From: Corrine Christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 11:49 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!!!!
so as missionaries, we aren't allowed, well, its just not as fun to celebrate the regular holidays like the fourth of july and labor day, etc.... its just a normal day for us, expect more people are home to talk to. SOOOOOO which holidays do we get excited about? CHURCH HOLIDAYS!
YAY! im sure you can see the excitement about that :) so monday and tuesday of this week was a very special holiday- it was 186 YEARS AGO, on SEPT 21 and 22, that joseph smith first learned about the book of mormon! please, hold the applause.... we had a big missionary meeting that day, some of you may know it as zone conferece, but it was soooo neat to celebrate this AMAZING MIRACLE right there on the HILL CUMORAH - where the gold plates were hidden! our mission president gave us time to walk up the hill, with our copies of the book of mormon and just ponder, think, contemplate about this amazing incident that happened, like i said, just 186 years ago!
needless to say, my thoughts were turned to the book of mormon- another testament of jesus christ. i onced asked a lady on the street, "if there was another book, besides the bible, about jesus christ- would you want to read it? learn more about him?" she said: "sure, do you have one?" ... so i gave her a book of mormon. that is truly what it is- another book for us to read, get the "good word of god" as some people put it, and feel closer than ever to god and our savior jesus christ.
okay, now you can applaud and maybe take a moment this week and ponder on how the book of mormon has impacted your life- if it has. if not, want a copy of it? you just gotta talk to the boys and ladies in black name tags. :)
sister christison
ps. it is offically autumn... happy fall! :)
Monday, September 28, 2009
9/17/09
From: Corrine Christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 10:53 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!
can you believe it? fall is here already!!! i would say, probably about 46.5 % of the trees here are already red, orange, yellow... you name it! crazy! it also doesnt get really above 75 degrees anymore! CRAZY!
anyhoo, i hit my 8 month mark on monday, which means i've been out for 8 whole months and i only have 10 more to go! HOW SAD! as i was thinking back on the last 8 months, i started to freak out a little bit...im not learning all i wanted to learn! im not changing fast enough! i still dont have all the scriptures memorized! (just a minor freak out, mind you) but i read a scripture this morning, in my spanish book of mormon of all places, that really helped me put it all back in perpective. the scripture is found in 1 Nephi, when the prophet Nephi is having a vision about Jesus and him coming to earth. The angel in his vision asks Nephi if he knows the meaning of Christ coming to earth.
Nephi responds:
"Se que ama a sus hijos; sin embargo, no se el significado de todas las cosas" (for those of you who don't speak spanish
:) ... nephi said: "I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, i do not know the meaning of all things")
so now, i want you to think about the times in your life when you've have freakouts.... perhaps its right now! or perhaps it wont come for another couple of weeks! but i can promise you, we all have them at some time or another... and when we do- we must remember the principle in this scripture: that God and Jesus Christ love us! and everything else can come later! i am so grateful to have that knowledge, and to actually, literally FEEL his love in my life..... it certainly calms me when im having my freakouts, which is nice- im sure not only for me, but for my companions as well! ;)
have a great week y'all!!
sister christison
ps. im getting my hair chopped off... do you think god's love can calm me down this time too? :)
Subject: mass email
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 10:53 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!
can you believe it? fall is here already!!! i would say, probably about 46.5 % of the trees here are already red, orange, yellow... you name it! crazy! it also doesnt get really above 75 degrees anymore! CRAZY!
anyhoo, i hit my 8 month mark on monday, which means i've been out for 8 whole months and i only have 10 more to go! HOW SAD! as i was thinking back on the last 8 months, i started to freak out a little bit...im not learning all i wanted to learn! im not changing fast enough! i still dont have all the scriptures memorized! (just a minor freak out, mind you) but i read a scripture this morning, in my spanish book of mormon of all places, that really helped me put it all back in perpective. the scripture is found in 1 Nephi, when the prophet Nephi is having a vision about Jesus and him coming to earth. The angel in his vision asks Nephi if he knows the meaning of Christ coming to earth.
Nephi responds:
"Se que ama a sus hijos; sin embargo, no se el significado de todas las cosas" (for those of you who don't speak spanish
:) ... nephi said: "I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, i do not know the meaning of all things")
so now, i want you to think about the times in your life when you've have freakouts.... perhaps its right now! or perhaps it wont come for another couple of weeks! but i can promise you, we all have them at some time or another... and when we do- we must remember the principle in this scripture: that God and Jesus Christ love us! and everything else can come later! i am so grateful to have that knowledge, and to actually, literally FEEL his love in my life..... it certainly calms me when im having my freakouts, which is nice- im sure not only for me, but for my companions as well! ;)
have a great week y'all!!
sister christison
ps. im getting my hair chopped off... do you think god's love can calm me down this time too? :)
9/10/09
From: Corrine Christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:00 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!
sister christison got transfered again! a big shocker i know.... its not like it hasnt happened 5 other times already! :) anyhoo, i am now in the beautiful town of fairport new york, where the biggest deal is the erie canal!
:)
it seems like just yesterday, i was commenting on how the trees were finally getting green... well, they arent green anymore! they are changing to beautiful reds, yellows, and oranges... some of them are already falling off! CRAZY HUH?!?!
well, i want to tell y'all a story. its about a woman i have met already here in fairport. her name is beth ann. she is going through a very nasty divorce, she has an eleven year old son who LOVES football, she has to sell her house, she doesn't have a job... doesn't sound too good huh? well, we went over to her home yesterday and you know what she said? "i've had a hard past couple of years, with the divorce and everything, but you know what? these past couple of months i've felt okay." why do you think she has felt okay? well, a couple of months ago is when my companion sister jensen and her old companion sister smoot started teaching her. "i have faith now," she said, "and that has made all the difference".
