First things first. I am in Texas. AND IT IS SO
FUN!!!!!! AHHHHH! And guess where my first area is!!? Yep. It is deep in
the heart of the ghetto.. We are close to down town. Not gonna lie
sometimes I am scared for my life but at the same time I love it! The
people here are so prepared! I have never met a group of such humble
people before! Everyone we talk to wants us to come back! It is so
amazing! We are working hard and staying very very busy!
Let
me introduce you to my lovely comp. Her name is Hermana Marlowe! She is
the best trainer ever and get this… She is from Boise.. She went to
Capital.. And she knows Amy and Henry.. AND Papa gave her her patriarcle
blessing! How crazy is that?!? Having her as my trainer really is such a
blessing and is so inspired! She is such a hard worker and is so
diligent! We work so so so hard and we get so many blessings because of
it! The key to success on a mission is exact obedience! She is adorable
too! She has super blond hair. The other day we were tracting in this
apartment complex and all the little Mexican children kept saying we
were Anna and Elsa from frozen. My heart melted a little bit! All the
little girls always come up and ask us if we are princesses. It is so
cute!!!
So my area is the bomb.
We are in an area that used to be just for Elders.. But not much work
was getting done so President sent in the Hermanas! And holy cow the
work is exploding! Just in the time I have been here we have found 3 new
investigators and have already commited 2 of them to be baptized. It
was such an amazing experience. Hermana Marlowe does most of the
teaching (because my spanish is still pretty lame..) and then I bear
testimony and invite them to be baptized! And they say YES!!! It is so
wonderful! The people here are so so prepared! Yes, it is pretty
dangerous and pretty scary, but if you just listen to the promptings of
the spirit you are fine! I have already had so many experiences where we
are walking somewhere and we just feel we should leave. So we do and we
are protected!
The ghetto is the best place
to be and it is very humbling! These people live in such humble
circumstances. Most of them are just fresh out of Mexico and are trying
to have more stable lives. We had a cool experience the other day. We
were out knocking doors and we felt that we should go knock on this
one.. I was a little nervous because it looked super sketchy, but we
felt we should so we did. Anyway, this woman opened the door and invited
us to come in! Her home was very humble but very clean. We could just
tell she was a good person. So she invited us in and we started talking
to her. We ended up giving her the whole restoration lesson! And
commited her to be baptized! She kept crying and saying how we had come
just at the right time. She had been having some hard struggles and had
been praying for some guidence in her life. She said we knocked on her
door right when she was at her lowest and really needed some help. It
was so awesome! She gave us some food and we set up an appointment to
come back this week! AHHH!
The members here
are awesome too! They feed us every night! I love the mexican food! They
have this really fantastic drink that is pretty much hot chocolate and
cornstarch. It is super thick and you eat it with pan. Ah. It is so
good! The great thing about this area is that there are people from all
over South America so we get to try all kinds of different foods!
Yesterday we had this soup that was super pica but really good. And
guess what I am eating tonight… Intestine soup.. I am a little scared.
We went to a menos activos home yesterday and were talking about all the
weird foods we eat. Hermana Marlowe mentioned something about intestine
soup and the lady got really excited and invited us over tonight to eat
it with her.. And of course we couldnt say no.. So I will let you now
how it goes! Nothing like cow intestines… *barf*
Another
cool thing we get to do is we teach an English class to members in the
community. It is so fun! Pretty much everyone here only speaks Spanish!
We teach one class at a school, two at the church, and one at the
library. It is such an awesome tool to get people interested in the
church! When we go tracting and people don't want to hear our message,
we always invite them to the English class. They are way more willing to
accept that! It is totally free and it is so fun! All the hispanics
like to help me with my Spanish and I help them with English! I love it!
Thank
you all for all your support and prayers! I can definetly feel them! I
love you all and hope you all have a wonderful week! My p day is now on
Monday! Wooooo! Be good and do good things! Until next week my loves!
Hermana Christensen
p.s. And mom, my area is a driving area!
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