Week 17 - Inman/Boiling Springs, SC - 11/4/13

Greetings family and friends! This week hasn't been super eventful but I feel like it's definitely been a turning point in my mission thus far. I've gained a lot of new insight on how to be a missionary and how to get my investigators progressing, all thanks to family, friends and leadership in my ward here. I'm excited to get things going especially since this month's theme is "November to Remember." Sister Gardner and I are working hard to make sure that we see miracles so we can have a November to Remember. I'm super excited to see how things progress.

Speaking of progress, we got to see our investigator, D this week. D is the man! We finally got to teach him about the Restoration which was good. We would have taught him it sooner but he just has so many questions. One of his questions was about prophets this week so we taught him that and he's having a hard time accepting that Joseph Smith actually saw the face of God. Any suggestions on how to go about helping him with that? I have bore my testimony about it and I think we'll get a member present next time so he's hearing it from someone else besides us, you know? It will be good for him. I think once he gets past that obstacle, he will get baptized. He's pretty much the best.

So my ward had a Trunk or Treat this week. Sister Gardner and I were cool kids and actually decorated our trunk and gave out candy (Taped to pass along cards of course! #MissionaryStyle). We were basically the coolest especially since our Elders and the Spanish Elders didn't dress up.

Halloween was alright. It was kind of boring because we did our weekly planning and then we were on lock down and had to be in the house at 7 pm. So it really wasn't super eventful.

Guess what? We found out on Friday that we get to go to the temple this month! I'M SO FLIPPING EXCITED! It has been nearly 4 1/2 months since I've been and I haven't even been able to see the new video yet... But President Holm is allowing us to go so we're able to see it. I'm so excited that it's ridiculous! I'll keep you updated on that.

Well other than that, we're doing a mini mission for the stake this Saturday where I will be taking a Laurel from the ward out for a typical day as a missionary from 8:30 am to 9:30 pm. I'm super excited! I wish that I had an experience like this before I came out on the mission! I think that would have been such a great opportunity. I'm excited to be apart of this experience though!

That's all for this week! Y'all take care and have a blessed week!

- Sister Amy Christensen

SC is finally in the Fall stage!

Sis Gardner and I dressed up as Missionary Cowgirls with our trunk at the Trunk or Treat.

Hallelujah-Ween... That's my Hallelujah pose by the way.

Week 16 - Inman/Boiling Springs, SC - 10/28/13

Is this really Week 16? That's crazy. Is the time going by as fast for y'all as it is for me? I can barely even believe it!

This week has been such a busy week! I went to my first Sisters Conference this week! It was actually pretty good! We talked a lot about how we can be better disciples of Jesus Christ which was awesome! But then there are some sisters... Oh boy. We seriously spent 5 minutes talking about what kinds of nail polish are appropriate to wear. That was quite the experience! Hahah. But we did get a posterity picture taken while we were there (I'll send that later because the good picture is on Sister Gardner's memory card). It's a pretty sweet looking picture. And get this. I actually went to 110 Oak Park Dr., Ste. B (Mission Office) while we were in Irmo for the conference. That was pretty eventful if you ask me!

Want to know something awesome? We got back in touch with J and K! It's been a long time since we've seen them. I think that Sister Craig was a little pushy with them and they really did not want a whole lot to do with us for a while. Then we went back last Sunday and their daughter, N invited us to her birthday party on Saturday. We decided to go especially since we heard that K had thrown her back out. That meant that we got to do service! It was super fun and we loved being around them. I think that it was a really good way to mend our relationship with them because before J would end our visits with "Remember you're always welcomed in our home," which sounded like "You can come by and we won't complain but no teaching us." Then when we left the party, both J and K said to us "Come back to visit us soon!" So. . . yeah. I'm pretty sure that was successful.

Well other than that, we've been doing a lot of knocking. We've been trying so hard to get investigators but it has been hard on us. Poor Sister Gardner probably thinks that this is all we do as missionaries because we haven't been able to teach too many official lessons other than lessons on the door step. But we found this pretty legit lead the other day. Her name is C and she's very open minded to different religions. She also loves the fact that we're younger because she's only 25. She told us a few different times to come back which is unusual. Typically when we find leads, the people will say something like "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" which is basically them being too nice to say we're not interested. But she gave us a date and time to come back so we're going to be visiting her tonight. I'm pretty excited to see where things go with her.

Anyway, that's all I've got for you this week! I hope y'all have a blessed week!

- Sister Amy Christensen

 

My Mission genealogy!

Me at the Mission Office!