Happy Halloween...just another day as a missionary.

Hey mom!
the dallas field i was at is the fc dallas park where the soccer team plays:) and yes there are lots of people that go all out during holidays! there is actually a neighborhood called deerfield where my recent convert melinda eitzen lives and it is apparently the neighborhood to visit during christmas time! everyone decorates their houses and they have a horse drawn sleigh during christmas time that you can rent and they take you to look at the houses!!

so the rangers lost the world series and the bishop that we live with was so upset that night haha. he didnt want to talk to anyone. literally! so diana andrews my recent convert has a mom named linda davis who lives with them. so we recently started teaching linda this last week and we have her committed to be baptized on november 19th. the last weekend before the end of the transfer!!! we are super excited for her! she also came to church:). we also found 2 guys who are 27 and 28 and they live in an apartment and their names are joel and david! we tracted into them and they were pretty interested! we have already had the 2nd lesson with them and they are continuing to read the book of mormon! they are wayy cool and want to learn more!

We also have another investigator named alyssa. she was actually a golden investigator that the elders before us had. well they left us literally nothing on the teaching record! we had a name and a wrong phone number! she apparently had a baptismal date and everything too! well this last week we actually got her information from the sisters because she had talked to them! we went to see her and she is still really interested! so we are going to see her tomorrow and she why she hasnt been returning our phone calls and such. so thats what happened this week!!! i hope you have a happy halloween! holidays on the mission aren't any different than a regular day of tracting haha. well thanks so much for everything you do! i hope you have a great week!
Love, Elder Christensen

Giving a talk in church as a missionary

Hello my momma dear!
This week has been pretty crazy! we have been pretty busy with trying to find new investigators because ever since our last baptism. we knocked into a lady the other day named ms. kristen. she was from austria and was way cool! she gave us water and told us how much she admired us and what we stand for. she told us to come by whenever and that she would feed us if we wanted. she told us that she didnt believe in a god because when she was a little girl she was in a concentration camp and her mom was beaten so badly that she could barely walk. it was very sad to hear that and i could see where she was coming from when she told us that she didnt believe in a god. Thursday was elder sinclairs hump day so we burned one of his shirts at the zone leaders apartment. the zone leaders had their car towed that night as well haha. friday we had a specialized training meeting with the dallas north zones and it was very spiritual. So on sunday me and elder sinclair had to give a talk in 8th ward sacrament meeting. i was freaking out about it all week because i didnt know what i was going to talk on and how i was going to prepare it. i was able to give a great talk! the only thing thats kind of crappy about being a missionary is when you are asked to give a talk. you dont have many resources to prepare it with. haha. well mom i hope you have a great week!
love elder christensen

I belong to the true Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints..therefore I AM a Christian

I'm glad that i was able to stay with elder sinclair for another transfer as well! So today is supposed to be a high of 88 but a cold front is coming in tonight and its supposed to be high 60's to low 70's all of the rest of the week! i was talking to a member and he said this winter is supposed to be worse than the last! crazy!!!!! Well this week has been way crazy! On wednesday we had president interviews from 2-5 and the night before the zone leaders told us that we needed to memorize a scripture in between the chapters 36-42 of Alma and i chose Ama 36:27. (And I have been supported under trials and troubles of every kind, yea, and in all manner of afflictions; yea, God has delivered me from prison, and from bonds, and from death; yea, and I do put my trust in him, and he will still deliver me) Of course i memorized it and then when i went into my interview i completely blank and i was way sloppy at reciting it to president haha. i felt way dumb! Also.. about a month ago we had helped a non-member move out of his house.. he was getting a divorce with his wife and they were both moving out and so they were having this huge moving garage sale. well he told us we could take anything we wanted so i took a few music cds and a brand new pool stick that has never been used. and since the thiots have a pool table but no good sticks i decided i would take it haha. well anyways this guy was a emotional wreck! he was giving everything away for free! well we drove past his house the other day and the people that moved in were talking to us and they told us that he committed suicide! i talked to the member that helped us at church yesterday and he told me that troy (the guy that we helped move) was seeing his daughter at his ex-wifes apartment.. afterwards he went outside into the parking lot and shot himself:/. yesterday i could not stop thinking about that.. because this guy was so nice! and i could see the hurt in his eyes! anyways... i was talking to diana andrews (my recent convert) yesterday at church about her mom and she told me that her mom has been reading the book of mormon and is about half way done. I dont know if you have heard about this but this baptist preacher here in texas.. but he was on national news telling people that mormonism is a cult and that we are not Christians! it is so annoying because we probably get told about it at least 5 times a day! but now this guy is apparently getting torn to pieces! im glad i belong to the true church! love elder christensen

