week ending 8.14.11

Hola everyone,

Well, we have good news that Fresia (56), Maria Jose (26), and Jenifer (15) got baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so amazing! I had the opportunity to baptize Fresia and Jenifer. It was so funny, Fresia was so nervous for it all but when she got out of the water she was so happy! When Jeni came into the font she asked me with a worried look on her face, "I am going to fall?" I was like no your not going to fall. She didn't fall but when she came out of the water you couldn't see her face because her face was covered with her hair! ha ha. I was like oh no but it was amazing! I love seeing the miracle of baptisms. Today after I get off of the internet they invited us to go eat with them and after we eat with them we have a family home evening with them so it's a day full of the Aguilar family. ha ha.

 So we have been working hard but we are missing something and we have found it and we are going to have a lot more success this week. And all the other investigators are doing good and we have a lot of good plans for them. We are planning on having at least one more baptism before I get out of here. So keep praying for me! 

 All the people that want to go to my grandma's house when I get home on August 30th your all invited. Because the next day I go to school so it would be cool see a lot of you!

Well, I love you all so much and thank you for all your support that you have given me during my mission, the next week the email I send will be really short because I will be visiting all my converts and people I love here. Well, have a good week everyone!

love,

Elder Christensen

from elder maigua

como esta hermana bien espero que siii....yo aqui con su hijo la cual es muy bueno la verdad supo educarle a veces compartimos experiencia en cuanto a como nos educaron nuestras madres y la verdad sabemos sin duda que muestras madres lo sabien sabiena que saldriamos ala mision y cambiariamos nuestras vidas gracias por ser una madre espectacular estaba pensando ir a los estados unidos, estudiar en BYU la cual espero lograrlo pero las probavilidades son del 5 % jajajaja pero si no voy su hijo me ba ayudar jajaja fue un placer aver concido con su hijo el me demostrar realmente como amar a las personas..aqui le mando unas fotos ok cuando recivimos nuestros paquetes muchas gracias por su bondad y amor no solo con su hijo sino con las personas que le rodean y con las personas de otros paises  y me gusto mucho las pistolas nerf a mi me encatan son buenas jajaja haaa y tambien por el jerky es fabuloso  y la polera(t-shirt) es fabulosa vivir en una vida loca solo para locos jajajaj pero que este biennn cchauuuu

elder maigua

week ending 8.7.11

 Hey everyone,

This week my flight plans got to me and I know when I will be in Utah................... I know you all want to know so I might tell you but,................... okay I will tell you. My flight gets in on the 30th of Aug. at 3:00pm. Yeah, when I got my ticket I was like crap it's coming to an end and I can't slow time down. But there is one thing I can control, and that is how hard I work. These last 2 weeks I have been working so hard and we are having so much success. So much success that we are doing to have 3 baptisms this coming Sunday! Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Fresia, Maria Jose, and Jeny. They are so excited for their baptisms, they are so ready for it as well. When we taught them all the commandments they had questions but we could answer them and they accepted them all and prayed to know if they were commandments or not and they feel that they are! I am so pumped for them! And I also gave the baseball that my mom sent me, thats from Walt Disney World to Jeny and she freaked out. She loves it and she wants to go to there for real and I told her that my mom would take her if she can make it to the USA. haha. So mom I made a promise that you can't break. haha.

We have a lot of people that we are teaching and we are having a great time working hard and helping a lot of people. Even though we had a great week Elder Maigua and I feel bad, like we didn't do the best we could have. We want to change that this week and kick butt! haha. Sorry for my wording. haha. We are teaching another family that is so amazing, their kids Javiera (11) and Victor (13) have gone to church the past 3 weeks and just love it. Their dad takes them to church every week and comes to get them, the dad is going to go one of these weeks but he says he doesn't know when. But the mom says we need some time because we are changing our religion. I am not sure how many of them I will see get baptized but that's okay - I know that they will and that they will be so blessed!

 The last Monday we had a BBQ and it was great! You can see me with the grill and all the meat we had. It was great! 

On Wednesday we made breakfast for the zone and I made pancakes (25) and French toast (30). Everyone loved it. 

 We did some service for a family and that is the son of the family. He is 9 and his name is Franco and he needs to be baptized haha. we are working with him and his family - his mom is a member. 

Well, there is a run down on my pics. Well, I love you all and I hope your week goes well!

love,

Elder Christensen

week ending 7.31.11

 Hey everyone,

How are you all doing? I am really good, the week we had was really good! We had 5 investigators that went to church and they are all progressing towards a baptism. The Aguilar Family are doing really well, the dad doesn't want anything but that's okay for now, he will see the change in the life of his family and we will see after. But the mom and daughters are really excited for their baptism.

 The other people that we are working with are Victor and Javiera they are brother and sister and their mom likes that we are teaching her kids and she wants to see how the church is.

Francisco is a young man that is 15 years old and he is looking for a church to join and he has prayed and feels that Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God. He is going to make a lot of friends in the church I am really excited for him!

 So today a couple of us are going to have a BQ and we are going to fly Chilean kites and play ping pong! I am really excited to eat some meat baby haha. 

I am doing good and I am really excited for this week that is to come! I love you all and we will be talking!

love,

Elder Christensen