Hey y’all –
Last P-Day, Bishop and Sister Fore took us to this Japanese
Steakhouse to celebrate me leaving. Hahah. Well it was kind of the best. I mean
this is the type of place where the chefs come prepare the food right in front
of you. It was the first time that I've ever been to a place like that and I
loved it! Bishop and Sister Fore told everyone that it was my birthday for some
reason... But it was awesome because the steakhouse has this tradition that the
chef will flip a small ball of rice with his spatula into the birthday person's
mouth. Since it was my "birthday," I got to participate in that
challenge. Guess what? I totally made it in my mouth! Another member of our
ward was there and he recorded it all on his iPhone. I told him to email it to
me when he could so I'll forward it to y'all when I get it. It was great! (My brother) Aaron
would be proud of me.
And it's true. I'm out of Boiling Springs now. It's kind of
sad. I loved that little area of mine and the people as well. It was pretty
much my baby. I mean I was there since the beginning. But I had to leave. We
went to transfers on Wednesday and I'm now in the polar opposite of where I've
been serving for 1/3 of my mission... I'm now serving in West Columbia! I'm in
the city again! I about had a heart attack when I saw how many buildings there
are! Hahaha. Sad but true. My new companion is Sister Manning. She's
from ID and she came out the same time as Sister Gardner. We get along
pretty well right now! I enjoy being her companion anyway. It is a little weird
though because I'm living with other sisters... And the other sisters just so
happen to be the Traveling Sisters (The Sisters' version of AP). So that has
been interesting but I'm excited to learn from them!
Get this. Our area just got a lot bigger because they made
our elders biking elders. They took away their car so we gained a lot of people
which has been great! And my first full two days out here we saw tons of
miracles! We put four people on date! We're working with this less-active/part
member family, the D’s - their daughter K accepted a baptismal
date. Then we put this mother and daughter, A and D on date.
And last but not least, we put T on date as well. We're so excited for
all of them! We'll be meeting with them more this week so I'll let y'all know
how that goes! We also had like five investigators at church yesterday which is
apparently rare for this area so we have been extremely blessed this week!
We talked with Bishop Delpriore in Ward Council yesterday
and he told us that 77% of our ward is less-active... 77%! He told us
that number and my jaw literally dropped. We have our work cut out for us in
this area and I'm just pumped to get to work! We're going to be reactivating
like crazy!
Also we've had flash flood warnings two days in a row. Like
to the point where our Zone Leaders were giving us texts saying that we had
permission to be inside if we felt unsafe. We continued to go out and work
because we've been booked with appointments. It's been crazy though. Mom, you'd
be proud of me because I've been driving in this craziness and I've been doing
well with it... Even though I was basically driving in a river but that's
neither here nor there! We were safe and our car is still intact!
That's all I got for this week! I'm excited to see what this
week has in store for us! We have a specialized training tomorrow but I have no
idea what it'd be for... iPads maybe? Hahah. I can only hope, right? Anyway, I
love y'all! Have a blessed week!
- Sister Amy Christensen
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| Me with my new companion, Sister Manning |
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