MILAGRO (Miracles)

Querido Familia-

I didn't realize that this was a challenge as to see who could write the best missionary letter for the reunion, but I am glad that you liked it anyway. I have been reading in the Bible lately and found a little scripture that applied to the family reunion (Kind of sappy of me right? But it was fun anyway) It is in Genesis 18:15 (I think.....) It talks about how God knew Abram and he knew that he would raise a righteous family and for that the family would be blessed. I was thinking about Grandma and Grandpa Christensen and the Legacy that they had. Their posterity have definitely been blessed by their obedience. I am so grateful for that, as well as for Mom and Dad for being ones that God would trust with us kids. We're kind of crazy sometimes, but we really grew from your testimony and service.

I am glad that Matt and Katt can finally get out of the house and have their own cute little place. I am so excited to see the pictures of the house. Kat got so lucky that the place that they are building their house already has a lawn! (even if it is a little pasture-ish). Bob, I sure am proud of you for being so tough through all of your hard times. You rock and Neil Armstrong had better watch out, because you're just going to be a champ bicyclist.

I laughed so hard at the story about Tony and Thor. Those two got busted hard. Poor little robins didn't even have a chance against those two beasts.

I hope Tacos gets home alright and that he had a blast here in DC. I know I do. And if it is anything like I got, He definitely got rained on a few times. It has been SO MUGGY here! uggh. I will never have to drink water again because it is all coming through my skin. But God still loves me and the people here so the work must continue.

Well this week has been amazing. It was the week of miracles. None of them were too absurd, but for us they were heaven-sent. The first one is about our friend Marilu. One of the members in our ward Hma Bello told us about her friend who's name is Marilu on the second day that we were here. But she didn't have anything specific to tell us and she had no address. She said she would get back to us with those. We kind of forgot about this as we continued on in the transfer. Then last Sunday after the broadcast, she asked us to go with her to meet her friend. We made an appointment and drove over to her apartment complex. We knocked on the door and as we waited, I realized that we had been there before. We had street contacted this woman and her family just a week and a half earlier. We made plans to go back and visit, but they weren't there when we went back (not an abnormal thing.) And we were going to go back later. Unfortunately they had been out doing something before our visit and got held up so we couldn't visit her that night, but I am SO excited to go back to talk with her family. We loved them and were so excited to teach their family (who seemed pretty receptive), and now we have a member fellowshipper. UN MILAGRO. I'll have to update you later on how it goes.

The next one is about our friend Cristina. We knocked at her door and her son answered and invited us back to meet with his mom. We did, and we discussed her relationship with God. We didn't necessarily teach her a whole lot, but we established where she was religion wise. We taught her to pray and made an appointment to come back in 2 weeks. (WAAY too long away, but it was the only thing we could do. :( ). She wasn't overly promising, but it was an appointment, so we went back and she opened her door to us. We began talking and then she asked the most wonderful question that a missionary wants to hear. She told us that her brother had recently passed away and she asked " Where is my brother right now, and will I ever see him again?" MILAGRO! We showed her the Plan of Salvation and the Holy Ghost was there so strong. It was so sosososo cool to watch her change toward the things we were saying. She was eating it up and was really excited about the things we were saying.

There are dozens of these each week, but I'd like to share one more today about our friend Isdenka. Hermana Storts, who was here before us and came back for a day on exchanges, told us to find her and teach her because she was ready for baptism but she only needed to come to church. She'd even given up Coffee. We had made several appointments with her, but each fell through. We really wanted to get a member to come with us to teach her, but we couldn't find anyone that could come with us. Then yesterday, one of the hermanos at church came up to us and told us about a young man who had come to church on several occasions and that he wanted to go with us to visit with his family. We had never heard his name before and so we looked in our records. Lo and behold there was his name on Isdenka's records under her children. We have been praying for someone to come with us to teach her for weeks. We will go and visit her this week. MILAGRO!

The Lord is really showing his power to us this week and I am so grateful. I am honestly scared to leave here now. I finally know the area, know the ward members (AND LOVE THEM! THEY ARE SSSOSOOSOSO WONDERFUL!). We have built this area from the ground up and all of our investigators were ones that we had knocked into. We love them so much and I can't stand the thought of leaving them right now. I still want to go to Peru, but now it is just a little bit harder. I am so grateful for all the prayers and all the love. I have the greatest family in the entire world. Be safe over the reunion and send everyone my love.

Les Quiero

Hermana Christensen

PS- for those who don't speak spanish- MILAGRO= Miracle.