WOW! my knowledge that god is there, he is aware of all of our needs and he fulfills them has grown so much in being able to meet with beth ann. She may have thought she needed something else, but heavenly father knew she needed faith. she needed to know that he was there and that he loved her!
i am truly grateful for the chance i have to share these experiences with the people of new york (and then share them with y'all!).
"for with god, nothing shall be impossible" luke 1:37.
if beth ann can have faith inspite of her
trials, can we?
sister christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:00 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!
sister christison got transfered again! a big shocker i know.... its not like it hasnt happened 5 other times already! :) anyhoo, i am now in the beautiful town of fairport new york, where the biggest deal is the erie canal!
:)
it seems like just yesterday, i was commenting on how the trees were finally getting green... well, they arent green anymore! they are changing to beautiful reds, yellows, and oranges... some of them are already falling off! CRAZY HUH?!?!
well, i want to tell y'all a story. its about a woman i have met already here in fairport. her name is beth ann. she is going through a very nasty divorce, she has an eleven year old son who LOVES football, she has to sell her house, she doesn't have a job... doesn't sound too good huh? well, we went over to her home yesterday and you know what she said? "i've had a hard past couple of years, with the divorce and everything, but you know what? these past couple of months i've felt okay." why do you think she has felt okay? well, a couple of months ago is when my companion sister jensen and her old companion sister smoot started teaching her. "i have faith now," she said, "and that has made all the difference".
WOW! my knowledge that god is there, he is aware of all of our needs and he fulfills them has grown so much in being able to meet with beth ann. She may have thought she needed something else, but heavenly father knew she needed faith. she needed to know that he was there and that he loved her!
i am truly grateful for the chance i have to share these experiences with the people of new york (and then share them with y'all!).
"for with god, nothing shall be impossible" luke 1:37.
if beth ann can have faith inspite of her
trials, can we?
sister christison
August 31, 2009
From: Corrine Christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 11:02 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!!
isnt life good? i mean, really, if you sat down and counted all your blessings.... life is good! everyday that we wake up is a good day (as one gentleman at church told my companion and i as we asked him how he was doing)!!
so, im not sure if you remember, but my mission president has asked all the missionaries to read the book of mormon in 6 weeks... we are getting down to the last 2 weeks and thankfully, im on track! i started in the middle of the book of mormon, so last week i finished it and am starting from the beginning. man! do i love this book! if there is anyone who is reading this that has not picked up a book of mormon in a long while-- i strongly suggest you do!! my good mood i'm apparently in, guessing by the tone of this letter,... is due to the book of mormon! NO JOKE!
i read a scripture today that surely brightened it! 1 nephi 18:21.... lehi and his family are on the boat, headed for the americas, when laman and lemuel decided to bind nephi up. of course the lord wasnt very happy about that so he caused a mighty (and im talking mighty) storm to come upon them. finally, the brothers let nephi go and what did he do... just as verse 21 says: "and it came to pass that i prayed unto the lord; and after i had prayed the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there was a great calm". i have felt like that recently... that as ive poured my soul out to the lord in prayer, he has calmed the sea and the mighty winds..... the winds are still there- but just not as big.
gosh i do love the lord and all that he does for me! and i KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that he'll do the same thing for YOU, if you'll just pour your heart out to him in prayer.... however, just remember: "sometimes the lord calms the sea, and sometimes he calms the sailor"
i hope all y'all have a wonderful week and have some warmer weather than what we are having here.... high 60s with a low of 40. what the mess is that about?!?! :)
sister christison
Subject: mass email
Date: Monday, August 31, 2009, 11:02 AM
HERMANAS Y HERMANOS!!
isnt life good? i mean, really, if you sat down and counted all your blessings.... life is good! everyday that we wake up is a good day (as one gentleman at church told my companion and i as we asked him how he was doing)!!
so, im not sure if you remember, but my mission president has asked all the missionaries to read the book of mormon in 6 weeks... we are getting down to the last 2 weeks and thankfully, im on track! i started in the middle of the book of mormon, so last week i finished it and am starting from the beginning. man! do i love this book! if there is anyone who is reading this that has not picked up a book of mormon in a long while-- i strongly suggest you do!! my good mood i'm apparently in, guessing by the tone of this letter,... is due to the book of mormon! NO JOKE!
i read a scripture today that surely brightened it! 1 nephi 18:21.... lehi and his family are on the boat, headed for the americas, when laman and lemuel decided to bind nephi up. of course the lord wasnt very happy about that so he caused a mighty (and im talking mighty) storm to come upon them. finally, the brothers let nephi go and what did he do... just as verse 21 says: "and it came to pass that i prayed unto the lord; and after i had prayed the winds did cease, and the storm did cease, and there was a great calm". i have felt like that recently... that as ive poured my soul out to the lord in prayer, he has calmed the sea and the mighty winds..... the winds are still there- but just not as big.
gosh i do love the lord and all that he does for me! and i KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that he'll do the same thing for YOU, if you'll just pour your heart out to him in prayer.... however, just remember: "sometimes the lord calms the sea, and sometimes he calms the sailor"
i hope all y'all have a wonderful week and have some warmer weather than what we are having here.... high 60s with a low of 40. what the mess is that about?!?! :)
sister christison
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