Ya'aat'eh!!
Well......I can say this week was one of the best weeks of my mission so far. We didn't get a lot of teaching appointments but we sure did a ton of service. I need to get better at taking pictures of everything I just get my mind wrapped up on what im doing at the moment and I forget to document it afterwards or during. Our efforts of contacting the less actives have been pretty good. There are about 5 that wish to have us stop by and talk with them which is way more then what I expected. My main focus I think for helping the wards out is addressing what the bishop needs and the Presidents of each quorum and RS and whatnot. If we can help them a bit and take any type of load off then I think we are doing our job. I officially have lived in Cortez Colorado longer then anyplace on this earth besides Boise. It has become my home away from home. Here is what we did the past few days. We helped finish that chicken coop and all of the yard around it! We built a fence and put up another chicken wire fence so those dirty raccoons and foxes don't get in there. That took about 4 more hours and we had Zone leaders come help us or else it would have taken a long time. If you guys ever come down here and pick me up we MUST stop by in Cortez and visit some people. The Balfour family has taken very good care of me and they make me feel like I am at home whenever I am around them. They have also found out my addiction to dubble bubble gum....so they give me a bunch whenever we go over there and I have no problem with that. He has some sweet "toys" that I will take some pics of sometime that you need to see.
I am going to go from least awesome to most awesome of service projects we've done. After the chicken coop which was exhausting and took up all Friday evening. We went to a members house in 2nd ward and helped her move out and transport stuff to various places and whatnot. I tell you what, you get 6 missionaries together and tell them to do something....it gets done! Anyways that was fun, I got a slingshot from the junk so that will come in handy especially if I go to the Rez with those nasty dogs.
Okay last but certainly not least....I got in touch with my old Idaho family roots on Saturday and I felt like I actually did something worthwhile. I went BRANDING!!! Yes...like cow and calf branding! I strapped on my jeans and went tackled some calves and showed whose boss! I have 3 pics I will send them next week, my camera is in the truck and I don't wanna go out there cause its raining hardcore. I got dirt and dust all over me and I got a pretty good workout in. Those little animals are STRONG! they probably weighed about 150 to 200 each. The only way to get them where you want them to go is force them! So it was a tackle fest! I got kicked in the ankle pretty good but it didn't hurt that bad. Some of those calves are angry all the time and they kick everyone! kinda dangerous sometimes but it was one of the funnest things I've ever done in my life! I told some ward members and since its branding season right now i may be doing it again!!! cant wait!
Well, other then that that's all i got. We are teaching some people but always looking for more. I love being a missionary.
love Elder Christensen
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