It’s good Talking to yall From Elder Texas.
How is everything For all yall?????
This week was a good
week so let’s give yall a look of what went down for me this week.... Shall We?
Monday was just a normal P-day , Out here we don't do a lot
for P-day. We go do our emails here at the college than go with some elders to
go get groceries, than we go to some church house and we play some ball, or
card games. When I come home I am going to be good at some card games I will
teach yall when I get home. For dinner we went to a member’s house. (Oh by the
way have I told you my dislike that I
have for a certain meal.) I do not like SPAGHETTI. So when we went to the
member’s house it was so funny the kids came running out to us and said Guess
what? I said what? They said that my mommy made her spaghetti and meatballs I
was like oh yay!!. Elder Rios knew the sarcasm in my voice we have a running
count so far of having had 17 spaghetti dinners in the past 2 1/2 months. I’m
not a fan of it at all!!!!
Tuesday was interviews with President Pingree and guess who
was the first one picked out to get interviewed first. THIS GUY!!! I swear I’m
always the first one to get interviewed. I guess he starts with the best?! I
don’t know haha but we learned about how we can make the restoration lesson
more powerful and stating our purpose as a missionary more bold and with more
power. Some of these things are good to review and always get trained on again.
I did talk with Sister Pingree and I am going to the doctor tomorrow for my
wrist so I will let you know what happens when I go over there. That evening we
had the baptismal interview of Marissa Moreno, my companion and I were sweating
bricks!!!! She has a history of being flaky but they showed up and we get out
and they practiced the questions that we gave them. We were shocked and we knew
then and there that they were committed to get baptized. She passed her
Interview and so we had a baptism for Marissa Moreno
Friday I went on
Exchanges with some other Elders in my district, I went into an area called Waller.
It is huge country area and I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! It was the best thing ever.
It is so much different than the city or more populated areas that I have been
in you can actually see the stars at
night. I haven’t been able to see the stars in such a long time. You can’t see
them here because of the pollution of inner city lights and Humidity pollution.
It was awesome to see them!! But it was a day of good things happening. We went
to a small town around there and it was old town feeling, not a lot of people
there. It was what I imagined when I was thinking Texas before my mission. I
have pictures and I will send them, but we tried a couple of people but
nothing. We went to a college called Prairie View A&M It’s a Dominate Black
College so my companion and I was the only white fella's there. I am not that
taken back as I was when I first came out on my mission but we met with the
dean of religion there and he is an awesome Guy. His name is Dean Charles
Lewter VI, But he doesn’t say his R's so he says "Luda" Like
ludacris. He is so friendly to us and proselyte on the campus, all he wants us
to do is to text him when we are coming up so he knows that way the
missionaries don’t get in trouble. Well
tonight I was able to go to dinner with a member that used to be in my first
area, that we helped move and it was pretty awesome seeing them again. They
have a lot of land and a small run down house, but the funny thing was that in
there front yard they have 71 chickens!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is nuts. It was funny
I went in and rallied them up by chasing them we had homemade pizza and went
our ways. It was a fun time in Waller!!
MARISSA MORENO'S
BAPTISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had the Baptism of
Marissa Moreno. She was baptized on Saturday around 3:15pm. It was a very
awesome experience again I felt so fortunate to be able to be part of the
conversion of her and being able to witness a huge step in her life!!! She was so
happy to be baptized and the mother was happy to finally have all her kids now
baptized!!!! We had an members baptize her and her home teacher was able
to confirm her! But The best was that after the baptism and the next day at
church we had a lot of members come up to me (that I know ) and said that they
are proud of us to be able to get her baptized. They have gone through a lot of
missionaries and know they were successful this time. It was just a huge
confidence booster to be able to be appreciated by members and to have our work
go noticed!!
I want to leave with
a thought that I had during the baptism of Marissa. As the service was going and
during and after the baptism I had thought keep running through my head and it
was one that was said by an investigator that I have had and it’s this "
how can this religion be wrong when so many people are joining and its teaching
good things" But the part that stood out to me was this. How can this be
wrong? I have asked myself this question a lot. Being able to be converted to
the gospel of Jesus Christ you want to know that these things are true and I
know that there are flaws in everything, We have flaws and God has been able to
give us something that will make us be forgiven and remembered no more and that
is Repentance and the Atonement. I know for myself that this is the gospel of
Jesus Christ. I know for a fact that
this is Christ’s church I stand as a witness that it is true. If I didn’t know
that it was I wouldn’t have been here in Texas. I testify that he lives and he
has prophets to lead us and council us in these days. We have the wonderful opportunity
to be able to listen to them this week. I STRONGLY encourage that you pay heed
to their messages. Write down questions you have and seek for answers I know that if we do that we will find comfort
in it and to know what our Savior wants us to be able to know and live for
these times. I had the Bishop tell me that we have 2 days to learn and study
and we have 6 months to act upon it and live it I know that to be true. I want
to leave yall with a scripture that I found in my studies.
1 Nephi 9:6
"But the lord knoweth all things from the beginning;
wherefore, he prepareth a way to accomplish ALL his works among the children of
men; for behold, he hath ALL power unto the fulfilling of ALL his words. and
thus it is Amen"
Now I have put emphasis on the "all" because I
love God he doesn’t give us things to know just because he gives it to us so we
can know ALL things. So when we go to General Conference our prophets are going
to talk to us and give us guidance and counsel. Sometimes we might not know why
but remember he gives us a way to accomplish all things and be able to fulfill all
things. I testify this to be true!!!
I love yall so much stay safe and I love you, Thanks for
your presence at the baptism I truly felt it
Elder Kendall
Christensen
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