GOOD MORNING ANTARCTICA!!!!!!!!!!!!! (UTAH)
So I hear that it is freezing in Utah? Same here it is in the 40's and 50's :0 hahah i love rubbing it in with yall haha
How was all yalls New Year’s? I hope yall had fun. By the look of the video it is look a lot of fun. I wish I had that much fun :( (sad me)
Man let me tell you about the week we had a lot went on there wasn’t a lot going on in the beginning of the week but it sure picked up quickly. One of the good things that happened to us this week was Sunday, we had someone come to our third hour class last week and she is super good at member missionary work. She taught our ward about what the roles of the members are and the role of the missionaries are and how they can come together and get new people to come to church and convert. It was pretty legit at the end she made us go to the board and write down our number so everyone has it so they can call us or text us and let us know when there is a non-member in their home so we can come by. Well this week was amazing we have been in a member house with a non-member family or person EVERY SINGLE DAY THIS WEEK it is amazing. The Ward is truly catching the fire and it’s amazing we haven’t received any new investigators YET! but the members are trusting us so much more with their friends that I just know that one of these time we will get a new investigator. I know that we will see the fruit of our labors very soon I am very confident that we will be rewarded.
The cool thing that came out of it was we got called from a member saying that she was going to have a non-member family at their house and she wanted us to come by. So we had a little dinner and played games with them it was a good time to associate with them and get to know them. I got along very well with the couple and before we left we shared a message about families. I didn’t know this until last night that after we left they had a long conversation about church and what not so we did our job and I have high hopes that we will see them again and maybe again teach them.
Cool thing have happened to us this week. I just mention we have been in a members house with a non-member there well on Wednesday we were walking this area and it was cold and I was not smart and didn’t have a jacket on well we started walking when we hear " Hey Elders" we look over and its a member of the ward we go to the van and started talking to her. She asked if we had dinner we said we have a dinner appointment at 7:30pm but we can come to your house. She said please do its cold outside so we started walking to her house. We got there and she said. Well elders I called your dinner appointment and they cancelled on you so I am going to feed you man we were so happy. When we were there her dad was there and he has been through so many missionaries and still hasn’t converted to the church yet. But it was funny when we got there the member went to her dad and said " Dad I have a surprise for you the missionaries are here to convert you" haha we started laughing he said " I know they are but we will see what comes out of it" we taught him and idk if he wants to take the discussions from us but I hope so. Sorry I bet you were thinking something awesome was going to come out of this but nope. Just the miracle of someone letting us in to eat with a non-member is the miracle hahah
Thursday we had lunch with an inactive member he took us to chili’s and it was interesting. He called us and said that he was bringing a church member from another church he also warned that he would try to preach to us. So we were prepared for one of his church friends to come and potentially tell us how bad we were and kind of bash with us but it was totally different. He brought a coworker who is a Mormon and it kind of shocked us. The inactive member was really nice to us his only request was that we can’t teach him at his house because his wife doesn’t like us and he chooses his marriage over our religion. I guess long time ago there was something that had to make him choose his religion or his marriage so he chose his marriage. But he loves talking to us he is a really nice guy and he said we can meet with him whenever he has a hard time with some of the doctrine and joseph smith but that can be solved over time.
Man Elena Kent is doing awesome. We haven’t seen her for a week or so because right after she was confirmed she got sick and was sick for the whole week but we got in to see her on Friday. Man there is something that has changed in her she is so more receptive of everything we watched a dvd called finding Faith in Christ and she loved it she said she has seen it before but after we had a great discussion with her. She came to church this week and she was interactive in class it was shocking. She told us something it was when she first attended relief society she was wondering why are all these women crying and she didn’t want to be like that. But when she was given the gift of the Holy Ghost she said that when everyone saw me I would turn into those crying women I guess that is something that happens when you have the Holy Ghost so she has come such a long way it awesome to see.
Monica and Justin finally came into town from their vacation. We met up with them yesterday and they came to church and Justin got a new set of scriptures with a case he loves them. We met with them last night and they were so happy to be with us it was good to talk with them again. We were sitting and talking with them catching up on everything that has been going on since the last time we talked. Well we shared a cool lesson with them and before we left we talk to them about how there smoking and coffee is going. Because before we left we taught them about the word of wisdom and they said they would quit but I guess that has been hard for them. So I had a feeling to challenge them, I found out how much they smoke and I told them that they need to cut that in half. Monica you smoke three cigs a day and Justin you smoke 10 a day and I want yall to report to us every night to see how much yall have smoke they said that they would. And on top of that they gave us all there tea. They gave us three boxes of their tea and so we have over 200 bags of tea from them. I know for a fact that this is going to help them I have faith in them Monica said that she wants to become more spiritual and this is there way how. They loved the idea of reporting to us every night it gives them a sense of responsibility and accountability. So we will see what comes out of it.
I love this time that I have to write all yall. Feels like a long time ago that I wrote with yall but I love Mondays and the time I have to write yall and tell you I’m still alive hahah
I love you be safe I pray for all yall every night and day
Elder Kendall Christensen
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