First things first... I hope dad, mom, and grandpa Mike had wonderful
birthdays the past few days!! I thought of each of you on your
specials days. I'm sure grateful for y'all!
There was a slight chill in the air a few of the days this week and I
loved it! I'm still seeing lighting bugs here and there and that also
brings joy to my heart.
A few weeks ago Sister Jacobs and I were catching a bus up to campus
and began talking to this sweet woman. She had lost her keys on one of
the buses and had been sitting at the bus stop for the past hour
asking each driver if her keys were on their bus. Her husband didn't
get off work for another few hours and she doesn't know many people
here. She moved from Tanzania about a year ago. Fast forward to
yesterday. Sister Patten and I had multiple lessons lined up all day!
But... They all cancelled :(. We had an awkward 45 min until our ride
was coming to pick us up for dinner. We knelt down in the institute
and prayed to be led where we needed to go. We just started walking.
We felt the need to turn left down a street really close to the
institute we've never been down before. I saw a door that said A5 and
wanted to knock on it (I entered the MTC August 5th). No answer. We
turned around and saw another apartment across the street that had an
outside light on. We knocked on it and had a fun encounter with a
really hairy lady that wanted absolutely nothing to do with us. As we
were walking out of that complex we saw this lady cleaning her
apartment with the door open. We walked up to her and she was so happy
to see us! She welcomed us into her home just like she knew us! Come
to find out it was the lady that lost her keys on the bus! When we met
her she was all done up in a beautiful headdress so we didn't
recognize her! She fed us a tuna quiche and told us all about her
family back home and her wedding that happened a year ago in her home
country. We asked her if she was happy and she took a second to
respond before forcing out a yes. We testified how living principles
of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion,
work, and other fun activities help our families have lasting joy and
happiness and Jesus Christ is our perfect example. We asked her if we
could come back and share more about this and she happily agreed! I
know Heavenly Father led us right to Huda yesterday. The spirit and
love we felt for her was so strong. Heavenly Father knows her and is
aware of her needs just like He's aware of mine and yours. Isn't He
amazing?!
I am leaving Athens tomorrow and it's really bitter sweet! I will miss
so many of the people I have come into contact with here. Athens has a
piece of my heart forever. I will now be in Suwanee, GA with Sister
Neff! I've served around here when I was in Allatoona and I absolutely
LOVE her!
I love all y'all!
❤️
Sister Christensen
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| Jess is leaving tomorrow to serve in the SLC, UT West mission! I told her to look out for my awesome Aunt Krista! |
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| Sister Wininger. I love this woman! She made me a Barbie cake for my birthday haha. |
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| A relative with my name!!! |
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| I'm not training but President Bennion asked me to come to the meeting for missionaries being trained haha. It was wonderful spiritual fuel! Love these sisters! |
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