December 8, 2014

Alright ! family and friends ! Another week has gone by. WHATS GOING ON!

time flys when youre having fun! So i guess I'll start with the beginning of

my week. Monday:

So it was P-day and a very unsuccessful one at that. Near Ione is Jackson

where they have all the Family history computers soo we desired to go and

write home there so we didnt have to take turns. But according to our Luck

of course the internet wasnt working. we wasted about 2 hours trying to

figure it out. So we rushed to find somewhere else to write. later we found

a memebers house where we all had to Take turns. While Elder R. and Elder

N. were writing Elder Simms and I went tracting in the area to

hopefully get some success. Our Goal was to get at least 5 "no's." Lo and

Behold we got 8! Miracles Do happen ! But really miracles do. I'll talk

about that later. We also had dinner at member's home. These members have

an enormous home on top of a hill with like 50 childern. Super cool family who sounds dangerously close to my own. 

Tuesday:

This day the work of the Lord moved forward! we met J. He is the son to

our dinner calender sister. He is quite rough around the edges. But honestly one of the

nicest people and kind heart I've ever met. We

also shared a message about Personal Revelation with a family.

Basically what came out of that is  IF YOU DONT CARE TO WRITE PERSONAL

REVELATION DOWN IT SHOWS YOU DONT CARE. keep journals everyone.

There is a state prison down the street which accounts for 4000 of Iones 7000 people living here. 

Wednesday:

We met with J. again this day and actually got to know him. He's met with

missionaries before but hated being pressured so we just became his friend.

We also ate dinner at the a member's House( another member of the 5o children family).

There we taught a lesson to K. who brought her boyfriend along. 

Thursday:

ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT EXCHANGES. First AP exchange I've ever done. Also

probably the most helpful thing that has happened so far. There is an

unwritten law of exchanges that states that you will always have the most

success in that two hours with the AP then you will ever. In a matter of an

hour and a half we taught 4 lessons and got 2 refferals. Also Elder G. ,

the AP, is amazing and so bold. Some day I'll be a missionary like him.

Friday:

First Zone Training! YAY. i finally got to meet my zone for the first time

since I've been in Ione. The thing about being in the Hills is that we are

extremely isolated. From everything. There's 3 companionships in the Hills

so we are kind of a Zone of our own. So the deal with zone training was we

got a brand new Mission Vision. Our old vision was based off numbers and

baptisms. The New vision still has some numbers but only to raise our

vision. Our Vision now is souly focused on the 100% conversion of our

investigators and also the conversion of our selves. In the last 5 weeks i

can say im more truly becoming converted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm

seeing the way it changes others lives hugly as well as my own life. The

Lord Truly Blesses everyone and is always looking out for us. and i wish

everyone Could see that. It kills me everytime someone shuts the door in my

face because every person we talk to is a son and daughter of our Heavenly

Father whom he loves. It crushes me now that I have a greater understanding

the purpose of life and why are hear. The great message that missionaries

share isnt about just trying to get people to convert. We first help people

the way Christ would. Thats why we wear his name on our chests. We are all

disciples of Jesus Christ and its our job to help people bring salvation to

their souls but also bring them joy in this temporal life. One of our

Commision say states that we "stand it Christs place, act the way He would

act and say the things He would say." Anyways sorry bit of a tangent.

Saturday:

this day was awesome. I read in 2 Nephi 28-33. awesome chapters. If you dont

know them.. READ THEM. we got to do some service to day for a Brother

who is quite the lovely old man with a Garden the size of my back yard. we

got to harvest all the fruits from his plants and even gave us some homemade

grape juice. which reminds me of my home made apple juice. SEND ME SOME. We

also added two new investigators today. M. was the first. He's 13 and goes

to boy scouts at the church ( which by the way there are more non member boy

scouts in there than members). The next is R. We received a referral for

a lady named B. We knocked on the door and she was kind of interested

but R.was one of her friends who happened to be there who was completely

intrigued by the Gospel so that was awesome.

Sunday: 

Fast sunday. Never seems to go by very fast. But none the less was awesome.

We ate at another member's house for dinner and we ate the classic breakfast for

dinner. Later watched the Christmas devotional at their house ! so Awesome!

the Music was gorgeous!! 

That was my week in a nut shell. The Lord is preparing people. We have to

expect miracles when it comes to missionary work because it's the Lords

work. The only person hindering miracles is ourselves

See yall later!

Elder Kristensen

Companions <3

 Elder R. and my companion Elder S.

My gross rolled ankle