More Than Enough

It was another great week for me here in Imawizawa. Last night it snowed a little bit, and it is supposed to snow a little every day for the rest of the week. Last Thursday was Zone Conference in Asahikawa and it was great. President Daniels talked a lot about the Great Apostasy and he actually talked about a few things that Elder Thurber and I have discussed in the past few weeks. So I felt very doctrinally prepared for President's talk, and that made it even better. After Zone Conference I got to talk with Brother Hotta and Brother Sato, two of my favorite members from Asahikawa. They came to the church just to say hi to all of the missionaries, and I had a fun time talking with them.
On Saturday night, one of the members called us up and then brought by some food for us. She had bought us pork, beef, and ice cream! So on Sunday we ate beef steak with baked potatoes and ice cream for dessert. We felt like we were back in America. It was so good!
And yesterday we had an older lady team-up for a lesson that we had. After the lesson, we were riding our bikes down the road when she flagged us down from a grocery store parking lot. She said "I have been meaning to put something in the missionaries' fruit basket the past few weeks, but never got around to it. Is it alright if I get something for you right now?" That made us happy, and we said alright. Well, then she pulled out a shopping cart! We thought she was just going to get us a snack. But nope, she wanted to get us a lot. We tried to tell her that our fridge is already full and that we didn't need anything, but she kept picking stuff out. She ended up buying us some really expensive, delicious meat called Jingisu Kan (it is named after Ghengis Khan). It was about $13 for 1 kilo of meat! In all, she spent about $24 on groceries and then handed them over to us. We were so happy, but we really didn't need any of it, so we felt bad. We love this branch so much! Every member that is active has a really strong testimony and they love the missionaries so much.
On Saturday we found an apartment full of foreigners! There were a few Americans, an English girl, a guy from New Zealand, and a guy from South Africa. We only got to talk with the guy from South Africa, but he was way cool. He is from Johannesburg, but he has a lot of family in Cape Town. While we talked to him, I heard in the background that he was listening to Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven". I thought that the music was a good reminder of Bryce, and I know that he would have loved talking with that guy.
Our investigator Iwane san is still on track to getting baptized on November 22, but I still think it will be a miracle if she makes it. But Elder Thurber and I pray every day that we can see miracles happen here in Iwamizawa. We found another young mom this past week named Oketa san that seems like she could potentially be a good investigator.
We are working like crazy. Some days we have a ton of success, and other days we have no success. The Lord really is strengthening us in the refiner's fire. I love working with Elder Thurber and we are serving with all of our hearts.
Thank you everyone for your support. I love you all.

Elder Christensen