In District Council, we set the goal to talk to 10 people a day that you wouldn't usually talk too. And at first that seems like a small number because we are supposed to talk to everyone, but in reality it is pretty tough to find someone that you just normally talk to. But we went about doing it and I have seen so many miracles and this will definitely be a changing point in my mission. We had quite a few miracles yesterday. here is a story of one in particular, copied and pasted from my letter to president Aura : We had an awesome experience yesterday street contacting after a lesson fell through. We were contacting around this apartment complex and we had two options, an older grandma who was walking in a parking lot towards her car, or a younger man in the opposite direction throwing his trash away. We felt that we should talk to the man, so we hurried over there. But when we talked to him he was not very happy with us and walked away quickly. We thought that perhaps we had chosen the wrong person to contact...but we decided to go back and check if the older grandma had left yet, and she had not! She was getting in her car. So we hurried over and offered to scrape her car for her. which was the thickest ice i have ever tried to scrape. as we were scraping she tried to start her car but it wasn't working. So after about 8 tries or so elder Kimball asks her if we could pray with her and ask God for help. And she said ok. So I said the prayer and She gave it one more try. After a couple seconds it was trying, and i was thinking "come on, come on" but then it started right up! All 3 of us knew that it was a blessing from a loving Heavenly Father! It reminded me of a talk that President Holland gave when he and his son were driving there truck but had gotten lost. They prayed to know where they should go, they felt that a certain road was the right one, but they went down it and ended up being the wrong choice, so they went back and took the other. He told his son that perhaps Heavenly Father allowed us to go down the wrong road, so that we could know for certain what the right road was.
That was such a big lesson learned for me! Follow the spiritual promptings that we receive every single time! Heavenly Father knows what he is doing!That lady did not end up being interested but what an experience for all 3 of us! That is something she hopefully wont forget! As we testified that we were representatives of Jesus Christ and that Heavenly Father knows her personally we could all feel their love.
We had another cool experience yesterday street contacting in the middle of a blizzard. We walked all through the town for a couple hours looking everywhere but we couldn't find anyone that was interested. but then we turned around and saw this guy walking towards us so we waited for him and stopped him. He was in a kind of rush because he was going bowling. But we started talking about the Book of Mormon and how it is additional knowledge about Jesus Christ. His eyes lit up right when we said that and he smiled and said "of course I want to meet and learn about this!" It was a way good birthday!
A couple days ago, a member took us out to this steak house. And bought us a 3 course meal. some shrimp, blue cheese steak and chocolate fudge. so so good. Maybe the best steak I have ever had.
But anyway, for a spiritual thought: I was reading in 2 nephi this week and this verse really stuck out to me. 15:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine are in their feasts; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. it is so easy for us to not see heavenly Father and Jesus Christ's hands in our lives. be careful and always be grateful!
also, 2 nephi 15:8-9, 11
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: Here am I; send me.
9 And he said: Go and tell this people....
11 Then said I: Lord, how long? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate;
Lets be eager to do the work of the Lord until the work is done or until there is no one too talk to or serve!
love you all and have a happy new year!
love elder christensen
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