New Years' Eve!

   
This week was great! I think Christmas day was my favorite haha. It
was so nice to see all of my family and of course my friend jake haha!
It was definitely a christmas i wont forget.. we wer supposed to be
leaving the members house around 4:30 and it was snowing like crazy
outside.. yes snowing in Texas! Well we were wiping our windows off
when i opened the car and threw the keys in the car and i guess pushed
the lock button instead of the unlock button and locked our keys into
our car.. So now we are basically stuck at this members house for the
rest of the day and could not go to our dinner appointment that we
were planning on going to. The assistants could not come down to bring
us the extra set of keys until the morning so we were locked out of
our apartment on Christmas night. So we had to stay at another set of
Elders apartment for the night. The assistants finally got to us
around 12:30 the next day and we got back into our car! What a relief.

The rest of the week went really slow because alot of our
investigators were out of town for Christmas and so we weren't able to
meet with them.. But we had a really neat experience this Sunday at
church. So we had received a media referral earlier in the week for a
"Perry Cox" and it said that we had to contact the member before
contacting him so we had to wait to get the phone number from the
office which wouldn't open back up until Monday which is today.. But
on Sunday the member brought Perry to church and he seemed super happy
to be there. during 2nd hour we just sat down to visit with him and
get to know him and he basically told us his life story. He told us
that he was abused as a kid and he just broke down in tears he was so
upset about everything that happened in his childhood. But he did tell
us that he ended up working as a computer tech guy for quite some time
and he knows quite a bit about computers. Well we weren't able to
teach the 1st lesson because we ran out of time. The members that
dropped him off ended up leaving too so we had to give him a ride home
which was a ways away from the church. and guess where he lives.. in
the back of a friends yard under a tarp with some blankets! How Sad!!
I felt so horrible inside to see his living conditions and to know the
things that he has been through. I am just so grateful that i am
blessed to have a roof under my head and a family! Perry is probably
one of the most humblest persons i have met on my mission and he is
willing and ready to make a change in his life to be a better person.
I am excited to see how this journey will go with our new investigator
Perry Cox!

I hope you had a very merry Christmas and Enjoy the New Year!

Love Elder Christensen