Week 81

Mommy & All,

"If you wanna thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it. If all that's you dream and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and worthless without it...see its time now it you wanna make this your decade, you've gotta start saying YES to your life, saying YES to your dreams, YES to your upholding future, YES to your potential!! As opposed to saying no!" -Les Brown

First off I just wanna give a huge shout out and thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes! I hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving this week! 

This week went pretty good. Elder Nelson and I are working nicely together and its been really fun to be with him and getting to know him a better. We have been working a lot with Luis this week. At the beginning of this week, he told us he was for sure gonna get baptized before Christmas, so he put his own baptismal date for the 23rd of December. Elder Nelson and I about that a lot, and we prayed and talked and could just see that he was sooo ready now. So we planned a really good lesson for him and we sat down and told him we were gonna put the goal with him to get baptized the 25th of November. At the beginning he thought that was really soon and that he wasn't gonna be prepared for that. But then we showed him how he already had a testimony, how much he had already accomplished with the problems he had with smoking and drinking, and how he can become completely clean through baptism. We helped him just to believe in himself. And he did! So we accepted the date for the 25th and we are hoping to do his baptism this Saturday which will be really cool.

Last Thursday we had Consejo here in Comodoro where all the zone leaders from the mission come and we have a meeting with Presidente Salerno about what he need to do for the mission, goals we need to set, and what we need to do in our specific zones where we are serving. So I got to see Elder Jensen, Holmes, Ekblad, Hollingsworth, Richards, and Rosas again which was awesome. All those guys have helped me a ton through the mission and have made me a better person. It was also funny to see all of them in Comodoro. That was the first time Elder Rosas, Ekblad, Holmes, and I were all back together in the same place, since almost exacly 1 year ago here in Comodoro when we were all in the same zone. Its crazy to see how far we've all come and how the mission has helped all of us. Its been a great experience thus far. We are just praying we can continue to find success.

Much Love,

Elder Christensen