July 1st Letter

IM BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  haha

Alright I want to clear some stuff up. haha Yall think that you have the worst heat and that it was hotter than Texas. WELL!!yall have dry heat and we have wet heat SO when it gets hot, its FREAKING HOT! yall have no idea haha :)

This week was hard, rough. It is the type of week that you have when you have a baptism and all this success and then you have a week that crashes! That is how my week has been not fun!

I apologize now! This might be a short letter!

When we had the baptism last week that took our topinvestigator to Recent Convert and we had 2 of our other investigator drop us. So we are down to one real good investigator that we are trying to work with and 2 others thatwon’t do anything So its kinda frustrating, but that is what you get for being a missionary. I just have reminded me that this is not easy It is the hardest thing I have ever done!  

We got a new investigator yesterday! She was a former investigator and this woman has been on my mind for a while!And whenever we try to go there she is never there! But we had luck yesterday! So we went there and she opened the door and told us to come in and gave us some water! She was talking to us and she is a really nice lady. She lives by herself, with two or three cats! She has a lot of stuff in her house like stuff she has saved in her days. But there was one thing that I noticed and that was she had a bible and a triple combination on her coffee table. I thought ah man she has been reading she said that she has read the book of Mormon Twice!!!!!!!!!!!! I was like HUH!!!! She reads and any questions she has she writes them down and asks us. Lately she hasn’t done that because she works a lot, but now she wants us to come by and teach her again. I asked her if she believe the Book of Mormon was true and she yeah, but I have concern about the golden plates, But that is something I have to go on faith. I was like man you are like solid!! I ask her if she would be baptized if she knows these things are true and she said maybe! So hopefully we can work with her and try to get her to know more. Her name is Ladine Hamiliton

On Thursday we didn’t have dinner so we just worked all day and had dinner late at night when we came in from the night. Elder Cornwall wanted Taco bell, than changed his mind to get Jack in The box! So we go inside and its 8:45pm He orders a$1.69 hamburger and a water cup. I didn’t get anything becauseI was out of money. So he got a receipt and if you fill out a survey you get two free tacos. Well I did it but I didn’t know that I had to buy something to get two free tacos. I was like ahMan. So we are just sitting there talking and then we were like where is your hamburger. So I asked the guy moping the floor and he said let me go check he yells from the counter what didwe ordered. I was like a Texas cheese burger! He said I don’t see it and they have three workers looking at the screen and I go up and show him the receipt. Than all of the sudden they were like HOLY S@#$!!!! IT was the top order and no one saw it and we have been waiting for 39 mins!! The manager was so pist!!! The funny thing was one of the workers face and reaction was priceless! So after 41 mins we walked out of there with two burgers and fries for free! It was funny!!!

Another cool thing happen was we were walking this neighborhood and I didn’t know why there was a potentialinvestigator there, and that is where we wanted to go visit. But while we were walking we got stopped by a guy mowing his lawn and asked if we wanted water. I said YES so we went inside and I was happy cause I thought this random guy was inviting us in. we go inside and I see wine and I was like yes we got someone new but come to find out he is a member and active! So is his family. They moved in last week and there neighbor gave them the wine I was kinda sad they weren’tinvestigators but we found an active family no one knew moved into the ward! I still know that I’m getting put into places that god wants me to be.

Last and but not least i got a visitor Saturday!!! Brian Schofield was in my area and he stops by the apartment and visited me!! Ihaven’t seen him in 10 months!! It was so good to catch up with him and to see him. It felt like old times again being companions

I hope yall have a good fourth of July I know it won’t be as good if I was there hahah but have fun and take lots of pictures and videos for me. I love yall so much!!

Elder Christensen