Man OH Man!!!!!
So I’m guessing that all of yall have had one of those week where it seemed like everything went how it was supposed to be and then the next week it just straight up suck!!! Yeah well that is how my week ended up. My companion and I knew that this week was going to be a hard week just for the fact that last week was so awesome it couldn’t happen two weeks in a row. Cause God spreads out his miracles so that is how exactly our week went this week.
So Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday we walked and tried to contact people but NO ONE WOULD ANSWER THERE DOORS!!!!!!!!!!!! Not going to lie this week was one of those weeks that missionaries hate. Just nothing goes right and you try your hardest but nothing will go the way you want it or how they should but it’s weird cause I actually love these weeks. I know that it might sound weird but it makes me appreciate the weeks like last week which is just chuck full of miracles. That is the life of a missionary Wednesday was a long day guess how many hours we walked nonstop? 5+ hours of walking nonstop and no one answering we walked our whole area which is small but when you walk it It takes forever. haha
The one thing that made our week So much better is our “dry Mormon" top solid investigator Shawn Beard. We had an awesome lesson and dinner with him on Thursday. We took a member with us, we had dinner and it was food storage rice and chicken. hahah He is huge into food storage but we had an awesome time. The member wouldn’t stop talking which is good and also annoying at the same time ha. after we got done eating we went to the lesson which was about the gospel of Jesus Christ. And we focus more on the baptism part. We feel like he is really ready for a date and we came up with the 30th of March. After dinner when we had the lesson we had to make it short cause of his daughter, it was time for her to go to bed but there was a huge difference in the spirit, Right as I was talking about giving him a date for the 30th the spirit was so strong it was like a cow falling from the sky after it went over the moon! (Aye do you like that analogy a little Texas for ya ) :0 he accepted the date and he is going to pray about the date to make sure. It was so awesome he was telling us about how he is half way done with 1st Nephi. He said that he fell asleep reading the book and he said that if he hadn’t that he would have finished it. He couldn’t stop reading it that right there makes me know for sure that he is feeling the spirit and he is ready.
Friday I went on My first exchange And guess who it was with???? Give up ok?? It was my MTC companion Elder Lopez. It was kinda weird being with him for the first time in a year. We went throughout the day talking about how far we have come and how we are doing. Elder Lopez like to talk about anything and everything. We went to a member’s house to help them move It was funny this guy got so frustrated that he swore every second and we were taking down ceiling fans. hahahaha it was good times.
Sunday was a really good day I feel like I’m already home going to meeting and stuff. We had meeting from 8am until our church started at 12:30pm and we got done at 3:30pm needless it’s a long Sunday. haha. We went to this members house who is less active nd he cook some awesome steaks and ribs. We had a huge feast we had Shrimp, steaks, ribs, salad, potato salad, biscuits it was so good. I got the dad talking and he talk to us forever it was funny you could see the wife and kids saying " dad shut up please" it was funny to watch. But when I got talking with him I found out he was a firefighter as well back when he was younger I can’t believe It.!!!!! I found another one!! and this family is one that the ward wants to focus on so I’m going to focus on them also cause I got along with them so well. Later that night Elder Kuila and I went with the bishopric members and the auxiliary leaders to go visit members. Every Fourth Sunday they go visit members who they are focus on, so I went with the bishop and we all had a lot of success. We found a lot of potential people who all have the husband who are nonmembers and they want their family to get back to church. So we are going to be busy soon I’m way excited :0
I wanted to leave with some funny quotes to remember this week. I got them from a member.
- The difference between a northern fairy tale and a southern fairy tale
The northern one starts with “once upon a time" and the southern
fairy tale starts with " Hey yall aint gunna believe this crap
Okay here are some more spiritual quotes i found this week
- Satan will try to get you to think that your parents are too old and don’t
know what you are going through, as he splits you from your parents
that is where he gets you the most.
- The other one is from the 3 Nephi I think chapter 29 where it states that Christ’s
Church will be named after him and man’s church will be named after man.
I want to leave yall with my little testimony that I know that the church is true. I know that the church of Jesus Christ of latter day Saints is the only and true Church on this earth. Its Christ’s church not mans. I know that by reading the Book of Mormon which is another testimony of Jesus Christ. I know that by having a testimony of that and understanding it that Joseph Smith is a true Prophet of God, the church is true and we have a living Prophet on this earth today.
I love yall and be safe.
Elder Christensen
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