History of C.N. Christensen (part 2)
December 1900
Sat Nov 1 Visited 26 houses with tracts & inviting people to meeting a couple of miles east of here
Sun 2 We held fast meeting here with the saints & general meeting in the country at 2 oclock also here again at night with a good attendence at each
Monday 3 We are all three home writing letters etc. Weather fine. Class at night
Tue 4 Early this morning we were awaken by a fire alarm & so we saw a danish fire with a lot of danish fireman who seemed to all be built backward & every body was going in the wrong direction. It was worse than childs play All day it has bin snowing & to night it has turned cold. I have writen letters to Vida Jensen & her father A ritch widow named Stine Stockbro asked me to baptize her sunday night. Niels Robjer spraned his ancle & broke a bone in it last night & so is layed up for a number of weeks but may it is good for him as he has bin careless in his releigeon lately but this will cause him to think.
Wed 5 Went by rail to Hjorring & then out in to the country where we held a meeting at night with a small attendence
Thur 6 On awaking I had a turrable head ach & Bro. Petersen was the same. We had slept in a very small room that was almost air tight & had a small coal oil stove to warm up the place as it was a very cold night & the bed was small enough for one & we were two we thought it might as well burn all night. It burned low & went out some time before morning causing a poisoniuos smok & gass that made us very sick so that when we got to Hjorring we had to go to bed. I got better by evening & bro. Petersen was so he could get around We held a meeting & after wint to J. C. Nielsen’s cousins for chocolate & came home on the midnight train
Fri 7 We are all well again & feel glad that we got through with our lives, for some dayes it has bin cold & it snowed some so the ground is all white & last night it froze very hard. I got a letter from wife & answered it also wrote one to Lawerence
Sat 8 Bin home all day & to night am feeling a little blue because there is only 5 ore left in my pocket & I cant think where more is comming from but I have a promise of the Lord that he will provide bothe through the law of tithing which I have strictly observed the past two years & am still doing so & also through the promices of my pactarchel blessing which sayes I shall not lack for means to further the cause of trouth as I will not worrie about it. I went to painter Christensen to spend the evening & on my return found a letter from my wife with one dollar in it, one from Carlos Sederholm with ten cents & one from T. C. Petersen with twelve dollars, five from him & seven from my parrents which made me rejoice & thank the Lord
Sun 9 Is my birthday & I am happy. In the after noon I preached tithing & caused tears to come in some of the saints eyes & one who has bin a saints for over six months & never payed an øre promised to pay it from now on. After meeting the sisters spred the tables with chocolate & cake & we all purtook in honor of my birth. I then took the ritch old widdow off to the park & baptized her. In the evening meeting I spoke last & for half an hour. A young lady from Lesø who had bin with the Itermission for eight years could not hold the water out of my eyes & after meeting she said to a sister. “That is the best sermon I have heard & now I know that the gospel as taught by the Mormons is true.” It was her first meeting attended
Mon 10 Elders Nelson & Petersen went to Aalborg & I visited the fisher & his wife & found the young lady from Lesø there so we had a little chat & sang some hymes. She came with sister Jensen to english class at night. After class I went into the coopers to shew painter Christensen & his wife my sterescope & got in to a pleasent gospel conversation with the cooper & when I told them it was now two oclock & time to quit for to night they could not understand where the time had gon too so mutch had they bin interested. I also wrote a letter to day to Sister Christensen’s son in Boston telling him that his mother was now a mormon & asking him to live a better life. I also wrote to my wife, Fred & the old folks
Tue 11 have bin home most all day entertaining company first one & then another both saints & sinners. Petersen came home to night. It has bin raining & blowing for three dayes
Wed 12 arose late. Petersen is sick & it is still raining so we cant go into the country. I have visited some of the saints & envestigators
Thur 13 Fri 14 & Sat 15 Were spent about the town laboring with the people here. Rain & wind all the time. I got a card from Frank Bowerng in Germany & answered it with a letter
Sun 16 We held meeting in Hjelmste at 2 oclock & here at 7. Got a splendid supper to Niels Andersen’s. We were very tired and hungry after our walk. Evening meeting was very well attended
Mon 17 About town again visiting & prepairing for our Xmas amusements. I had my black suit repaired & cleaned for $1.75 & borrowed a clothes case to hang it in as the old place is to damp & dirty. Held school at night
Tue 18 Have bin tracting here in town & had some gospel conversations. We blessed Niels Andersen babbies wrote a letter to cousin Ingaborg.
Wed 19 Tracted some in the town & had two conversations one with two ladies who were members of the “Temple Svöbers” a sect who believe in Revelation & so they have a prophet in Norway
Thu 20 Came to Aalborg & was met at the depot by Uncle & so spent the after noon & evening with him & the folks had a gospel chat with William Olsen for the first time
Fri 21 Received three letters from home one from Marelda with 40¢ in stamps in & one from W. A. Borgstray with 60¢ in silver & one from T. H. Blackburn with $12.35 as a Xmas gift from the ward. Have bin at the office writing etc most all day
Sat 22 Wrote to the S.S. at home also to sister Fyn in Copenhagen & to some of my class members in Bronderslev & was about town.
Sun 23 Attended S.S. at ten & meeting a 2 & 7 speaking in the evening half an hour. Uncle was present.
Mon 24 Read & wrote until 3 oclock when I helped Ingaborg trim her Xmas. tree & the evening was spent with the folks at Uncles.
Tue 25 got a letter from wife & answered it. None of us in the office ate breakfast & at noon every thing was closed so that three of us not being envited out had for our christmas dinner a plate of oat meal mush with out milk & some bare bread. Evening we had a tree for the children & a program. I recited my danish recitation
Wed 26 In company with my cousin Ingaborg & elder Larsen I went to Brönderslev & there helped to get our Xmas tree decorated. We were about 15 people gathered most of who were saints. We had a short programe & danced in the cooper’s work shop after which we drank chocolate & a little after 2 oclock broke up our croud & each went home
Thur 27 Got up late & spent the day at home streighting up after our feast
Fri 28 Lost
Sat 29 Wrote letters to W A Borgstrome & Frank Bowering. Evening spent with the cooper
Sun 30 Walked to Michel Simensen’s & had a chat with the family there held meeting here at night
Mon 31 At home all day & to Stine Christensens for supper at night with a lot of the saints
