Week 6 - Elder Christensen in Spanish Town, Jamaica

Week 6

 

 

Hey!  These Weeks are flying by!! On Monday it was Heros Day. There were lots of Parties and Alcohol and Weed. We went to see a woman yesterday named Annie! She has a Mini Bar in her house sooo there were a lot of drunk people at her house! Little back story 2 other Elders Baptized this Lady and she said hey can you guys get some Missionaries to my Friends? Thats where Elder Graham and I come in. We went and saw the first Lady and she said never come back i already have a God. Sooo we left after that haha but Annie Lives next door and we met her at one of her parties she was throwing . There are always High and Drunk people at her house but that makes for funny times. They think that Weed is really good for the mind and it makes you smarter. Haven't seen one smart guy with a spliff in their mouth. Annie is really loving what we have to teach her. She loves the restoration! I can't wait to get into the plan of salvation with her because she has a baby daddy that she is planning on getting married to by the end of the year! She has a 17 year old daughter who is also sitting in on our lessons. Annie said she will come to church this sunday! Hopefully she does! Church is the best place to learn more. Missionaries are great but not as good as the Ward Members support! 

This week Elder Graham and I went to go Finding in Innsome. We didn't find anybody but when we were walking back to our house at night we stopped at a gated Neighborhood and I said to Elder Graham lets go chat it up with the Security guards! We tried to talk to one but he said just go talk to the guy at the gate. So we went over and talked to a guy named Julio. We got to talking and he lives on the same street as one of other Investigators. Turns out thats his mom we are teaching!! He got Married a few months ago and his marriage is gettting rough. We talked to him about the Plan of Salvation and he said you guys need to come over. I know that what you guys have will help me and my wife out. We are diffidently going to visit him this week! 

On Tuesday Last week i got to go on Exchanges with Elder Robbins my MTC Companion! It was a lot of fun we talked to a lot of people and teaching him was so much fun. We are a lot better teachers that when we were back in the MTC! 

Teaching Erika was interesting this week. She is in her late 20's but hangs out with 14 year old kids and younger. She has 2 kids as well and they are pretty crazy. Its hard to teach when they are jumping on her and us. The environment isn't really good right now but we are going to visit her this week when everybody is at school so hopefully it will go a lot better! Her little 3 year old girl was flipping me off during one lesson haha she is a silly girl. Her little 4 year old boy was taking a puppy and throwing it in the air and not catching it. They really don't like their dogs. Or they love them so much they get to excited and drop them. 

I'm so grateful for the time i get to be out here in Jamaica! I know that the Book of Mormon is true and the more we read it the better we can aline our lives with Christ. Members are so important to the work. The Members will help the Investigator more along so much faster! I'm grateful for eveybody back at home and the example they set for me. I know that Jesus Always has his hand stretched out and we just need to grab onto it and he will help us through our hard times. I love being a Missionary!!

Nuff Love, 

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Elder Christensen

 

 

This week was Elder Knights Birthday! He got flowered in the morning! Here is also a picture of the sunset and my bike "The Viper"

Week 5

Week 5

 

This week was full of a ton of surprises!! We now have 6 people on date for baptism! It Is awesome that people are coming to know that this is the true church! We plan to have 10 people total on date by the end of this week! One of the roads we are on a lot is 58th street. we have 3 people on date there. We were teaching Rose one evening and when we came out of a lesson there was this lady throwing rocks at this 20 year old. Elder Graham and I looked at each other and laughed but this young adult was taking those rocks like a champ! She just kept walking away like nothing was hitting her!

The working is increasing every day! We get 3 new people to teach each day but not all of them give us their real number or address.... its a little disappointing. We went to see a guy named Deer but he gave us a false number and we saw him latter that day and he turned around and walked the other way!

I got to give a talk this Sunday at church!! It was on Increasing your Faith. I got to choose the topic. We have many less actives and non members that week at church and it was defiantly inspired. Lots of people came up to me after and said it was great. One of the other brothers said that I looked like the guy from the King of Queens that drives the mail truck. That was a good laugh for the day!

 

The lady with the dream of the book, Erika, We were biking down 58th street on St Johns where we have 3 investigators and I saw her sitting outside her house so I stopped and Elder Graham biked back up to me and I talked to her about the happiness this gospel brings to me and my family and than I told her that families could be together forever. We set up a return appt. and when we came back she said she had been praying the day we found her that god would send her some help because she wanted to get closer to him. So we asked her if she believes in miracles and she said of course you are here right now! And than we said this book The Book of Mormon is a miracle to have and she said I had a dream about that book and that 2 people brought it to me! so we gave her the book and she reads it every day! She is in the 7th chapter of 1st Nephi. She is going along well. The only problem with her is that she has 3 little kids that are really annoying when we are teaching erkia they jump on us and mess with our bikes and so before we saw her this week I prayed that her kids would be calm and that we could have the spirit. They were. Prayers are answered so much! I love praying! We weren't sure if we could get her to church so be talked to her about it and before we could even ask the question she said I'm going to try to come to church this week! I know its the right thing to do! I love this work it is priceless!

We are teaching a good 20 people right now. It is always fun to talk to people about the plan of salvation. Lots of people don't know that you can see your family after death. The funerals are crazy here though! They get a huge marching band and cheerleaders that fallow the hurst! its so crazy they celebrate death but also morn it. We are teaching a woman named Sasha who has just lost a cousin. We told her that you could see her again after you die and her eyes got so big so we went back latter that week and talked to her about the plan of salvation! She loved it I hope that this message brings happiness to her because I know it does for me!

I hope everything is going good in the states!

nuff love

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Elder Christensen

 

Passing out a Book of Mormon!

Week 4 - Jamaica Kingston Mission - Spanish Town

 Week 4

Well here it comes!! I've been out for a month now on the 9th!! Crazy how fast it went by!! This week was crazy with conference and we had a zone meeting as well so we didn't get to go out and teach that much but we worked our butt off every time we were out in the streets!! This week we saw a woman named Erika! She had 3 kids and is a single mom like most women here in Jamaica. When we were talking to her the first lesson she said she has been having dreams about this blue book... We had that blue book she has been looking for! When we first contacted her she prayed that day on her birthday that the lord would send someone to her to strengthen her faith in Jesus Christ and I love going over to teach her!

Conference was AMAZING!! Oh I wish I could of had the same experience at home! I noticed this conference all the talks were about simple doctrines like faith and keeping the commandments and that Mothers are super important! something I loved when Russel M. Nelson talked about how important mothers are in a family and through them we will all be converted. In Jamaica we teach a lot of women so hopefully we can get to the men through the women!  During conference in rained and rained so much!! it was super crazy!! The power went out a couple times and we had to listen to conference over a phone.

I hope you are all having an amazing time back at home!! Keep working hard and you will be blessed!!

Nuff love
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Picture 1 Conference listen over a phone because the power was out

Picture 2 Cereal and box milk. Milk here goes bad to fast so this milk doesn't expire until you open it. tastes alright

Picture 3 Cutting open a frozen Jelly (baby coconut) I'm pretty good with the Machet
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Elder Christensen

Something Elder Christensen didn't say, but I read on his companion, Elder Graham's blog:  "Transfer were Thursday.  I received elder Christensen from Gilbert, AZ.  He is awesome.  The first day he was with me, he would just walk right up to people and talk about the gospel.  He is fearless which influences me to be more fearless as well." http://eldercgraham.blogspot.com/