Well this week has been both hard and amazing! We found a couple new
people to teach, and Juan got baptized and confirmed!
His baptismal service was so awesome, he had a ton of
support from the ward, even members who didn't speak Spanish. He was
so happy and kind of giddy too. Haha. After I baptized him I gave him
a hug and he told me that I could trust him with anything and he
would do anything for us. He is the coolest guy ever. :)
The difficult part of the week was when M. called us and told us she was canceling her baptism again. We have no idea how to help her anymore, because literally the day before we had met with her, made her baptismal program, and she was super pumped about it. She has given us a few different reasons, but mostly just excuses because she
is scared of committing. Elder Hicks and I were pretty down for a couple days, because it seemed like everything was falling apart with everyone. The more we talked about it the harder it got, especially for Elder Hicks. There were a couple of days where he just didn't seem too healthy physically, mentally nor emotionally. But we prayed a lot,
and we were blessed with one great baptism this week, and our little depression phase didn't seem to matter anymore. We knew everything was in the Lords hands, and that was the most comforting thing.
One of the best "lessons" we had this week was with a new investigator
named A. When we had first knocked on her door she told us that
she had a recent neck injury, so we came back and trimmed her terribly
overgrown bushes that were taking over her front yard. So as we
chopped her bush up she sat there in a lawn chair next to us and we
taught her something from every single missionary lesson...it was
awesome. Haha she had some great questions, and by the end she told us
she wanted to try out our church! She ended up not being able to make
it because she fell in a hole and hurt her back. But it was cool!
Church yesterday was crazy. I think we had the most Spanish people we
have ever had at church! It was good for Juan, but our translating
system kinda shut down and was super fuzzy for everyone with the
headsets...I was running around pretty much all of sacrament meeting
trying to help everyone and fix their receivers. But it was great
anyways!
Oh yea, a couple months ago we went to dinner with a less active
family in our ward. They had invited their mom Linda over as well, who
wasn't a member. Well eventually we got to talk to her a little bit
and give her a Book of Mormon, but she lived in another ward so we
introduced her to the other missionaries. Well last Saturday she got
baptized as well!
Well we are doing pretty well up here! :) the weeks are really
starting to fly by. We are excited for Tamrah's baptism this Saturday!
Hope you all are doing great! I appreciate all the support I feel from you!
Favorite scripture of the week:
"And the Lord provided for them that they should hunger not, neither
should they thirst; yea, and he also gave them strength, that they
should suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were swallowed up in
the joy of Christ. Now this was according to the prayer of Alma; and
this because he prayed in faith" (Alma 31:38).
Elder Collin Christensen
Mom,
I did actually get to play the piano recently! Not anything like
Raphsody, but I played at Juan's baptism and then for a Spanish family
who sang in sacrament meeting yesterday. People seem to be pretty last
minute, and they also seem to know I don't care, so they always ask me
to help day of or day before. Haha :)
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