Hello one and all!! First, I will apologize in advance. The
following email will be brief and a bit boring. It will not be rich with detail
or full of good stories and it is likely not to be laced with humor. Ok, I take
the humor part back. I do usually attempt to add a little humor. But the number
of stories this week is a little low and the time I have to write is
similar.
I will start by saying that this has been a fabulous week!!
Holy goodness gracious. It has been a week much like all of the other weeks we
have had. It has been full with missionary work!! And it has had lots of
success! And it has been awesome!! But I admit, I was a little bit bad at
keeping a list of stories written out this week, so I will mostly have to go by
memory.
First I suppose I can say that we have had several more
people agree to be baptized. We are now looking at about 10 people seriously
preparing for baptism. We have had a few cool things happen with LA people. The
De Leon family, which I have talked about for a few weeks, is now preparing for
the temple! We couldnt be more excited for them! And we had a brother this week
that has not been to church for ages and ages!! 5 years? But he came back to
church!!! We are soooo stoked!! That is all that comes right to mind. Just
mostly good hard work and people letting the gospel change their lives. Masarap
talaga.
As far as other things go. There was a Ms. Gay pageant. In
case you are wondering, that is for baklas. And yes, they dress up in skanky
swim suits. In how many languages do you know the word for barf? You may now
insert or think all of those words. Because that is disgusting. Unfortunately,
I did not GET to attend. Sayang!! But no worries! A little girl in my ward
watched some of it with her uncle and told me all about it!! Yay!!
Also. A few of the elders in my apartment have decided to
battle the oncoming fatness. We started P90x yesterday!! It is the best thing
ever!!! And I got a jump rope from someone awesome once upon a time and have
just now begun to put it to good use. Goodbye fatness!!!
Well. That is probably the shortest email I have ever
written. But I have to go. And also, it has just been a week of not many
stories. But it has still been wonderful. If this is not enough, read through
the last two emails and it has pretty much been just like that. Woohoo!!
Pics. One is me and some other elders sitting on a wall,
talking to some kids. Kids are my favorite. I have a picture of me and the
elders in my apartment holding a funny funny document. But I dont have time for
that story. Some other time. Needless to say, it is great!! I have one of me
and elder judar doing...something on the side of the road. I also took a
picture of a frog!! Now you all know what they look like after they get hit in
the road! Beautiful!! Gotta love how everything that comes out cooks black in
the heat! I have a pic of my zone. And a pic of Elder Vea when he tried to beat
the mission record of 22 cups of rice in one sitting. Yeah, he made it to 15 cups
on his plate but he only finished 13. Sayang. 22 is a lot of rice!! We have a
pic of us with my favorite ward missionary man of all time!! He is the coolest
man possibly in the Philippines. Definite role model for me. Anyway. I think
that is all!!
And! It is Christmas time!! Happy day for all of us!! And do
not forget. Today is 12/12/12!!!! It is a huge day to celebrate!! Yeehaw!!
That is all! Thank you all for everything! Have a wonderful
week!!
Much love,
Elder Christensen
Oh and also. Transfers are tomorrow. Elder Judar is
transferring!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I am sad that we only got one transfer
together. But he will be training now. As will I. Gotta feel bad for whoever
that poor missionary is, eh?
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