Feb 4th Letter

YEEE-HAWWWW



Howdy yall!!!!!!!!!!! What’s new with all yall?!

This week was a totally different week than I have ever had Instead of a lot of Teaching appointments we had a lot of SERVICE!

Tuesday and Friday we did service for this member by the name of Larsen's. This is the family that the husband is the firefighter so trust me we go over there a lot. hahah :0 we were helping them build a garden and we had to move a lot of sand and mulch and get it all nice. It has taken us about two weeks to do this but if we wouldn’t have been there to help them they would still be going they are very grateful for our help. This week since they have a lot of extra mulch and sand it was a good opportunity to do some missionary work. On Friday I got a call from sis Larsen saying " Elder Christensen didn’t you grow up on a farm or around farms" and I was like” sorta ya what’s up" she was like " do you know how to back up a trailer" ( ok I have never done that before ) I said yea anyways. So I go over there and the street is so small and narrow and they have a minivan with a flatbed trailer on it. There was no way that either of us would get that thing back up so what we did was we unattached it and we carried and we pushed it up a drive way needless to say it was so heavy and I had to rest it on my leg and I got a huge bruise and my leg but o well I’m a big boy the neighbor was appreciated and it was a good way to use ourselves in a good way she might be a potential soon.



Thursday we did this service for a less active member. Her mother came up to us last Sunday and said that we needed to help her daughter with her yard because she said if she doesn’t get it cleaned up she would be evicted. So we went Thursday and it was horrible it was so nasty and gross. The first thing that she said to us was. " I don’t know what is back here but please be careful" UMM RED FLAG luckily I’m still alive and wasn’t bit by anything but we did 20 huge bags of leaves and we have to do the weeds. IT WAS A FREAKING JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!!!



Ok the worst service of the week was Saturday! We do our usual service on Saturday morning! This one was horrible I mean bad. So what happened was we clean up her yard and she has a lot of cats. She is a cat women and her yard smells so bad. She has 20+ cats inside and a lot outside. So we hurried to do the yard. And right when we got there I almost stepped on something she tried to burry a cat. But the cat was still sticking out of the freaking ground it looked like it was alive when she buried it and it was trying to get out. I was like oh no I not doing this anymore it was so stinky and flies was all over it. Come to find out the owner found it and she said that it was poison needless to say I almost lost my lunch and then she tells us that the next task is to clean up the inside of her house and her house is so bad. I can’t breathe all you smell is the ammonia from the pets PRAY FOR US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



So update on Bobbi Jo for this week. So we went over to her house this week and taught her the lesson on the Word of Wisdom we found out that she has a problem of smoking and so does her husband but she said that she will quit. We are letting her quit slowly so we ask her to smoke half of what she would smoke. So this week will be 6 cigs and next week will be 5 and so on. She wants to get married but not until summer and she wants to be baptized soon so it’s going to be a little complicated. We got a call from her Saturday night saying she is in the hospital. She has a growth on her kidney the size of a golf ball. At first she thought it was her gallbladder because she has had problems with it but it was bad on Saturday they went to the hospital. So we visited her yesterday and she was happy to see us and we visited with her and she is doing awesome.



I know this is a shorter letter but that is what happened with me this week. But I wanted to leave with my testimony. Yesterday was fast Sunday and I bore my testimony in church and I bore it on priesthood. I know that we have the priesthood restored on this earth. I’m so grateful for the blessing it is to have it and to use it. But also have it in our family. I know that it blesses us. I’m so grateful for the chance I have to feel the spirit so strong and being able to take heed of those promptings. I know that if we do than we are doing gods will. Yesterday during church do yall remember the family I gave the blessing to the premature daughter? Well she bore her testimony and thanked me for being able to be worth for holding the priesthood and using it. The baby is doing awesome and better than they thought. God has a plan for us and know that if we follow it he will bless us I know that we have a Father in Heaven and I’m grateful for my family. THANK YALL



I love all yall



Elder Christensen