Well, I was looking forward to some baby pictures, but I guess I can
wait! I hope everything goes well with the delivery and that he comes
SOON! To answer all your questions mom:
Yes I got your email! Yes, we are still teaching in Spanish, mostly me
right now. But Elder Blake is learning to pray and bear his testimony
in Spanish! We've been trying to get more member support so I'm not
teaching alone. Yes I'm the senior companion. The weather is good,
about 80s everyday and a tiny dust storm today! We aren't outside too
much though. I think I still have two extra packages of pages for my
journal, so I'm good for now.
Well this was quite the week! After teaching 25 lessons we now have
Steve and Julie on date for July 19th! They don't know each other at
all, but they both picked the same day! We are excited for them both.
Steve is awesome and still getting over his fear of coming to church
with people he doesn't know. But he will work through it! Leander is
still planning on being baptized this Saturday the 21 so we'll be
praying all goes well with that! The Lord truly has been hastening his
work here in Flagstaff. We had members at almost half our lessons and
we have been running all over the place all week. I don't know what
we're doing differently, but it just seems everything is falling into
place.
One thing I have gained a stronger testimony of as well is the power
of two or more witnesses. I don't particularly like teaching by
myself, but we found ourselves in several situations this week where I
was teaching the whole lesson. I realized I can only do so much.
Really, what I do, and what we do, is very minimal. We are messengers,
but the Spirit is the teacher of truth. We can't convince anyone that
Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus Christ. We can only bear our personal
testimonies and allow the Spirit to back us up with an additional
witness. There's hasn't been a single time on my whole mission that I
or my companion have recited Joseph Smith's experience in the sacred
grove and the Holy Ghost hasn't born witness to me again that it is
true. And when you have a companion who testifies as well, it's even
better. Elder Blake really is taking it like a champ though. He's been
setting goals each week to learn Spanish and participate more.
Well, unfortunately I caught some bug this weekend. Don't know if it's
stomach flu or what but I guess success comes at a cost! Hopefully
it's gone by tomorrow for our Zone conference in Sedona!
I love each of you and appreciate your prayers!
Until next week,
Elder Collin Christensen
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