Aloha: haha just kidding I don't speak Hawaiian :)
This week was a sweet week, We stayed super busy and had a lot of fun. The only thing is that it was a pretty regular week so I don't really know what I want to say to you all haha. hmmmm....
The Maximo family was not able to come to church this week due to the dad being really sick, and he is the only one that can drive their tricycle. That was a bummer but we had two others there. Linette, 22, who is the best friend of a members and she is doing very well, maybe will be baptized in a couple months but not sure, she has some concerns we are still figuring out and working on. The other was Sonia, 60+, who we were teaching when I first got here but she wasn't progressing well so we didn't really visit her much, she told us she had like a vision about Christ and Joseph Smith and stuff so she went to church haha. She is....different but really nice and funny. We also teach her daughters.
We had a cool story with the Maximo family last week though. What happened is on Saturday night we visited them and they loved our lesson but the dad had to work. (He owns his own welding business) because he was welding a tricycle and the owner needed it. He said he told the dude it would be done in four days but it had already been a week so he was being pressured to work on it instead of church. We tried to address the situation but eventually I just promised him that if he asked God through prayer, in faith, if he should go to church or if he should work, that God would show him what to do. He said that after we left he was pondering and thinking about what to do. He said he wanted to look for an answer from God so he opened the Book of Mormon and he said the first verse he looked down at and read was Mosiah 16:17, which is about resting on the Sabbath day and not working. He said he took it as his direct answer form God and promised us he would follow all that we are teaching him and his family. They went to church the following day (June 17) so they are doing so well! We also taught them the word of wisdom and even though they all have problems with it, they all committed to follow it no matter how hard it would be. They are rad.
I love Mandurriao and the ward takes such good care of us here! The only thing weird right now is that Elder Price, Collins and all those guys go home tomorrow! It’s nuts haha. I am excited for them but lots of my good buddies in the mission will be home in two days haha. Mission is short. Elder Light and I are doing great too. We have the same vision of what we want to happen in the area. He might transfer on Friday though? We also get to work with all the incoming missionaries this week. So we will be the first real missionaries they work with until they get their real companions. Should be fun.
All my Love,
Elder Garrett Christensen
This week was a sweet week, We stayed super busy and had a lot of fun. The only thing is that it was a pretty regular week so I don't really know what I want to say to you all haha. hmmmm....
The Maximo family was not able to come to church this week due to the dad being really sick, and he is the only one that can drive their tricycle. That was a bummer but we had two others there. Linette, 22, who is the best friend of a members and she is doing very well, maybe will be baptized in a couple months but not sure, she has some concerns we are still figuring out and working on. The other was Sonia, 60+, who we were teaching when I first got here but she wasn't progressing well so we didn't really visit her much, she told us she had like a vision about Christ and Joseph Smith and stuff so she went to church haha. She is....different but really nice and funny. We also teach her daughters.
We had a cool story with the Maximo family last week though. What happened is on Saturday night we visited them and they loved our lesson but the dad had to work. (He owns his own welding business) because he was welding a tricycle and the owner needed it. He said he told the dude it would be done in four days but it had already been a week so he was being pressured to work on it instead of church. We tried to address the situation but eventually I just promised him that if he asked God through prayer, in faith, if he should go to church or if he should work, that God would show him what to do. He said that after we left he was pondering and thinking about what to do. He said he wanted to look for an answer from God so he opened the Book of Mormon and he said the first verse he looked down at and read was Mosiah 16:17, which is about resting on the Sabbath day and not working. He said he took it as his direct answer form God and promised us he would follow all that we are teaching him and his family. They went to church the following day (June 17) so they are doing so well! We also taught them the word of wisdom and even though they all have problems with it, they all committed to follow it no matter how hard it would be. They are rad.
I love Mandurriao and the ward takes such good care of us here! The only thing weird right now is that Elder Price, Collins and all those guys go home tomorrow! It’s nuts haha. I am excited for them but lots of my good buddies in the mission will be home in two days haha. Mission is short. Elder Light and I are doing great too. We have the same vision of what we want to happen in the area. He might transfer on Friday though? We also get to work with all the incoming missionaries this week. So we will be the first real missionaries they work with until they get their real companions. Should be fun.
All my Love,
Elder Garrett Christensen
Hey Elder Light plays guitar here.....could you look up and send us the guitar chords for the George Straight song "Best Day"....Thank you!
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