No Letters :(
There happens to be a MAIL STRIKE going on
here in Chile
This week was good but I made a big mistake. I
decided with my companion that to have more success here we needed to have more
activities in the church. We started
right away because I was super excited to work and to help bring more people to
church. So we decided to have a movie
night and we invited a bunch of people and...No ONE CAME!! It was sad. Then we tried one more time with
the same results.
Wow! I thought “what is wrong with the people
why don’t we have people coming to our activities?” Then I realized what missionaries
are. We are just guides to help the ward progress. The members are the real missionaries.
So I saw that if we want to have activities we have to work through the
members. We had two activities that crashed and died because we wanted to work
alone and not help the ward with ideas and work with them. We just give the
ideas to the bishop and then we do the best we can to get working.
So this week I am trying with my Comp to work
better with the bishop and so I asked him what he wants for the ward and he had
an awesome idea. We are asking every member to pray and work with one person to
bring them to the church and they are going to choose one person every year. It
is not a lot but it will bring a lot of growth if every member who can bring
one person in to the church. Also I offered to talk in sacrament meeting whenever
he needed. Well, I really offered all
four of the missionaries to talk and then that same night he called me and
asked me to talk in church. I felt good because I think the Bishop has
confidence in us as their missionaries.
It was a good week
Thanks for all the support
LEs Quiero
Elder Christensen
I love you MOM!
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