Tabernacle Choir visits Buenos Aires...

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ being preached in South America with two concerts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday and Saturday, August 22 and 23, 2025. These performances were the capstone of their celebration. The concerts featured cultural dances and songs from the region and paid tribute to the faith of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who have helped share the message of Jesus Christ. Elder Quentin L. Cook, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, joined the Choir in Buenos Aires and enjoyed their musical testimony of Jesus Christ. “The Choir, through music, is striving to teach about Jesus Christ and His commandments,” said Elder Cook. “They did a wonderful job. It was absolutely amazing. I was so deeply touched.” “The world needs Jesus Christ. The world needs to know what He has done and to feel his love. Music can carry some of that message and can make people want to know more and grow closer to the divine,” said Cardús. For both concerts, missionaries serving in Buenos Aires came on stage to sing with the Choir. This was another way to express gratitude for the thousands that have helped share the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in South America. “Seeing [the missionaries] up there at the end — that brought tears to my eyes,” said Elder Cook. “Our message is very much about Christ and inviting others to come unto Christ and following His example, and I think we did that.”

One Year...

"You are on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of Master"

 How is it hanging my people of the free world? It is currently pday, we still grindin here in Cristiania B, Buenos Aires. It's very interesting, the area here is pretty rich so the people are not interested in hearing anything, we also found out that not only are there basically no active members in our area but there are just basically no members.  All of them have moved or are dead. But we're finding some good success.  We are working hard trying to re-activate some members, and one of them came to church yesterday! VAMOS!! 

It's starting to get really cold here, and one of our electric heaters broke. The ward got robbed they stole the computer and the printer and basically everything in the office over there, so that blows. 

We've got some good friends progressing! The brother of one of our recent converts wants to get baptized too, we're working on trying to re-activate their family. Then we have another one of our friends that we put on date for the 21st, keep her in your prayers. We´ve also been doing a lot of contacting, we´ve found some good people doing that. This Saturday we went to like a famer's market type deal and had a stand.  It was 6 missionaries and we did a ton of contacts and found some really good people. We´ve also been doing lots of service, its been pretty epic. Were painting houses, moving logs, doing some gardening.  A member even gave me a really cool coin. 

Okay, I want to talk really fast about how important it is to go to church. We sometimes think that it is just nice to go to the meeting and listen to the talks, but it's nothing really important like the temple or general conference... But, that's NOT TRUE at all. It's actually very interesting that the covenant of baptism is the only one that we renew, and we have the opportunity to do it every Sunday.  It goes to show that it must be really important!  That God wants us to always be thinking of this first covenant and keep working to follow him. So go read Mosiah 18, its epic. Also read the COME FOLLOW ME Lesson for the week.  I love you guys. Stay frosty, keep your covenants, go to church, go to the temple, stay frosty. 

-Elder Christensen 

"Your New Empire?"

 Yo wazzup my people. 

I am still chilling here in Argentina, Cristiania B, living the best life. Some stuff has happened these past 3 weeks. Like kind of a lot.  My comp went home.  He had some family stuff that he had to work out so he went back to Brazil, and I got put with the other 2 elders in the ward.  It was pretty tough to keep our friends going but we were doing a lot calls, a lot of messages.  So it was pretty cool to learn how to work better with technology. One of our friends had a baptism date but they didn't show up to do the interview but they brought their friends to church the next day but they thought the were still going to get baptised but we moved to the date for another day. So yeah a little bit of a stress roller coaster these last couple of days. We're still a work in progress, but keep Bianca in your prayers... 

Also we had transfers. As previously mentioned I am still kicking it here in Cristiania, I have received my first native Spanish speaking comp. He's from Peru, so that's epic. He's a goofy guy, but we're gonna be doing some good work here.  I was getting cold but the last 2 week it's been making some HEAT.  But it's finally starting to cool down again. 

Welp, that's what has been happening here. Go and read the Bible, but also do some research on the context. Stay frosty. Keep it real. Go to church. Go to the temple. Chau

Elder Christensen

"I Will Do What I Must" ... "You Will Try"

 Yo yo yo,  how is it hanging my fellow children of a living God?  I don't remember when I sent my last email but I'm here in Cristiania B, (Isidro Casanovo - with Elder Mendonca) the Dream of the mission. I made it out of the mantanaza but now I'm back. My comp is brasileño so I'm trying to learn a little Portuguese to flex on the haters.

