This week. First I must say this. I saw a seminary video
about Moses. Story about the time he was tempted by Satan right after seeing
God. Man, something about Moses had me trippin. But, I think I got it! Unless
I'm mistaken (which we certainly won't rule out. happens all the time) the man
is Marvin Payne! The beloved director of the Christmas Choir. I was much
pleased with this discovery!!
Haha, one day this week, we were walking. Now, this happens
a lot. Go figure. Typically, as we walk, people shout at me a lot. Sometimes
it's good, sometimes it's not. Very common is "KUYA!!!" which means
some little kids just saw me and are now running down the street to get high
fives. I love that. Pretty common as well are "Hey Joe!" "Wa's
Up Man?" and "Wa's your name?", which I've heard about a million
times from everyone. Another good one is that song from what's-er-face. Hey I
just met you, this is crazy! Man you hear that a ton. But everyone thinks they
are the original person to tell the joke. But no worries! But this day, ha, we struck
gold!! We were walking down this road and out of nowhere, this old man comes up
to me and starts singing Puff the Magic Dragon. Ano ba iyan?? Now that one is
new. My comp and I couldn't help but laugh for a few meters. Ah man. Crazy
people. Got to love life as a missionary. Ha, you never know what to
expect.
A bad story. Ah man. Everyone has good language mess ups.
And I've had quite a few. But this one was bad enough to make the email. So we
were teaching a recent convert. She's 11. Way cool. Her dad is a recently
returned inactive. And he's the man. He just shows up and cleans the chapel all
the time because he likes to help and be in the church and if he doesn't do it,
it might not get done. They are great. Actually, they are the family from the
pics last week with weird cookies in our mouths. So, I'm a weird missionary,
and I still act like a child. You may think I'm all grown up and mature and
all. But na. So I was sticking my tongue out at this girl and she said,
"wow, your tongue is huge!" So I meant to say, "You want to see
my tongue?" "Gusto mo ba na tingnan ung dila ko?" But,
unfortunately, that's not quite what I said. I said, "Gusto mo ba na
tikman ung dila ko" or "do you want to taste my tongue?". Oh
man. I realized right away that I'd used the wrong one, but man. It's quite
different from what I wanted to say. And I may act like a child, but you can't
go around asking little girls to taste your tongue!!! AHHHHH!!!! Thank
goodness, we all laughed and I corrected myself and they knew what I meant.
It's all good. But you can add that one to the books. Don't ever feel
confident. If you do, the Lord will kindly humble you very quickly.
Ho, don't let me get any farther!!! ERRRRRR! (that would be
the sound of brakes. but good brakes, not the annoying squeak of the type that
need to be changed) Joshua boy, my dear younger brother. Happy Birthday!! You
know you've got more of that coming your way in a personal email. Just wanted
to make sure everyone knew about it. Cough cough. Especially the ladies.
ANYWAY!!!
Also. So, we taught a lesson this week. Surprise! Yes,
we did teach. This man brought up an interesting point that I figured I might
as well mention. He is quite inactive. RM daw. He has only been to church a few
times since I've been here. Doesn't read scriptures. Has some issues. But the
main thing daw, is his job. He teaches for a school and they have activities
and field trips all the time on Sunday. We were asking when he would come to
church. It's been a few weeks. He said he couldn't this next week because of a
field trip. And then he said you know, old people have all the time in the
world. Once they retire, they can go to church and be involved in activities
and read the scriptures and be involved with the ward and really focus on the
Lord. But us younger people, we have to focus on work. And that's where I had
to stop him. This is a common problem. It's a problem for everyone. Even back
at home. Even for me. We live in a very busy world. There are soo many good
things to do. Sports, work, school, friends, activities; those are all good
things and there are about a billion more! But they are not the most important
things in our lives. That, quite frankly, is a sneaky straight up lie from
Satan. He tells us it's ok to put off the things that really matter right now
because we will have time later. Now, God understands if we have different
things that MUST come first. That is not true. There are so many good things to
do that we often get caught up in them and sometimes sacrifice the things that
matter most in order to do GOOD things. But we need to take a good hard look
and see what's happening. God and Family are the
most important things. We get fooled into putting other things first
and thinking that we will take care of or fix other things later. Man, this
life is the time to prepare to meet God. This is the time to preform our
labors. We have to learn what things are truly important and what things make
good additional items if we have time. If your job takes you away from God and
family, change it. If your sports take you away, change it. If your friends
take you away, ha, learn that family are your best friends and change it.
Heavenly Father has given us such a good and simple plan to follow for this
life. But Satan will do all that he can to distract us or make us forget. We
don't know when our time is. Sayang for us if it's tomorrow and we aren't
prepared. We need to be prepared every day. We need to be doing our best every
day to become like the Savior. Which do you think will be worse at the last
day, standing in the presence of our Heavenly Father; "I sacrificed my job
for my salvation or I sacrificed my salvation for my job". Take a look
folks. Be prepared.
Anyway. Y'all don't need to hear my preaching. Ah. Anyway.
Birthday celebration happened. Today actually. We went to the temple. How
better can I celebrate? Did the same thing last year with my good parents and
some of my very best of friends. Then we hit up a delicious buffet and ate til
we couldn't pack it in anymore. And, I'm proud to say, I didn't eat a single
grain of rice in that meal. Success!! But that is about all I have for this
week everybody. Thanks for all the support. You all are the best. Serve
missions. Serve the Lord. Be good.
Pics!!! So the first is me with the current Rainbow House
Crew. Don't ask where we are at, but that's us. With the crew, we did a little
bathroom remodeling service project. Haha, good time. I'll tell you that story
some other time. We also had an FHE with a sweet family. And I grabbed a pic of
me and my comp eating some Filipino barbecue He's rocking liver and
I'm owning the intestine. Good times. Sorry there isn't a lot of pics this
week. I didn't use the camera too much. But we did eat balut again because of
the new American here. So. There's a good story that didn't make the
pics.
Have a wonderful week yo!!!
Much love,
Elder Christensen
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