Nov 12th Letter

Hey Everyone!!!!!!!

Man what a great week this has been huh? Well for me it has been a week that i will never forget it has been amazing and a lot of things happened that i love.

Tuesday was a depressing day! Election Day :( When Romney lost and Obama won it was funny i was listening to it with some other elders and we were gathered together listening and waiting for a miracle to happen. But when we found out that Obama was going to win we read some scriptures about miracles and had a prayer that Romeny would pull off a miracle and win but we found out later that it never happened :( sad sad day.

Everyone here in Texas had the day off from school because it was the elections. (I wish i had the day off) But since school was out that meant a lot of people were home. So we took our priest (17 year old) with us and we visited an investigator. We taught him about the plan of salvation but i don’t know how much he understood of it. He listens and then speaks about something really random in the bible It’s hard to teach him but he is teaches me patience haha. Later we visited with Kelsey Hobson to get her ready for Saturday baptism. Her grandmother who is a member but is way less active told us nicely that she doesn’t want to be pushed to church. She knows that this is our job but she has things to get over but she knows she has to come to church. So one of these days she will come to church. We went to mutual that night and help the young men know more about what our week consist of.

Wednesday and Friday we visited with Elena Kent. She is the one that we gave the baptismal date of the 22nd of December. We taught her the plan of Salvation and Restoration. She is becoming more receptive to the message that we have. In the beginning she wasn’t because she had a lot of questions that she said that she needed to know before all of this happened but she has come to the realization that she might not know all of her questions here in this life but she will know it in the life to come. Every time we go over there we have a super powerful lesson the spirit is super strong and we have good conversations. She is going to be gone this week camping so we will resume teaching her next week.

Thursday we went to the TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Usually we go to the 9'o clock session but the mission president and the temple president got together and said that they wanted us to go at 8am which is super hard for us. We have to be there at 7:30 and get up early so needless to say a lot of people were sleeping but every time i go it just so amazing I really look forward to go to the temple it makes me realize how blessed we are to have a temple so close to us and go whenever we want. So thank heavens for temples. Guess what i finally had this week, HAWAIIAN HAY STACKS I haven’t had them since i left. So this member ask me what i wanted to have for dinner because it was my turn to pick so i picked them and man it was so good just like home and had all the fixings that we would usually have. haha. Thursday nights are the nights we have splits with the ward members and this night we had a very successful night. We got to visit 4 families within an hour. One of them was special she was an old relief society president who has become less active and she is very hard to get a hold of. We stop by and i knocked and she answered and was grateful that we came by. She said that she felt like she needed to answer the door when i knocked so she said that i have a convincing knock. haha whatever that means Thursday was a good day.

The best day of the week by far was Saturday which means BAPTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. YEEE-HAWWW. Kelsey Hodson got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a really good turnout she had a lot of members of her family show up and to support her which is good because they are not the most religious family but they know how to support family when something like this happens. I had the privilege of speaking at her baptism. I spoke about baptism and for some reason before i talk to people on a stage or a meeting i get nervous, but i love it because when i get up there and talk all of the sudden i get comfortable so thank heavens of the spirit huh! The baptism was one of the most spiritual things i have attended. It was amazing seeing her in the water getting baptized and being a witness and seeing all of our hard work that we have been able to do come to this. As someone special once told me its "payday" and it sure was. My Companion Elder Gutierrez was privileged to confirm her Sunday in Sacrament Meeting and that was his first time doing something like that. He did such a good job he was extra nervous because we had to say the prayers in sacrament meeting and do the confirmation.

Camille (Blonde) Moment:

So i had a Camille moment this week that i would like to share haha. We visited with a member that we are working closely with and her boyfriend who just speaks Spanish and he is taking the lessons from the missionaries. We went over there one night and she was telling us about how he is just progressing very well and that he is getting baptized soon. She is so happy because she catches him reading and watching church movies, she asked if we had any more movies that we can give him. I said of course we do. She asked do yall have any on you and i said that we can watch one with him but it’s not in Spanish. She said well what is it. I explained to her by saying well can he understand melodies like music without words? She started laughing and she said “Well Duh he can” it took a second of thinking of what i said and was like Crap I’m so like my sisters hahaha. So just let yall know Spanish people understand music hahahah

In closing i just wanna express my love for you especially my family for the love that yall have for me and letting me come on my mission and serve the Lord for 2 years. I couldn’t do this without yall's support and love. But I’m grateful for the sacrifice yall make. I love you all and wish i could express my deepest love for yall but it wouldn’t be enough have a good week. Be safe. I pray for yall every day and night.

Love yall
 Elder Christensen