Share the Gospel! You can do it in gym shorts and sweatshirts!

This week has been super great! and i am getting along great with my
companion Elder Thompson. We have one more week until transfers so we
will see what happens.. i am hoping to stay with him for at least one
more but there is a ton of new elders coming into the mission soon so
who knows what president has up his sleeves. We had a great new years
eve day! That night we went over to one of our part member families
the Crawfords and were there until midnight.. shhh... dont tell
anybody haha. We went to visit Perry Cox the next day and he was just
sleeping under his tarp. We were actually going over to help him with
some service but ended up teaching him in our service clothes because
that is what he wanted. The next day our ward mission leader had us
over in his huge house for pizza and then we taught Perry again with a
member there. We taught him the Restoration and he had lots of
questions but it was a good lesson.

We had a few service projects this last week. On friday we went to
help out a non-member old lady that our ward mission leader knows.
This lady has cancer and it was good to be able to help her out with
her needs. The very next day we went over to Perry's place with
another set of Elders and then some members from the ward came to
help. We had to move a bunch of perrys junk because the guy he lives
with is kicking him out of his little hut that he made. and the worst
part about this situation was the guy was making him pay to live in
this little shelter that he built as he freezes his butt off! That
made me super pissed to know that! We spent a good 4 hours helping him
that day. He was able to come to church the next day too for the
second week in a row and so he is showing a lot of interest. The only
problem with him is.. since he is homeless he asks for help and
handouts all the time and he isnt aware of anyone elses time except
his.. so that is a little opstacle we have to work around.

The reason this email came later in the day instead of this morning is
because we went to a place called Top Golf! Its a driving range on
Steroids! Literally! All of the golf balls have chips in them and you
hit them in these holes and you get scored.. its like playing darts
with your friends but golf instead.. look it up on the computer its
amazing! One more thing i wanted to add.. this week around 10 at night
we heard speeding in our apartment complex. Me being a "Curious
George" went outside to find out what was going on and there were cop
cars everywhere and they were pulling some guy out of a truck.. well
our neighbors had the same curiosity as us and so they were outside
talking to us about it.. keep in mind that we are standing in gym
shorts and sweat shirts. Well we got to talking to this lady named
Diedra and she asked us if we lived next to the Jesus girls and I said
we replaced them.. we are the Jesus Boys. So we got talking about
religion and had a really good conversation with her about the gospel
and church in general. Either the mission teaches you about talking to
people about the gospel or it really is that simple! You dont need to
be in a white shirt and tie to bring up the gospel! you can do it in
gym shorts and sweatshirts!

Lovin' lasagna in Texas...but not as good as moms!

Hey mom!

it is always nice when i get to see emails every monday! thats so funny about zach and his bike riding! he never road the bikes when i was around? what made him wanna do it now? i havent really been spending lots of money lately but today im gonna go buy some ties cause i have like none and i want a more color variety! the streak for the heat never broke.. it never hit a 100 on like 2 of the days this last week which felt great! but very humid because it rained!

So heres an interesting story for ya! so there is this member named james andrews who was converted back in 2007. well he quickly fell away from the church and about a year ago he started biking and weighed about 300 pounds. well today hes probably about 230.. well he started having heart problems and we ended up giving him a blessing a couple weeks ago. well he married his wife diana about 20 years ago. and after a year they divorced. well about a month or two later they found eachother on facebook and still had feelings for eachother. so they wanted to get back together and remarried. well when they got a divorce.. the papers never went through, so they had been married for over 20 years and had no idea.. well they are now back together! well ever since hes been having heart problems.. he figured that was a sign of god telling him to go back to church. so he started going back and he brought his wife diana along with him.. well she is baptist and she said she has never felt the spirit in our church like she has anywhere else! she said that this is where she belongs! well this week we had the first lesson with her and i committed her to baptism.. my heart was beating so fast! she said yes and i was so happy for her! she could really feel the spirit because she started crying at one point of the lesson. it was a very spiritual lesson!

my companion and i get along great! and we teach very good together! the wards here are nothing like the ones at home! size wise that is! but they are all very strong in the gospel and very good with missionary work! so far lasagna seems to be the number 1 meal we eat haha. but hey.. lasagna is way good! not as good as yours tho:) i hope you have a great week mom! i love you lots and tell everyone that i love and miss them too!

lover elder christensen