Apr 8

Howdy Everyone!

And thank you all for being patient with my zone activity last week! Now I've got a little bit more time.

A little. :P

The last few weeks have been really interesting here in the Canada Montréal Mission. We've had a lot of new missionaries show up (some of them unexpectedly), and a couple of changes in the basics of our missionary life-style. We're all sort of just.... adjusting right now. but! It's fantastic. I feel like change brings about the biggest growth in people. No one likes to change, because it drags us out of our comfort zone. we'd all rather just stay in our little box and.... well.... stagnate. It often takes an exterior force to cause us to change. A missionary inviting us to pray, a church leader reminding us of basic gospel principles, or even a friend or sibling asking why we do things the way we do. Whatever the case may be, people, as a general rule, don't change unless we are invited to. That's something I've learned about the gospel recently. That's the way the church functions. We invite people, member and nonmember alike, to change.

Why? 

Because in change lies growth. Change is what shapes us, forces us to become something more than what we already are, and prepares us to cope with the many challenges that we will all, inevitably, be faced with. 

I'm a fan of change. :)

As for what we've been DOING with our time.... well. The usual. We spent a large chunk of our last week looking for a new apartment for us to move into when our landlord sells his house, but we got that taken care of, and now we spend most of our time doing my favorite part of missionary work. Knocking. :)

This last week we had a zone study, with a bit of a surprise attached! The one team of sisters in our little zone was running late, and showed up during our opening exercises. I turned to the door to welcome them, and got the best present in the world. 

My dear friend, sister Brooklyn Renshaw, showed up to the mission a bit earlier than we expected, and got put in a trio with the other two sisters in my zone. :D I went to highschool with sister Renshaw, and was super excited to see her. :)

We also had interviews with President Cannon during that zone study..... the last official interview we'll ever have with him. The president Changes in July. Weird. I love interviews. :) 

Alright, if you want to pray for anyone, pray for the Clark Family. They're a wonderful little family that we've been teaching recently, and they are doing amazing. They're all praying fervently about the book of Mormon, and Conference may have been the thing that did it for them, but a few extra prayers never hurt anyone. ; )

I'm sorry this e-mail is a bit scattered, but I'm out of time again, so I'm going to have to let you go now. Have a good week everyone! I love you all! Don't be afraid to change!

 

Elder Christensen