Ya'at'eeh!!
Well this last week was
certaintly not very productive at all but that happens every now and
then. I was able to watch the training yesterday, that was really
good. I wish I was there for the family reunion but I
think I have grown a bit attatched to the hot sun and sand. The
language is coming slow, its hard to stay motivated to learn it because
its so difficult. Right now im figuring out all the animals and foods
but haven't really put together sentences yet. I am taking pictures but
the computers here don't have a port for cameras so I guess you will
have to wait sorry. We are butchering a sheep (dibe) today and its
gonna be messy!!!! lots of Dil (blood) and dirt so good times. I will be
trying so ach'ii or intestine and possibly some na' dibe or sheep eyes
we will see.
Okay fun story of the week....ya in cortez every now and
then there would be an angry dog or two but never really any that wanted
to eat us or really chase us down. WELL THAT CHANGED! I see about 150
dogs a day here, no joke. They are everywhere and some of them are
nasty and diseased. Well we were on day exchanges for a few hours. I
was with Elder Phillips and we were knocking on some doors cause we had
nothing better to do. Anyways so we come up to this trailer and there
is a platform with stairs leading up to it which led to the door. As we
approached the stairs Elder Phillips said that he saw a dog or two
underneath the platform...well I didn't really hear it I guess. I walk
up to the door and knock...right when my knuckles hit the wood there was
a big WOOF! from underneath my feet....it made me jump bad. I knocked
again and of course nobody was home to save us haha. Well it so
happened that there were these little posts that were evenly spaced out
and I decided I was gonna jump from the platform onto one, and from
there to the other and so on until I got out of the close area of that
big dog. So I was standing on one of the posts and a car came drivin by
and I didn't want to let people think that it was just us missionaries
messin around so I decided that the dog wasn't so big and I jumped
down....big mistake. I turned and looked under the platform to see if
the dog was chained up or not....it wasn't. Elder Phillips had already
vacated the premises and was on the road. I kinda froze for a sec as
the dog just started growling at me and it did like a fake charge at
me...I flinched like I was going to run of course....another big
mistake...okay now if you have seen "THE SANDLOT" there is a scene
where the kid runs from the dog says Oh crap!!!! and books it....well
that's exactly what happened. I freaked out and started to run as this
Leechaa'id Ligai Nez...(big white dog) is runnin me down. I turned my head as I was running and
saw that it was gaining on me so I thought about pullin my knife out of
my pocket and get prepared to do some thrashing but I just felt like I
didn't need the knife....I instead turned around and RAN BACK AT THE
DOG....smart right?? Well I ran back at it and opened my arms as wide as
I could and screamed a few times! it was great haha. I stopped it in
its tracks and we had a grin off Davy Crockett style for a few seconds.
It would make little jukes at me like it was gonna jump me but I stood
my ground! Elder Phillips is over on the road dying of laughter of
course while I'm wizzin myself. Anyways this dog had big nasty black
and purple looking teeth...it reminded me of a vampire dog, it was
gross. Come to find out it wasn't even owned, it was just a random Rez
dog! FUN TIMES ON THE REZ! but I walked away after the showdown and it
didn't follow me. be prepared eh?
Anyways its all good here, we got a
new bishopric and I feel that we will have a lot more work. This
mission is basically one big less active pool...its very rare to get a
NEW investigator here. Everybody went on the placement program and has
already been baptized they just don't understand anything or don't care
about church no more. We are having 2 baptisms this Saturday the 29th though! I will be confirming one of them on Sunday!
fun stuff! Yes I do point with my lips at some things for fun, but it
hasn't really been ingrained in me yet. I do say "over der" "da" "dat"
dis dey and whatnot sometimes without noticing it. I have bought a few
cool lookin Indian shirts. Everything is awesome, I love being a
missionary!
Ha'goonee'!!!
love elder christensen
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