last night we had the special opportunity to give a young man a blessing! He is from a different ward, but his city didnt have a hospital, so they came to our city. half of his face was paralyzed, and they were going to do some kind of surgery on him, but before they went in they asked for a blessing. so we hurried over. And we had a wonderful meeting with him! He is the happiest kid ever! We were able to give him the blessing and then talk with his parents while he got the surgery. It is always awesome when you can do little things like this that mean huge things to other people. This morning while we were walking to come email, we saw them walking to Burger King! So we ran over and started talking to them, and it turns out that they were getting a burger in celebration. His face was all better and the surgery had gone really well. What a blessing it is to have the priesthood in these days!
We also found two great investigators this week! One is from Nepal, a student who is really cool and talks really fast english. and the other is from Finland. We met the Finnish guy because we showed up at an old investigators house to visit him who we had never met yet, and we had the wrong address...and this guy was sitting outside smoking. And he called us over and started talking to us. It turns out that he knows the guy we came to visit. and he showed us his door. but before we could knock it he says "but you can come visit me" so we go over there and teach him and he is actually really interested!
The Finnish independence day was this week. Last year it was a big celebration. it was actually my first day in Finland. but that was because it was the 100th year. This year there didn't seem to be anything. but thats ok. We were not allowed to go tracting on that day so we walked around on the streets a lot trying to hunt people down.
For a spiritual thought this week, in the Book of Mormon right now i am reading in 2 Nephi:9 and there was a pretty cool verse. Verse 18 : But, behold, the righteous,
I love how this verse says that the righteous will need to endure our own crosses. Of course we are not going to go through what Christ did, we are not expected to go through everything He did. If we did not have somewhat of the challenge that He had however, how could we fully appreciate what He did for us? We are all going to have our own challenges and trials, but that is what is going to help us prepare and become better. And through it all, we will experience joy!
I hope that you all have a wonderful week!
love elder christensen
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