Jun 10th Letter

Good Morning Real World!!!!!!!!!!!

How was everyone’s week been??? Mine was pretty awesome not going to lie.

It’s beginning to get HOT! I know that I say this every e-mail but I just want you to keep that in mind for the people who live in the land of desolation.

(Elder Cornwall calls this place land of desolation)

On Monday we had the opportunity to go to Shawn Beards house, and have dinner and to join him for FHE can I say I am pretty amazed every time we go over to his house. He was teaching his 7 year old daughter about prayer and you can’t even tell we taught him he is like a member who has grown up in the church all of his life it’s amazing. I love him he is amazing and he even helped us this week moving our stuff from one apartment to the other. He was so willing and he was so dedicated in helping the Lord’s servants.

Tuesday was AMANDA'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was a busy day for me. I did service all day we are helping the Ripley's with yard work and everything and anything to get the prepared for their wedding for this Saturday. We were out planting plants now you might think that this is easy to do. But it is different out here in Texas. We have Clay dirt and it sucks to dig I broke there shovel trying to dig. (Whoops). We spent 6 hours in the 90+ weather shoveling it was awesome I loved it. We had the opportunity to have dinner with them afterwards it’s awesome cause we get on the subject of food a lot I mention that I want to try Alligator. They were like well we have all natural alligator dog treats. So they dared me to eat one so the son Ryan and I both ate one. It was not bad but the after taste was nasty. The barley taste nasty and on top of that there was bone in it and that was nasty then my stomach was hurting for like two days but I got over it.

Wednesday we had a busy day moving stuff from one apartment to another. We spent most of our day doing that. We had one of the most intense lesson I have ever had, we have this investigator named Shannon Munoz now she is interesting. She likes to be very conniving so she was asking us conventional question like homosexuality, etc. and she was asking us what our stance was on it and we told her that we love the person but we don’t accept the sin and I told her that like 20 times. She was always trying to find little things to make us back down or confound us but it didn’t work. She answered her own question with our answer and then she ask about the word of wisdom and that was annoying cause she was like well you can have soda and not coffee they both have caffeine and both are addicted. So if you can see this is the type of person we are dealing with and trying to find fault in everything we say. But the one cool thing was I found a way to talk to her about the restoration and when I gave the first vision it was intense. The spirit was so strong everything was quiet and you can tell she was fighting with the spirit I know for a fact she felt the spirit and she knows that this is true she is just looking for things she likes and run with it but we will work on it.

Saturday we had another powerful lesson. We are still working with our eternal investigator Michael. This time we brought a member who is very smart about church history. Cause he is having a hard time with Joseph Smith. Michael has been doing a lot of research online about Joseph Smith and is getting a lot of Negative Stuff!! So it was awesome that our member was there. He told him basically it is impossible for us to gain a testimony off of the stuff we read on the Internet. I thought that was so profound. This can deal with people like him or just in general But during this lesson we were able to get him reading the Book of Mormon. We told him that he can’t get a foundation and a testimony about Joseph Smith without reading the Book of Mormon. He committed to come to church but he didn’t. I am FRUSTRATED WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!! So yesterday we went over to his house and we found him outside studying. We talked with him and he said that he know he has to fast and he is studying what the bible says about fasting. I ask him why do you want to fast he said that the only way he is going to get his answer is if he fasts. I was shocked. Finally after all these visits some things are clicking in his head. So he is going to fast soon and we are going to join him.

To end this letter on a good note we talked with Sydney this week and figured out who was going to baptize her and confirm her on The 22nd of June and she has asked Elder Cornwall to................. BAPTIZE her and Elder Christensen to..................... CONFIRM her. She will be my fifth person I have been able to give the Holy Ghost to and Elder Cornwall’s First Baptism. But this week is her wedding and we are invited to it.

I am so grateful for the life I have been giving and how I can use my Personality to share to others and touch other people’s life. I love Texas and I definitely know why I am out here!!!!!!

I love YALL

Elder Christensen