It's been a HOT week! Sister Patten and I had heat exhaustion that
caused us to stay in for a few hours this week. Nurses orders! I was
so happy when those couple hours were up and we could go out again!
It's been beautiful though. I love the random rain storms :).
We started a conversation with this girl LeighAnne on campus and have
been teaching her. She is Atheist but willing to try to pray again and
read the Book of Mormon. She asks so many questions and I love it!
There are many times we don't have the answer but I love going home
and studying about it until I do. Sometimes still we don't get the
answers but its okay. I don't know everything, but I know enough. I
know that God is truly our Father and that He does love us. I know
Jesus Christ is His son and is my Savior and Redeemer. He is also my
best friend. I know that Joseph Smith saw Them both on a beautiful
spring morning in 1820 and that through him the fullness of the gospel
of Jesus Christ was restored. That testimony grows deeper every day as
I read the Book of Mormon every day and I see Gods priesthood power in
full force today. It's not usually big and grand and dramatic to the
natural eye but deep in my heart and in the hearts of those around me.
Especially as I partake of the Sacrament each week. I know that Thomas
S. Monson speaks for the Lord today and is indeed a prophet. We
watched "On the Lords Errand" and it became even more clear to me. I
recommend all y'all watch it! Back to LeighAnne... She texted us last
week and asked us if she could bring her friends that wanted to learn
about Mormons. We were pretty happy about that! One is dating a guy
who has lots of LDS relatives. His dad even served a mission. I could
tell she felt the spirit but she's not ready to learn more yet. One
day.
We set up a time with a member of the Athens 2nd Ward RS presidency to
come out with us Sunday. Her husband is also the ward mission leader
in the 2nd ward and had asked if we'd go visit a mother and daughter
the elders had been teaching at one point. As we were pulling up we
saw the cutest elderly man dressed for church in a red suit coat with
his worn Bible in his hand. As we drove past him he was puzzled by us
and turned around to watch us drive past. We pulled over and said a
prayer before we went to visit the mom and daughter. As we opened our
eyes after the prayer we could see him walking away from our car. He
must have walked up to us but saw we were praying and turned around!
Our team up said "We should run after him!" So we did! Turns out Stan
had met with elders three years ago and didn't know why they stopped
coming by. He asked us to come back to teach him! We set up a time to
see him Tuesday. The mom and daughter of the original house we'd
planned to see wasn't available to meet with us but the Lord brings us
to general areas to find those that are ready. We realized we were
pretty close to one of our investigators and decided to stop by and
have a quick lesson. As we were talking with her guess who walked in?
Stan!! Our investigator is his godmother and he was coming by to share
what she'd missed at church! He was shocked to see us haha! We taught
them BOTH a quick lesson and committed him to read the Book of Mormon.
Friday is my official year mark as a missionary. I am so thankful for
all the love and support and prayers from every single one of y'all. I
know your prayers have carried me through both the good and hard. I
pray you are well.
All my love,
❤️
Sister Christensen
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| Have I said how much I love the UGA Horticulture Farm? |
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Athens District (It was one of the elders last day as a missionary so we wore black?) |
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| Janna found this pic on fb. The man in the middle had gone back to visit his old mission. |
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| Sister Jacobs and I spent Saturday in Winder with these amazing sisters |
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| Billie and Angelina from the Allatoona ward came up to spend part of our preparation day with us. I love them and it was so good to spend some time with them again!
Speaking of Rain 🌧
Accidentally biked to where that blue arrow is...
I think it was 10 miles total that day! Woot! Feel like Grandpa Mike 🚴🏼   |
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