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!