Nov 11

Saweet! Thanks for the updates! That's all super awesome. :)

I'm going to lump everything together into one e-mail again this week, less Hassle. We've got more zone craziness this week because we have a general authority in the mission, a man named Elder Pieper, who's from the first quorum of the seventy. We had a special meeting with him and President last night with some of the other missionaries from around the mission, and over the next three days he'll be touring around the mission doing conferences with us all. It's awesome. He spent a half an hour lecturing us on the priesthood, and on the role of sisters. He told us that the only real difference is that sisters are not ordained to the priesthood, and therefore do not perform the ordinances of it. But, when a woman accepts a calling, and speaks as an authorized representative of the Lord, she's speaking by the same authority that we are as priesthood holders.

It was REALLY cool to have this Member of the seventy open the Doctrine and Covenants and teach us... and then teach us HOW to teach others. It was all around a sweet experience, and it took place in my old chapel so right afterwards I was able to go say hello to a bunch of my old ward members, less-actives, investigators, and my old companions. Good end to a good week. :)

So, anyways, That's about the neatest thing that happened to us this week, so I guess I'll leave it at that. Have a good week everyone! I love you!

-Elder Christensen