tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47487740778106718682024-02-18T19:20:23.031-08:00The Aloha MissionSister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-2901451083416508012013-03-26T09:21:00.001-07:002013-03-26T09:21:28.374-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My beautiful area.<br />Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-43046440335146551882013-03-19T07:43:00.002-07:002013-03-19T07:43:38.959-07:00
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">First I just have to say I have never been so grateful in my whole life! We are in the most beautiful place on earth! Kohala is this little hidden gem tucked away on Big Island. Everywhere else is black rock but here it is tropical and lush and green and cool! I LOVE it here with all my heart! The people here are the nicest people on earth! Our little ward is the greatest!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> This area is full of rolling green hills with cows that have all the lush green grass they want! And you would love the little town part! It looks like you are in Yellowstone because it's all these old cute little shops! It’s just soooo cute! My heart will forever be in Kohala I love it here!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> My companion is awesome too, she is such a hard worker. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We went to seminary the first morning we got here and there were only 6 kids! Their graduating class has 80 students! But even though our ward is small our area is HUGE!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today for p-day we went with the Rapiers to go whale watching and have a picnic! I seriously love them and this place!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-946412242903452622013-02-12T08:22:00.001-08:002013-02-12T08:22:22.826-08:00<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Transfers are done! Halleluiah! The new sisters are
great! We got out first 19 year old sister! She is from Taiwan and you would
never know she was any younger than the rest of us. This was the biggest
transfer too! We had 15 new elders and 12 new sisters all come out! We have 24
sisters now in the VC which is the most we have ever had so we had to put bunk
beds in one of the pads to fit more sisters. Oh and cool thing: For the first
and probably last time in my life I got a new car for my birthday!!!! Woot
Woot! We have so many sisters now that we needed to get another car here and so
we are now the proud owners of a brand spankin new car-it even smells like new
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great! Have a wonderful Valentines I am sending you all my love! You are the
best ever!!! <br />
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Love you!!!<br />
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Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-73461014482377420302013-01-16T11:38:00.000-08:002013-01-16T11:38:12.779-08:00<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This week my companion and one of my pad mates have been really sick so another
sister and I covered both our areas for a couple days and it was fun because we
had choke work! So many people to see and one day we were being blessed like
crazy- everyone we went to see was home! But anyway it has just been an all
around good week!! I hope you all have a great week too! I love you so much! CCCHHHEEHHHUUU!<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aloha and Mele Kalikimaka!!!! CHEEHUU!!!!! Can I
just say how fun Christmas is going to be! We are having a celebration with the
Sr. couples tonight where we are all going to sing carols, have treats, and
watch some Christ centered movie. Then tomorrow we will wake up and open presents!!!
Then have a zone breakfast then call our families!!!! (BEST PART) Then later in the day
we are going to have a gingerbread house making contest, and white elephant and
a scavenger hunt so it should be fun : ) I would like you to know I woke up to
pure bliss this morning! Picture this: we all pulled out our mattresses and put
out the presents and slept in the family room with the Christmas lights and
first thing we all did when we woke up was lay in bed and play the uke!!! So
thank you for that dear Christmas present I felt like a little kid again on
Christmas day. Just waking up and playing with my new toy haha. But anyways I
am just so so so stoked to talk to you tomorrow!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alright some quick
highlights: first off I am companions with SISTER MILLETT again! That is
seriously unheard of! Out off 22 sisters I am serving with her again! I am so
stoked! I have known this for a while because we help with transfers but
something could have changed you know so I haven't said anything but here we
are back again! And let me just tell you I am very very very grateful to serve
with her again! I love her so so so much! We have a great time and work really
well together! She has the easiest personality to serve with : ) We have had
quite the week though. We went to Honolulu on Tue to do all the transfer stuff
then on Wed and Thurs we had to go to Koniohe to get the car checked and fixed
and then on Sat we were on exchange haha. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh funny story we went
over to see one of our friends and when we get there she is wearing a t-shirt that says
"I'm a Mormon I know it I live it I love it" When I saw that I was like WAIT WHAT haha how did you get that-that’s
so awesome (mind you she is our investigator) and she said they were handing
