This week went really well and pretty dang fast! We met with Ricky Buchunam one of our Ysa investigators and we taught him some of the commandments. We also committed him to baptism and he said that he still wants to become a member of the church! On Tuesday we had 2 lessons at the same time so the Irving Elders (Hoskins & Saenger) came down to help us out with them. Elder Hoskins came with me and our ward mission leader drove us to Lancaster to teach a new investigator. Her name is Linh Nguyen it is pronounced (lynn winn). She is engaged to a inactive member in the ward and his mother is active and Linh told her that she was looking to become a member of the church. So we taught the first lesson and had a really good visit with Linh. She told us that she believes she has already received her answer before she met with us. So i invited her to be baptized and we set a date with herfor November 24th.
On Wednesday we drove to Irving to help them with their area since they helped us. Elder Hoskins and I went to help do service for his uncle who actually lives in his ward that he serves in. how funny is that? Later that night we had another lesson with Lacy Long which was super good! She is so solid and she is receiving so much fellowship from the ward which is really good. Every investigator needs that! On Thursday Elder Hoskins and I decided to do another exchange. We have probably done like 4 together this transfer. We went to visit this part member family the Carters that night. Elder Hoskins actually used to teach them 2 years ago when he was a greenie missionary!
On Friday we decided that we would drive to the far part of our area and try and visit some of the less active members that live out there. We were able to visit a few of them which was good. We did have a great lesson with our investigator family that night. We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and they loved it! The kids listen so well. Saturday we drove down to Waxahachie with a member.. Jeremy Sappington. He took us to this place called Catifish Plantation and ate some good fried catfish. The restaurant is this old run down house that was turned into a restaurant and it is supposively haunted. Nothing crazy happened though. Church on Sunday was great and we also got transfer calls this week and i am no longer covering the extra area that i have been covering but me and my companion are getting a third companion named Elder Kidd. So we will be in a Trio Companionship for who knows how long! This should be fun! (SARCASM)
Elder Dilan Christensen serving in Dallas, Texas! 6/11 - 6/13
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Fighting a contagious cold, building sheds and Studebakers!
Tuesday morning i woke up with a really bad cold and a very sore throat. it was super annoying. so we didnt really get out to do anything that day besides go to district meeting and then go back home. I ended up getting Elder Saenger sick who is in the district and then he got his companion Elder Hoskins sick. My companion ended up getting sick too! so it was just like a domino effect starting with me! On Wednesday i was feeling a little better and we went to teach Lacy Long our really wealthy investigator. We taught her the gospel of Jesus Christ and she loved it.. she told us that she wanted to be baptized and she also said "I dont want to be picky but when I get a calling I want to be a primary teacher" that was way cool! We didnt get a baptism date out of her because she was still undecided!
Thursday and Friday we helped out a part-member family with some service. The non-member is Larry and we always help him out with service.. Well he had this friend that needed help putting together a tin shed. Cause his last one wasn't tied down and during a Texas thunderstorm blew it away haha. so we spent both days from 9-2 working on building this shed for this guy named Paul Studebaker. He is a 9th Generation Studebaker and that is where the car comes from is his family! He also owns a
Studebaker which is in very mint condition! On Saturday we went to our investigators football game. His name is Daniel Ramirez and i have talked alot about him in my past emails. His football team is the Broncos and they played the packers and killed them! The Packers coach on the other sideline was freaking out! It was super funny! On Sunday we had 7 Investigators at church! That was way cool! Some of our baptismal dates we had to drop due to them not coming to church so we will have to recommit them!
