May 28th Letter

How was everyone's memorial day!!!!!!!! Mine was awesome I hope everyone’s was also

Man this week was a hard week for me. I have been sick since Wednesday and I’m still not over it.

I’ll tell you more about it later but I want to tell you about happy things

We met with Sydney this week twice. The first time was on Wednesday and we brought a soon to be missionary with us. We taught her the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he did a good job. The spirit was so strong there with us. There seemed to be a topic we talked a lot about and that was the Promptings of the Holy Ghost. I shared my experience about breaking my arm. (all is good :) ) and it just helped me realize how blessed I am to be here and to have a reminder to follow the promptings of the spirit. Than the next meeting we talked about the Word of Wisdom. She is planning on giving up coffee and to live it. The funny thing is that I love going over there cause the family is so awesome. I love talking to them. We spent about hour and half talking about the best food places here in Texas, Utah, and Nevada. It was awesome and the even funnier part is they have two huge dogs and they love us and especially Elder Cornwall. He gets his shoes licked and slobber all over his pants and get jumped on by the dog. The dogs don’t really do that to me but Elder Cornwall gets it the most. It is so funny cause he is like " help" hahah

Had a meeting with Michael and we taught him more about Joseph Smith. He is having a problem knowing that he is a True Prophet because he loves to do research about him on the internet and that is the worst place to do that. Michael said that he is a false prophet because there is some prophecies that are un fulfilled and that makes him a false prophet. I was like really so I bore him my testimony and read Matt 7: 18-20 which says by the fruits ye shall know him and read D&C 135 which is John Taylor saying that Joseph Smith has done more save Jesus Christ Only. After I read him that he took my scriptures from my hand and read that again and you could hear a huge "Sigh" he finally told us he would read the Book of Mormon again. Finally that was our goal to get him to do that so good progression is being made there

Other than that everything was good this week. Elder Cornwall and I are doing well and so is everyone else. It is becoming hotter Consistent 90 degrees daytime and 75 degrees at night so its warming up and so am I, which sucks but it’s all good I need to lose the weight. haha

SICKNESS

It all started on Wednesday when I wasn’t feeling to well I was really cold which was really weird cause it is 90 degrees outside. I knew something was wrong I figured nothing about it so I went on. Then that night I was so cold and my body was aching and I had a huge headache so I went to be took some drugs and woke up still feeling that way. I had a huge headache and 100 degree fever for 2 days. Than all of the sudden my throat was killing me it’s like someone scratch the back of my throat it was so bad that I couldn’t even swallow on Saturday night. I was having such a hard time and I was like I have never had this happen before. I was still having a fever and headache and Sunday I got both of my ears clog up. So at this point I have a headache, fever, sore throat, ears plugged and hacking up a storm. I am like what else do I get. I have never been so sick in my life. I have been taking so many drugs and trying to get myself better. Last night was the worst of it all. I was so miserable and Elder Cornwall could see it in my face I couldn’t stop coughing, blowing my nose etc. So before I went to bed I just prayed to my father in heaven and said please give me the strength to do your will. I can honestly say whenever I was in the apartment I felt like crap but when I was out and about working hard I was a little better. I knew it was God blessing me and making me feel better to do his will.

I have a testimony of prayer and about Jesus Christ. I have been on my knees a lot this week and I know he answers prayers he watches over us and gives us things we can handle. I also know the importance of enduring to the end and pushing through. I have learned that being a Christensen we go out and GIT R DUN!!!!! There are no short cuts and no half way getting important things done

I love yall I hope everything is going well and i will talk to yall soon

LOVE

ELDER CHRISTENSEN