out free t-shirts to all the Young women so she got one haha. So sweet huh! The
ward is so bomb too! The young women invited her to their activity on Sat night
where they all went ice skating in town at ice palace and she went and had a
way good time! I was so happy to hear about her getting involved with the ward;
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so let’s see... This week went so fast! We had our ward Christmas party which
was a blast! We had a live nativity hahah and the bishopric rode in on three
horses as the wise men. How sweet is that! We just did it over at Laie Park so
that was fun! They had choke food and then we sang some Christmas carols and
watched the nativity.</span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The next day we went
to a birthday party which was really fun! Man so much partying this week : )
They even had a live Mariachi band and a piñata for the kids and yummy Mexican
food! I was so grateful for that! I miss Mexican food! And then because the
mother is Polynesian they also had the typical plate lunch stuff too so it was
fun to have both the cultures represented!</span></div>
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and Shine video are all in my ward – which is so awesome. They are all great. If
you haven’t seen it, look it up on the church web site. My mom and I love it –
we watched it even before I came here. It was used for this year’s theme song
for the 2012 Young Men/Young Women’s theme.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have a baptism this
week – yea. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man this is going to be one
crazy week! Tomorrow we have our deep clean then Wed is the baptism then Friday
we do the transfer news then Mon my companion will be pau! And then Tue it's
already time to go back to town and help with all the craziness of transfer
meeting! We will be bringing in the new missionaries and figuring all that out
again! I can't believe it's already time! And then wow just like that it will
be Christmas!!!! YEA! </span><span style="color: #3333ff; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh Grandma asked about
our plans for Christmas so I shall share : ) we are going to go to the Sr.
couples and have some treats and sing Christmas carols and do a white elephant
and then come to the VC and watch a Disney movie!! CHEEHU! (that’s Christmas
Eve) and then Christmas day I will be calling my family. The VC will be open
for a little bit too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have learned to Haka! Sweet huhSister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-39417015414717051442012-11-19T14:24:00.000-08:002012-11-19T14:24:00.068-08:00<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">This week has been probably the most exhausting but
fastest week of my mission. Because we have to go on exchange with all the
sisters and the transfer is only 5 and a half weeks because of Christmas we
have already been on exchange with two sisters this week. It's crazy-I haven't
really even been in my own area at all because I have been in the other sisters’
areas with them. Going on exchange with the other sisters is really a nice way
to get to know them. I am grateful I get to do
this - I am really enjoying it! I
didn't realize all the stuff they did before. It seems like there is a lot more
administrative stuff that goes into missionary work then I realized. It's all good
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">So we drove to transfers in Honolulu (I can say I have
officially driven to Honolulu now. I was a bit nervous but it all worked out
fine. The traffic was insane though!) and we picked up the 6 new sisters. </span></span><br />
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week was we were running all around the VC trying to round up numbers for the
ZL's and in walked these two ladies that were so so so prepared I just stopped
right there really quick and gave them a tour and the both wanted missionaries
to come when they got home! It was just a little tender mercy! I had been
worried before that with all the administrative stuff how would we get any actually
missionary work done you know. But Heavenly Father saw we were trying our
hardest and so He just sent them right to us. I think as long as we are working
hard on whatever it is we have to do he will bless us to see miracles in our
area and the Visitors Center as well.</span></span></span><br />
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heard my wish!!! We set up the Christmas trees today! Also, quick note- we had
21 lessons this week so that was exciting! And we have a new investigator.
Also, we are looking forward to all the new sisters that will be coming soon.
Very exciting! </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have a great week.</span></span></div>
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such a busy awesome week! Ok so can I just tell you that this week we had 17
lessons!!!! That is a lot for us! The Standard of Excellence, the amount the
President has set for us as Sisters serving in the VC, is 10 lessons a week! It
was so sweet we had so so so many lessons! Heavenly Father just kept taking
care of everything and helping us be in the right place at the exactly right
time! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day this week was really heavy
though. Every lesson we had the people opened up about all the hard things in
their lives. I feel like the mission has really opened my eyes to what some people
have to face and I don't know why some people have to go through so many hard things.
