Man. This week was nuts. We had to do two splits this week, so tuesday and wednesday were just sort of a blur..... but all week long was sort of a blur. All I really remember is falling into my bed every night and dragging myself back out every morning. But, it was super great.
One of the formers that we looked up right when I got
here took off for a vacation in Mt. Tremblant last week and was going to
be gone until october, but he called us on tuesday to let us know that
he'd been reading his scriptures and praying every day and couldn't
resist the urge to come back down and keep meeting with us. When he came
to Church on Sunday all the members remembered him and were super
stoked he was back, and he bore his testimony in priesthood meeting!
'Cette fois-ci, j'suis la jusqu'à la confirmation!' 'This time, I'm here
until my confirmation!' It was pretty cool. :)
After that miracle, we had another miracle! A
pot-luck! Pot-lucks are always miracles. The potluck was a huge success,
we had a few less-actives, a few non-members, and almost all of the
members. Sometimes I feel like we overlook the importance of the members
in all of this work. We always talk about how many less-actives came
out, which investigators made it, and sometimes the poor members get
overlooked. The active members coming to church activities is more
important than anything else, because if they don't come, the activity
doesn't happen. Part of our ward's mission plan is to have a meaningful
activity each month that people can invite their friends out to
(non-member or inactive, etc.), and it's been going super well. Seeing
all these great members come out to all these great activities kind of
reminded me how little effort I would make back home to come out to
Church activities..... A lot of work and a lot of prayers go into these
things! I never thought about that before. Anyways, just food for
thought.
Next week we've got President Patrick coming to visit our Ward Council, and we're super excited! We'll let you know how it goes.
I love you everybody!
-Elder Christensen
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