Jun 24th Letter

I am so thankful to be alive!!!!!!!!!!

This is going to sound weird but I have seen the Lord’s hand in our safety as we drive. I swear we have had a near experience every day this week. Let me tell you about one we had the other day. So yesterday morning we were going to church for our ward correlation meeting Elder Cornwall asked where he should turn. I told him Right at the Next light so we get to the light and we are stopped we start going and he gets going about 30mph he starts going and he is starting to miss the turn not even seeing it and I said You’re missing the Turn TURN! and he all of the sudden cranks the wheel and takes a right turn going about 25 mph. Needless to say the tires were squealing and we almost lost control. After I was just quite so I didn’t offend him he knows he sucks at driving and I do to and it frustrates me every time we get into the car. So needless to say IM STILL ALIVE!!!!

Anyways this week was a good week. We got dropped by an investigator who has been investigating for about 1 1/2 years. We have been noticing that he has been ignoring us for a while and we didn’t know why. We knew that he wasn’t that much interested anymore, but we were able to go to his house when he was home. I can tell that something was wrong you can just tell by his attitude something was up. So we talk with him and I ask if we can sit down and talk for a little bit. He said you got 15 mins and that is it so I ask him how everything was going and getting a conversation started and he came out and said that he doesn’t want to read the Book of Mormon anymore he is playing tug a war with himself inside with us "pushing" him to read and pray and be baptized and him finding negativity on the internet about Mormons, Joseph Smith and getting negativity from his friends that he couldn’t take it anymore. So he said I love the friendship that we have and I want that but no more "Mormon" which is good that he did this, to let him know and feel what the spirit is like when we are gone and that the choice that he is making is he is going to be accountable for it in the end.

 

Thursday was an awesome day. We called one of our less active members to come over to his house. He said yeah come over so we went over around 11am and he took us to the back where he was working outside we go back there hearing Pantera Blaring on the radio It was funny. He starts to weed his yard and we started helping him he doesn’t have a weed whacker so he pulled the grass around the edges of his house, so we got on our knees and started helping him. It was awesome he order pizza for us for our service. But while we were waiting for the pizza we started to tape his bathroom so he can paint it. He was saying that on his mission these were the times that he remembered the most, and he is going to remember this with us. We have been working a lot with him getting him back to church. We have had a lot of heart to heart conversations and he is opening up to us it’s awesome how we can touch peoples life so much!

After we got done at his house we got a call from Sister Ripley she asked us if we can give blessings. No sorry it’s against our religion hahahahah just kidding we said yes and she wanted us to come to the hospital to give her daughter a blessing. Her daughter was fearing a miscarriage and she wanted a blessing. Now the funny part was that this meant Elder Cornwall had to drive the freeway. So he got onto the feeder road and I told him to get into the third lane. Now the third lane leads into the freeway he didn’t want to do this but since I’m such a mean trainer, and he listens to everything I say I got him on the freeway he was so scared it was so funny!!!! But we were able to give her a blessing and we were safe traveling.

 

The Ultimate Highlight of the week was SYDNEY's BAPTISM! She got baptized on Saturday at 5:30pm!!! It was funny Elder Cornwall was going to baptize her and he was so nervous!!!! He had to baptize her twice! He forgot to say "and of the H.G" so he did it twice but it was awesome to see her being baptized. Sister Ripley was so happy and shared her testimony and said she thought that this would never happen but her family is so close in getting back to activity. We are now working with their daughter to get her back to church THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!! Sunday I had the privilege to confirm her member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint and give her the gift of the Holy Ghost. That was a moment that I will not forget! As I was there the words of dad rang through my head ITS Pay Day!!!! It was pay day for me and Elder Cornwall having this opportunity to see the fruits of our labor! Seeing that it is possible to get a baptism. I’m glad to have Elder Cornwall get this baptism to show him that through hard work and the faith in Christ that stuff like this happens!!

 

In closing I hope yall had the opportunity to see the New mission president broadcast. That was so special! I hope yall got to see it if not I strongly encourage yall to watch it online. It talks a lot about how to work with the ward council and the importance of it to us missionaries. I know it is going to help me in my work with the members. I know that god is hastening his work and we are in the middle of it and we need to do all that we can.

 

I love you so much

 

Elder Kendall Christensen