*LOOK AT ME I GOT A WOODEN SPOOOON!!! EGHRRRRRRRR!!!!!
I hope yall had a good week. Is it still cold up there? Well I’m kinda getting sick of the cold down here in the morning its getting up in the 40's in the morning and sixties in the evening. Which is kinda chilly but it’s a whole lot better than Utah I know that for sure. haha So here are a couple of things that happen that was cool this week.. Not anything exciting this week but it was all good
GIT-R DONE
I want to update yall on some of our investigators that we have and the progression they are making.
Michael LaBlanc: This man is in his 60's and he seems like he is going to investigating the church for a while. Its kinda drives me and my companion nuts he has gone through 8 sets of missionaries, and no progress. He knows he needs and wants to be baptized but he makes a lot of excuses one of them is his wife he says that she is holding him back and he has some things he wants to take care of before he gets baptized. But this week we went over to his house and he was outside and we pulled up and sat down and talked with him. Now at this point we didn’t plan on going over there and talk with him and have no clue what we are going to teach him. But my companion comes up with an awesome question and it was this “did Jesus Christ have any excuses to not getting baptized?" he sat there for a while and was thinking we stayed there in silence also so the spirit can work on him. He spoke up a lil later saying " well i guess he didn’t " the point we tried to get across to him is that you don’t need any excuses in getting baptized in the name of the Lord. I gave him a scripture that states what do you have against being baptized in the name of the lord. ( Mosiah 18:10 ) he says that he needs to do things for himself but he always making excuses so he said that he is going to try and not make excuses anymore. According to Elder Kuila this is the biggest progress they have seen in him in over 3 months so I’m excited about that.
Shawn Beard: Shawn is doing amazing. Shawn is still really solid. This week we went over to his house and we had food storage noodles and salmon. It was actually pretty good we sat down with him and a member Shawn told me that his 6 yrs old daughter loves for me to come over and gets excited about me when I come over (crap I got a 6yrs old crushing on me HELP!! haha ) but he kinda scared me in the beginning cause I was asking him about is he ready for the 30th. He said that is what I wanna talk to you about at this point I was a lil nervous cause I thought he was going to say that he doesn’t wanna get baptized. But he told us that he is going to be out of town that day and he wants to move his date he said it could be earlier or a lil later. But we mentioned to him that he should pray about it and let us know so he can give us a date he also told us about a dream that he had last week he had a dream that he was talking with Jesus Christ and he was quoting scripture to him. He woke up that morning feeling the holy ghost and he was mad that he couldn’t remember the scripture he was quoting but he said that he has never had these kinda dreams before until we came along and he mention that he loves this church cause it’s the only one that has seek him out and came and found him when he needed us the most.
Julia Rodriguez: She is a new investigator that we got this week. She is 17 yrs old and she is a friend of a member in our ward. Julia became friends with Michaela this year and Julia wanted to know why she didn’t do anything bad like swear or stuff like that and Michaela mention to her about her religion and her believes and standards. Michaela wanted us to come over Friday and to teach her. Well we went over to Julia’s house a week ago and we asked for her but we later found out the girl we talked to was actually her and she gave us a fake name and said she wasn’t there but this time we got the real Julia. The lesson didn’t not go the way I wanted it to the spirit was not there because it was her friends fault Michaela. She was so distracting just randomly giggling, making loud noises and just being rude while we were trying to teach her and her friend. It was frustrating cause it made it awkward for her friend to be there. Needless to say I came out of there a little frustrated but I know something will come out of it.
Saturday: We volunteered at the Woodlands marathon. We had a station that we handed out water cups and Gatorade cups to all the runners that was coming by all Morning long I said GATORADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GATORADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Just like in water boy ) It was a lot of fun and I saw some of my old members in my last area and also some investigators.
Sunday: So the cool thing that happened yesterday was after church. We went and stopped by a less actives house. Surprisingly he was home and he let us in and he was super excited that we came by. He mentioned to us that he broken up with his girlfriend and he was glad that we came by and visited with him. He is a recovering alcoholic and has a problem with the word wisdom. He asked us to come by more often and to visit with him. I think it’s a miracle because we need more people to teach as far as less active wise and he needs us.
I just wanna end to tell yall that I love you and thank you for everything that yall do for me. I appreciate yall every moment and think about you daily. I’m so grateful for the love of families and the gospel is in our life,
I hope all yall have a good week and stay safe and thank you for your prayers and support.
Love
Elder Christensen
*This was Kendall's favorite saying before he left
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