I am loving this transfer. Elder Fife and I are learning a lot, and we
are just trying to keep up with all the work! We had a huge focus on
Less Active members last week, and there were a lot of LA families who
came to church! One of the less active sisters, Sister Long, got up to
bear her testimony. She talked about how grateful she was for the
Gospel in her life, and now in the lives of her grand kids (Junior and
Tracy just got baptized with Elder Muñoz and I in May), and for the
missionaries always coming by as she brings the Spirit back into her
life. I honestly was questioning if our visits twice a week were
really benefiting her. It was an answer to my prayers to know that
our efforts haven't been wasted.
Also we had an investigator named Josh come for the first time with a
member! He liked it but he left after sacrament meeting because he was
hungry... but at least he didn't smoke for that whole hour! He wants
to be baptized but we will see how soon that can happen.
We met some great people last week who are very sincere about learning
the Gospel. We gave a guy named Earlwyn a church tour and he wants be
baptized next month! We also finally got a family we have been
contacting for months to meet us at the church for a tour. David and
Amanda just got married and together they have 6 kids in total now!
They want a good foundation for their kids and they know they will
find it here. They have been really prepared themselves as well, and
also want to be baptized! This family will bless our ward so much.
David is a roofer and can only get Sundays off it is raining, so we
will pray for lots of rain!
I'd like to say my Spanish is getting better now, it's definitely
easier to learn and practice with someone else. We get distracted
pretty easy sometimes when we are studying and learn really strange
words. But a member met us at Poliberto's last week (which is dang
good) and she left after we ordered. We went and sat with this man
from Zacatecas, Mexico and talked to him for the whole dinner hour! It
was amazing, he taught us some good words and jokes. He's going to
come to an English class once we get it started.
We ate with Bishop Brown last week, and there we met a lady named
Shania. She was kicked out of her church 2 months ago because she got
pregnant, and she was also kicked out of her home. She had no place to
stay and said she had been praying, and one of our members who works
where Shania just got a job gave her Bishops number. At the time in
her life when she is probably questioning her faith most, I can't
imagine a better place for God to guide her to. We are teaching her
again tonight! Prayers are definitely heard, and answered.
So I sent a bunch of pictures from the last 2 months. I hope they all
made it. I love you all and wish you a happy week!
Elder Collin Christensen
"that is a fridge at a members home in Williams that is just for missionaries...yeah, i know i am getting chubby!"
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