Hello my family!! This week has been good! I think they all
are. It is a mission after all. It's the best!
So we'll go with interesting stories first. I feel a little
bad, cuz I think I put out a little too much info. Too many bathroom related
stories, but bare with me (haha, no pun intended). It is just a story of my
"brilliance" that I thought should be shared. So this one morning,
I'm taking a shower. That is a daily routine here, thank goodness. So I crouch
down to have a better angle for attack on my feet. That's especially important
for missionaries. Upon getting up, my overly large body collides with one of
the water spouts. The darned spout that sticks out to fill buckets. And I sort
of broke it. And water started shooting out of the wall like crazy. So I'm
trying to shove the bit of pipe back into the wall to stop the water. Trying to
keep my cool I yell out to Anderson that he should probably walk outside and
shut off our water at the main switch. He unfortunately is just getting out of
the shower himself and needs to get dressed. I then commenced the longest 8
minute wrestling match of my life, trying to keep the water in the pipe where
it belongs and let it spray me through the wall. It was impressive! It finally
shut off and we were able to go to district meeting. Luckily, one of my good
mates is in the office and was able to shoot out right after district meeting
to fix it for me. Even luckier still, it happened to be a very simple fix. And
in my defense, it only broke cuz some doof had broken it before and just shoved
it back in with some glue. Lucky lucky me!
Friday is weekly planning. We decided to do it in style with
Pizza Hut. But we didn't have a lot of cash. But we did have a super large
gatorade bottle full of peso coins. So we ordered 500 pesos worth of pizza and
paid for it in coins. Sigh. A little embarrassing? Yes. A little childlike?
Yes. Delicious and completely worth it? Double yes.
We've also had a recent wave of cockroaches swarm the house!
But never fear. We administer death to all that oppose. We are basically living
the life of a stripling warrior. For all the thousands we slay, we are yet to
have a single casualty on our side of the fight. Pretty impressive percentage.
Must have good mommas!
We've still been having lots of rain. Saturday decided to
get real feisty and we even got flooding going on. Were we discouraged? On the
contrary, we were given new strength! Sometimes, there is nothing better than
stomping through floods, completely soaked! Just takes me right back to being 5
years old.
This week we had another tough time teaching lessons. I
don't know if it's the rain or maybe we are stinky, but the people are hiding.
But we still had good lessons. We had one with a Less active brother. He has
honestly lost his hope that we have a loving Heavenly Father. Now, I may not
know all things. I'm not a perfect missionary and I can't quote PMG or the BoM
word for word. But if there is one thing I can tell you, I can tell you that we
have a Heavenly Father who loves us. He couldn't understand how that could be
with all the suffering we go through. I heard a talk which helped me understand
that a little. The speaker asked what kind of loving parent would ever
intentionally hurt there children or make them cry. To which he replied...all
of them. Everyone takes their kids to the doctor to get shots. And to all
children (and some red headed missionaries) that has got to be the worst thing
in the world! Who wants to get shots? Kids don't get why we need it. What do
they see? It's scary. It hurts. They will cry afterwards. Do parents want that?
No. But they see the good that shots do for their children. They know how
important they are. And they know that it will help avoid more suffering
further on. We just don't always get the big picture. Our Heavenly Father
allows us to have experiences that will try us and help us grow. And He allowed
our Savior to suffer and die for us because He loves us so much. So that we
would have a chance to repent and experience peace and comfort for all the
wrongs in this life. I know that our Heavenly Father loves us. I know that
through the Atonement, we can find peace. We can be healed from all of our
pains. We just have to use the Atonement of our loving Savior and learn to come
closer to our loving Heavenly Father.
After all was said and done, we ended up having 15 less
actives come to church on sunday, which is a record for us here. That's
exciting business!
Pics! Hm. My pics are being weird. I'll see what I can get
for you. Well, I've just got one of my comp doing a heel click in the rain.
Sorry, the pics are all jumbled and not showing up completely. Next week na
lang. Sorry!
Well, next week is transfers. Elder Anderson is headed home
and someone else is headed in. Sigh. Sad day! But the work goes on! Have a great
week everyone!
Much love,
Elder Christensen
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