Howdy Utahns.
Howdy from the real part of Texas which is the country up
here in Navasota!!!
The beginning of this week was a little rough but I found
out that God Loves to bless us on the weekend so let me tell you about my
week!!!
I will let you know how
my week first started out. First on Tuesday we had Zone Conference which means
all day of driving for me! Which I don’t mind! It was funny we had to leave
around 6:30 am for the zone conference and we got up pretty early, well as I
was driving I notice it was really quite all my comps were out sleeping. It
kind of reminded me of how it would be on trips Dad driving and us kids out cold. haha. I finally got
real Mexican food from a member that night. She brought out this green sauce
and I was like man that looks good so I put a ton of it on and needless to say
it was straight jalapenos just in a liquid form. It was good for a min but
after having it in your mouth for about 45 seconds it got way hot haha yeah I’m
not smart still haha. Wednesday absolutely nothing happened it was
disappointing but we had what we knew as a busy day on Thursday! Yeah well that
didn’t happen either. I was little discouraged about the day as you can see we
had a little more of a rough week than usual but we had an awesome weekend
SMOKING!!
Let’s just say I’m a pro at Smoking Meats!! We went to a
non-members house on Friday to help him prepare and get stuff ready for a BBQ
he is putting on for our Branch. The dad has a daughter who is a member and
they reactivated her and her sons about 2 months ago. So we decided to do
missionary work and get them involved in something they like to do which is
TEXAS BBQ!!!! My companions and I used this as a tool to do multiple things.
One Learn how to smoke Brisket, chickens, Sausage and any meat pretty much, and
Second to fellowship them and try to get them interested in taking the lessons.
Saturday was a very
busy day in the morning and the afternoon we were handing out flyers to the
neighbors around our branch building inviting all to come to our BBQ that was
outside so they could both see it and smell it. We knew that if you put free
and BBQ in anything you get a good turnout. Well we were nervous because we had
a non-member cooking over 40 pounds of meat and we were expecting around 75-80
people to come. So we got out and invited nonmembers, less actives and
investigators we even had extra help from the branch. We went down this street
forgetting a member lived down there and the daughter (11 yrs old) came out and
said can I help so she came out with us around the block handing out flyers.
She was so happy to be with us missionaries. She just followed me down the
streets all happy talking up a storm and just being a little girl!
Well 5:00pm came and
it was time for our BBQ I was just hoping we had people to come. Well I was so
surprised of how many people came we had around 100 people and guess how many
of them were non members? Over 10+!!! There was one guy he came up with his two
girls and I was welcoming them and he said that he found a flyer on the door
and decided to come. I was like YES it worked. I was worried that it wouldn’t
work but it did. We gave him and his Nieces a church Tour; the girls wanted to
see the church so I took them in and gave them a tour. My comp’s was busy with
people outside. He enjoyed it inside and I was about to get his contact info
when the branch President cut me off!! :/ But yesterday we found out he is the
grandson of our investigator Bessie! It was a total success because members
brought their friends and neighbors and non-member family members. We even saw
a less active come that he said that when we came by his house that it was a
perfect moment I was on cloud nine after that night, we got a lot of left-over
meat and I got to use my Janitor skill in cleaning up the building. It was just
like cleaning up at Lincoln!!!
In closing I want to
let you read a scripture that i read in D:C section 112 it states
19 Wherefore, whithersoever they shall send you, go ye, and
I will be with you; and in whatsoever place ye shall proclaim my name an
effectual door shall be opened unto you, that they may receive my word.
21 And again, I say
unto you, that whosoever ye shall send in my name, by the voice of your
brethren, the Twelve, duly recommended and authorized by you, shall have power
to open the door of my kingdom unto any nation whithersoever ye shall send
them—
As I was reading that
I knew my purpose as a missionary more I was recommended by the twelve and the
prophet and that when I go and knock on a door should it be open to me because I
am representing Christ and that they are opening the door to him. I love
reading the scriptures! I found new things pertaining to me on mission. I know
that if we read with a purpose we will get things answered to us!
I love yall and hope
i hear from yall soon!!
Elder Kendall Christensen
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