Nov 19th Letter

Whats up Yall

How has yall been week been this week. Mine has been interesting from being sick and feeling like crap to Getting a new companion to having miracles happening to us in two days. It’s amazing how we go through roller coasters to having good things happen to us.

This week was transfer week. And we got the call Tuesday night around 9:30pm saying that Elder Gutierrez was going to get transferred. He was really bummed to be leaving this was his first area and he was sad and kind of depressed to leave he got more nervous when president called him saying he was going to be district leader in Conroe which is just about 15 mins north of us so he isn’t too far away. But all Wednesday he was really sad saying bye to members and it just showed me that he really does love everyone. It was good that I got to spend three months with him. It seemed like it went by so fast even though we had our rocky first couple weeks of the transfer.

On Thursday I got a new companion. His name is Elder Michael Hilton from Honolulu Hawaii. He was born in California and he grew up in Hawaii he went to BYU for three years. He came to Texas to sell for Vivint for a summer. He is 20 Yrs old and he has been out for only 3 months so I got another greenie. So in missionary slang I’m his greenie breaker which means I’m his second companion after his trainer or his dad. I have been a step dad for two missionaries in Elders Gutierrez and Hilton. Elder Hilton is a good guy he has got a lot of energy He is ADD so he has a lot of energy which will be good to go out and work. So I hope this old man can keep up with him haha. I’m old I have been out 9 months which is freaking Crazy seems like I have been out only 3 months.

We met with Kelsey this week she is doing good. She is still a happy little girl we haven’t been able to meet with any of our investigators this week. Our top one is gone for the week and with transfer this week we were unable to meet with any of them and they were either gone this week or busy or signed up for a different time this month.

This week consisted of Several Miracles. During this week I was thinking man this letter was going to be short not a lot of things was going on and I thought man I got to have things to write to my family and man didn’t god provide for us.

Mormon Moment.

1. On Friday after District meeting we went to the only pawn shop in our area, My companion wanted a MP3 player for cheap so we went inside to see what they got. As we did so the women that checked us out with an mp3 asked us what we are doing I said we are missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. She said I know who yall are I said you do she said yeah aren’t yall witnesses. (Which means Jehovah witnesses?) I said no ma'am we are missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints the Mormons. She said I have no idea who yall are I said really well this is what we do I explained what we do and i said well where do you live. She said she lived behind our church house I said well I’m sending missionaries there to teach you can i have your information. She said yeah that would be awesome so maybe yall can teach my daughter she needs to do something. I said we can do that so that was awesome.

The same Night we were at Wal-Mart and a kid came up and said yall are missionaries. I said yes we are. The little boy said. Yall were at my house the other day I said did you invite us in. He said no but yall explained a lot. I said you want us to come back to your house he said yeah. :0

2. We were in a neighborhood of a potential investigator. We went knocked on his door and he wasn’t interest. But we were walking to another house where we met this guy named Willie. He was a black guy who outside smoking and was going back in to watch some football. He mentions that when he was in New York he talked to the missionaries he said they were always going out talking to people. He had a lot of questions, like blacks and the priesthood, Joseph Smith so we helped him understand more about it and he said that he wasn’t interested in joining our church but he was appreciated us talking to him and clearing things up for him.

3. The coolest miracle of the week happened to us on Saturday and Sunday. First we had a referral that we needed to get in contact with so we called them up and the husband answered and said that he wants us to come by on Sunday around 6 pm i said ok we will be there. Now the background with referrals is that they are not the best they are cool but not a lot of them are interested so that is what i was thinking he is going to say to come at this time and won’t be there but we went to his neighborhood that night and tracked the houses leading to this referrals house. We found one potential who might be interested.

Well Sunday came around and it was 6 pm time for us to go to this appointment, we had a member with us we stopped and we prayed that these people would be interested. We go knock on the door and all of the sudden this women answers the door and was so nice saying elders come on in i was thinking how does she know we are elders i was confused. After talking she said that she was a member that lived in Wyoming for a while got married and wants to come back to church. She said she has been inactive for 15 years and she wants to come back and raise her future family in the church I was so amazed this is better than getting a new investigator. Her husband got into an accident in 2005 and can’t remember anything that happened before that time so he doesn’t know if he is a member or not but we will soon find out and his wife wants us to teach them the lessons again. She has tried to come back to church before with just herself no one else and she said that it was hard so she wants our help. :) This couple is amazing Redneck couple so i feel home. We sat there while she served us pie talking about trucks even though he likes dodge. He has a 2006 dodge inline 6 twin turbo pushing out about 700 horsepower and he said by January he is going to have 1000 horse power he said i can ride in it this week YEEE-HAWWW.

This week i have been thinking a lot about the family and how blessed i am for being in a family who is strong in the gospel with a mom and dad who love each other and love their kids and would do anything for them and also raising us up in the right church. I’m so grateful for families and the blessing it is to be here in a family. I love you guys. Thank you for everything. I’m so blessed being out here receiving blessings. I hope yall feel it even though it is hard being out here it is all worth it. Sacrifice brings forth the greatest blessings I’m so grateful for a family who loves me. THANK YOU ALL.

LOVE YOUR MISSIONARY

Elder Kendall Christensen