July 27, 2015

Hey everybody!!!! 

I hope everyone is enjoying summer wherever you happen to be!! I know I am!!!! So this week!!!! 

Emilia's Birthday!!! :

So last Monday was Emilia's birthday and so we went and ate dinner at her house and she made Mole!!!! SOOOOO GOOOOODDD!!!!! I loved it sooo much!!! Then we just sat and talked to a long time and it was so fun to be there with her!!!!! 

Yasmin!: 

So the week before this past week Yasmin went to the hospital to figure out what's wrong with her eyes. She's been having lots of problems with them for the past couple months. It didn't seem like anything super serious was wrong but when we were waiting to see her in the hospital while she was getting an MRI Emilia told us she was worried because Yasmin was worried and scared. But then when she came back she seemed like she was fine and all was good. Then she didn't come to church that Sunday so we had to her baptism date to Aug. 8th. Which is ok because now we have more time to help her prepare!! But then Emilia said that the doctors said it might be due to depression and Yasmin definitely has been showing signs of having that. She's told us it's just been hard to be truly happy. But the cool thing to see was that now that she has a baptism date and we've been seeing/teaching her pretty much every day, I've seen a light in her gradually glow so that's been amazing to see. She came to church yesterday and made a friend with this other 14 year old girl who's mom is less active and she had two sisters but she's the only one baptized out of her sisters and it was her first time at church and now her and Yasmin are going to mutual together tomorrow!!!! So awesome!!! Yasmin is just getting more and more light about her. So amazing to see! Emilia told us too that she's thankful for us because she said we've really helped her a lot just to be more happy. So I'm so grateful for that opportunity. 

Dina!!!!: 

So she told us that she's going to Peru (where she's from) on a trip and she doesn't know when she'll be back. Her daughter and granddaughter will be back in a month but she doesn't know for sure. I was definitely heartbroken. Especially because we asked her if she know the Book of Mormon was true and she said something pretty much like "Well yes, its logical. " So then we explained that she knows that the things we teach her are true too! So we asked her if we could set a date for Sept. 13 (I told her that's what I wanted for my birthday) but she said, true to Dina- form, "I don't like to make promises" hahaha We love her so much and we got to say goodbye and when we went over we just talked to her about her life and she gave us orange juice and ice cream. Basically my mission grandma. She's amazing and I'm going to miss her sooo much!! She leaves today!!! 

Pioneer Day!!!: 

So there was a stake pioneer day activity on Saturday! It included a 5K run in the morning at 8 and Hermana Williams and I wanted to run in it sooo bad!!! Plus Emilia LOVES to run so we were hoping she'd go with the whole fam. AND SHE DID!!!!! It was sooo fun!!!! At first we were both with Emilia and Amalia in a stroller and Yasmin too and Pedro and 

then Yasmin got tired so I walked with her and Emilia, Hna Williams, and the stroller + Amalia kept running!! It was super funny because Hna Williams was pushing the stroller and kept loosing control of the front wheel and it was super funny. But they went on to run/ push the cart the whole time (like true pioneers) and I went with Yasmin. She did great for her first time doing anything like that! We ran quite a bit of it but we talked some of it too! She kept looking at me and asking "are you even tired???" hahah but it was fun because we just got to hangout and she talked to me about stuff that goes on at school and how shes feeling. It was awesome cause she told me that she's been able to feel a lot more confident lately so that's awesome!! Then later at 4-7 there was a fun activity with Pioneer games, hamburgers, hotdogs, a live band, and lots of other fun stuff!!! It was so fun!!! We hung out with Yasmin the whole time and we even won her a fish!!!! (side note: yesterday at church Amalia came up to us and said "my fishy died!!!!! It went into the toilet!!" we all had to try so hard not to bust out laughing hahaha) But it was such a blast and so cool too because not only did Emilia, Amalia, and Yasmin come to the 5K and activity but Pedro (the dad who isn't a member either) came to both!! He's seriously one of the kindest people I've ever met!!! He always gives us mangos and whole watermelons when we're over there! hahah But it was such a fun day and a great way to end the week!!! 

Well that's all I've got folks!!! I hope you all have an amazing week!!! I love and miss everyone so much!!!! 

ALSO BIG SHOUT OUT AND CONGRATULATIONS AND SO MUCH EXCITEMENT FOR MY SISTER KENDYL FOR GETTING ENGAGED!!!!! I'm so excited for her and Sergio and love them both so much!!!! AAHHHH!!!!! YAYAYAY!!!

Anywho, Con mucho amor, 

Hermana Christensen!

Me and Dina!! 

Me, Hermana Warner and Yasmin 

The cutest member took us to In & Out for dinner because she couldn't feed us in her house. She was so apologetic and felt so embarrassed but we were so excited! I told her that all of you guys are from here and that there isn't a whole lot of In-n-Out's in Texas and she INSISTED that we take this picture for you guys!!!! Ah I can't wait for you all to meet these people!!