Christmas would not be Christmas without the Christmas Devotional! Utchdorf was very right when he said that there is something sublime about Christmas music. That's probably my favorite thing about this season, is the beautiful music that reminds us of Christ. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir always does such a great job, and last night was no exception. They sing those songs with ease! I really enjoyed Elder Bednar's talk. It was fantastic! Really the whole thing was. We ended up watching it with an older, single man in our Ward. His name is Rex Adamson and he's 84! He is the funniest old man and he loves missionaries. We were trying to think of someone we could watch it with and then we both thought of him. He seems lonely so I'm sure he appreciated the company. We did too! It was a great night. Earlier Sunday we had stake conference. It was stake conference. When you go to meetings and church and what not you have to convert all the information to missionary information; how is this applicable to missionaries? They talked a lot about goals for going to the temple, family history work, missionary work and so on. Lots of good things to look forward to after the mission. It was a good spiritual feast! On Wednesday we have another spiritual feast coming our way. Elder Pino of the seventy will be addressing us for about 4 hours. It is going to be awesome! Gracen's baptism will be this Saturday and that will be great as well. He's a good kid and it is definitely the right thing to do. We had another lesson with Diana this week. It was another, very funny lesson. She said she would come to church but alas, she did not. We ran into her at HEB again and we chatted a little bit and laughed, like always. I also had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Elder Mecham, the new Elder in our district. He has a great desire to serve and do what He is asked. It was fun to go on exchanges with him. We needed serving a little bit and helping an older, single lady with her yard. She has a grand vision of having a flower garden. It will be some serious work but if she is dedicated she could do it. And she truly appreciated the help because she could not do much by herself. And hopefully she joins the church! We then had a couple other appointments that night. It was a great day. I still love being Elder McNeil's companion. He is the best! Me, Elder Acor, and Elder McNeil made a gingerbread house. It's gorgeous! We also played soccer on an actual soccer field and it was a total blast. That's why is email is so short and I apologize!
This gospel and church is so true. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. Find ways to serve Him and show gratitude to god this Christmas season. He will help you to do so! He loves you and I love you too.
Everyone is so good at writing me and it is so appreciated. I can feel the love!
Love y'all!
Elder Christensen
