Some Snow & Some Success

Hey Fam and Friends!

Another solid week down. I got a little taste of winter here in Iowa. On Friday and Saturday a cold front dropped in and it went from 75 degrees and sunny to the low 30’s but it wasn’t too bad. Got all bundled up on Friday and it even snowed. Everyone freaked out and they cancelled school. It ended up snowing for about 15 minutes and that’s it…haha. Spanish is still coming slowly. Tough being in the states where a big portion of the day is in English but all the lessons and tracting are in Spanish and that’s where I learn the most. Not to mention, every day we are fed by awesome Hispanic families. With all of this, I’m confident that I’ll get the language sooner or later.

We had a ton of success this past week. Seven new investigators so we’ll see how receptive they are to the gospel as we meet with them through the next couple weeks. With those new ones, we have around 15 or so people that we are scheduled to meet with and continue teaching. Basically, this upcoming week is going to be a busy one…no time for knocking doors!

Best Sunday of year happened this week…the PRIMARY PROGRAM! And to make it even better, our investigator’s daughter was able to be in it. The couple of times that they had come to church the Primary teachers gave her a scripture to memorize, and she got up there and killed it! It was so awesome and her dad, Luis, had the biggest smile. He loved it and I loved watching it all happen! Luis is our main investigator that we are working with right now. The Elders before me started working with him and when they started he was smoking 30 cigarettes a day. Since then, he’s been seeing us a couple times a week, going to church every week, and is now down to 1 or 2 cigarettes a day. At the very least, he has until the 9^th to make is baptismal date (on his birthday, the 30^th) but our goal is to have him done and quit by Thursday. Been working with him and praying for him a lot.

Even though Luis is having success accepting the gospel, there is a really sad part. He lives in a hard situation. He and his wife live in a trailer park with six kids all smashed into one tiny trailer. To make it worse, the house is falling apart and it’s dirty. With winter approaching fast, there’s no drywall or any type of substantial structure to keep the house warm. It’s like an icebox. Luis’ wife doesn't work and he quit his job because the people he was working for would not pay him. Some other things are going on too so the past couple of days have been really stressful and tough thinking about ways to help Luis and his family out without having them completely relying on us to provide. It’s been the toughest time for me because I really would do whatever I could to help them. So please keep them in your prayers. 

Overall, the work is really good here in Des Moines. Plenty of investigators but we are really working hard with Luis. Read through Mosiah 14-16 this week. Some really awesome things being taught about Christ and His Atonement! Mosiah 16:9 says…”He is the light and the life of the world; yea, a light that is endless, that can never be darkened.”  It's awesome being a witness to the light that is coming into Luis’ life.

Love you all!

deficil es bueno

Elder Christensen

Current Address:

Elder Scott Christensen

434 Tonawonda Drive #203

West Des Moines, IA 50312

or   spchristensen@myldsmail.net

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