Howdy howdy howdy!
This week in Chicoutimi was chalk full of Miracles. With a capital M. Every
day before we go to work we pray and ask for the Lord's help in accomplishing
the things we have planned for the day. We figure that what with doing the work
we do, we sort of can't do it without some divine help. In that same prayer,
however, we always ask that we'll be able to accomplish His will, just in case
OUR will and HIS will are contradictory, so He'll know that we know that His
will takes priority. It's weeks like this week that convince me that My God has
a sense of humor.
Last Monday we had nine lessons set up for the week, to which we were
planning on bringing members of the branch. We like to bring members when we
teach because it shows the Branch that we are, in fact, working, and it helps
them feel involved in the work. Helps them catch the vision. Also it helps our
investigators get to know the members, which makes coming to church easier.
Basically, it's just a million times better with members at lessons. As a
general rule up here, we have a tough time bringing members to our lessons, due
to a lack of, well, members. This week was going to be different though, because
we had nine lessons set up with investigators, and members ready to come to
every one of them. Guess how many of those lessons we taught.
Two.
That's why I say this week was full of miracles. What we had planned.....
didn't work out at all this week. None of it. What did work out was what The
Lord had planned. Because everything fell through we spent a lot of our time
knocking, and to break up the life of knocking we passed by old investigators
and less-active members every now and then as well. We ended up finding a guy
named Rock, just sitting on his back porch in his underwear (not uncommon for
Quebec). He told us he was having some trouble in life right now, and he's been
praying, but he's starting to wonder if God really hears him or not. He said
"It's funny, you guys showed up today. I was just asking God if He really
cares." We also bumped into a group of guys that we met last week, only this
week that got super excited about the Book of Mormon and the pamphlets that we
had. They cleaned us out. ; ) And then, to top it all off, we had another
miracle man show up to church. The son of a woman who was baptized last
december, who she has been trying to pray to church for almost a year now,
showed up at church today, and told us he wants to keep coming. This week, our
plans got destroyed, but the Lord's plans were carried through. Our will was
swallowed up in the will of the Lord. It was pretty cool. :)
Anyways, Gotta drive to Quebec city for a zone conference today, so I'm
out! I love you guys! OH! I almost forgot, I found a funny scripture in the book
of mormon! As a representative of Jesus Christ, I have to remain neutral in all
political discussions, so I would never try and influence your decisions on who
to vote for, but you should all go read mosiah 22:13-14 before voting. :)
I love you all! Keep me in your prayers, you know you're in mine. :)
Love,
Elder Christensen
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