Hello everyone,
What a busy busy week in the life of a
Hurricane missionary. At least the temperature is finally starting to cool
down.The week started with us taking our recent convert Joleen to the family
history center. It was a great experience. She is very excited to get started
working on her family history. She is simply on fire, the gospel has changed
her life in a complete 180. She is becoming an example to her children and
becoming an example of what the gift of the Holy Ghost can do for a person.
We also taught the Foster children again. Zack
when he found out it was my birthday promised to make me a birthday present.
Mkayla was in the most recent primary program and she did great…They have a
sweet disabled 3 year old little brother and it is so cute and beautiful to see
how they interact one with another…
We taught Justeen again and we taught her about
the Book of Mormon. We shared the Mormon message with Jeffery R. Holland called
Safety for the Soul. Those new Mormon
messages really help to bring the spirit. They are useful in teaching, they say
and invite the spirit better than we can with our own words at times. Justeen
is doing great. We meet with her again tonight and are teaching the Plan of
Salvation.
This Saturday we got the opportunity to meet
with Elder David A. Bednar in an all-mission conference. It was a once in a
lifetime opportunity to be able to sit in a room that small with a member of
the quorum of the twelve. He brought the spirit as he taught us how to be
better missionaries and members of this great church. He stressed the
importance of being able to invite the spirit and get out of the way. He said
that we did not need him to have our questions answered but could use the
spirit of revelation to understand the things of the gospel. He invited us to
repent and to become closer to Christ and closer to the missionaries that we
want to be. We talked about how faith is a principle of action in all
intelligent beings and that we need to act and then we receive help from the
Lord. At the end of our meeting I was able to shake his hand. It was a really
special experience. We took a picture with him as a mission, hopefully I will
be able to send you a copy of it soon.
Words cannot describe the learning that comes
from the experiences I have had on my mission. I find joy in serving others
around me. I find happiness in being able to do all that I can for my Lord and
God. I don't know a lot but what I do know about this life is that we have a
loving Father in heaven. That he loves us and that he gave his Son so that we
might live. This is where we come in, we must humble ourselves, gain that
faith, and then do something about it. Pride is the enemy of all of that. Being
self-centered destroys and deteriorates our companionship with the Holy
Ghost. There was a quote shared from pride and prejudice the other day in
one of our sacrament meetings "I have been a prideful person all my life
in practice though not in principle" -Elizabeth Bennett. Because of my
love for Pride and Prejudice and because of the spirit this quote meant a lot
to me. I reflected on my principle and then my practice. I have made a goal to
strive to serve those around me, to humble myself so that I can be subject
to the Lord's help and that my practice will be aligned with my
principle.
I love all of you. I pray for all of you. I
hope that you are all doing well.
You are the best
Elder Christensen
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