Hey
hey hey!
So!
Just like that another week has gone by. A week of unbelievable heat coupled
with random, super crazy thunderstorms!
It was an adventure many times this
week! So, on Monday we had a Family Home Evening at the Bishop’s home
where our two investigators who will be baptized in May, namely Edwin and
April, attended, and a good time was had by all! Tuesday we had some
good lessons, and saw some promise in some investigators…the highlight though
was when I met Jenibe, an investigator that Elder Antoni found last week when
we were on splits. She just moved into her very active cousin’s house, and
she’s totally into the lessons. She’s got solid potential, and a great
fellowshipper! Wednesday we had a district meeting where I helped
throw a surprise party for my district mate, Sister Penales, as she just turned
21!
We taught Edwin and April that day, and they’re both progressing right
along! Neither of them have crazy strong testimonies yet, but they definitely
are growing and keeping commitments!
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| Exhausted from the HEAT |
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| Happy Birthday Sister Penales! |
Thursday was
kind of a rough day. One of our ward missionaries now has a job at a mall where
he works every Sunday, and he was supposed to be getting ready for his own
mission…dang. We visited him and he said he would try to fix his schedule. We
spent an extraordinarily long time at a recent convert's house as he shared with us an
incredibly detailed account of this bogus YouTube video about some South American’s
“vision” of heaven and hell. After it was done, we doctrinally tore it apart. The highlight of the day was when
we taught Jenibe again, and she already felt a “different” feeling in answer to
her prayer about our message (and her cousin was right there to tell her that
was the Holy Ghost, fellowshippers are AWESOME!). We shared about the Book of
Mormon and she accepted a baptismal invitation!
Friday I
interviewed one of the sister’s candidates. We taught a few other lessons, and
taught our investigator Maria Cristina’s house mate,
Ofelia, and challenged her to pray to know as well! Saturday we kind
of had a rough day again, just not too many appointments. We did have a super
awesome lesson with Sister Lina, where we taught Lesson 2. We planned on
teaching just the first part, “Where do we come from?” But the spirit was
rocking and we both felt we should teach the whole thing. She told us some of
her biggest questions had now been answered, such as the ultimate fate of Satan
and his angels! So that’s cool! She said she would come to church, but when
Sonny swung by to pick her up, she had some excuses and just said next
time…agh!!! Sunday my companion and I gave talks in Church. I felt that I
needed to talk about God’s love, so I shared about that, focusing on 1 John 4.
My companion talked about callings, and many people shared with us their
approval of his talk! We had 100 in attendance, but only two investigators at church.
I gave another interview after church, then we had splits so we were able to
get some more lessons. Sonny and I worked together, and we worked hard,
fast, and efficiently! It felt good, as I felt sometimes we hadn’t pushed as
hard as we could have this week. Among our lessons we taught Nanay Norma, who
still has a strong desire to push her family to be sealed! And she’s still
coming to church, so that’s good! And she wants us to come to the temple with
her! I would LOVE that! I miss the temple so bad…We didn’t get to teach Ofelia,
but I was able to speak with her long enough to follow up and find out she did
have a feeling in her prayer about the Restoration! We ended the night teaching
the Reyes’ niece who is staying with them for the summer Lesson 1, and had a
fantastic dinner appointment there! I ate salmon! I haven’t had that in so
long! It was a good way to end the week.
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| Teaching |
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| At a teaching appointment... |
And
so now I’m here! I’m still enjoying the work!
Elder Antoni and I are laughing a lot and we’re seeing good things in
the future! I love my life, love this work, and I want to thank every last
person who ever pushed me to go on a mission; even though I didn’t know it at
first, this is the best thing I’ve ever done. I couldn’t ask for more than this
opportunity to serve here among this people.
May
the Lord bless you all!
--Elder
Christensen
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