Elders doing P90X and no transfer this week

Hey mom!

thank you so much for giving me some extra money. my allergies arent completely gone but allergy meds sure do help! it sounds like you worked your hiney off last week! diana andrews our recent convert burnt us the p90x dvds and we did the ab ripper x last night and my abs hurt so much! kevin gosney.. the guy married to our other recent covert melinda eitzen told me whenever he sees me i look skinnier and skinner:) so this week we had transfer calls on saturday and we didnt get a call.. so it looks like i am still with elder sinclair for at least another transfer! me and him were pretty stoked that we are staying together and i will be the longest companion that he has had. Although he figured one of us was going to be leaving. Texas has a lot of religions so everyone we knock into has a faith. but the one i hate the most is the baptists. all they want to do is stand on their front porch and bible bash with you and tell you that you are preaching false doctrine and other crap like that. last night we were on a baptists porch for 45 minutes talking about why we need a prophet on the earth today. he asked us.. "what makes joseph smith a prophet.. what is something prophetic that he did" and we told him.. "well he translated an ancient record when he only had a 3rd grade education.. now how is that not from god? he said.. anybody can do something like that with a 3rd grade education.. but a 3rd grader.. cant! he made no sense and he kept contradicting himself. he also said that there is no where in the bible where it talks about heaven having 3 degrees of glory.. uh yeah it is! i told him its in corinthians 15:40-41. so we read it and then he said i guess thats right. duh to you! he was way dumb haha! so we have this member named bro. stone and he doesnt care if he takes us out of our area or cusses in front of us haha. hes one of the coolest members in our area.. well when we have dinner with him he will always take us out to eat.. he took us to this way good bar-b-q place called rudys.. and it was completely out of our area into the next city called frisco haha. well rudys is right next to the FC Dallas stadium.. where they play soccer. so we drove by and we were able to go into the stadium and take picures! it was way cool! well thats how my week went.. in a nut shell;)

i love you mom and hope your week goes smoothly!

love elder christensen

A message from Dilan's new converts.

I saw this message posted on Dilan's FB the other day and thought I'd save a copy and place on his blog from one of his new converts named Diana.

"I know Elder Elder Dilan Christensen won't be able to read this for a very long time. But he will always hold a very special place in my heart and our family's lives. I reunited with my husband this year after 22 years being separated and not knowing where each other were or what we were doing. James joined the church in 2004. Since our reunion he talked me into having an open mind. I did and... with the guidance and teaching of Elder Christensen and Elder Sinclair I was baptized on the 17th of September. They are both wonderful young men. James and I do hope they both will return in December of 2012 for our sealing in the Temple. thank you both so much for all they you have contributed to our family."

General Conference and Bingo at the Senior Residence

Hello Mom:)
I loved conference as a missionary especially because you get to stay in all day and not have to go out and tract. haha im totally kidding! but it was so much more interesting to actually sit and listen to the things that were spoken about. between all 5 conferences i took 12 pages of notes! crazy right? i really liked elder hollands talk during priesthood session. its wayy good. he is probably one of my favorites. hes so bold and he brings the hammer down on lots of things:) this week me and my companion found 4 new investigators and we are hoping to be able to get return appointments with them all. every friday me and my companion go to this senior residence from 2-4 and we call bingo and play cards with this lady named virginia. she is so funny and laughs at almost anything. there is this man named lowell who always plays bingo and he wasnt there on friday. so when i went to the bathroom i saw him on his motorized wheel chair in the hall and asked him where he was and he said. "well i was changing my pants.. you see when you get old like me. you piss yourself!" hahaha i was actually on exchanges with my zone leader elder condie and when we walked away we were laughing so hard! it was the funniest thing. Well mom i love being able to stay in contact with you. i hope you have a great week and i look forward to seeing your email again:) i love you!
love elder christensen