July 3rd, 2017 Busy

Hey there!

I hope you're all having a great summer. Elder Sperry and I are doing
real well. We had a busy week! On Tuesday we went on exchanges after
district meeting. That was fun, I went with elder Pearson who was the
old iPad guy for our mission, he's a really good dude so we had a lot
of fun.

We had MLC this week, it was good to see some missionaries I hadn't
seen in a while. It was a great meeting for our mission and for me. I
learned a lot about being a purpose driven missionary  and I've been
able to apply some of the things we learned and it's been great. We
had dinner over at President McCuistion's house, we had some good food
from Sister McCuistion and had a real good devotional after. The
spirit was really strong and I'm excited for where our mission is
going. President McCuistion said there is going to be a big
announcement coming in August, he didn't tell us what it is but he
said it's going to be big! So I'm real excited for that!

We also had interviews and that's always a good thing. We met some
cool people this week. On Saturday we had just began our day and we
were driving around and we saw this lady mowing her lawn so we parked
the car and went and talked to her and she was really cool! She had
just lost her husband and she hadn't been to church since, she felt
like we were a sign from God that she was supposed to come back (and
this time to the true church).

Well I miss you guys but I'm having a good old time here in the great
heartland of America! Have a great week and a great 4th!

Elder Christensen🌻

June 26th, 2017 Be happy!

Hey everyone!

This week was real good! We found some awesome new people to teach.
Thomas came to church yesterday as well as Chris and Alex. Thomas
should be getting baptized on July 8th, we gave him some fruit punch
to replace is tea and he is enjoying it quite well. Chris will get
baptized as soon as he can stop smoking so we fasted with him and it
has really helped him, pray for him please!

We talked to a ton of people this week! A lot of people were real mean
as always, but we found some awesome people. We were talking and
testifying 24/7 this week it was a good week!

We have been thinking a lot about how a lot of people just aren't
happy in life and the majority of people we talk to just seem to not
be living life to the fullest. I really like the "Your potential, Your
Privileges" video by President Uchtdorf, he talks about how living the
gospel brings the most blessings in life and just overall helps us to
have a higher quality of life. I've seen that a lot! If we live the
gospel we are blessed! It's that simple! I love this work and am
blessed to be a part of it especially in Kansas. I love and miss you
all, I love hearing from each one of you. Hope you all have a great
week!



Elder Christensen🌻

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June 19, 2017 Wichita Kansas

Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well! This week was pretty good!
It was hard to say goodbye to all the people in Lawrence but I think
Wichita is going to be a good time. My new companions name is Elder
Sperry, he works really hard and is a really good missionary, I'm
excited to work with him.

We have met some great people this week, we met a part member family
with 2 kids who are baptismal age who haven't been baptized, so we are
working with them, we also found a couple of guys who said they have
met with missionaries before and loved it, they had just lost contact,
but now we found them, we also have a few people that came to church
they just have some word of wisdom issues holding them back from being
baptized. It's going to be a good transfer hopefully full of baptisms.

I got to see Elder Crane at transfers on Wednesday, it's always good
to see that guy, it's too bad I got transferred because he just got
transferred to Lawrence! We will hopefully get to serve with each
other soon. I also got to see my trainer Elder Madson! He is actually
going home at the end of July... it will be weird to see him go.

I miss you all! Hope you are enjoying the summer!

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June 12, 2017 Leaving Lawrence :((

Well everyone I hope you're doing well! I found out yesterday that I
will be leaving Lawrence to be a Zone Leader in Derby... I was really
not expecting to leave Lawrence so soon. I am so sad to be leaving, I
have come to absolutely love the members and people here. Hopefully I
will get to serve here again later on.

This week was pretty good, we had dinner with Austin and Abby (the
member and his girlfriend), it was really good. We taught her a really
good lesson and Austin has been reading he Book of Mormon with her
every day. They are awesome and it will be sad to not be able to see
her get baptized but its all good!

The Schofields had us over for dinner on Wednesday and made my
favorite meal, chicken roll ups! Woohoo! They were awesome and brought
back some good memories of grandmas house (:

I love you all, I hope that you are all doing great. I love my
mission, it is helping me grow and become the man that God needs me to
be. Have a great week!

Elder Christensen🌻