HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL YALL!!!!!!!
This week was a very productive week and a week that seemed
to go as plan and some things popped up for us that turned out awesome for us.
So here is a week in a life of an elder from Navasota
This week was a week
of having Member present lessons that is one stat that the mission focuses on a
lot because it give the members involved and it’s the stat that counts a lot.
So this week was full of them one of them was our Tuesday dinner appointment as
she told us she is having her friend come over she is a non-member and lives in
Dallas. The member told us to have a Good lesson and so we did the cool part
about it was she was down here for a week and she came to church yesterday and
this is the best part she wants the missionaries to come over to her house!!!
So we got her info and sending missionaries in the Dallas mission over there. I
love it when members bring their friends to dinner or and activity and
missionaries are there. It makes an environment that is not too pushy and
intimidating. Than they want to meet with the missionaries when they feel the
spirit and see that we are not that bad and we have a gift for everyone!!
Friday was a fun
night. It has been getting so cold here right now it’s about 30-ish and it’s blowing
and in the night it gets cold so we got invited to a members house for a bon
fire. It was warm and toasty! It was so
much fun playing on their huge swing and having troubles and falling in front
of them. It’s entertaining for the kids and its funny with this family; they
have a nickname for me I’m Elder Batman. They have given us all nicknames Elder
Bryan is Elder Candy Man and Elder Sneed doesn’t have one yet but he will get
one tho haha
Saturday and Sunday
were busy days for us.
Saturday we visited with Aubrey and Raven they are the 9
year old girls we teach. Well when we were there we taught them and then there
grandpa came in and kinda distracted them, But it was good cause we were able
to teach him and he is having us over to his house so we can teach him also
which is totally awesome. We also met people at a store and we talked with him
about what we do and why we are out here! It was just awesome people were just
in our paths and we were able to talk with them!!
Sunday was interesting but before that we had 3 investigator
come to church 54 people attended our branch and 3 of them are investigators.
That is awesome One of them was Joe O'Neill, the other were members friends!!
Missionary work is real hot out here in Navasota. We got a call from a member saying he wants us
to come bless this house we were like alright we will. We go there and it’s a member’s
neighbor’s house and they told us some things that have been going on in there
so we blessed the house. Afterward we ask them if we can come by and they said
yes. But the funny thing was we found out there last name, and they are a potential
family we have been looking for, for about 3 months!!!! So that was way crazy,
Joe and Elizabeth!
They are doing awesome they are so far good for the 2nd of
Feb for baptism. We have been over there teaching them the plan of salvation
and word of wisdom. On Saturday Elizabeth wasn’t there for our lesson so we
went over yesterday and when we were there they had friends over and they sat
down for the lesson and they liked it also. They committed to read more and
live the word of wisdom which is awesome. So Saturday when we went over there
and they had there inactive father in law and he just went at us pretty much
bashing with us. It was ridiculous! But it’s whatever but here is the best part
of all this so Joe came to church yesterday for the second time in 3 weeks. It
was fast and testimony meeting which you don’t have control of sometimes and it
could be crazy but it wasn’t this time. After
the meeting I was talking with Joe and you can tell he was thinking a lot. I
asked him what is up? He told me something really powerful he said that when we
took him to the church for the first time he was pretty comfortable. The second
time he was really familiar with it and loved it but this time was different.
He said that when he was in the Hospital he saw this very chapel with this girl
in a yellow bow sitting at church and this week there was a girl in a yellow
bow and he said that God is sent him a message earlier and he recognized it! He
was telling me that God is sending him a message that this is what he is supposed
to do. So he is doing some praying and pondering to make sure this is what he
wants to do!!! I thought that was super powerful and I know for a fact that God
does prepare people. I know that for a fact. I have seen it many times out here
he is hastening his work!!!!
Missionary Message
This week I was reading the Book of Mormon and I found a lot
cool things. I LOVE READING It seems like whenever I start to read it I can’t
put it down its addicting!!! I love the scriptures!!
This week I was reading in the book of messiah with King Benjamin’s
address to the people and I found this to be awesome. I found this and it will
help me when I become a parent Mosiah 4:
14-16
14 And ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry,
or naked; neither will ye suffer that
they transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and
serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the devil spirit which
hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness.
15 But ye will teach
them to walk in the ways of truth and soberness; ye will teach them to love one
another, and to serve one another.
16 And also, ye
yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will
administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not
suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out
to perish.
I know that the scriptures can help us out in our lives. It
can tell us how to become better in every aspect of our lives. I know that the
power of God is real so is the atonement. I have had my testimony of the
atonement become stronger lately! I know we need to use it! If we do he will
bless us. I’m grateful for all that you do!
I love yall and stay safe.
Elder Kendall Christensen
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