Drum roll anyone?
........I'm staying in Chicoutimi! :D Also, I'm Training! :D My district is
the really crazy news. In my district there are three areas, and of the six
missionaries that will be in said district, I'm the one that's been out the
longest. By two transfers. In Rimouski, Elder Pehrson is training, and he's only
been in the field for six weeks, and in Alma (yes, there's a town called Alma,
and no the church did not name it. The natives did. O.o) Elder Oviatt is
training, and he's only been in the field for three months. District CAR
(Chicoutimi, Alma, Rimouski) is going to be a brand new GREEN CAR! Because of
all the greenies. Get It? :D I was terrified at first, but as I was praying
about it Saturday night after getting the call this huge wave of tranquility
just hit me, with this overwhleming feeling that it's all going to be fine.
Great even! Ever since then I've been nothing but excited to watch all the
MIRACLES that I know are about to unfold! The other two trainers in the district
are still freaking out, they feel a bit young, but they're both amazing
missionaries and they're going to do great. We all get the greenies on
Wednesday, so please pray for our new missionaries!
As for the week, it was insanity. Monday we drove for four hours and took a
ferry to rimouski, tuesday we drove for three hours to Quebec city, and
Wednesday we drove for another two hours back to Chicoutimi. We basically only
had from Thursday on to actually work in our area. :P But! We still managed to
have miracles. For example, Marcel Tremblay, the funny old man that's going to
be baptized in October. We taught him the word of wisdom this week. We were
nervous, because he used to be an alcoholic, and like lots of alcoholics that
quit, he replaced the alcohol in his life with coffee. So we thought that could
be a problem. :P When we brought up the word of wisdom we said "alright, there
are five things that the Lord has asked us not to put in our bodies" then he
pipes up "alcohol and drugs!" "
Yep, those are two of them. Also tobacco."
"ah, right. Tobacco's nasty. I don't smoke."
"Perfect, neither do we. Also, Coffee."
"Coffee? Well that means the fifth one has to be tea."
He named off three of the five on the word of wisdom without having ever
heard about it before. And he understood the other two without needing to ask
any questions. That's a testimony to me about the word of wisdom. Even people
with no idea what it is understand that that junk is bad for our bodies.
:P
So, he then told us that he's already been trying to reduce the amount of
coffee that he drinks because his kidneys are shot. So we read the promise with
him, and told him that if he would keep the word of wisdom he'd see his health
improve.
"Oh really?"
"yeah."
"well. Alright. I'll stop drinking coffee. Not because It will improve my
health, just because I know I need to do it, and I don't like doing things
halfway."
:D Marcel is so cool. He's French, but he knows a few random phrases, and
one of his favorites is "Don't thinking it but doing it!" Which, as you can
imagine, always cracks us up to hear. :)
Well, it's Elder Fitzgeralds last P-day as a missionary, so I've got to run
so we can go enjoy his day! But, I love all of you! Thanks again for everything!
Pray for my greenie!
Love,
Elder Christensen
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