Buenas,
Ok, so here is the big
news: I was transferred to...Reynosa, Mexico!!!!! Haha, no jkjk, but I was transferred
pretty close to it. I am in Hidalgo now! I think it is a little south and west
of McAllen, but I’m really not sure. It's crazy being back in the valley, too,
like I was here a year ago, just 30 minutes over, in Donna. Oh, ok, here is the
best part: so my Zone Leaders are Elder Casteel (I’ve served with him almost my
entire mission and I love that big guy, he's is so cool and just a baller) and
Elder Renshaw!!!!!! So when I found that out I was like freaking out, I was so
happy!!! But yea, it was super hard leaving Laredo; man I just love those
people so much it's crazy. And it was hard because I was up packing until 12:30
a.m., and then we had to get up at 4:15 a.m. in order to get to McAllen on time
for transfers. It was good though. Yea so being a District Leader is cool, it's
just a new way to serve but it's fun. Oh, and my new companion is Elder Thornton
from Grand Junction, Colorado. He is cool and we get along fine – he was up in
my Zone in Laredo so I already knew him fairly well. Our area touches the
border and we have one of the bridges to Mexico in our area as well. We live
with two other elders, too: que se llaman Elder Latu, he is from Tonga but
moved to the USA in 2011 and he started playing football. So, he is still
learning English as well as Spanish, haha. He got a scholarship to play football
anywhere in the country, USC, UCLA, Ohio State, Michigan...and he was going to
go to Oregon but then he decided to go on a mission – he is super cool and we
get a long great. And he is training a brand new greenie missionary named Elder
Lindsay, who also is a cool dude.
It’s definitely not as
hot here in Hidalgo than it is up in Laredo, that's one thing I’ve noticed. It’s
for sure more humid though. Ok, so District Leaders and Zone Leaders can
interview people to get baptized, so I had my first baptismal interview on Saturday
and it was cool! It was with a woman from Honduras who came across like a month
ago, and she came across with absolutely nothing (oh yea, and for eight days
she lived in the Monte – which is like the dessert/brush area of Mexico). So
one day she was walking around and didn’t know what to do and she told me she
said a prayer in her heart that God would send her an angel. And later that day
one of the sisters in the ward saw her on the street, took her to get something
to eat, bought her clothes, and took her to her house so she would have a place
to live. She then brought her to church and then the lady from Honduras took
all the lessons, absolutely loved them, and then got baptized!!! It was pretty
cool. God knows each of us personally, and He loves us so much. He wants us to
be happy. He already suffered everything so that way we don't have to. It just
all depends on our faithfulness to keeping the commandments of the Gospel. I
know it's true and after she got baptized yesterday she was so happy. She was
SO, SO happy. She truly had a fullness of joy. I'm grateful to be a missionary
and represent our Savior each and every day.
Con Amor,
Elder
Christiansen
P.S. I’m still in a
car area and we get fed almost everyday as well...hahaha
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