First Sacrament Meeting Talk in Spanish

To the members of my family that didn´t die in the freak storm-

Wow. The pictures that I got are sure scary. I am glad that the tree in the back yard didn´t land on the house. Yikes. That storm was GIGANTE. I was sad to hear about all the damage to the house and to the crops. But what looked way worse was the state of the Old house. Yeah, that does not look fun to clean up.

How fun that Dan and Claire can be there for a little while before heading back up to school. My computer is definitely up for grabs if someone needs it. I think that I backed up everything that I wanted- needed, but you can check to be sure. You can even wipe it clean if you want.

This has been a wonderfuly interesting week. We don´t have any investigators that are on date yet because of some other conflicts, but, we are working our tales off. Yesterday for example. We had a day full of set apointments, and every single one of them fell through. Okay, that´s fine, we moved on to our back ups. We had some really solid backups that we could try. Every single one of them fell through as well. We had a few members that we could try next, and every single one of them were very very busy, or not at home. We´d walked the entire route of our area for about 4 hours and tried knocking on the door of just about everyone that we know, with no lessons. We tried contacting next but had very little sucess. Even though we were tired beyond belief and really worn out from walking over all of our area 3 or 4 times, it made me so grateful to the Savior. When he was on the Earth proclaiming His Gospel it was not easy for Him either. Why on earth should it be easy for me? I love days like yesterday because it makes me so grateful to my Father in Heaven. I really feel missionary-y

We recieved a call late saturday night that we were going to be giving talks in Sacrament meeting the next morning (our sacrament meeting is at 8 in the morning). oh snap. I think that they forgot that I am a Gringa and that it is really tough to write up an entire talk in another language? I was a little miffed that this was going to be really hard, but naturally, I accepted and was assigned to speak on Repentance. I wasn´t worried about the content necessarily. I knew I could whip up a talk easy enough, but sometimes it is harder than others to speak spanish. Like when you are in front of a ward full of people that only speak spanish. But like He always does, The spirit helped me through it. It was a miracle. I spoke everything I wanted to say with few problems. I was able to share my testimony and many of the ward members told me how grateful they were to have someone with a really strong desire to learn the language to teach the people about the word of God.

The food here is so delicious. I can´t even tell you how wonderful it is. Our pensionista who owns a restaurant is such a good cook. For lunch the place is a restaurant and in the nighttime it is a Polleria. With roast chicken and french fries. yum yum. I didn´t expect to be able to have french fries every night if i wanted them. Thank goodness I dont obsess over them the way mom does or else I would be packing on the lbs.

The work is moving forward and I am very happy right now. The Church is true and I love you all

Hermana Christensen

ps. Dad, our pensionista and her family were watching a movie downstairs and all I heard were gunshots and sirens. I realized about 5 minutes later that they were watching the Bourne Identity. HAAHAHA I totally thought of you. (much less awesome in spanish. Just sayin)

I dont need anything just some love