This area was a little dead when I got here, but we're doing some good work, finding some good peoples and securing some good "fechas". (dates)  The bishop here is epic.  He looks like a thug, but he's like always helping us out and stuff.  It's getting really cold here now, but it's all good.

I'm sorry, I promise I'll try to get better at emails one day... but I love God and I love you guys.  Go to church, stay strong in your testimonies and stay frosty.

Tchau

-Elder Christensen 

"I've got a bad feeling about this..."

Yo how's it going party animals. Things are going pretty good here in Ezeiza, there are lots of people to teach and we've been able to put a ton of people on date for baptism. The only problem is we've had General Conference and Stake Conference in the same month so that has kind of killed our dates. Also one of our friends who we put on date is just straight up ghosting us, but it's all good cause we put her neighbor on date and she's super ready to be baptized. 

We had our Zone Conference and I got to see the boys from CCM, minus my g Elder Price. Super epic, pday doesn't feel like pday if I'm not in lafe playing futbol with the boys.   

Me and my comp were talking about how the mission feels like a videogame. But the other day we got a side quest from this lady to find her dog. We said we'd look but Ezeiza is a big place and there are a ton of dogs. So we go to all of our plans and most of them fall through, and we have about an hour before our next lesson. My comp asks me "do you wanna look for this dog?" And I'm like you bet, so we say a prayer and we're just wandering the streets aimlessly, and then we find the dog! We called the lady and chased the dog for like 8 blocks but everything ended up good.  The dog found it's way home. 

Living with 4 Elders is fun, but let's just say we have different standards of cleanliness. 

I'm thinking a lot about prayer. There is real power in it when we do it with a sincere heart. This means being willing to act on our promptings no matter what. 3 Nephi 18:20-21, whatever we need if we ask in the name of Christ, God will give us, and we should always pray as a family. 

I love you shabones, stay frosty and all that jazz I'll catch you on the flip. 

 

1 week later...

My bad I forgot to send this last week but, we had a baptism! Gloria got baptized and I got to do it, it was pretty epic. She shared her testimony after and it was so powerful.  We're hoping to baptize her daughter. That was pretty much it last week. We play lots of skull King. Transfers are this week so well see what happens. stay frosty.

-Elder Christensen 

"Nobody can kill a Jedi."

 Yo wazzup, you incredibly attractive individuals? Pretty wack 2 weeks not gonna lie, here in Ezeiza. 

Last pday we went to a mall place and played pool. It's really a way different experience than in Castillo and Lafe. It's recheto here.

Almost all of our friends who have baptism dates, have dengue, the mosquito disease. And literally ever week before Sunday somebody in someone's family passes away, so I think Satan really doesn't want these peeps to be dunked.  But we have two other friends that are super awesome and si o si are gonna get baptised this month.

Our Zone set a new person goal of 100 this week. It was kinda nuts, we were all talking with literally everyone in the streets, the elders that live with us went ham and found like 27 people by themselves. We only found 14 but we still reached the goal as a zone, and we had like 2 days less than everyone.

I got violently sick. Me and my comp decided to do a fast and after I ate some really alto guiso. We had planning that day and during it my stomach hurt a ton, then during our English class I ran to the bathroom and threw up ever meal I've ever eaten. I had the worst stomach pain ever for the whole night and every time I drank a tiny bit of water I'd throw it up immediately. I didn't get to sleep until like 5 am the next day. After that we chilled tranqui in the pench for a day. But we are all good now.

General Conference was absolute heat. Really cool to watch Holland cook again. And the new guy Kearon has got some good potential. I noticed that it is all about our relationship with God this conference, I like that because it's something we teach a lot. How He loves us and wants us to strengthen our relationship with Him by using our agency to make covenants. Our prophet and others really stressed the importance of the temple, as the place that really is the house of the Lord and where we can make more covenants. I want to re-invite you all to go to the temple, but to also do the best you can to prepare to get the most out of it, and then to pray to receive revelation and understanding. 

My bad for the long email... I love y'all. Stay frosty. Keep it real. I'm out.

-Elder Christensen