On monday we had a meeting with the Jehovahs witness guys. Nothing interesting happened, they have their beliefs and we have ours. They contradict themselves with the scriptures they use to prove their points, but whatever. We are going to meet with them again tonight.
On Tuesday, I went on an exchange with an elder from chile. His area is really up in the mountains, so we had to use bikes. my first time using bikes on the mission. We taught a first lesson with this guy named Marcelo. He was really into it, and we invited him to be baptized and he said yes. That same day my real companion invited one of our investigators and her son to be baptized, and they said yes also. Yaaaa
On Wednesday, we watched a broadcast with Elder Bednar. He said some interesting things. He said that faith isn't just believing, its action. Some people say that they don't get answers when they pray. Elder Bednar said that we could pray all night and not get an answer, if we are just praying to know. We have to pray with intention to act, not just out of curiosity. If we don't intend to act on the answer, we won't get one. He used two examples from the scriptures. First, he used 1 Nephi 4:6-7. Nephi is trying to get the brass plates, but he doesn't know how. "not knowing beforehand the things which I should do. Nevertheless I went forth." Nephi didn't have his answer yet, but he was obedient anyways. After he had acted in faith he received his answer and was able to get the plates.
The second example is from the Bible, Old testament. Joshua 3:15-17. The Israelites have the Ark of the covenant, and they need to cross the river jordan. The priests were told that the water would part for them to walk across on dry land, like moses parting the red sea. So what did they do? They didn't stand by the river waiting for it to part. No. They acted with faith and they carried the Ark and walked into the river until all their feet were wet. Only then did the river part. "we receive no witness until after the trial of our faith" Its always going to be like that. We have to commit to obey the commandments before we get answers.
Anyways, after the broadcast we only had enough money for one bus ride. We get on one, but its the wrong one of course. We figured that out too late, and we didn't have enough money to ride another bus. So we decided to just stay on the bus until it went back to the city. And hour later, we are way out in the country, no idea where we are, and the bus stops because we are at the guys house. We were the only ones on the bus, and i believe the driver was going to take a break in his house. But we explained to him our situation and he was nice enough to drive us all the way back to our area. How many bus drivers do you know that would do that?
One of the elders who lives with us named elder pace crashed his bike this week and had to go to the hospital in an ambulance. He didn't run into anything, he just crashed. He is totally fine though, he didn't even miss a day of work. #dedication I don't know why they called an ambulance haha.
Thats about all that happened this week.
Love, Elder Christensen
(this is a resend because it apparently didn't work last week) :(
Zone p-day in this place called Dique, up in the mountains by a lake.
P.S. Ethan said he got one of our packages!!! He finally has the family calendar from Christmas!!
At least he got it.....
At least he got it.....
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