My new comp is elder Payne...he has been out on his mission for 2 months longer than me. he is a pretty cool guy. I have never been so pumped on my mission before to just go out an talk to people. We are going to have a great transfer...i know it.
One funny thing that happened this week was that we had a meeting with the bishop and one of the things that we discussed before church in the meeting was getting a translator for at least the elders quorum president who is from the philippines. I am fine translating for people but that guy at least has to have all of the facts and not the half translation and half made up stuff that i sometimes give out while i am translating. And the bishopric agreed that he needs to have a translator that is better than us...but when we get to third hour priesthood, what happens?... well the stake president comes with his counselors and no one is willing to do the translation so i start doing it for the elder's quorum president and two minutes later i somehow have the a microphone and a headset and am translating for like 20 people. it is crazy stuff. but it always works out in the end...
We had a really awesome lesson with this investigator named hung. he is from vietnam and has been taught since January or so. He can be baptized anytime but does not want to commit. he has been to church like 20 sundays in a row or something like that. When i found out that i would be teaching him i prayed very hard that we would be able to teach him something that would help him make that final step. I felt like we needed to talk about the priesthood and to offer to give him a blessing. We decided to do those things and wow, i have not felt the spirit that strong before in a lesson. We gave him that blessing and he was so grateful. the spirit was so powerful in that little room for the next 20 minutes. he could feel is so strongly too...it actually got hard to talk. He said he would think about baptism again. It is so important that we follow the promptings of the holy ghost. He definitely knows a lot better than we do what the people around us need.
I also had another neat experience this week when we helped this young lady with her bags at the train station and then got her to her new train. she was way early so we chatted with her for like 40 minutes about life and it turns out that she lived with Mormons in California as a exchange student for a year! she really looked up to them and asked us all kinds of questions. her friend from that family just got called to serve in Denmark! she really wants to know more about it and wants to meet with us. unfortunately she lives out of our area, but she will meet with the sister missionaries. Heavenly father is sending prepared people our way..we just need to be the ones to talk to them!
Also, while teaching english class, someone asked me to define the word "Leap" and that got me thinking for the next couple hours what a leap was to me. I would define a leap as a jump at first...but then after thinking about it i changed my mind. I think it is a jump where every possible muscle is used to its fullest...when you think of a leap...everything should be working towards that destination in you. In the olympics if you see a long jumper, i am sure that everything that they do is helping them make that leap. A leap of faith is not just blindly following God but putting all that you have into following Him even when you don't know how it will all work out. I have a testimony of this.
thanks for all that you guys do! love elder christensen
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