Hi Family and Friends, here is Elder Christensen's most recent email....I kinda feel bad that I pressed him for a little more juice in my last email to him. I was just saying that he could wrap most of his answers and writing in to one big email to ME :) and then I would disseminate share with EVERYONE. However, I certainly understand he wants to respond to you all personally. I know he appreciates your love and concern for him. Keep up the good work.
PS - I also learned the Elder C. joined the choir!! He wrote to McCauley that he did it to help him keep as busy as possible to avoid home sickness.
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hello,
sorry my email wasn't long enough...but its really hard to send big long emails to everyone. I had 29 emails from lots of different people so its hard to send long emails to everyone. And i had just as many this week from even more people so im gonna try to reply better.
I hope Thanksgiving was great for you all! Im super sad that i missed the turkey trot! Looked like fun running in the rain. Did anyone cook up some pheasants?
We walked to the temple this morning. Oh my gosh it was like 12 degrees and i was freezing. And then when i got there i found a beanie in my pocket hahaha. I have discovered that i forgot all my hoodies. I have plenty of long sleeve shirts but no hoods! Im really cold at night.
I do get pretty home sick sometimes. But I have had a couple pretty spiritual experiences this week.
Starting with thanksgiving: We had a big time service project today. 1500 missionaries all together in the gym, and we made meals for 357,000 people. mas o menos. it was the most people the mtc has ever fed from a service project, and it was cool to be a part of it. In the evening, we had a devotional with Dallin H. Oaks. Obviously that was really spiritual and he talked about being thankful for everything, especially our trials. But that wasn't even the best part of the day. After he left we had another devotional, and at the end they showed a couple videos of some of the apostles testimonies of Christ. And they were super powerful. The closing hymn was "I believe in Christ, and during the second to last verse a couple people started standing up, then more and more and by the time the last verse came everyone was standing. Its kinda against the rules but i could feel the spirit so strongly. I had goosebumps. Yo se que JesuCristo Vive.
Another good moment this week was a lesson me and my companion had with an investigator named "Jose Enrique" hahah. If you don't know why thats funny then ask Ryker. But anyways it was kinda a last minute lesson so we didn't have a lot of time to plan. But during the planing i just kept feeling like i should write down the baptismal invitation in spanish cause there would be a time during the lesson where i would need it. But we were in a hurry and i had to go so i didn't. It was the first lesson anyway and we had never even gotten close to being able to ask someone to prepare to be baptized in all our other lessons. But the lesson with Jose just went so well. We got him to pray on his knees with us and taught him a bunch of other stuff. So at one point i asked him "Cree que nosotros ensenamos es verdad?" Do you believe what we have taught you is true? And at that moment i really felt like i should invite him to prepare to be baptized. But i didn't know how.
Even though i blew it it still strengthened my testimony of revelation. God does talk to us in a lot of different ways. And it taught me that i need to act on any promptings that i may receive in future.
Mi Espanol is coming a long pretty good i think. El don de lenguas es real, con Fe.
There is a lot of traditions in my dormitory. Including: white elefante tie exchange, a christmas celebration on the 25th of every month, and the big one is passing things down. Every week 10 or more elders pass things down on to the new guys, and a lot of the items are super weird and have been passed down through dozens of generations of districts. The most sacred item is called the "orb of light" and it is a huge ball of rubber bands. Each new elder to receive it must add another layer of rubber bands. The previous holder bestowed it upon my companion y yo because we were his favorite. He was a solo missionary, his whole district left weeks ago but he had to stay another 3 weeks. So he just hungout with us.
Other items that were passed down to me: A bottle of taco bell hotsauce that somehow has zero calories per serving, a bag of shaving cream with a banana stolen from the cafeteria in it, and a watergun. I attached pictures of all my gifts haha. Its so hard to send pictures cause it won't let us preview the pictures before we send them!!?? hahah lots of guys here are super weird.
I wish i had more time to write everyone.
I will leave you with a scripture: Proverbs 21:19. Yo testifico que la versiculo es verdad.
Companionship study always finds good scriptures hahah.
-Elder Christensen
Wow!!! That is quite Large!!
Missionary Treasure Trove!! Who knew??
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