WELL GOOD MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How was everyone's thanksgiving holiday?
Mine was amazing. It was so much fun we had a lot of food but a lot more fun as well.
So here is the week at a glance. GETER DUN. haha
Tuesday was a pretty busy day for me here. We had appointments all day and it was good to stay busy. We had an appointment at Noon with less active young men. His name is Miguel Leal he and his Dad are the only one in the family who are members and he is making an effort to coming back to church. When we meet with him we are treating him as an investigator in ways like teaching him the lessons from square one so restoration and plan of salvation etc. He hasn't been to church in a long time and doesn't remember much. But lately he has come three weeks in a row and is loving it he told us he has a desire in bringing his family to church and get them all active. He said he loves coming to church because it helps him make important decisions in his life. He just has a hard time understanding what everything means such as Lamanites and Nephities that's why we went over and to help him. We met with a woman named Miriam Casanova she is less active and her husband is a non-member. At one point in his life he met with the missionaries and almost joined but never did. We have been trying for weeks to stop by and meet with him so we set up a time to come over. We came by at the time we set up and he left right before we came the wife wasn't too happy but we told her that we will come by later today and visit with them. It’s a good thing we did we caught him right when he was pulling in the driveway. hahah sucker we got him there is no way he is escaping us. As we started to visit with him he was beating around the bush saying that he doesn't have time in his work life to come to church and stuff. He said he busy and when he is home he likes to relax and all that crazy stuff. But he said yall are willing to come by whenever and if I’m up to it we can talk about the bible and Book of Mormon so there is a glimmer of hope with him just going to take a lot of time.
Wednesday I was on exchanges with Elder Matuauto again, :) He is so fun to be around we get along very well so the exchange was very good and we had a lot of fun together. We got a call from our bishop to help him with service he said he needed help moving a ladder. I told Elder Matu and he started laughing and I was like what the heck well okay whatever so we went over to the bishops house and he has a very tall ladder and he was putting up Christmas wreaths on his house he needed our help to move it after he gets off Its one of those ladders that stand straight up and is very heavy. It was a good time to spend with our bishop and do some service and establish a stronger relationship with him. After we got done and their neighbor was watching us and asks if he can hire us missionaries to move his Christmas tree into his house. The bishop was like no you don't need to hire us we will come do it for you. The neighbor was like how much do I owe you? I said all you have to do to pay us back is go on this web site mormon.org and check it out. He was like I will and started praying for me on the drive way. Kinda random but it was good because the bishop notice it and it impacted him and he shared that story in priesthood meeting in saying we need to support our missionaries better. So it made me feel good that we did something that made somewhat of a difference.
Thanksgiving out here was AMAZING... I had so much fun out here in this ward I was deeply blessed that I have the opportunity to be in this ward during the holiday season. So at 8 am was the annual Spring Creek turkey bowl and it was my first turkey bowl it was so much fun. We played for three hours and I was so sore afterwards I caught 3 touchdowns and got 1 interception and had A BLAST doing it. Some people got hurt like dislocated thumbs and Charlie horses but it was a good environment to be in. My team we dominated we went undefeated. The Ward was stacking teams to play us there is a family in the ward that is super athletic and super good at sports. So I had the two sons and when we found out the teams were getting stacked they called there dad and he came over and played for us. I was the second tallest on the team alongside of a 6'5 adult and the rest were pretty small but super-fast. We won them 5-1 it was awesome.
We had Thanksgiving dinner at a member of the bishopric's home The Rosenlund's it was a very good dinner I didn't eat a lot this thanksgiving. I was actually shocked and I bet yall are too the thing I was most happy about was I actually had jello!!!!!!!!! First time in 9 months I was so happy I also had some good pies there and also at other members house. We then went to the Singers house and had a lot of fun there we played pool, ping pong and talk to a lot with members. I watched the last bit of the Texans football game it was Detroit Verses Texans OR in other words. DAD'S MISSION VERSES KENDALL'S MISSION and guess who came out the winner????????????? THAT'S RIGHT TEXANS BABY YEEEE-HAWWWWW. haha and afterwards we played just dance on the X-box they recorded me doing my dance moves and having a fun time i asked them if they could send it to me. And they said I can’t I have to send it to someone who has a I phone. I was like I know who has one my sisters send it to her. Good thing I still remember her phone number so that how you got to see my dance moves the only thing yall missed was me doing Michael Jackson beat it. hahah that was funny. We then went to another member’s house for pies not a lot of people showed up so we visited with then the rest of the night so this thanksgiving felt like I was home relaxing with my familia. haha
We met with Monica and Justin Swapp this week. They took us out to the woodlands mall to view some of the Christmas lights but there weren’t a lot of them up because it is barely the day after Thanksgiving so they took us out to a frozen yogurt place and had a good time. I FINALLY GOT TO RIDE IN A TRUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was amazing even though it was a Dodge and a Cummings but I still loved being in a truck but before we went to have fun we taught them the restoration. It was a good lesson and they enjoyed it especially Monica hearing it again after 15 years. They came to church this week It was Monica's and Justin's first time coming and for Monica it has been 15 years and it was Justin's first time. They were worried about not being comfortable but I think that wasn't a problem after the first 5 mins in the sacrament meeting a lot of people came up and talk with them and they said it was really nice. Monica felt the spirit in gospel principles class we were talking about the Holy Ghost and she expressed her feelings about the missionaries coming by and bringing that spirit into their house. It was amazing we later found out that Justin isn't a member so he is our new investigator and he has a desire to be part of our church YA BUDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In closing I just wanna express my love to everyone. I have been thinking a lot about this lately the love the members have for us missionaries. Our ward has been pushing the ward members to help us out in the missionary work. The roles of the missionaries are to support the ward but the members are the real missionaries. And this week I have felt the love of the members with the season of giving always be mindful of those around us. And do all that you can to do service or do something small. I wanna yall to all go to mormon.org/christmas and put that link on your Facebook account. This is something that the church has been putting on that will help with the missionary effort and also helps others know the true meaning of Christmas. It will only be up for about a month and it’s a way to get us out to people who might not know who we are and what we think about Christmas I would appreciate it if all of yall do it. I love yall. Remember that this is a time of giving and people are always grateful in these times of the year.
I LOVE YALL
Elder Christensen
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