It was another week full of miracles! Also, we had a beautiful
foggy/rainy day yesterday and I loved it so much!!
There is a school program that is going on at our building on Thursday
nights and guess who I saw?! Brother Lee! He and his wife were
baptized last year at the end of Septemeber while I was in Lilburn. I
met them my first day in the mission field and I was a deer in
headlights! He told me they have finished temple prep class!! And he
is the Ward Mission leader!! So hopefully in the next few weeks I will
be able to go with them to the temple. Thinking about it makes me want
to cry tears of joy! This is what the gospel is all about. Bringing
families to the temple.
We had some really amazing experiences this week...
We had knocked doors in an apartment complex last Sunday before
church. We met a couple of really promising people that we really
wanted to try again. So we made time for them on Thursday and moved on
with our week. Earlier in the week we played tennis and ran a little
behind on everything else. We decided on Thursday morning Thursday
morning companion study rolled around and we were trying to decide if
that was where we needed to be. So we went! We prayed in the car
before we started to be led to those that are ready for the gospel and
that they would recognize us as representatives of Jesus Christ. We
knocked on a few doors with no answer. We got excited when we saw a
moving van but they didn't want our help. We knocked on another door
with no answer. We both looked in the distance and saw this woman
walking close to our car. We walked over to talk to her. We introduced
ourselves. She opened right up! She said she went on a walk that
morning to clear her mind and get closer to God. She had given up a
few minutes before but had the feeling to come back out and even went
a different direction than she usually goes. She knew Heavenly Father
was showing her how much he cared for her. We told her how we prayed
to be guided to those prepared. She stopped and told us "Thank you for
being obedient". We talked more and shared some of the Book of Mormon
with her. She LOVED it. We invited her to be baptized if she came to
know these things we share are true. She first said "I've already been
baptized!" Then she said... "But I get what you're saying. I'm seeking
for truth and if this is true then yes, I will be baptized". Sometimes
we second guess ourselves and our plans but it helped us to see how
important it is to set spirit led plans and be obedient to the
promptings of the spirit always!
Another one of our greatest miracles this week actually happened
yesterday. Sunday. We made a goal at the beginning of the transfer to
hit the standard of excellence every week. We felt it was a very
reasonable goal, considering our area, teaching pool, and desire to
work. Sunday, we were short 2 new investigators, someone on date, and
then we needed at least one person to come to church. So we get to
church, expecting several people to show up. Nothing. The whole
sacrament meeting, we didn't think anyone had come. At the end, we
stood up and looked around, and we saw one of our investigators! He
had snuck in the back corner, and we hadn't seen him! Miracle number
1. Throughout the day, we were able to get the 2 new investigators
that we needed through contacting a referral from the assistants, and
calling a bunch of potentials. Miracle number 2. It was 8 pm, and we
had no one on date. I was getting antsy, because I really wanted to
hit our goal. However, Sister Neff and I decided that if we focused on
whoever needed us at that time instead of the numbers, the Lord would
provide. We went to go visit one of the investigators that we hadn't
met yet from the elders old teaching pool. When we got there, he was a
little down in the dumps about his relationship with his family. We
were able to testify of how the gospel blesses families and how
families are meant to last forever. We invited him to be baptized, and
he said yes! He also accepted a date, and he is going to come to the
general priesthood session of conference. It was cool to see the Lord
bless us, and it was a good feeling to know that we had followed the
spirit and helped one of our brothers.
One of the most amazing miracles this week wasn't in just our area,
but in the whole sugar hill zone. At zone training this week, we
talked about faith, hope, charity, and following the spirit, with an
emphasis in using those things to help us find new people to teach.
Our goal as a zone was to have the faith to talk to everyone and to
confidently follow the promptings of the spirit, the hope that they
would accept our message, enough charity to be bold with them, and to
invite them to be baptized, even if it was just a contact. This week,
the zone invited 208 people to be baptized!! I thought that was
incredible, and I'm grateful to be serving with such diligent
missionaries who are willing to implement the things we're taught by
our mission president!
I love y'all!
Happy Anniversary Grandpa & Grandma Jenson!
❤️
Sister Christensen
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| I went down to Flowery Branch on Tuesday and Wednesday. It's such a beautiful place! The sisters have goats in their backyard!!! I was in heaven! |
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| We volunteered at Suwanee Fest (a city festival)! Interviewed about 250 people between us and a few other companionships. Also passed out 300 invites to the General Women's session of Conference. Pretty excited for it this weekend! |
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| Zone Training (Elder Woodwell is one of our zone leaders, it's been fun!) |
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