Week 40 Kingston

Week 40  06-13-2016   

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was great! I learned a lot from some General Authorities.

We had stake conference this week. One thing we learned was from the story of the Brother of Jared. The brother of Jared brought the stones to the lord. He had to bring something to the lord before he makes something great out of it! It was super great to hear that. We need to bring something to the lord before he makes something great out of it.

This week we had an awesome lesson with Janiqua. We watched the Mormon message with her about the man's family who died in a car crash due to a drunk driver. She felt the spirit! She wiped her eyes a couple times! Haha. We were talking about the plan of salvation and how we all have agency. The boy had the agency to get in the car drunk. We were also trying to relate how bad things happen to good people sometimes and it isn't that god doesn't love us but he has another plan for us. We read 2 Nephi 24 with her and it just clicked with her!

Elder Kolomalu is great we went to a Investigators house Shadean and there’s a lot of kids in the yard who love us and he is a great beat boxer so he lined up the kids and when he hit their heads he would beat box. it was so funny

Love this work love feeling the spirit for sure. When we were at stake conference I was listening to one of the General authorities and had the prompting to ask god if he was a truly called of god. I did what I was prompted and the spirit was so strong and I learned so much from the messages he shared. On Sunday he said in his testimony that he has met Christ and knows that he is real and he loves all of us... Wow the whole room went silent and the spirit was super strong. Love this gospel!!

Nuff Love Everybody,

Elder Christensen

Janiqua with Elder Christenen and Bischoff

 

One of the oldest bridges in Jamaica. It was man made and they call it Slave Bridge because the slaves built it. Now people try to hang people off it so there are guards under one of the trees... love Spanish town haha :)

Week 39 Kingston

Week 39  06-06-2016   

Dear Family and Friends, 

This week was a fun one!!

Elder Kolomalu is now in Kingston!! It has been way fun so far this week! We are teaching together like we have been companions for a couple months already! He is a pretty loving Missionary! Always trying ways to serve others! Gotta love those Tongans!

This week we saw Janiqua and had some very powerful lessons! She isn't working on Sunday either! It’s way cool how much faith she is getting it is growing that’s for sure. We watched the restoration video with her and she loved it!! she felt the spirit that’s for sure! She asked why did Joseph smith go through so much? Why did he stick with it? haha man she is awesome! Chris a member asked her "If you knew something was true would you back down from it if it meant losing your salvation?" haha way cool she said I would stick it out and finish the job! She is getting it and is reading the book of Mormon.

Elder Ashworth went home this week. I hope they put me on the do not kill missionary list. Haha I was with 2 missionaries going home in 1 transfer. Was a new experience. He was great though!! Loved the time with him.

I've been trying to get a Tupenue or a lava lava my who mission and Elder Kolomalu is the Man!

Had a Sour Sop this week. Tasted weird but was good! I like the Juice better than the fruit!

Love you all and Take Care of ya self!!!

Elder Christensen

Sour Sop Fruit

Lava Lava with Elder Kokomalu

Week 38 Kingston

Week 38  05-30-2016   

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was really awesome!! We got some new investigators and also a family to teach.

We are teaching this girl named Shadean, she is way cool and really loves the restoration. She is about to have a baby, number 3 for her and she is 25. Sad but she is excited to still learn.

Janiqua is doing awesome. she told us she is getting a job and her boss said she has to work on Sunday’s. We did a role play with her and practiced her saying no to working on Sunday so when she went into the interview she would know what to do. The spirit was super strong during that part! It was amazing so she told her boss and her boss said I’ll see what I can do and so she doesn't have to work on Sunday. She also came to church on Sunday too!! Way awesome!

Transfer week is this week. Elder Boyer is leaving and going to Port More :( Going to miss him but he will rock the island over there. Elder Ashworth goes home this week and I'm getting elder Kolomalu!! He was in my district in Spanish town. Super excited to be with him!

For district meeting this week President Brown came... wow that was scary haha it was super good though he shared a lot and I learned a lot from him. We talked about the importance of member work!! That is going to change Jamaica! Love President Brown!

Have an awesome week hope the summer is Bad! (means good in Jamaica)  haha peace and love!

