Alma 29:9

I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

3.24.14

Hi everyone. Yes it is true this week I took part in an emergency transfer. Don't worry it wasn't for anything bad, but miracle of miracles I have left Rinconada in the middle of the transfer. That was sure weird for me. I got the call on Tuesday saying that an area had just gotten closed for hermanas and reopened for elders because the church needed more members of the sacerdocio there. Anyway they decided to open up a new area. They sent one of the hermanas to be my companion and the other hermana stayed in Rinconada. The hermana who is my companion is none other than one of my best friends in the entire world HERMANA GROW! She was one of my Comps in the MTC. And now we are here in Peru as companions opening up an area and completely fluent in spanish. That was pretty awesome. My new area is called Villa del mar (village of the sea) I am just the luckiest person on the planet to be in this new area. It is the area that has the temple construction site (Pics to come) and it is right here on the beach near Huanchaco. It is a HUGE area, but it is super cool. It has tons of fields and animals-especially cats- It's pretty cute. I love my new area so much. The ward here isn't actually a ward. it is actually only a branch, and it is really awesome. The goal for the branch is to become a ward and in order to do that they need some more members of the sacerdocio to be in the ward full time members. They really are great to work will and I love the members here so much. There is also a really neat kid that is getting baptized from this area this weekend. We share the boundries with  a set of elders too. They are really great to work with.
It almost killed me to leave my best buddies in Rinconada. I only had one afternoon to say goodbye to everyone that I loved. It was so so hard. But the Lord sure loves me enough to have let me stay there one week longer for my birthday, that I could spend that time with those people that I love. Sometimes I just marvel at the wisdom of the Lord and want to just be grateful.

I am so proud of my wonderful mother for inviting a friend to the women's conference. What an a mazing missionary my mother is! And Dad, I really really appreciated your amazing words of wisdom. I am always so grateful for your example in everything. 
 
I am going to have a fun time getting to know a whole bunch of new member friends here this week. I sure am excited about that. It is interesting going from a ward where 150 members come every week to a branch where 60 come every week. Things are well, and I am pretty excited to be opening an area with my BFF Hermana Grow!

Love you bunches!
Hermana Christensen
 


 

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