Well sorry for the later email, we just got back from the Monticello temple and the yearly temple trip. That is a dinky little temple but pretty sweet that it just sits in the middle of a neighborhood. Not so good a week this week. I will tell you about it some time in detail when I get home. Which is in like 5 months....weird. Im an "old man" in the mission now. I taught zone training on Thursday on Talking to People and the Book of Mormon. I try to make my trainings and whatnot as entertain-able as possible because some missionaries think they have to be super serious and whatnot all day all the time. Really bugs me. Lighten up a little people! Missions are fun! But ya I got some good laughs so I think I brightened peoples day hopefully. It went well and a couple of points that I really emphasized on is just looking at people in the face and especially if your trying to bare testimony. SO many missionaries just stare at the ground or something.....I want to shake them for not talking to people like a man. Then next was baring SIMPLE testimony. I have had to many companions that go on 2 or 3 minute rants and the person just sits there with a blank face and no attention. We worked on baring simple powerful testimony in about 10-20 seconds. I hope some good came out of it.
We did get one new investigator but we weren't able to meet with him last week, so hopefully this week. It seems that the investigators we do have are just intellectually interested not spiritually. I'm tired of explaining to people that want to know how someone can write on gold plates or that think they are stumping me by asking where the gold plates are and if they could see them they would believe. ugh...If someone can believe that Moses just smacked a rock and water gushed out, or that Jesus told someone to go grab a fish with a coin in its mouth then why is it so absurd to say that an angel came to Joseph Smith with a record engraven on golden plates? Just comes to show that physical evidence will never be able to please the critic. Ever. Other then that not to much has happened this week. The Temple was great and I think I am getting a hint of what I want to do with my life in 5 months....maybe! I am enjoying it while I can and helping people as much as possible. Thank you for everything
Love Elder Christensen
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