Nuff Love,

Elder Christensen

Week 37 Kingston

Week 37  05-23-2016   

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was nice!! I got a new companion!! Way excited for the work we get to do now! I'm with Elder Ashworth. He is from Idaho and is going home in 9 days now haha. My companions just keep leaving.

This week we had a lesson with a woman named Marcia. This guy that was sitting in was sharing his spiritual experience that he had when he dreamed about Jesus and he was inked up and finally Marcia told him "Stop Talking about being in the Spirit, we are living in the flesh now" haha We all started laughing.

I also got to go on a trade off with the Zone Leaders. That night I was with them Elder Boyer and Ostroski both got sick. haha good thing i left! Trade off with them was good. We went up the mountains and saw some people! Learned a lot especially on how important sharing a testimony is.

At Zone Conference this week we talked about less active work. It is really Rescue work. I loved that. These people need to be rescued. Working with them is special. Bringing someone back is super important!! Love that!!

Love being here in Jamaica!! Take it easy in the Heat during the summer!! It's getting nice and hot here :))

Nuff Love,

Elder Christensen

Week 36 Kingston

Week 36  05-16-2016   

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was an up and down.

We had a good lesson week. We had a lot of members come out with us. That is always such a big help. People relate more to Jamaicans. They always have these crazy ways of explaining something and Jamaicans get it haha.

Elder Fowkes went home that sucked but happy for him. Learned nuff from him. We had a great 9 weeks together and found a lot of the lords children that want to learn.

Skype with the family this week! It was great!! Loved seeing them! They have changed so much it's crazy what 5 months can do! This next skype call will be even more change! Love The fam!

Nuff Love,

Elder Christensen

Happy Family Skype!  Mitchell in the corner of screen.

Week 35 Kingston

Week 35  05-9-2016   

Dear Family and Friends, 

This week way-way great!!

Went on a trade off with Elder Whitter. He is a Jamaican from Sav. We went to trench town. That was a cool place. Bob Marley grew up there. We were pretty close to his house didn't get to see it but soon come. When we were in there was a guy that saw me and started chasing after me yelling stop him stop him I want his Bike!! haha I Turned around and he was gaining on me and I asked if he was good and he said STOP!! haha I just rode off and stayed safe. Jamaica is crazy man!!

We are having great lessons with our investigators. We have talked about investing in our investigations a lot lately and we have done that. It works we have a great pool. We should have 5 baptisms in June so super excited!

On Friday we weekly planned and then ate lunch and then the rain came pouring down. It was so bad we didn't go out until 6 when we were sick of staying in the house. We got soaked pretty fast. When we were going down Olympic Way to see Shari and Franchell Elder Fowkes Hit a big pot hole and burst his tire! It was so funny we both started busting up laughing. It was sad because we had to walk home in the rain. The zone leaders picked us up though thank goodness!! Grateful for them!! Loving Jamaica!! Excited to skype next week with the Family!! See ya soon! :)  

Nuff Love,

Elder Christensen

Week 34 Kingston

Week 34  05-2-2016   

Dear Family and Friends,

This week was a fun one!! We had lots of Joy!! We got ice cream from our investigator who owns a shop twice this week!! So yummy!! He is a really cool family guy. We haven't seen his family yet but soon come! I hope we get to see all of them.

We caught Franchell. She has been hiding from us for 2 weeks and we went to her house right when she was walking out of her yard and we came around the corner and said Hello!! She about ran but then she came back and talked to us. She didn't really enjoy church because someone who was speaking was crying and she didn't know why. She also was talking about Family History and Temples. We are seeing her tomorrow thought to help her out. She said she wants to learn but she just isn’t sure right now.

Today we went to Fort Rockey! We played capture the flag with the Kingston and Spanish Town zones. Of Course Kingston won!! Elder Bischoff and Pulsipeher and Gordon were all there. It was great to see My Spanish town buddies. Love them!!

Loving Jamaica. The computer isn't working too well and we got home late from Fort Rockey so it's time to teach the gospel sorry for being so short!! Sending pictures soon!! Love you all.

Nuff Love,

Elder Christensen

Capture the Flag - Elder Mitchell is second row in back on right

Victorious at Capture the Flag! Fort Rocky