Hey family and friends. So this week was way better mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, but not much better with the numbers. Still struggling a bit, but we finally have some things coming out of the dust that makes it look like we could have some awesome stuff happening in the next 3 weeks or so.
They have this new booklet out called "Adjusting to Missionary Life" and it talks about all of the demands of missionary work and how to deal with them. So naturally, there is a a lot about dealing with stress in there. There was something in that booklet that when I first read it, I thought, "eh, whatever" but once I applied it, it changed everything. "When you feel overwhelmed, think, 'All I have to do right now is ____'." So once I started thinking like that, everything went a lot better. My mind cleared up. I stopped feeling super pressured. It's been a lot better the last 3 or 4 days. Then after that change of mindset, stuff started happening. I felt like I was going out Nephi-style. "I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do" (1 Ne 4:6). We went by our plans, and some of our plans just didn't feel right on our way there, and we would change it up last second and see cool stuff happen.
In one of those situations, WE FOUND THE GARCIA FAMILY AGAIN...FINALLY!!! If you don't remember who they are, they are the family that has the wife that was dying because of her diabetes. We went and gave her a blessing then started losing all contact with them. We finally got back with them after 2 months. We have a lesson with them tonight. AND their youngest son turns 8 in 3 weeks. So maybe God wanted this to wait to be a whole family deal? I don't know. But they still seem pretty solid.
We also found a lady this week named Carmen. We found her in the middle of a panic attack and we were able to calm her down. By the end she said, "Thanks to you boys, I feel 100% calm. I want you to come back and help my husband feel this way." She was asking other questions like "How can I get that hope?" "What do I need to do?" "What happens when we die?" It was awesome. We're going back on Wednesday. Her husband is active in the Catholic church, but she thinks he'd be willing to change after one talk with us. Hopefully some cool stuff comes out of that.
We also found a lady that started crying because she doesn't like the fact that she doesn't go to church on Sundays and knows that she should. She lives close to the Garcia family.
So ya, lots more stuff is happening. And we'll be keeping it up. Tonight, we also have a lesson with a part-member family that we randomly knocked into a few weeks back. And this will be the first lesson tonight.
Bishop Leiva showed me the pictures of when they met up with you in St George. I sure miss you guys!
So ya, it turned out that all that advice I got to "keep going" actually worked out!
Have a great week,
Elder Christensen
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