Elder Tanner Christensen: Week 60

On Tuesday of this week we did divisions and I went with Elder Miranda, and we went to the mutual to practice with the youth on how to invite someone to church in preparation for the activity that we planned on Saturday.

On Wednesday, we did divisions again and I went with Elder Gerber. We went to the stake center that evening to watch the President Nelson devotional.

[FAMILY NOTE: President Nelson was in Argentina. He spoke at a stadium that only held about 10,000 people so a lot of the members didn't get to go and just watched it broadcasted from churches.]

It was awesome. For the first 30 seconds of the talk President Nelson was using an translator but then he was like "Sorry, I would like to talk in Spanish" and then gave a 15-minute talk in Spanish. He talked about tithing, word of wisdom and temple attendance and about how if we kept these commandments we would be blessed. It was a very good devotional. When I was there Veronica and Omar, two of my converts from Boulogne came and we talked for a while. Veronica is getting ready to go to the temple. And plus they made us pizzas which was awesome.

On Friday we had a Zone Conference and Elder Chajchalac and I gave a presentation about working with the members for about 30 minutes.

Saturday afternoon we did an activity with the youth in the ward. We went with them to a huge park that is close to the chapel and we gave out cards with them for invitations to the church. We handed out about 200 invitations in about 45 minutes and the youth got really excited.

On Sunday night we had a huge FHE in the Bishop's house. We had everyone that was there, name one person that hadn't come to church in a while, and then we had a list of about 30 names. Then we committed the members that were there to go and invite everyone one of these people to church next week. Then we played some games. It was a big success actually. Today for p-day Elder Savage is gonna teach us how to cook steak. But this week went by really well.