Apr 8th Letter

WHO DIDNT LOVE CONFERENCE THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know about yall but I thought it went by so fast. It’s crazy how it’s on and then it goes by fast than we have to wait a long 6 months until it comes on again but I just have to think that the next time conference comes on I will have only 4 months left!!!! Now that is nuts.

This week was a good week a lot of things happened toward the end of the week So LETS GIT ER DONE!!!!!

So do you remember the family that we came into contact with? We were just walking down the road and we saw the kids riding their bikes and they almost hit us and the mom said. Hey watch out for the missionaries? Well we met up with them for the first time this week. And they are an awesome family. They use to be really active but they have things falter and they just have become less and less active but when we met with them they really loved us coming by. They said we can come by whenever we want and they only ask that we don’t give them the lessons but we can give them spiritual thoughts and they don’t want a calling haha. I see a lot of potential with them and they said that our ward is a lot different than others in the past so they feel really comfortable.

Alright so the big story this week is Shawn Beard!!!!!!!!!! This man surprises us every time we go by and let me tell you what happened this week.

We were supposed to have a lesson with him on Friday but we couldn’t find a member to come with us to his place. I looked at the dinner calendar and saw that we had a certain family who has really fellow shipped him so we called and ask if we could bring him over to dinner and to have a lesson. They said of course so we called Shawn and ask if that would be alright if he comes over to their house for dinner and a lesson and was willing to come over. Now this is Friday night and he walks in and he is just all smiles I was like man he is so happy what is going on. He comes up and was like “Elders are you ready for this Saturday?" I said of course are you and he said “its 8 days away and I’m counting down the days till it gets here" I was like yes it is. He later said that he has some news for us but I was a little nervous cause coming this close to his baptism anything can happen but he said that he finally got his answer!!!!!! I said For Real! (Shawn has been waiting for this answer that is like a sledgehammer to the face and that he will know without a doubt that this church is true.) I said what happened. He told me that when we went over to his house last Tuesday and was talking about the spirit and how we can feel and recognize the spirit. And that he needed to pray to God and say hey I have been praying ,reading and I know it’s true please just confirm it to me. Well that is what happened Thursday night. He was telling me that God woke him up Thursday night at 2 am and he felt like he needed to pray he told us that when he prayed he said that he knows without a shadow of a doubt that it is true and if it isn’t then show it unto me right now! Shawn said that he got this overwhelming feeling that this Church is true and that he needed to get baptized this coming week!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy that this has happened and that he is ready for this week.

We had Shawn over to a members house Saturday to watch the first session of conference and i don’t know who took more notes me or him I had about two pages he had about three to four pages. He was so amazed about conference and he loved it. He was so amazed he went to the priesthood session with us and he loved it.

We talked to him about Saturday and his baptism and the program that we have for him and he wants his friend that introduced him to the church to baptize him he said that he wants me to confirm him on Sunday. I am so shocked and honored to do so we keep joking with him I hope the water is warm and he said that either way he is going to be warm with the spirit and he might feel up the font with his tears I said well ill join ya ahaha

General Conference:

Here are some quotes and some talks that really stood out to me.

"The Priesthood is the way to protection in the house" - President Packer.

“I loved his talk about the way we need to be protected in our house with Satan throwing everything at us)

"RETURN TO VIRTUE!" - Elaine Dalton

(I really loved her talk. she was so bold to the women about virtue and how we need to be in these days)

Satan's destiny is decided, and he wants others to join, he knows that he is going to be destroyed" - Elder Richard G Scott.

(he talked about having a Christ centered home )

"CATCH THE WAVE" - Elder Russell M Nelson.

(he pretty much taught the first lesson, restoration)

"Breaking the law of chastity is a gruesome Sin" - Elder Bednar

(loved how he was like you need to live the law of chastity)

"Do not hyperventilate when issues arise" - Elder Holland

I just want to end with my testimony adding on to Elder Holland's about believing. I felt like he was talking straight to me when he was speaking. I was in the same boat. I believed it was true and I was doing everything I knew I was supposed to do but I didn’t know for sure it was true. I wanna let you know that in the past 14 months that I KNOW THAT THIS IS TRUE. I know this and I know that the people that I’m teaching can feel that it is true. Conference was full of the spirit and I knew that this is the true church. I am so grateful that we have a loving prophet and apostles to lead us and guide us if not we would be doing as it says in amos 8:12 "And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."



I love all yall and please be safe this week. I pray for yall every day and night.

Love

Elder Kendall Christensen