Aug 12th Letter

Okay I am chopping at the bit, after seeing the pictures of the Fire at home. 2 years in a row are you kidding me!!!!!!!

 It better happen when I get home that it will be still active!!!

 Thank you for the pictures. AHH I can’t wait till I get home for that!!!!!!!!!!

 This week was kind of a rough week. It was hard to get into people's houses! But this week we went to do service at the peanut butter factory. Houston has the only peanut butter cannery for the church. We went there on Thursday and I was responsible to but all the ingredients together to make the peanut butter. We were only there for a couple hours but we made so much peanut butter it’s crazy. After volunteering there you go home with a free bottle of peanut butter. Some cool facts that every jar of peanut butter is 97% real peanuts rest is the stuff that makes it stick together. So the church has the healthiest peanut butter. And every jar contains 2.5 pounds of peanuts which is crazy and they can make up to 1000 bottles of peanut butter within 30-60 mins which is crazy fast, but it was awesome.  The thing is I didn’t know I was supposed to wear pants so they had to give me mesh one size fits all pants. It was legit, I look like MC Hammer!

 Saturday was a good day one thing that happened that was awesome was we had service for our number one investigator. Her name is Dolores Sanders. We go over and help remodel her home she moved into this home and the renters trash the place. Let’s just say I am learning quick how to fix up a home. But we went over there and cleaned everything. I felt like I was back at work at the school wiping down everything cleaning everything but it was awesome. After we sat down and had a lesson. We taught her the restoration lesson and she was so open!!!!!!!! She said that everything is making sense to her and she knew what a prophet was before we ask her. I was like holy crap!!!!!!! The even cooler part was that we asked her to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized and she said YES! We have a date of the 31 of August. She said that she might not be ready for the date but I promised that she would and she got all happy when I did that. But the cool thing is that she recognized the Spirit. I asked her what she was feeling and she said a lot of peace. We explained to her what that was and that it was the Holy Ghost and she said what do i need to do to be baptized. I am so excited to be working with her and get her to come back into the fold of God!. Another way cool thing that happened this week was that here in Texas they have a holiday called Tax Free Weekend, Where you go to stores and you don't have to pay sales tax, straight up how much you pay is what is on the tag. Well we were going to the store looking around and also contacting people. Well I went to GNC Nutrition Store. I go in there asking questions about some products and this nice lady was helping me out. After talking with her I walk out of there with 50 dollars’ worth of free samples of products. Oh yeah that's right I know how to work it, But I gave her something worth more A Mormon.org card! She was semi interested in learning more, but it was awesome because you can still go shopping and talk with people about the gospel. The funny part about this is everywhere we go we get asked if we work there because they think we are managers that work there. It is so funny!!!!!!!! I love it!

MIRACLE

So I wanna tell yall about a miracle that happened that meant a lot its small but it was all worth it!!! Yesterday was a very frustrating day!!! We were low on miles and no one would answer their doors. People who we would normally visit by stopping by were like you need to call first other people being jerks to us. I had enough. I wanted to quit the day early around 5 but I knew that I need to push on. So we went to this area that is our black hole of the area. People go in there active and we never see them again or they go less active. But we went in there to contact some of them. We parked the car and before we got out we said a prayer. We just prayed for a small miracle, Have some success. Just to let someone in. We got out and there is one active family in this area so we go over there to at least have her answer the door and let us in. We go over there and they were home!!!!! and let us in!!!!!!!! We were talking with them and they asked us if we had dinner. I said no they cancelled on us. She said well I’m making a new pot of Spaghetti. After talking with her she said that her husband wanted to have left overs but she was looking at it and was having a prompting that she shouldn’t make it. But that she needed to make Spaghetti. She didn’t know why until we answered the door and she said that she we were the answer. She was prompted to feed the missionaries. I can tell you that I have a testimony of that God does answer prayers Big or Small. He answered ours to have a small miracle and that was to have a member feed us dinner, and she was prompted to do it.

I hope that yall have a safe week. I love yall. Stay strong. Remember who you are and who you represent. Both your name and Christ! This is the true gospel of Jesus Christ. He lives and he loves us

Elder Kendall Christensen