My new companion

What a wonderful place to be

August 27, 2012

I honestly love love love being a missionary! I am just so happy all the time! It's weird that I feel so happy too because I have never been so busy or stressed in my whole life. But it's the best kind of busy because we are busy doing the Lord’s work and stressed about others. I don't even have time to think about myself because I have so many other people running thru my brain and keeping me up at night. I feel like in a small way I can relate to you, Mom, haha. I can see why being a Mom is a lot like being a missionary because all of a sudden you just think about your investigators (or kids) all the time! So many times I will wake up in the middle of the night and I'll remember something I need to do for someone or something I need to share with them! Reminded me of you, Mom.This Sunday we had some amazing miracles! We decided we were going to fast for 24 hours to plead with our Father in Heaven to please please please help us get investigators. And He heard our prayers! We literally went from having no one to a potential of like 10 new investigators!

 Also Last night we went to an incredible fireside by Elder Oaks! He was at the campus because of some BYUH project going on and it was so so so good! As he was talking people that we teach kept coming to mind. You know like stuff they need to hear and scriptures that would be good for them : ) That’s something I love about being a missionary-you can receive revelation for other people. Something really interesting Elder Oaks said though as he was closing up was he talked about the scripture that says to some is given the blessing to know the truth and to others it is given to believe on the truth or something like that. And he said “I want you to know that whether you know this is true or not I know this is true and if you don't know then believe on my words because I know”. It was really powerful! He said it with such conviction and it made me think that even if people don't accept what I teach or testify of I hope they know without a doubt that I know it is true and that I truly believe what I am teaching them. Because I do. I really do know that what we have to share will change their lives!

K well I love you! Time is flying! And I hope you all have a fabulous week please please please pray for the missionaries.

Sister Christiansen

August 23, 2012

So here we are.... A new transfer! Wow that went crazy fast! But this will be quite a different next two transfers because I am training! Ah! Here's the thing I have just been stressing (aka can't sleep or eat) because I just came from online and it is so so so different! I feel like I can't even remember how to run a physical area plus the only time I was in one was when I was being trained! And my companion led out on a lot of stuff you know? All will be well though. And at least I have the best companion ever. She really is a dream come true! She is this beautiful Disney Princess haha but for real she was Ariel at Disney Land. And she is just as beautiful inside as she is on the outside! We are just going to learn together and become best friends. We are going to see a lot of miracles and work really hard. We went on a hike so she could see beautiful Hawaii and know how great it is here.

We are starting from scratch but I know that Heavenly Father can help us find those prepared people! We won't have a lot of time because we will have an extra hour of comp study because we have to do the training program and we will still be in the VC all day but I just want her to see a lot of miracles! We are going to work so hard! Well point is we will be so busy! But that will be good. And I am realizing just how fast my mission is going! I have so much still to do! 

It was a great experience having the chat line assignment. I talked with so many great people. Now this assignment will be awesome too.

Sister Christiansen

 

July 31, 2012

MIRACLES are happening here in Laie! This week more than ever!

First off we had EXACTLY 28 Baptisms!!! So amazing! And to feel part of the whole 28 miracles Sister Millett and I set a goal to have 28 SR's that week!( Which really was a huge goal when you consider a couple weeks ago our whole VC with 9 companionships had a total of 33 SR's in one week!) But Heavenly Father always blesses us when we have a lot of faith and expect to see miracles so.... we had EXACTLY 28 SR's! It was so crazy cool! And the VC had 74 SR's all together last week! That is the most I have seen in one week my whole mission! It was awesome! And I was thinking about why we are seeing so many miracles and if I already wrote home about this sorry I can't remember but you know the phrase “it’s better to be trusted then to be loved”. God loves everyone but what we really want is to earn his trust. Well I was thinking about how that is so true! No wonder everyone says exact obedience brings miracles. Because when we are obedient then God knows he can trust us with his "referrals" or his precious children. Just like members you know? We have to gain their trust before they will give us a referral because their friends mean a lot to them and they don't want to just hand those people over to anyone.

Alright so here is another HUGE miracle! Probably one of the happiest moments on my mission haha and it may not seem like a big deal to you but I was jumping up and down.  Sunday we get an email!!! And he said he called the missionaries, went on a church tour on Sat with them, and then he went to all 3 hours of Church on Sunday!!!!!!! And he really liked it!!! Oh you don't even know how happy we were!!!

Next awesome thing! We have had sooooo many prepared people come on chat. Last transfer Sister Gulla and I referred 4 people to missionaries the whole transfer! Well last week Sister Millett and I referred 5!! All in one week! It was awesome! And the best part was one girl came on and she said she had just returned home from a business trip. We asked where from and she said..... HAWAII! So we asked if she had gone to Laie at all and lo and behold she had ridden on OUR tram from the PCC. Incredible right? So we asked if she remembered Sister Christiansen or Sister Millett and she said, "ya Sister Christiansen remember I was the one with the bag you said was cute!" haha I totally remembered her! I had talked to her for a while and she was so nice and because of a little pass along card she had checked out the website and Heavenly Father sent her to us! How sweet is that! So we asked if missionaries could teach her and she said yes! But we are going to teach her until they get in contact with her : ) So cool! Man I can't believe all this has happened in one week! We really saw so many miracles!

Sure love ya!

Sister Christiansen