Talk about a crazy awesome week! I feel
like I am constantly on a roller coaster of emotion out here. It just goes up
and down up and down down and up up up and down and up and down etc haha. It is
crazy. I can't take it sometimes haha. But the week started out awesome on
Monday. We met this guy like 4 weeks ago and just didn't think he was too
positive. But we had a lesson with him finally and it was really awesome. He
told us that out of all of churches that he had been too and learned about, our
doctrine was the one that fitted best with his beliefs. So that was pretty
awesome. He also has a car, Sundays free, and probably actually married, so that
is so awesome! Then we watched the Joseph Smith movie at a member's house with a
different investigator right after wards and the investigator loved it! So that
was awesome. Then we went and taught the doctrine of going to church to a recent
convert and her other family members who would be baptized if they had Sunday's
free. It was very powerful as well and at the end of the lesson you could tell
that they got it and it really started to click for them. It was an awesome
night!
We went on a temple tour with Felicitas this week which was really awesome
as well. They are always really good. There is a member in our ward that does a
really good job at translating at the temple tour. Translating is super hard,
but he is reallllllll good at it. I remember when I had to translate for
President Hall in my first area. The speaker was speaking Spanish and I had to
tell President and Sister Hall what he was saying. The speaker decided to share
the least famous story in the bible. I knew nothing about it. President and
Sister Hall got nothing out of it probably haha.
Well we set a baptismal day with Felicitas this week and it was super
positive. Then some really bad luck happened on Sunday and she didn't come to
church and instead went to a Catholic one and then decided that all churches are
good. So tomorrow we get to call her to repentance. Should be awesome.
This week I had a goal of dragging out contacts so to say. A lot of people
say that they are busy or something like that. I have never met so many busy
people or people who are in a house with some kids that call them mom or dad and
tell us that they are just house sitting. So this week I decided to when I heard
an excuse to just start teaching and testifying. We saw a miracle because of it
and ended up giving a pretty solid referral to the sister missionaries here. It
was really cool. A lot of times when we are tired, having a rough time, etc we
look for reasons not to talk to everyone or not to go the extra mile. Instead of
look for excuses to talk to everyone and to try our very hardest. I have seen so
many tender mercies from the Lord that have come from just pushing a little
farther and fighting off the excuses that Satan puts in me. I know that the Lord
will restrain us sometimes from doing something, but I also know that Satan does
it as well especially when we are trying to share the precious and most
desirable fruit with others. It is when we fight past those feelings that try to
get us down that we see the hand of the Lord. I am learning slowly but surely to
try and look at problems, discouragement, disappointment, other words that I
can't spell, and trials as blessings and happiness because I know that something
great is about to happen.
This week we had the opportunity to give a blessing to a lady who was
struck by lightning. She was like gold or some kind of metal teeth and the
thunder came down over her, then I guess some lighting hit her mouth or
something like that. Super crazy bad luck, but maybe she needed it to be able to
be receptive to the gospel. Watch the video by Elder Jefferey R. Holland
"Sanctify Yourselves"... Kind of goes along with the story and is a great
powerful video.
Well I love this work and the gospel. se que esta iglesia es la iglesia
verdadera. el libro de mormon es la palabra de dios. testifico que podemos
recibir cada respuesta que necesitamos adentro de sus paginas. estoy agradecido
estar aca en este punto de mi vida. yo amo a mi familia y la agradezco todo que
ha hecho para mi.
This is the true church. Man could not have created an organization like
this. It's principles and doctrines come from a God who is all knowing and
loving.
Love you all. Happy late birthday to Ryan Stockard, my man. Love you
bro.
Thanks for the prayers, love and miss you!
Elder Christiansen
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