Dec 10th Letter

15 days til Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How is everything been going? Well now it’s getting cold over here it’s getting in the 50's and its freezing man it cold I guess my blood has thin out a lot.

This week has been a very good week for me. Do you remember how I mention the website mormon.org/christmas. Well that has been advertised a lot and we have had a lot of referrals this week. We have received two this week It’s cool we received by a young man named Matthew Duke. He is a 20yr old young man who has a lot of things going for him he wanted a free bible because he is huge into the building of the earth and stuff and he know that there is more to stuff like that and he is pretty religious so he has never had a bible and he wanted one so we gave him one and we talked about our purpose in life and to see if we could stop by one time and teach him more and he said just come over when you want. So we will be visiting with him soon.

Wednesday was our busy day we had appointments one after the other. We started out visiting with Astrid Otto she is the one who was a member and then left for different reasons. When we went to visit her she invited her friend who is a member and she wanted her to be there. Than our Relief Society president wanted to be there so she came also but we still needed a male to be with us so we brought a young male with us. So we had two missionaries’ three members and one investigator so we can say it was a packed house. We taught her about and faith and charity and how they go hand and hand. But the discussion turned to talking about her gift of the spirit she had it was cool we talked about this in Sunday school the Sunday before and the teacher told us to pray to know what our gift is so we mention to her that she has already figured out her gift. And she had no idea that was her gift it was cool to see someone get something for the first time and understand it.

This week we met with Elena Kent twice. Once on Wednesday and the other on Friday on Wednesday we taught her about tithing and fast offerings she doesn’t have a problem follow this commandment. She said that it is really easy for her to follow it because she was taught how to give more than she received and that when you give you get blessings it was awesome to know that she was taught it so young. On Friday we taught her about the law of chastity of course she has no problems in this and she believes strongly in that. The cool thing with her is that when we met with her on Friday she had a new book she was reading. We asked her what this new book of yours she said that she did some research and was trying to figure something’s out like why this is happening to her and to feel better. She said that she got this book and it talks about fasting. The title is like fasting and healthy living she mentioned to us that if you go without two meals a months that it cleans out your body and makes you healthy. I mention well you know that is funny because remember us teaching you about the word of wisdom and now you know about fasting she is like I know. So now she has committed to live the word of wisdom fully and fast.

We met with Monica and Justin twice this week also, she feeds us on Wednesday and we have a lesson afterwards. So this week they called us up and had a list of questions for us to answer. So after we had a huge ham dinner we answered there questions. They love that we could answer most of their questions that they have. We met with them yesterday and taught them about the gospel of Jesus Christ. We focused our lesson on baptism we have been praying a lot about them and we felt like we should give them the date of the 29th of December for Justin’s baptism. So we asked him boldly after the lesson and he said that he was going to pray about it and make sure that this is what he is supposed to be doing. He said that he wants to get the support of Monica and she mention that she supports him 100% getting baptized. But she wants him to find it out for himself so I know that he is going to pray and figure what he wants to do and he will let us know for sure soon it was a powerful lesson I felt the spirit so strong with him and it was amazing.

We are working with this youth he is 18 yrs old and we are reactivating him back into the church. This week we finally got into contact with him we stopped by and gave him a quick lesson and then we asked him if there is anything else we can do for him. He said will you teach me another lesson but a lesson that has impacted your life so we taught him the plan of salvation which has impacted me the most knowing that there is something after this life and that our families can be together forever.

So each week it seems like there is something that I have learned or something that I have realized since I have been out on my mission and this week this is what I have come to understand. I’m so glad that I have my "eye single to the glory of god" I’m so glad that I’m out here for the right reason and not out here just because others want me to be here. I’m glad that I’m happy and even though sometimes it’s hard I know that I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I don’t want to sound like I’m perfect but coming out here I have seen things differently, and I feel like I’m more mature and I have grown up I guess that is what missions does to you haha

When I opened my email and saw the pictures from the temple. I cried. I can honestly tell a difference in uncle Troy's face, he is happier and so is his family. I’m so proud of him and his family it was awesome seeing that special day.

I love you guys and thank you for everything. CAN’T WAIT TO TALK TO YALL SOON

Elder Christensen

ELF QUOTE: HELLO BUDDY THE ELF WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR.