Jun 17th Letter

Whats Up Yall.

So people think that oh it’s too hot In Utah or somewhere else freak man you should come to Texas!!!!!!

This week was so freaking HOT!!!!!! Especially on Saturday (more coming about that )

Monday was awesome. We got a new investigator his name is Daelin Strause he is 9 yrs old. The Parents want us to teach him and also teach them the lessons to reactivate them and also get there son baptized. We also had dinner with them they bought Taco Bell!!! We had a lot of food it was Amazing!!!  Daelin is such a smart kid and so are his brothers they ask such good questions that I would never believe that a 9 yrs old would ask! It is awesome to have someone to teach and to also try to reactivate a family as well.

This week as you have heard we had a general authority come to our mission Elder Christoffel Golden Jr. It was a very interesting Zone conference he is really big into numbers and wanted to know what our goals were and see how our mission is by the way of numbers. So after the Assistants presented the numbers for the past two months Elder Golden stood up and Lecture us about 2 hours about goals and how our goals and the goals we have as a mission are way too low. It felt like the whole time we got chastised about how we are not good missionaries and we have low standards as a mission he told us that we need to take it one step higher and go one number more of  what our goals are to get the Lord to help us and to exercise our faith. Then the zone leaders stood up and presented numbers and goals that the zone has accomplished and set. Well it got to our zone and Elder Petersen went up and presented our goals for member present lessons and new investigators and people being baptized this month. We had a goal as a zone to baptize 13 people. Elder Golden stands up and says "how many missionaries do you have in your zone". Elder Petersen said" we have 11 companionships". Elder Golden said “well that is one baptism for each missionary companionship, who was the person who went one more".  Elder Petersen said "Elder Christensen and his district" I was like HUH!!! Then Elder Golden tells me to stand up. Now I am really freaking out I’m getting called out by a 70!. He said the following words "well Elder you must be sick! I need to check your pulse. How dare you go one above what is the goal. You don’t belong in this mission if you’re going higher than what your mission goals are! You belong in another mission I wish the mission had more elders like you who go above and beyond what you are told and go more than what is set goal wise before you!  Thank you for your leadership and great example. Thank you and you may be seated!!"  Now at this point I was a deer in headlights. As I was standing up I was trying to figure out what he meant by all of this and was trying to understand what he was saying. I thought I was getting chastised but I was getting complemented by a general authority. As I sat down everyone around me was like "AP" ohhhh I was like ah man. But some people where joking and saying I can’t be with you your too good for us I’m just like wow! But it was a moment that I won’t forget!!

(OH BY THE WAY HE CANCELLED CHECKING MY APARTMENT. SO HE DIDNT COME)

Saturday was such a hot day! It was SYDNEY'S WEDDING!!!!!  It was so awesome to be at my first wedding on my mission. It was good to see them get married. It was just as awesome as getting a baptism. But I felt bad for the bishop he was in his suit all hot and sweaty doing the wedding ceremony. He got done and he was just dripping wet it was so Hot it was in the High 90's with humidity I was sweating. But this was really interesting it was so hot that balloons were popping! Now that is when you know that it is really hot. There colors were awesome lime green and purple The reception was good also. They got a BBQ restaurant to cater So we had good eating!!!! MMMMHMMMM!!!

This week was awesome I took Cornwall tracking and he got his first SOFT Rejection. But we later found someone by the name of Randy he told us he is interesting in learning more and we are going back Wednesday at 6 pm. But the thing is cool is that it all came down to our faith. I’m not a huge tracking person but I knew we needed to go. So this is a testimony to me that if we put our will along with god's he will put people, events, and trials in our path to make us a better person. I know that if we have our will the same with God's all things are possible and we are doing what he wants us to do.

I love yall and I hope yall have a good week. Don’t do anything i wouldn’t do ahahahah

Elder K.Christensen