BURRRRRRRRRRRRR. I am shivering. i am so freaking cold. Its 40 this morning and i woke up and go out of my room and Elder Kuila was up and had the door open and it was cold, he watch me come out and freak out how cold it was and said GOOD MORNING. I hurried and jump in the nice hot shower I felt like I was in Hyrum again and I was like holy crap NOOOOOO. So a good start to the morning right?? haha
Let’s see what do I need to update you on......................... hmmmmm............... ok here we go.
On Tuesday it was nice and warm and my companion hates it because he gets a lot of sun and turns really dark. So he is wearing this really funny looking hat and we start walking and I was laughing the whole time. He said hey man you never know we might get someone to talk to us, well we did we got a in active member who saw us walking past the park where he was with his son and he said he was wondering who it was walking looking like a word that I can’t say at the moment. haha but it was funny. But we met with Shawn Beard he is doing really awesome. We watched the restoration DVD and he said that afterwards he felt so peaceful and so good. We helped him recognize the spirit and to gain that testimony. We asked him if he believed that Joseph Smith is and was a prophet. He said that its new cause of the things he was raised up believing but he said that if god had a prophet and 12 on the earth when he was here why couldn't there be here today. So it makes sense to him that we have a prophet and 12 apostles. He is excited to watch conference soon. We ended the night with going to the church and playing basketball with nonmembers and this one kid came up and asked us if we had a youth program and ask if he could come to church unfortunate he didn't come to church :(
Thursday morning was very interesting. I woke up and got a text from President Pingree asking to come to my companion study. Now what the heck am I doing wrong having President come to all my meeting and studies. hahaa this is the second time in 5 days that he has seen me. Man I feel like I’m in trouble or something. haha but he came and sat in on our companion study It was good for him to sit in and give some feedback. I guess it was funnier to Elder Kuila because he said that I was way nervous when I didn't even feel like I was oh well. So you know the scene in the best two years when elder Calhoun is getting excited to teach someone in their apartment, yeah well that is how I felt when he was coming hahahaha. But we got a call that morning about an inactive member in our ward that was in the hospital and needed a blessing. Unfortunately we couldn't give it because it was outside of our area but we got someone to go visit with her. We did some service for a Presbyterian church. I guess it was a huge garage sell for their church and there youth program so we had to help and move things around and price things it was good to get our image and name out there doing community service
Friday we got a new Investigator and his name is John and he is friends of an investigator that we are teaching. He has always been there when we have been over to teach Michael but he would always leave. But this time he asked if he could sit in and get some good word so we said of course. After talking with him he is really spiritual but not religious if that makes sense. So he loves hearing the word and reading but doesn’t like going to churches. But we talked and he said that he is feeling punished by God cause he has messed up in his life we told him that he isn’t being punished but being tested. So we talked to him about the atonement and he loves talking about it. So we are going to talk to him more about it in later visits but he wants to learn more. So an interesting thing is John lives with his brother and he bought some trading cards. (Football, Baseball, Basketball, Nascar etc.) And he bought them from a guy who had three stores he owned because he was a sports memorabilia addict. He bought them for 300 dollars and he has right now around 4 million dollars’ worth of cards and that is a rough estimation. So to give you an example he has 9 Derek Jeter rookie cards that are worth 16,000 dollars each and he has some one of the kind cards that are priceless.
Saturday was an awesome day. One thing was it was humid and that wasn’t awesome but one thing that was is that Elder Kuila and I were in a neighborhood just walking around and I was just following him. We went down this one street and this kid almost hit me with his bike and the mom was like “HEY WATCH OUT FOR THE MISSIONARIES” I turned around and was like HUH? I went up and was like how do you know that we are missionaries? She said that her husband has family who are members so we talk with her for a while until the husband came home. We talked with him and I was like so you have family who are members. And he said "I grew up in the church and my wife was baptized when she was 18 and we just moved her about a month ago from San Diego and we want to come back to church." I was so shocked he was like yeah I thought my mom sent you here and we were like no we were just walking. The cool thing about this story was that we planned to go to this area but forgot until we looked at our planners’ haha so it was inspired
Random Moments.
Yesterday we were at a member’s house and they have two dogs. One of them is really smart and likes to un zip back packs and eat anything you have in there that is food. Well I put some cad berry eggs in there to have later. I had two bags. Well the dog got into them and ate the freaking things I was like really dog Thanks. So I found a dog who loves chocolate haha.
I hope yall have a good week. As I was writing I was hoping that anyone who reads this can understand what I’m saying and if it makes sense.
I hope it does, but I love yall and be safe this week.
Elder Kendall Christensen
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