Thursday and Friday we helped out a part-member family with some service. The non-member is Larry and we always help him out with service.. Well he had this friend that needed help putting together a tin shed. Cause his last one wasn't tied down and during a Texas thunderstorm blew it away haha. so we spent both days from 9-2 working on building this shed for this guy named Paul Studebaker. He is a 9th Generation Studebaker and that is where the car comes from is his family! He also owns a
Studebaker which is in very mint condition! On Saturday we went to our investigators football game. His name is Daniel Ramirez and i have talked alot about him in my past emails. His football team is the Broncos and they played the packers and killed them! The Packers coach on the other sideline was freaking out! It was super funny! On Sunday we had 7 Investigators at church! That was way cool! Some of our baptismal dates we had to drop due to them not coming to church so we will have to recommit them!
Monday, October 1, 2012
Temple trip, Service project in the rain and humbling 8 mile bike ride
This week has been fantastic! We started teaching a former investigator named Aracelly Villa. She and her boyfriend investigated the church about a year ago but would never choose to get married so they could get baptized.. Well her boyfriend is an illegal immigrant from Mexico and was actually caught by police coming back from Mexico and now he is in jail some where in South Texas. Well I am pretty sure
Aracelly came back to the church so she could get members of the ward to sign a petition form saying Rene (Her boyfriend) that he is a good guy and they should let him go. Well i am not sure how much she actually wants to do with the church but we are trying to figure that out.
On Wednesday Elder Hoskins, Elder Ricks, Elder Crockett and I all went to the temple! That was an awesome experience and of course the spirit was so strong there. Elder Toomey had to stay with Elder Saenger because he is not endowed. Most of that day was spent in Dallas but that night we had an appointment with our rich investigator Lacy Long. She actually made us dinner first which was really good and then we taught her the plan of salvation afterwards. She told us that she has been praying and she knows it is true.. but wants to make sure this is 150% for her! I don't see how it could not be for her if she knows its true. On Thursday we went back to Dallas for a Devotional. President Durrant's Father George Durrant and a lady named Susan Black came to speak to us. George Durrant gave a great talk on boldness and he was super funny! Now i know where President Durrant gets his humor. And Susan Black is a lady who knows almost everything about Joseph Smith! It was such a great talk! i learned a lot from both of them.
On Friday we taught our new investigator family! Laura Galvin is the mom and she is 29 and then she has 4 kids. Anahi Chavez-11, Anessa Chavez-10, Miguel Galvin-9, and Homero Galvin-6. We had a great lesson on the Restoration and we set a baptismal date with all of them forOctober 27th. It was so exciting! This area is really booming andright now we have 7 baptismal dates! I have never had that much at one time! Saturday was probably the best day this week! well the funnest i should say. It was raining in the morning and we had a service project planned that some of the church members came to help with. We helped the city of Duncanville put up a playground which was by far the best service project i had done on my mission. Although it was raining and we were all soaked. it was still fun. We were all split up in groups and i was part of the group that put together the swing set and the rock climbing wall. and Elder Toomey got the shaft job! He had to haul mulch to the playground. He was covered from Head to Toe in mulch! it was hilarious!
Later that night we met back up with Aracelly and re-taught the restoration because it had been so long that she had heard it. Well you basically have to teach her like you are teaching a child because her comprehension skills are terrible! we asked her 3 times what a prophet was after we explained it to her 3 times and she still didn't know! That night we got a call from the 2nd counselor in the Mountain
Creek Ward saying that we needed to give a talk because the 1st counselor who was supposed to talk was pretty sick. so we agreed to since we were giving our talks in the YSA too! Well it rained all day Saturday and all through the night into Sunday morning. In theMountain Creek ward we had 3 speakers. Luis Fernandez was first, then Elder Toomey and then me last. well at about 11:35 Elder Toomey got up to speak and he didn't end his talk until 12!!!!!! I had to kick himin the foot while he was up there speaking to tell him to end it! and then we had an intermediate hymn and i literally had 5 or less minutes to give my talk when i had planned to speak for 15 minutes. I was so pissed at Elder Toomey i just ignored everything he tried saying to me.