I realized something that day though, when we signed up to act as
representatives of Jesus Christ we signed up to go and do what He would do and
Christ would be there helping those that really need him. I am so grateful I
got to go on a mission. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hear about the Tsunami warning? Well we live at the beach pad you know so we
had to put all our stuff upstairs, pack an overnight bag, and stay over with
the Sister Trainers. It was so cool though to see all the people in the community
gather together on the temple grounds. We literally had saints evacuating their
homes and going to higher grounds, and gathering together at the temple for
safety ! Doesn't that just sound exactly like something Heavenly Father would
want to see His children do! You should have seen Kam highway it was packed
with cars bumper to bumper driving up to the temple. and the whole field was
full of cars. Lots of people just camped out there and it was really exciting!
I have never been part of a natural disaster so I was loving it! It was so
cool! I will send you a picture of all the cars at the temple (and that’s not
even the parking lot that is the grassy area! Sweet huh!) But the coolest part
of the whole night was when one of our investigators thought to call us during
time of tragedy!! She called us to ask us what was going on and what she should
do! We felt so honored that she would think to call the missionaries : ) </span></div>
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We had some really sweet experiences with some of the people we are teaching. It was a week full of blessings and tender mercies. One of the most exciting is that we have a family with a Temple date set. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am so happy for their family and I really
really really hope Sister Johnston and I can go to their sealing in Dec. but I
don't know if I will be here-we shall see! Well happy Halloween! I love you
all! Sister Christiansen</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> : )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh so so so many
miracles! It is so crazy how you go from a really hard week to a really good
week so fast. It seems like it almost goes back and forth every week haha. This
week has truly been so wonderful! We had a wonderful experience teaching a woman this week. She came for her first lesson to the VC and we
took her and her kids thru God's plan for His Family. It was awesome! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That day had started out
different too. For some reason the spirit was so strong all day! Even during
comp study while we were singing "I know that my Redeemer Lives"
together we both just started crying. And I just feel like all day we were
seeing miracles because Christ was so close to us all day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So best/craziest news of
the whole week..... We have a new investigator with a BAPTISMAL DATE!!! We know our Heavenly Father is so aware of all His children and He knows when they are ready to hear the gospel. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> It is all so exciting!!!</o:p></span></div>
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best week (work wise) that we have had together yet! and hey while we were out
walking one day we started making up "you know your a missionaries when..." and
so I am going to tell you a couple we came up with : )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. You are the only
person in the world that looks forward to Mondays<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tract in 90 degree weather because at least you are burning off last nights
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hehe well get excited to
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Love to all of you,<br />
Sister ChristiansenSister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-52718554052502587102012-10-08T16:06:00.002-07:002012-10-08T16:06:43.507-07:00
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WOW WOW!!! God is drafting all of his stripling worriers right now! I just felt
like every talk was on missionary work! That was crazy! That was so so so
sweet! We watched the press conference after and Elder Holland said that God's
work is hastening! And that is so true! There will be so many more missions now
and the gospel will soon be spread to all four corners of the earth just as
prophesied! This is the best time to be on a mission! I feel like Heavenly
Father needs all of us right now! Now is the time to focus all our efforts on
making sure everyone has the chance to hear the gospel! Oh I just loved Elder Holland’s
talk too about feeding his sheep! Basically he was telling all the youth if you
love the Lord repent and go on a mission. And lowering the missionary age will
seriously change the world! Because think about it basically every girl will
serve a mission now. (Why wouldn't they?) And more young men will go too. This was such a testimony builder for
me that God knows the plan and knows what’s going to happen and He knew that I
would be so sad if I hadn't gone.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
just loved conference so much! How could anyone listen to them and deny that
they are men called of God! They truly speak His words and just like the
scriptures we all get out exactly what we need. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This is our bike adventure. We decided to ride bikes and be real
missionaries because someone was borrowing our car and of course my companion gets a flat. So, we were those poor pathetic missionaries you see
walking their little bikes on the side of the road. haha It was classic!</span>Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-65123858561830665482012-10-04T17:24:00.000-07:002012-10-04T17:24:54.172-07:00
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So so so many good things!!! Life is just so
great! Best news ever: the young man we were teaching on-line got baptized!!!! YEA!! We are so happy for him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So cool experience on
the tram tour this week! We didn't have anyone come on the tram so we were just
pulling out to leave when a huge group of Japanese people all came running to
catch the tram. So they got on and we realized that we didn't have any Japanese
sisters on tram that day or at the VC. So here we were thinking ok great we
have a group of people literally running to us to hear the gospel and we can't
even teach them : ( But when we got to the BYU-H campus we yelled out to some
of the students and asked if any of them spoke Japanese and this RM locked up
his bike without any questions, jumped on the tram, and gave the whole tour!!
