens to be with us i guess. The ward is super excited about it. and it all came definitely not from us! It is a pure blessing.

We have a zone conference and zone meeting this week, and we are getting pretty close as a zone. that is the best part of the day man when we work together and have success together. It's sad because Elder Adamson broke his collar bone and has to get surgery when we were playing flag football. He did get my flag though.. And I broke my iPad, and sister Christianson, who went in the MTC with me, also has a broken iPad! It is a broken year folks so get ready for it! I'm not gonna write too long today so I apologize, but i do know that the savior lives. We had a cool meet and greet with the stake presidency and Brother Beauchamp in my ward who is high councilor over missionary work. They taught about the atonement and let us ask many deep questions and i love it! You learn a bunch. I am looking forward to a week of a lot of new lessons! Love you guys!

Elder Janson

January 4, 2016 Transfers already!

Dear Family,

If you haven't figured it out yet, this Friday we had a very
interesting day. First of all in the morning we had football with
members from third Ward and Elder Adamson and his companion came, they
are in 2nd Ward. Well the last play I intercepted it and ran down the
field, Adamson was quarterback for the other team and so he was trying
to pull my flag. He dove at me sideways and hit the ground on his
shoulder. He then stands up and says, "I broke my collarbone" and we
all laugh like he's joking and say next play! But he's not joking. He
says, "no really I broke my collarbone." Bishop from 3rd Ward had the
funniest look on his face after that. He is doing good, he is in the
room with all of us, soon he has to get surgery though. Then later
that night I made the brilliant choice to set my Book of Mormon and my
iPad on top of our car as I put stuff in the back. And guess what? I
never took them off. We were leaving dinner with our member who lived
in the outskirts of Vacaville, so we were driving 60 down this country
road. I didn't know until we got to our next destination, where I
realized it and freaked out. We drove all the way back out there and
there it was, in the pitch black we saw it on the middle of the road.
It was pretty messed up, the screen was toast. But the miracle? It
still worked. The lesson? The Book of Mormon stayed on the car! Talk
about a firm foundation.

So the iPad is fixed so I'm alright haha. Transfers are tomorrow and
me and Elder Waites are both staying in this Ward. I'm so happy
because that means I will be in each of my areas for 3 transfers! 4
areas and 3 transfers in each and every one. Quite an accomplishment.
I am still district leader here, so I've been district leader forever,
at least it feels forever.

We had a lesson with Ian our investigator who is very speculative and
studies pretty much everything religion. We brought the military
relations senior missionaries and  they helped a lot. After the lesson
Elder Nordfelt tells me he understands why we didn't quite know what
we would talk about, because Ian talks forever about whatever. He
asked if they should come to the next lesson, and sister Nordfelt
says, "no!" Haha I thought was so funny, she realized the reality of
many of our lessons, they are painful sometimes because people are not
on the same page as us obviously. Sometimes they get as off topic as
you could think of. It's funny stuff.

Well I love you guys and hope your new year is better than our zone's
has been! We've broken many things, like collarbones and iPads. Just
remember the atonement fixes broken stuff! :)

Elder Janson

 Jones eating some bdubs wings. He is going to Santa Rosa Peterson

lane, my greenie area! Pretty excited for him

 My iPad after it fell off our car.. At 60 miles an hour. It is

fixed now lol

December 28, 2015 After Christmas

Hello!

Well seeing as I just talked to the family this week will be a bit
shorter.. Sorry everyone! Haha we didn't do much on Christmas, well,
because who wants missionaries knocking on their doors on Christmas?
Who wants us knocking on their door anyways!? Haha it exponentially
decreases on the holidays. So we chilled a lot and planned and stuff.
I got pretty bored not gonna lie!

We ate with our members on Christmas and they have like 6 little kids.
What kinda crazy person has 6 kids!? Oh... I guess some people do. It
was fun haha. They tried to use their new little toy that puts whipped
cream in our face but it didn't work.. Haha I was prepared with my tie
and jacket off, but we didn't get creamed so we good! The Ward was a
little more empty except a bunch of visitors, so we are gonna try to
get back in the groove of seeing our investigators again. We had an
amazing dinner with Ron and Wendy, they grilled some steaks out in 40
degree weather, that's how much they like us! Haha jk but it was
amazing.

Well I will talk to all soon, and have a great New Years! We will
celebrate as much as we can possibly do as missionaries :)

Love you guys!

Elder Janson

Me wearing my stockings!

December 21, 2015 Interviews and such

Family and friends,

Well today Elder Waites wanted to go to the huge Asian market here and
look around. Everything was very... Asian and very expensive haha. So
we did that. We had a sweet week of visiting a bunch of members and
showing them the Christmas video. We went to go see Bro Alvarado and
he is wanting to get back into being active and bringing his family
back. He is so cool and the spirit was there for sure. I love visiting
members when they aren't annoying! Haha

We had interviews with president this week and I told him I want to
sing in zone and mission stuff! Haha I'm turning over a new leaf and
I'll sing sometimes. President Wright is such a funny guy, everything
we say he just laughs with a pure old guy laugh! Haha I say that with
the most respect. It was good to see him and his wife, they are super
cool.

