My dearest family and friends!
I'll tell you what - South Carolina has
more rain, thunder and lightning storms than I ever imagined to be possible!
We've had like 3 flash floods and at 4 this morning, Sister Parker and I woke
up to our room constantly lighting up from the lightning and also from our
house vibrating from the thunder. Not ok. We are some sleep deprived
missionaries on this fine P-Day.
Another thing is I've never been chased
by dogs while I've been a missionary... Until I came here. I've been
nearly attacked by two dogs this week! I was saved our investigator, Mack
for one of the times since one near attack was by his dog. Then the
other one I booked it to our car and chilled in the back seat for a while. It's
been crazy! I feel like I've had the real missionary experience now!
The tender mercy that happened to us
this week is most definitely from a potential investigator, Brother J. When
we first met him, we said we were Sister Christensen and Sister Parker and he
was like "You may call me Brother J!" Ha ha. Well we didn't see
him for like 2 weeks after we first met him because of conflicting schedules
but when we went back on Saturday, he said "I checked out Mormon.org and I
read everything! I read your Articles of Faith and I really liked those! Let me
just say this... you guys are the real deal!" My jaw dropped. Usually if
we don't see someone for a while like that, they don't keep their commitments
or anything. But Brother J surprised us! We invited him to be baptized on
August 16th and he accepted!
Yesterday we had Branch Conference and
we were so excited! We were convinced that we'd have at least 14
investigators/less-actives/recent converts there because everyone was so solid
when we invited them and re-committed them... We only had one show
up. It killed us on the inside. Now M and R are off date (but they'll
be back on date soon!) and Adrian and his family will need to come the next two
Sundays in a row. We're doing a church tour with them tonight so hopefully that
will help out!
Everything's going just great here in
Marion! I love the branch! I love the people! I love the area! I love my
companion! I love being a missionary! I hope y'all have a great week! Love you!
- Sister Amy Christensen
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| Chillin' with cold treats from Mickey D's! |
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| Will the real Sister Christensen please stand up? Sister Parker forgot her tag for church yesterday and I just so happened to have another one so I let her borrow it! |
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| The District - Me, Sister Parker, the Nolans, Elder Roetker, Elder Smith |
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