Hello!
Guess what! I am going to transfer meeting tomorrow! I actually know though that I am going to be staying in the branch and just moving to the other area. This is going to be good. My companion is going to be Hermana Calderon and she has a really thick Spanish accent.
WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT MY ADDRESS WILL BE CHANGING.
I had a miracle yesterday! Hna Larsen and I have this investigator named Meliton and he is the cutest man ever. It's just him and his 5 year old son. He loves God so much and has more faith than anyone I've ever seen. He loves to read the Bible and he writes alabanzas. (song-praises) He wrote one for one of the verses in the Book of Mormon.
I met him the first time I taught the English class here and immediately fell in love with him. We wanted to take him to the Los Angeles Temple and let him feel the spirit at the visitor center and also, they are having musical performances every day of December. There is no better place for Meliton than the temple visitor center. We had everything fall through last minute and we had no ride and no plan. Randomly and half-heartedly we asked the old ward mission leader and his girlfriend if they would want to drive all of us up there in 30 minutes and minutes later we received an "esta bien". WHOOOOO!!!!
30 minutes later we have Meliton, and a bit later we are on temple grounds. He adored EVERYTHING! He loved the lights and the people and the feeling. There were trees that looked like they had fruit of life on it, so I read him some verses of 1 Nephi 8 about how the fruit, or love of God, is the most desirable above anything else.
He loved the Christmas songs. He wanted to know if he could find them online and put them on a CD. They sang all classic Christmas songs, but they must've been new to him. And I mean, he doesn't understand the words, but that is besides the point.
HERE IS THE MIRACLE:
I walked into the Temple Visitor Center after having almost not made it out of Santa Clarita and after meandering around the grounds with Meliton and just when we were about to leave the entrance way to walk into the back on the left,
I SEE SOMEONE WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE FRANCISCA CHAVEZ walking from my right to the main entrance way. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This really happened! I stopped mid-sentence and ran to her and we hugged for so long! We were all letting out excited noises! And then I hugged German Grande! I was probably breaking every rule, but It didn't matter! Like this one event was almost more coincidental than any other event I've experienced in this mission and that statement carries weight! 30 seconds either way and we would've missed each other. That was the first time I'd been back to the LA Temple visitor’s center since I was there with them! That was their first time back since they'd been there with me!
German received the priesthood. They are all doing well! They looked happy and good! Most of all, they looked like a Mormon family. They came on their own and were just walking around. They saw the 5:00 performance and somehow had been in the visitor center until almost the second performance which we were attending. I think about them pretty much every day and it was so good to be reunited even for just that short time. Something about being with them makes everything in the world seem happy.
I'm sending you the picture evidence of this miracle :)
I love you all so much. I LOVED the thanksgiving CD! And the turkeys! It rained here on thanksgiving and we knocked on a ton of doors! It was wonderful. I love singing the other parts of the rounds with you guys! Really, you should just see the joy it brings to me.
Also, there is a weird bear noise on one of the songs. I'm pretty sure it is Nate, and I just want to congratulate him on his realistic bear sound. It is the "Indians in the forest" song and it is at the second "Shhhh". You guys should listen to it. I get a kick out of it every time :) So does Hna. Larsen:) She noticed the noise first and now we wait for it.
I spent most of today trying to deep clean our apartment because they are shutting this apartment down. They are breaking the lease early and we are turning this apartment in.
I love you!!!
Love, Hna. Christensen
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