In the YSA i was able to give my full talk! It was on Faith in Jesus Christ. At this point i was still a little irritated with my companion it was at the point to where we were arguing with each other. Well that night we had a dinner that was 8 miles away. By the way my license is expired and i am not allowed to drive the car until i get my new license. So i was just going to drive to our dinner anyways but then i thought to myself and said nope... we are riding our bikes! Oh boy was that a struggle for my companion. i think at one point i was waiting a good 10 minutes for him to catch up! It was a good humbling experience for the both of us:)! My week was an overall good week with 7 baptismal dates set!
Not bad at all!!!
Aracelly came back to the church so she could get members of the ward to sign a petition form saying Rene (Her boyfriend) that he is a good guy and they should let him go. Well i am not sure how much she actually wants to do with the church but we are trying to figure that out.
On Wednesday Elder Hoskins, Elder Ricks, Elder Crockett and I all went to the temple! That was an awesome experience and of course the spirit was so strong there. Elder Toomey had to stay with Elder Saenger because he is not endowed. Most of that day was spent in Dallas but that night we had an appointment with our rich investigator Lacy Long. She actually made us dinner first which was really good and then we taught her the plan of salvation afterwards. She told us that she has been praying and she knows it is true.. but wants to make sure this is 150% for her! I don't see how it could not be for her if she knows its true. On Thursday we went back to Dallas for a Devotional. President Durrant's Father George Durrant and a lady named Susan Black came to speak to us. George Durrant gave a great talk on boldness and he was super funny! Now i know where President Durrant gets his humor. And Susan Black is a lady who knows almost everything about Joseph Smith! It was such a great talk! i learned a lot from both of them.
On Friday we taught our new investigator family! Laura Galvin is the mom and she is 29 and then she has 4 kids. Anahi Chavez-11, Anessa Chavez-10, Miguel Galvin-9, and Homero Galvin-6. We had a great lesson on the Restoration and we set a baptismal date with all of them forOctober 27th. It was so exciting! This area is really booming andright now we have 7 baptismal dates! I have never had that much at one time! Saturday was probably the best day this week! well the funnest i should say. It was raining in the morning and we had a service project planned that some of the church members came to help with. We helped the city of Duncanville put up a playground which was by far the best service project i had done on my mission. Although it was raining and we were all soaked. it was still fun. We were all split up in groups and i was part of the group that put together the swing set and the rock climbing wall. and Elder Toomey got the shaft job! He had to haul mulch to the playground. He was covered from Head to Toe in mulch! it was hilarious!
Later that night we met back up with Aracelly and re-taught the restoration because it had been so long that she had heard it. Well you basically have to teach her like you are teaching a child because her comprehension skills are terrible! we asked her 3 times what a prophet was after we explained it to her 3 times and she still didn't know! That night we got a call from the 2nd counselor in the Mountain
Creek Ward saying that we needed to give a talk because the 1st counselor who was supposed to talk was pretty sick. so we agreed to since we were giving our talks in the YSA too! Well it rained all day Saturday and all through the night into Sunday morning. In theMountain Creek ward we had 3 speakers. Luis Fernandez was first, then Elder Toomey and then me last. well at about 11:35 Elder Toomey got up to speak and he didn't end his talk until 12!!!!!! I had to kick himin the foot while he was up there speaking to tell him to end it! and then we had an intermediate hymn and i literally had 5 or less minutes to give my talk when i had planned to speak for 15 minutes. I was so pissed at Elder Toomey i just ignored everything he tried saying to me.
In the YSA i was able to give my full talk! It was on Faith in Jesus Christ. At this point i was still a little irritated with my companion it was at the point to where we were arguing with each other. Well that night we had a dinner that was 8 miles away. By the way my license is expired and i am not allowed to drive the car until i get my new license. So i was just going to drive to our dinner anyways but then i thought to myself and said nope... we are riding our bikes! Oh boy was that a struggle for my companion. i think at one point i was waiting a good 10 minutes for him to catch up! It was a good humbling experience for the both of us:)! My week was an overall good week with 7 baptismal dates set!
Not bad at all!!!
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