May 6th Letter

HOWDY!!!!

How are things going in place that is still melting from the winter???? hahah

Man this week was awesome here are some highlights of this week.. GIT ER DUN.

Alright this week was awesome on Thursday we had planned an appointment with Shawn Beard. He text us Wednesday night and was like hey are we still planning on going to the temple and walking the grounds, I was like oh crap I forgot that we talked about that two weeks ago so I hurried and made arrangements to go to the temple grounds with him. Thursday night Shawn Beard, us, and Bro Pennington went to the temple and walked the grounds It was awesome. He just wanted to run through the door and get to work on the things he needs to do for his ancestors Shawn really enjoyed going to the temple and walked the grounds. We talked to him about patriarchal blessings and he wants to get his own, man I have never seen a member so golden. He even blessed the sacrament this week a week after he got the priesthood!!!!!!!!!! Holy cow it is awesome. I saw him on the stand and he just look so happy and he just smiled at me he was excited. :)

Friday was a pretty busy day for us. We started with a zone meeting. It’s funny so you know my last comp Elder Gutierrez! He is my zone leader!!!!!!

He did a really good job teaching us, we learned about faith and how to overcome it and doubt. After we went to lunch at a place called Culver's it’s like an Article Circle. But when I was there I noticed this woman kept looking at me. I don’t know if it was because I’m good looking or that she was wondering what we were doing. So she came up and talks with me and we were talking and found out she was baptized when she was 9 and she hasn’t been since and her boyfriend was a Mormon. She was telling me about him and I just told her that she just needs to read and pray and attend church. She said that she still has her triple combo and she said that she will read it. I gave her the number for the missionaries in her area and the address to the church house. Then I continued to eat and I noticed that she still was looking at me. Okay this is kind of weird, she came up and asks what my name was and I was like my name is Elder Christensen. She said oh thank you I was like no problem. Than while we were leaving she comes up to me again and was like will yall be here next week? I said I don’t know why? She said that if we come by next week around this time (1 pm) that she will sit down and here some lessons from us. Unfortunately she doesn’t live in our area but I got the missionaries going to go over there. We went to a potential investigator house and they were finally home!!! Their name are Henry and Kristi. Kristi was home and she talked to us for a while Really Nice family. They love us they had some exposure to the church before they met us. She is looking for a church that is family based and I was just thinking well that is us!!! She said that she would come to church but she never did we are going to meet up with her again soon.

Awkward Moment.

So we were coming home from a long day on Saturday night and we were at the light and we noticed this truck was just reeving his engine and just acting stupid and then all of the sudden we hear “DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!!! ******* MORMONS!!!!" I was like oh crap here we go again I just pulled up and drove off and tried to get away from them than all of the sudden I noticed here he comes following us then he pulls up right by us and was flipping us off and telling us that we were "number one” I didn’t look at them but in the corner in my eye I noticed that he was mooning us and just being disrespectful to us. Elder Cornwall was like what just happen I was like WELCOME TO TEXAS!!! He said oh wow does that happen often and I said YUP gotta love it.

I can’t wait to talk with yall on Sunday I am so excited. I am going to try to not cry but I know that it might happen I can’t wait to see all yall and talk with you. I am going to be calling around 600-630 Texas time so that would be 500-530. Utah time. I know that my comp wants to talk a while to his family so it’s going to be around that time. Just be patient and don’t worry i will call. just be ready!

　

I love yall have a safe week.

Elder Christensen