My new companion.

July 24, 2012

Aloha Ohana!

Alright well this week has been a miracle week for sure!! I can honestly say I love my mission and we are being so blessed right now!!! So the 28 miracle baptisms is totally going to happen! WOW can you believe it! We are going to have 15 baptisms this Sat! All the fonts in Laie will be filled!!! We have seen so many miracles; like On Sunday two of the Elders were fasting all day and right when they finished the Bishop called them and said he has a family of 3 that is ready to be baptized! They have already been taught and want to be baptized. Talk about "The Best Two Years" moment right?!? How sweet is that! WOW!

Alright, so my companion and I had a miracle too this week! So we always joke around about and pray that someone will come on to chat and ask be baptized and Yesterday our prayers were answered!!! Someone came on to chat and the first thing she said was, “What is the first step in becoming Mormon?" CRAZY RIGHT! So we referred her to the missionaries and we committed her to baptism right there! She is going to send us a picture of her on her baptismal date and everything! It was truly what I would call golden investigator material! 

In the VC this week we also had so many prepared people come in! This couple came in and said they didn't know why they were here but they were driving to the Polynesian Cultural Center and got a phone call about a family member passing away and then they saw the temple. We told them Heavenly Father sent them here because we have a plan of happiness that can allow them to live with their family member again! We taught them all about the temple and took them thru God's plan (the walk thru movie) and afterwards they were both crying. They both wanted missionaries and we are going to follow up with them for sure.  

We also had a miracle day on Tram! So last week we only had 3SR's the WHOLE week! So we set a goal to have 5 SR's on tram and Heavenly Father sent us 8 prepared people! Every single non member we took on our first three trams refered! And we went from having 3SR's last week to having 12!!!! It was an awesome week full of so many wonderful people who were ready to receive the gospel but didn't even know it. They just thought they were stopping to see a pretty building but it turned out they were stopping to receive Salvation : )  

Today for p-day we watched the new Joseph Smith movie (it's in the perspective of the Mom) I would invite you all to watch it!! You should go to the IF VC and watch it! It's amazing and after watching it I wondered how could anyone not believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet! And the Saints went thru so much! And all the missionaries at that time leaving their family and going to England! It just made me feel so grateful that right now I can in some small way build the Kingdom of God just like all those early missionaries! 

So this week I have been thinking a lot.... And I just really really really want to be a baptizing missionary! For real though! I just want to baptize so many families! I want to be a missionary like my Zone Leader! He is a crazy good missionary! Our zone had like 3 or 4 baptisms last month and then he comes in here with his super positive attitude and gets everyone pumped up and now look we are going to have 30 people enter the gate to eternal life! I think he just expects miracles you know! He just has so much faith! I want to have more faith! 

Alright well I love you so much!!! We are so blessed!! Share the gospel with everyone!

-Love ya!

Sister Christiansen

7/5/12

Happy Fourth of July and Happy Birthday to my nephew!!!!!!! Yay! How exciting! I hope you all had a wonderful week! I loved your emails this week! Thanks so much for those! Wow lots has happened this week... I don't even know where to start! Ok so here are the highlights:

1. Ceaser was baptized!!!!!! Yay! You remember the man I taught with Sister Looney from the Philippians? Ya well Sister Rodrigez and Sister Moyes kept teaching him and he got baptized last Sat! I even got to say the prayer at his baptism. I was so glad we got to go! That is one awesome thing about serving in here; even when we get transferred out of our areas we are still close enough we can go to the baptisms of our old investigators.

2. Last P-day we met this guy and we asked him to come to the VC on Sat and we would teach him there. Well we didn't know if he would really show up you know but he came and it was sooooo awesome! We taught him the restoration in a "tour of the VC" version. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he agreed to being taught by the Zone Leaders! It was so awesome!

3. We had a Women’s Conference with Sister Dalton and Sister Clayton. It was awesome! It was all the sisters on this Island including all the Sr. Sisters and she was such a great speaker! One thing that was so awesome was the day before the conference Sister Gulla was asking me why she wasn't just called to Germany so she could get better at it and just be back there teaching her people. She was just saying she didn't understand why she was serving German speaking when none of the Germans here would listen to her because she sounds so American. She was just kinda down about it but during the conference Sister Clayton looked right at her and said you are all called here to this specific mission, speaking a specific language for a specific reason. It was so powerful! We both just looked at each other and knew that Heavenly Father was speaking right to her thru Sister Clayton! The spirit was so strong during the whole meeting. Everyone was so happy and there was just so much love in the room.

4. Speaking of happiness... Holy Cow was Fourth of July so happy! haha we had so much fun! After we got done with tram we all had a BBQ at the Sr. Couples pad. And it was a blast! Sister Gulla and I strung up our Christmas lights and put up streamers too so it looked real nice haha you would have been proud! You will have to check out the pics I sent. But anyways we all just sang, took crazy pictures, ate good food, and watched the fireworks! It was so so so fun! I love my Zone so much they are all so fun!

Well those are some of the events from this week! I love you so so so much and I hope you are all doing well! Next week is transfer week so I am not exactly sure when my P-day will be so if you just have your emails sent to me by Monday that will work just fine!! Thanks for the responses to my emails!

Love ya! Sister C.