It was such a testimony builder to me about being ready to serve at any time on
or off a mission! I just know Heavenly Father was so pleased with that student
for being worthy and ready to teach the gospel in a time of need!!! It was so
cool too to see all those people just sitting in the Christus room listening to
it in Japanese and then just gathering around him to listen to what he had to
say. They were so receptive while watching him the scripture that says "if ye
love me feed my sheep" came to my mind : ) I know that guy probably had lots of
homework or classes or whatever but he loves the Lord so much he was just ready
to feed the Lord’s sheep at a moment’s notice! </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alright so this is
random but my new favorite food is Fijian Curry!!! It's so bomb! Whenever we
get it here I am always stoked! I will learn how to make it for you all when I
get home! I am also in love with coconut shrimp! Yum Yum Yum! Haha I will miss
fish when I get home! I also love so much how the Polynesian people have so
many awesome legends and cool stories! Like this one Fijian family was telling
us that before they walk into the house at night they spit and tell the bad
spirits to leave. And in Tonga I found out
that when the moon is full and half way in the sky it’s the perfect time to cut
your hair because it will grow long and healthy. They have so much history and culture and I just love
them! I love serving around so many cultures! At BYUH we have people from 70
different countries and it's so cool to go to sacrament meetings and see all
these cultures and people from around the world. I can just see Heavenly Father
being so happy to see all his children getting along so well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just want you to know that the mission is the best. I am having the
time of my life and I am so lucky to be serving with my best friend here-she
is the bomb</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The mission is the best because you just feel so much joy all the time
! Enjoy
conference - I can't wait!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Christiansen</span><br />
Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-80352175200415030712012-09-19T09:07:00.001-07:002012-09-19T09:09:16.463-07:00<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Alrighty well another week has come and gone... How crazy! This week was
a very eventful week too. On Wed we went to Pearl Harbor for a zone service
project and it was sooo fun! I love my zone they are so funny! I will attach
some pics from that! Then on Fri. we had to go to town again to take the car in
because the brakes have been rusting like crazy. We had no idea we would be
there from 9 in the morning until 5 at night! <span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We decided to go tracting while we were there haha. It was sweet we
just went to an apt. and started knocking doors. We talked to one guy and
shared a scripture with him and invited him to go to Church on Sunday. He said
he would check it out and then we asked if the missionaries could call him and
set up a time to come back and he said yes. It was a great day.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We have had many amazing experiences at the Visitors Center and on the tram. We meet so many wonderful people. We are also teaching great people. We are reminded often of how much our Heavenly Father loves each of his children and knows just what their needs are. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I have asked my mom not to post my personal experiences with the people we meet here as I respect their privacy and I appreciate them letting us visit with them and teach them. So, just know that the gospel is going forward and we are seeing so many miracles in the lives of so many people. Life is great in Hawaii. Love you all. </span></span><br />
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<br />Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-60779450390031326082012-09-04T06:29:00.000-07:002012-09-04T06:29:19.507-07:00<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">We went to Kualoa ranch again and it was fun; we did a jeep
tour this time so it was just like off-roading really fast thru the jungle! So
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<br />Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748774077810671868.post-55326570620480561002012-08-28T15:00:00.000-07:002012-08-28T15:00:39.440-07:00
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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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! </span></div>
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well I love you! Time is flying! And I hope you all have a fabulous week please
please please pray for the missionaries.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! </span></div>
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experience having the chat line assignment. I talked with so many great people.
Now this assignment will be awesome too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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!!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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. </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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 : ) </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alright well I love
you so much!!! We are so blessed!! Share the gospel with everyone!</span></div>
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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:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">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! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love ya! Sister C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Sister Christiansenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13230569636003849328noreply@blogger.com0