Congrats to my auntie Karin on her baby
Jeffery Douglas. Very studly name. And Happy Birthday to a lot of people out
there.. Grandma Jill, Grandma Jean, Kenzie, and Brooklyn? Haha, to many B-Days
right now.
This week was great as well, they keep
getting better and better. And I am not lying. We set two baptismal dates this
week! :) So that is definitely the highlight. We were very blessed. We also
taught that guy that I told you about last week who is really really smart. He
didn't bash at all, just had some real sincere questions! So that was good!
Hopefully we will be able to teach his family here pretty soon and he also told
us he would go to church with us :)... We have a lesson with him tomorrow, he is
a really busy fellow, but we are going to try to get at least 2 lessons with him
a week. His name is Rene. We also found a great guy named Carlos this week
tracting around. He was pretty cool, we taught him the Restoration right there
on the doorstep, he felt the spirit and liked it. He is an old fashioned guy and
so he was thinking that he would have to change if we came back to teach him
more, so he was kind of hesitant about that, so we are going to make a surprise
stop at his house real soon haha. We found some other potentials as well this
week by tracting. This Venezuelan lady named Lisett from Caracas, Venezuela...
She opened the door and said, "hola" as in we look white so she didn't think we
spoke Spanish, so we couldn't bother her, but one of the cool things about the
gift of discernment is that you can tell when people can speak English haha. So
even though we both could speak Spanish, we said, "hey, how are you doing?"
(with confidence to show her that we knew she spoke English). So then she
started speaking English, then later we threw the curve ball with the Spanish and
finished the conversation in Spanish. Gotta keep them investigators on their
toes haha. But she actually seemed to turn around during the contact and invited
us back when her family was home.
We had a kind of awkward moment this week where we knocked a door and a
like 18 yr old kid and his dad answered the door, and they let us in, and told
us it was the grandparent's house, so we walked in the house and the dad asked
his parents (the grandparents) if it was alright that we came in. And the
grandparents were eating and didn't look too happy to see us and said, "Probably
not a good idea while we are eating." And it wasn't a very nice tone, so we
turned around and went back out the door haha.
We were blessed with 2 investigators at church this week. One of them is
Marta from El Salvador. She is the sweetest lady in the world for sure! Her
baptismal date is for the 16th of this month. She is awesome though. She is
doing everything! Reading, praying, and going to church. And she is feeling the
Spirit a lot in her life and at church! The greatest thing about our message is
that we just invite (sometimes beg haha) others to just try it, see how it is.
And it is as simple as CPR.. Church Pray Read... CPR isn't that easy, but easy
to remember the letters haha. It is a blessing to share the greatest message in
the world for these 2 years! Love you all and thank you for the prayers, we are
being blessed because of your prayers and faith. :)
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Elder Christiansen
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