Hey mom, dad, family, and
friends,
I love you all so much!
Thank you for your support! Good luck Maddy with your competitions! It's good
to talk with you again and tell you of a few of the many miracles that we have
seen this week! Thank you so much for the package with the Temple names!! I
really appreciated it!
First of all, I was able
to go to the temple on Saturday Afternoon with Sister Mandy Peterson! She
is a lady that I worked with while I was serving in the Lakeview Ward, and
she was able to go through and receive her endowments in the Winter Quarters
Temple! I was so happy!! It was amazing to see her and the changes that she has
made in her life from the first time I met her:) She is still trying to stay
strong and raise her children in the church, even though
she doesn't have a lot of support from her husband right now. She is
amazing! There were many people that came from the Lakeview Ward to
support her as well!! So we had a big, happy, Lakeview family reunion in
the temple:) It was wonderful! I was smiling ear to ear the whole time:)
Among the people there, some of them included the Gudjenov's (My Bulgarian
family that I lived with!!) and Sister Fulbright! (who goes home in 3
weeks:/) There was probably about 15 people from Lakeview there! I loved
it! It has been a while since I have been in the temple but it was well
worth the wait:) And.. I was able to have the work done for all 12 females that
you sent! Thank you! There is always such a special spirit in the temple
when we take our own family names:) I know that they were there
and it is such a wonderful feeling to feel so close to your
ancestors:)
I was able to go and see
"Meet the Mormons" last night for our family home evening
with Bro. Brown, Angie, the Hartigans, and a young single adult- Krista
Green! I am not going to lie.. it was so weird and awkward being inside a
movie theater again! I didn't like it:) I felt like I was committing a crime
the whole time! haha jk:) but I loved the movie!! It was very well put
together! I think I liked the parts about the candy bomber, the kick
boxer, and the missionary mom the best.. well actually. I think I liked
all of it! I am not sure when it is showing in Utah, but it is a great non
threatening missionary tool! We went for Krispy Cream doughnuts
after:) Lots of fun!
So last Friday
evening, we went and saw our investigator N F again! We didn't have
an appointment set, just felt like we should stop by:) If you remember, when
we initially met them, his wife K and mother B were very
stand-off-ish! They didn't seem interested at all! But we talked with N and
began teaching him. Sister Hirro and Sister Dumont saw them next and gave him a
Book of Mormon! which was a huge miracle because the first time that we
met him, he wouldn't take it:) He watched General Conference! and really
loved it! He said that he was really shocked to see that they talked a
lot about the Bible and not just the Book of Mormon. That really
opened him up and he loved listening to the Prophet. K had been in the other
room over hearing it and came out for the last talk to watch it with him! She
also glanced a little at the Book of Mormon because he had sat it down on the
counter. So that is all stuff that happened prior to Friday:) onto Friday
when we saw them.. B answered the door and let us right in and said that
she would go grab N. He came right out of his office and we went into the
living room and... B and K both grabbed their Bibles and sat
down with us! K was so receptive and soaked in everything that we taught!
She didn't even quote one Bible reference against us! (N warned us that
she has Bible bashed with any missionary from any religion that has ever
come by! so this was a huge miracle!) We taught them the message of the
Restoration and they each accepted their own personal copy of the
Book of Mormon to read and pray about! The spirit was very strong! We
have an appointment with them on Friday night to follow up with their reading
and praying! Pray for them!
So good news!! As of
yesterday, we are no longer in car shares!!! We got a call yesterday
saying that they had a car that we could use at the mission office so we
zoomed down there to pick it up! It is a sweet car! It was
the Assistants old car:) It is one of the newest cars in the mission! It is a
2014 chevy cruze LT:) I really like it!! Haha I think that this is the
nicest car I will drive for a long time:)
Another quick story. We
have an Investigator named B. She has a lot of trust issues and is not all
the way there mentally. There was a pretty bad situation that we got put
in the other day but I will have to tell you about it another time. We had
to leave her home due to some things going on there, but we left her a Mormon
Tabernacle Choir CD of mine to help her lift her spirits and create a
peaceful environment in her home. We got a call the next morning at 7 am
from her husband. I was really nervous when I first answered the phone,
not knowing what to expect, but he said that they both really, really,
liked the music and they wanted us to get the lyrics for them so that they
could read and study them:) The spirit in their home completely changed
over night from a simple thing of listening to a spiritual cd. That was a
neat experience to show the power of music and how it effects us so much for
good, or negatively:) So be very careful on your choice of media and
music:) It has a huge effect on you without you even realizing it!
On Wednesday, we got a
pretty cool service opportunity that we will be volunteering at
a couple weeks each month. It is called JUMP (Jesus Use Me Please). It is
a non-denominational Christian church that we are serving at. They provide
service for the community each Wednesday night. Last week, we made sack lunches
for the Open Door Mission. It is for homeless people:) It is a really
neat service opportunity, being involved in other churches, but it is
really hard not being able to answer the kid's questions that they ask. We
aren't allowed to proselyte there as part of the volunteer thing but I know
that seeds are getting planted and one day, they will find someone that they
can ask those questions to again:)
We had interviews with
President Weston and that went well and my training was pretty good as
well this week:) I will tell you more about it later! Sorry there is so much
stuff to write about! Overall, it has been a good week and
we continue to see many miracles! It was a packed week! But packed
with Spiritual greatness:) haha:) Love you all so much! Have a wonderful week!!
Love,
Sister Christensen
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