Feb 7

Alright, now lets get to the good stuff hmm? My week! It started out busy, and ended busy, like always. I'm still going to be here for 9 weeks. Both myself and the counselors really felt strongly that I should be here, even though my French is more than good enough to allow me to move on. Since then my entire district has grown closer to me because I stayed, and I've seen a few other evidences as well that this really is where I need to be. Overall, I've had my faith sincerely rewarded by being shown that I made the right choice. :) We have 50 minutes of gym time five days a week, so I get to play VOLLEYBALL! I love volleyball! :D Also they gave us a stretchy "Exercise band" With our MTC health guide, which I promptly turned into a Lamanite headdress. Among other things. My french is coming back to me really fast! And the rest of the guys are learning quicker than I thought would be possible. The gift of tongues is real, and it's working hard! I thank Heavenly Father for it every day. :) We had our first "investigator" commit to baptism on our final visit with her, and now she's one of our teachers! Yesterday we started teaching our next two "Investigators", A Hindu and a Jehovah's Witness. Yikes! It's really cool, our teachers take experiences that they had on their missions and they help us experience them as well, so these investigators are real people out there in the world somewhere! It also gives us opportunity to exercise prayer, since these are real stories there is always something key about them in the conversion process, and if we skip over it it doesn't go so well. We pray every day to know what they need to hear and how we can best teach them. I love it. :) But more than I love this, would I love to be in Canada. I'm so excited! The general impression I keep getting of missionary work is "gee, that would be so easy..... in English...." hah! I thought it was funny. :) We have a General authority come speak to us every Tuesday, and last week we got Elders Holland AND Nelson! It was great! I'm really looking forward to tonight's as well! The food here is good...... but an Elder in my zone is a health science major and continually tells us how much of it is made of plastic and not good for us. We have some really fun mealtimes with him (Elder Coffey, cool huh?) man, I don't even know what else to say! I'm in a trio now with ANOTHER Elder Christensen, and my original companion Elder Bangerter, because Elder Christensen's companion went on to the advanced program. I love both of them. :) In my room there are us three, and two Portuguese Elders. Elders Hobbs and McCallister. I love them both. We have a room prayer every night, and they're way funny guys. I don't think I've met a person I don't like since being here. I saw Elder Roundy at the temple today!! It's so neat seeing him around here! That Elder is going far. :) Man oh man, I'm really running out of time here... uh.... Hmm. Let me just close with a quick testimony, I know the church is true! So true! I couldn't deny it before, but since being here I've been able to see the spirit flying about all day every day and I LOVE IT! Watching missionaries learn about the gospel and their languages so fast they're like robots, seeing and feeling all the love, this really is one of the happiest places I've ever been, and I love it. And that's about it for now, Au nom du Jesus Christ, AMEN!

Love always,

Elder Justin Christensen