So sister Randall, a missionary in our Zone has a twin sister. Haha
Sister Randall in our zone, her name is Taylor Randall. And her
sisters name is TARA DAWN Randall. I thought you would find that
interesting mom... Haha I freaked out when she told me that. Our zone
is full of awesome missionaries. Well I would say full but there are
only 12 of us which is very small. But we rock it!

Well I will see my family Christmas Day! But for all of you other
folks, talk to ya soon! Have an amazing time celebrating the savior
Jesus Christ's birth. He is the bomb talked about in the BOM! (Book of
Mormon) in other words, he is the reason we celebrate. Check out
Christmas.mormon.org before it is too late!

Love you all!

Elder Janson

Reunion of missionaries at our Christmas party!

Went Christmas chalking!

Check out the expiration date! Same as my ministerial certificate hahaha

December 14, 2015

How's the life?

Merry early Christmas! This is a great time of year to share our
testimonies and people won't look at us totally crazy! So take
advantage of it. We are doing a new thing that I got the idea from a
random missionary in Canada. He randomly sent a finding packet out to
any missionaries he saw, and I happened to be one of them. It has all
these awesome ideas to find people to teach. Anyways, one thing it
says is #TOAST, talk out awkward situations together. In case you are
misinformed, missionary work can awkward as mess! So we are going to
text in our best awkward moment with that hashtag in effort to break
the awkward bubble. It gets kinda fun sometimes!

Recently we have been seeing every member possible, in response to our
bishop's challenge to give every member a Christmas initiative card.
EVERY MEMBER HOUSEHOLD. That's about 215 in our Ward. We 80 left so we
are rolling! The other day we walked forever and saw members, then a
random 15 year old kid was chillin with his girlfriend (we assume) and
he yells, "are you guys missionaries?" We of course respond and were
like, "you wanna learn form missionaries?" He's says yea! We get his
info and walk away and hear he girl say, "why did you do that!?" Haha
that's great. We went by and his dad told us to go away :). Worth a
shot.

In our lesson with Ron and Wendy we simply invited them to read from
the Book of Mormon everyday and pray about it. They have been coming
to church every week for awhile but are going their own slow pace on
the road to baptism. I felt they needed to get serious about the BOM
reading. Hopefully they do! They are the coolest couple ever and are
so sincere. Keep them in your prayers.

We are getting ready for our Christmas party next week with a couple
other zones and I get to see Elder Johnson! My daughter! Haha it
should be good. It is busy these days so time is flying and it's
pretty weird. I just keep chugging!

I hope you all are being bosses and have a good Christmas break.

Love you all!

 Did a 1st Ward ministry night here in Vacaville stake and went to a

less actives home who had the train set from heaven! Reminded me of

when I used to watch toy trains and trucks drive around for fun as a

kid

Elder Waites had family friends that sent him this bomb diggety tree!

December 7, 2015

Family,

This zone is crazy! Today we all got nerd swords and a nerd gun and
played this zombie game in the cultural hall hahaha we had quite a
time. We have so many crazy characters in this zone!

This week we had a sweet lesson with Charles and he brought up some of
the same concerns about the world we are in. It just seems to keep
getting worse! And so many I talk to get very discouraged, but
something I've noticed is that I'm not discouraged at all, I know is
isn't it, this isn't just a little life and then it's over, there's a
point to it! Charles seems to be overwhelmed by this world and we are
trying to help him get a better relationship with God and he said,
quote, "I'll read the whole thing!" About the Book of Mormon haha. He
is pretty golden.

This week we went on exchanges with 3rd Ward so I was with Elder
Jones, in my area. We have the challenge from Bishop to see every
member, that is household, and give them a #ASaviorIsBorn card. Every
household! That is about 215 doors here in Vacaville. So me and Jones
started doing that, and we got three little lessons showing the new
video, and the members gave us a referral for someone to go see. We
were texting the zone a bunch trying to bug when with all of our
miracles hahaha we had like three positive door experiences in a row,
which NEVER happens! Hahaha miracles happen man!

Other than that, it's just the norm, we are gearing up for Christmas!
I love all of you guys, and during testimony meeting yesterday our
member we go see every week, Tommy, got up, and I feel the spirit so
much when he goes up there, he has been through a lot more than me,
and I know the savior has changed his life. I know the atonement is
real, and what other witness do I need? The gospel is true! You know
the truth of a work by its fruit, and I see people change every day.
That is truth. That is light. That is Christ! #SpreadTheLight!

I love you guys!

Elder Janson

If you look close it says Janssen tree, close enough!

Festival of trees put on by the stake here, they donate trees and

people buy them for others, this is my favorite, in honor of Star

Wars.