Week 66

Mommy & All,

"What reason can you remember, that you can call on, that you can reach on, that can make you get back up! Find that reason!" -Phenomenal

This week was pretty good. We had conference with Presidente Salerno on Tuesday and it went really good. We talked about just how we can make the mission so that it keeps improving. We are starting to focus on just being good at the little things. And that we need to do everything with love. There is no point in teaching a lot of lessons just to say you  teach lessons. We have to be able to do everything with love, whether its teaching, contacting, or just doing stuff for our comps. We are also focusing on finding new people and just always having people to each. Presidente Salerno has helped me a lot throughout the mission to realize the potential we each have not just as missionaries, but as people in general. And of course we are focusing on "Flooding the Patagonia with the Book of Mormon." We are having members write there testimonies on the inside front of the Book of Mormons that we give out to people. That they are able to me more specialized and a witness in today's world that the Book of Mormon is true. Its been cool to see how this mission has been able to change little by little.

I was also able to meet my long lost cousin from Brazil named Elder Otoni. He was baptized a little over a year ago and is brand new here in the missionary. He also happens to be black which makes us now 2 here in this mission haha. He is way cool and it was good to get to know him. When we were talking about the Book of Mormon during conference and how we need to give more out and such, he leaned over to me and said " All right now we are gonna start Flooding the Patagonia with Black Guys " hahaha and i died laughing. It was cool to be able to see a bunch of old comps and friends at conference as well. 

I was able to visit quite a bit with a member named Hermano Barcos. He is the coolest member I've met during my mission. He is separated from his wife who lives here in Ushuaia and his older 17 year old son lives with her. But he has an 11 yr old named Santi who lives with him and isn't a member yet. His mom served a mission and was super big in the church and then one day had a bad experience in the church and went insane and left Hermano Barcos and now hates the church. And she isn't letting Santi get baptized. His older brother is a member but isn't active at all, and all his mom does is talk bad about the church. He almost got baptized earlier, but his mom threatened to call the police. He lives in the zone leaders area, but all of us are working with him. We sit down and read the Book of Mormon and just answer questions for him. He is the smartest 11 yr old I've ever met. We sat down on Thursday with us 4 missionaries and his dad and him and talked. He didn't really believe in God and asked how we know he exists. We were all able to testify of prayers and answers. How all of us are here right now because we received and answer to prayer. Yet we got it in 4 different ways since we were all in 4 different spots before the mission. That really helped him and it was just cool to watch and be a part of that.

Much Love,

Elder Christensen