My week has been great with my new companion! his name is elder moses and this is his last transfer and his first time out in east texas! i have heard a lot of great things about him and they are so true! he is an awesome missionary and he is super funny! i picked him up tuesday afternoon and we went back to our apartment so he could set up his stuff.. well we went out to work the rest of the day and then came home and did our nightly planning session. which i havent done in a transfer because elder derrick didnt like to do it. we also had companionship prayer which i also havent done in a transfer cause elder derrick didnt like to do that either. well as the night went on we chilled and chatted it up until bedtime.. well guess what he did. i was doing something in the kitchen and he yelled for me so i came around the corner and hes standing in the hall way mooning me! hahahahahaha! it was so funny! so this whole week we have been catching eachother off guard showing the full moon! i think right now he is in the lead by one. 4-3. yeah were keeping tabs!:)
On tuesday we had a lesson with a less active family who has a unbaptized 10 year old son named cameron.. well we committed him to baptism on january 21st and we are super excited about that! elder moses has a goal for us to baptize 9 people this transfer. i definantly have the faith to do it. we just got to be very obedient and hard working missionaries! so as of now we have 3 set dates for january 21st and we have about 9 progressing investigators who are about ready to fall into the font! we had a lesson thursday night with our other investigators corinne and colton clay. we read 3 nephi 11 with them and corinne could definantly feel the spirit. you could see it all over her face! we brought bro. robison with us and he was telling corinne that he is going to the temple the next day and that he was going to put her name on the prayer roll and he explained to her what that meant and she was so surprised! she thought that was way cool! so she should hopefully be ready for baptism as long as she continues to keep committments!
On Friday we had an appointment with a tract out lady. well she totally forgot and her husband was telling us that we could come back this week so hopefully something happens with that. well bro. northcutt was with us that night and he lived around the corner from that appointment so we went to his house so i could do some laundry and we chatted with the bardsley and northcutt family. we also made a bon fire in the back and made s'mores:) it reminded me so much about camping! so sweet! well saturday came around and we went to camerons house for another appointment with him and come to find out that he had stolen some candy from a dollar store and his mother caught him. well she made him take it back to the manager and he chewed him out saying he wasnt allowed back in the store.. well if that wasnt bad and scary enough for this little 10 year old. his mom called the cops and had them come talk to cameron. they told him if it happened again they would put him in juvy! so when we went over there you could tell he was very upset so i put my arm around him and told him.. when he is baptized everything he has done "bad" in the past will be washed away and he loved hearing that. so our lesson with him was on forgiveness and we really layed it down on him:)!
Our next lesson that night was with natalie price and she ended up forgetting about our appointment and wasnt there. well her house is out in the sticks!!! she has a siberian husky who is female and a siberian husky/wolf who is a male. well they had puppies together. well natalie had told me about this earlier in the week and that her husband built a little barn for the puppies. well i wanted to go see them. well the female husky wasnt chained up and she was very friendly. the male on the other hand was chained up to a wire that was hung between two trees with a distance of 30 yards or so. that way he could run back and forth.. well the wire was right next to the barn so he was pretty much guarding the puppies. so we had to distract him so i could get in there and that was easy haha. well i was dumb enough to try and pet the husky/wolf mix and he jumped and clawed the crap out of my arm so my arm looks like freddy kreuger got ahold of me haha!
On sunday elder moses got a lot of crap from members about how old he is! it was pretty funny! he blended in with the members very well though! sunday night we went to a little town called "Troup" to hunt down less actives. well none of the houses have house numbers on them so you have to look on the mailboxes. well my gps took us to this house that didnt have a house number anywhere so we knocked on it and this old guy was friendly and told us it was the wrong address so we went to the house next door that ended up being the right address. well this guy was in his car and got out when we pulled up and he had this huge rifle in his hands. it was kind of sketch. well he told us that his wife (who is the less active member) wasnt home and that we should not go to the house next door. which was the one we knocked before him. he said that that guy would shoot us dead if we did. well thank goodness the lord was with us that night because he was very friendly! apparently he has had stuff stolen off his property and so he goes to bed with his hearing aids turned all the way up in case he hears something going on!! Scary!!!!!! anyways thats my crazy/fun week for ya;)! i love you mom! have an awesome week!
love elder christensen:)
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