Hi all! We had a wonderful week but we also have a lot of errands to do today so I can't email for long.
The
highlight of this week was church yesterday! Three of our investigators
came and it was wonderful. Then something SO GREAT happened. I still
sit up front with Brother Hunter who's Deaf because I help sign
interpret for him. Well, yesterday during the part of church where
anyone could get up and share their testimony (what they know to be
true), Brother Hunter went up! He brought Brother Peterson up with him,
who is the other interpreter in the ward. Brother Hunter signed a
powerful testimony while Brother Peterson dictated it into the
microphone. It was so wonderful! He told his conversion story, then
explained that he had become inactive for many years, until the
missionaries came by. It was funny because while he was signing the
story, he pointed right at me and Sister Brems sitting in the
congregation! He joked about how we gave him the extra push he needed.
He had the whole congregation laughing throughout his stories. Everyone
loves him so much. I never want to leave Holt!
On that
note, however, transfer calls are this Friday :( I think I'm leaving
because I've been in this area for 6 months and most people don't stay
in one area longer than that. I know anything can happen, though. I know
wherever I end up is exactly where the Lord needs me, so that is
comforting! I will let you all know next week what happens!
I
have one quick spiritual thought I wanted to share. Our mission
president shared this story in a stake missionary meeting this week. He
served his mission in the northeastern states, and got to a point where
he was very discouraged. He hadn't baptized anyone yet, and was worried
he was a bad missionary. He had an interview with his mission president
(who was Boyd K. Packer!), and told his mission president all the work
he had been doing, asking if there was more he was supposed to do to
have more success. The response President Packer gave was, "Elder Hess,
you're doing all the right things, you just haven't been doing them long
enough."
I
think that is such a great principle. We don't always receive blessings
for obeying the commandments immediately, but as long as we are
diligent, they always come. You are all such great examples to me.
Always keep working hard and God will bless you!
Now
in closing, I'd like to share a wonderful video that the Mormon
Newsroom released. It gives a great introduction to and summary of the
Mormon Church. Whether you're a member or not, will each of you watch
this brief video? To learn more about the basic beliefs of the church,
you can also go to mormon.org/beliefs.
Here's the video!
I love you all!
<3 Sister Christiansen
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