A meowntain! Crazy week. Lots happened! The week was going normal, the family we were working with was planning on getting baptized on Saturday, we were stoping by there frequently and making sure everything was good and they understood what was going to happen. We had our DM on Wednesday, nothing different there. Thursday we had weekly planning and coordination with our Ward mission. Then Friday at about 10:30am we get a call from the mission president saying that I was needed in SA ... So I packed up my bags and left at 2:30 and headed for SA. I have two new wonderful companions named Elder Hurst and Elder Stanley. My zone leaders over in RR stake drove me halfway and then my new companions picked me up from there. I will be in the Castle Hills area until tomorrow. So from Friday to Tuesday I've been here. I forgot how much I loved SA. It feels so good to be back. I love the ghetto, humble, rich, business of SA. I love, love, love it. There is never ever a dull moment. Now the place I was at in Austin is a different story. Everyone is rich and nothing exciting or different ever happened. In short, glad to be back. Tomorrow I will go to my new area, Live Oak and get my new companions, Elder Biesinger and Elder Jorgensen. It's funny because I started in east zone and live oak was in my district when I was in east zone. The stake just got split though so now it's in Cibolo Valley stake. Going back to my roots, but at the same time not really. I spent many p-days at the building I will be at back in the day. It should be fun. I assume the McNeils were baptized on Saturday and all went well. I'm happy for them. Everyone needs the gospel, and it's always exciting to see people take it. The Friday I got to SA the missionaries here were having a baptism for a lady named Belinda. It was a fun, great baptism. Belinda is so funny. She is a n older lady, probably in her 60's. We asked her if she wanted to share her testimony after she was baptized and she said yes. As soon as everyone came back in the room she just stood up in the front and told her story. She was walking around looking for management for her apartment complex so she could get something fixed and she thought the missionaries were management so she went up and talked to them and they asked if they could share a message and she said yes. She said we all looked like angels sitting in the room. It was very sweet. She never misses church. We taught her yesterday too and the first thing she asked was, "now that I'm baptized, what's next?" One of the reasons I like SA so much is because the people live in such humble circumstances but still look for the gospel or something more in their lives. She barely had anything in her apartment, but she was content and happy. The Castle Hills Ward meets in the oldest LDS church building in SA. It was the weirdest layout of all time. It was honestly like a maze. It was different than any other church building I had ever been in. The chapel had a very 70's, 80's feel to it. I liked it, different. Saturday was also an adventure. Elder Hurst is going home tomorrow so we celebrated on Saturday by going to red robin and cold stone creamery. Red Robin is so good. Oh my goodness, I forgot. But someone payed for our meal! How nice is that? Then we were driving to go visit someone and Elder Stanley freaks out while driving and pulls over real quick and starts running to some guy that was thrown off his motorized wheelchair. He was crossing a busy street and his wheelchair was at the highest speed and he hit a curb that wasn't flat enough for his chair to jump over and was thrown off. His hips were not in the right place and his face was bleeding so badly. We ran over, called 911 and waited until they came. We then put his wheelchair in a nearby restaurant and left them with a phone number to call to get him his wheelchair. And then we kept on driving, stopped at the person we wanted to visit, and then went to a new place. As we were driving our car started to sputter and it wouldn't speed up. By the grace of God we made it to a gas station and popped the hood to see what was up. We waited for the car to fix itself because we didn't know what was wrong with it and then tried driving again. The same thing happened, and by the grace of God we made it safely to a Walgreens parking lot where we called the Chevy dealership to come and get it and fix it. Apparently this happened like two days prior to this. We waited at Walgreens for them to come get it and they did and then we got rides from members for the rest of the night. We went and had a few lessons and stopped by a few people. It was eventful. Sunday was just a long day. A good day, but long. We get the car back today so this good mane drove us around and took us to lessons for like 4 hours. What a good guy. Then got the transfer info last night at about 9. I've learned a lot this past week. A lot about faith, belief, hope, charity, all those good attributes. Someone in their talk yesterday quoted someone who said that faith, hope, and charity are inseparably connected; you can't have one without naturally having the others. I was thinking about that and it's really true. If you really have hope in Jesus Christ that you are going to be resurrected, that will lead you to act differently, to faith. If you truly have faith that Jesus is the Savior of the world and the Atonement works, your desire to help others and to help them know the truths you know will increase, you will love others! It's all one big cycle. Gaining one of these attributes leads to gaining another. I didn't explain it really well, but if you think about it it will click. Thank you for your continued support and love. It has helped me throughout my life and it will help me in the future as well. Love, Elder Christensen PS: My address has changed! I have no idea what it's going to be because it will change again tomorrow. Don't send me anything this week. I will let you know my new address next Monday. Left to right: Elder Stanley, Me, Elder Hurst
The state flower is a blue bonnet and they grow all over the place. Makes it very beautiful.
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