July 20, 2015

Some members and all of us

Hello everyone!!!!!! I hope everyone had an amazing week!!!!! 

So I realized I should probably tell you about my companion! hahaha Whoops! 

Hermana Warner:

So my companions name is Hermana Warner! She's from West Valley, UT and she's a convert to the church as of her sophomore year of high school! Her Aunt and her Uncle adopted her I think a year or a couple years before that and all of that part of her family is Mormon! She's really cool!!! Yeah!!! If you guys have any questions about her email me and I'll tell ya! hahaha 

So some things that happened this past week: 

AMERICAN DINNERS: 

We had THREE!!!! American dinners this past week!!!!! One was with the bishops family and we had grilled chicken and corn on the cob (we actually made jelote, which is the Mexican style of eating corn on the cob, like in nacho libre, but it w

as American none the less) then another was with this sister in the ward who her and her husband (served a Spanish speaking mission) were serving in the Spanish ward in San Juan before but moved here and just decided to go to the Spanish ward here! She was sooo awesome!! She reminded me a lot of some of my Young Women Leaders at home!!! She gave us BBQ chicken sandwiches on little pretzel rolls!!! She was adorable!!! Then we had lasagna at our ward mission leaders house!!! It was soooooooo goooooooodddd!!!!! so lots of American food which was crazy!!!

Temple Music Night: 

So on Wednesday there was a concert put on by the missionaries at the church building by the temple in Newport Beach! Hermana Green sang a Spanglish version of "Abide With Me" and it was soooo beautiful!!! Another one of my favorites was a sister sang "Savior, Redeemer of My Soul" and signed the words in ASL while she sang! It was so incredible! After that we took some members and had Sister Ruiz (an English speaking sister who is from Guatamala) give them a temple tour. It was sooo amazing!!!!! That temple is so beautiful! 

Miracle:

So something fell through the other day so we were going to go see a member I've never met before who lived where we happened to be so we were walking and all of the sudden we saw a lady we've talked to before who's super super super nice but we couldn't find her number after we talked to her!!! So crazy!!!! So we got her number and she told us we should visit her at Smash Burger where she works one day!!! She's awesome! THEN we saw one of my favorite members, Andrea who's 16 years old. She has had a very very hard life and right now she's going through a lot. We just happened to run into her before she got home and ended up talking to her for 1hr 45 min. I really could tell we needed to be there so that she could have someone to talk to and it was really cool to see the Lord working through us!  

Well I love you all so much!!!! Never forget how much the Lord loves you all perfectly and individually!!! I hope you have an amazing week and that you are able to see the little miracles God gives you throughout the week! I promise as you do that, you will be able to be so much more happy!!! 

Love, 

Hermana Christensen