Robert vs Tuba City

Loloma!!!

Alright new scenery, (the dirt is slightly more red, thats it!)  New faces (same last names), New trailer!!!  Holy cow it is nice to be able to stretch out my legs and I can actually walk around and take showers.  Showers are beautiful.

I am in Tuba City, Arizona and I also cover Red Lake which is about 20 miles away, we don't go out there often.  There is TONS of work in this area.  We found 10 new investigators this week...that's the most Tuba City has EVER received.  Hopefully this week we will be able to put some people on date.  Other then that everything is back to normal rez life I love it.  Flea markets and plenty of drunk people and sketchy experiences.  

We are in a ward but from the attendance that I saw yesterday I don't think it really should be called a ward.  The Hopi branch has more attend.  Speaking of Hopi I cover a few Hopi "neighborhoods" and oh man it felt so good to talk to them again.  They just open right up and are so friendly most of the time.  There was one guy that was so excited to learn more and he wanted to know the similarities of Hopi stuff and LDS like right then and I just threw out all of this junk and ya...I should be a used car salesman.  haha I also was able to talk to some Hopi from when I served there and meet relatives of people I know.  Good times for sure. I am going to enjoy my time here for another 5 weeks and then I assume I will be moved.  

GO BRONCOS.  I don't want to hear any of this "only if we had our quarterback" stuff from BYU fans....a loss is a loss and W is a W.  There is no "only if's" in the gospel and since baseball and college football are closely related to the gospel there are none there either.  Good to hear that.  I am happy that I will be home for bowl season. 

My companion is Elder Lake from Seattle.  He is a huge Seahawks fan so we get along well.  Funny guy, he has only been out 6 months.  He talks sooooo fast I cant understand him sometimes people look at him like whaaat? ...then I realized that  he was from Seattle area and then I made the connection that when I was first getting used to Doug being around I couldn't understand what he was saying either....he's from that same area so it must be a northwest Washington thing.  No offense Doug:)

Having fun in Tuba City and am going to work it out good for the last few weeks.  When december hits thats when I will probably be freaking out a bit.  

Love Elder Christensen  

Robert vs. The Last Transfer

Ya'aat'eeh!!!

Big changes are happening for my last full transfer as a missionary among the Lamanites.  I am going to Red Lake, Arizona.  I will be living in Tuba City but we cover the little town of Red Lake and Tuba City 2nd ward.  I was pretty dang pumped to go back in that area.  I will be in the best stake and with the best stake president in the mission.  I am in the same district as Hopi and I plan on going on exchanges for a couple of days back to hopiland!  I am very happy right now.  Back to the area I know the best and have already spent like 8 months so this is like going home.  I have tried to prep Elder Dunn for taking over White Mesa.  I think he will do just fine, that kid has a ton of energy and has been a pain sometimes to keep us busy without him going crazy.  I needed it though in white mesa or else I would have had some struggles.  

My companion is Elder Lake.  Elder Lake in Red lake...yep.  I will be living in a double wide trailer so I can actually move around again!!!  Frreedddoomm!!  And I can take a shower more then once a week again!  Victory!  So ya you can tell I am pretty excited.  I know this last full transfer will go by in a blur.  I have very bittersweet feelings on ending the mission to be honest but I think thats how your supposed to feel.  

My last night in White Mesa working in White Mesa we had dinner and a lesson with an investigator family.  I read with them one of m favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon and we just talked and compared traditional viewpoints with the church.  They are huge rodeo people and one of the girls is ranked 2nd in the world for barrel racing.  Pretty cool.  They all shed some tears and I know the Spirit touched their hearts so hopefully sometime they will all get dunked.  The baptism for the other guy we are teaching will be this friday so that sucks I won tbe there but I feel good that at least I helped him get ready a bit.

I will be riding the transfer van (shan'diin) -thats her name...all day.  Not to excited but whatever.  Well thats about all she wrote folks!  I will be loving my time back around my Hopi people. 

 

Love Elder Christensen

Robert vs. December 18th

 Dog from sandlot..but bigger.  I had it jump on me and its head is like 6 inches taller then me...so nice though.  There are 2 of them and they protect us from the other dogs.

 Really creepy dog....there are 3 of em in white mesa i have like no idea what they are going to do.

 Then there is Simon...he hangs out with us in our camper...he's da bomb.

One perk of being in Utah....Free stuff.  This is my selection whenever I want :)

Maik!!!

Twas a dandy this week for the most part.  I think my favorite part of the week was I was able to go on exchanges with one of our zone leaders.  We have both been out a long time but have never seen each other, just heard stories about each other.  We had a blast together.  Sometimes it is super nice to just have a break from your normal companion and you can just air out a bit.  I WILL BE HOME ON DECEMBER 18th.  President called me last week and told me that the church put a blackout date for some reason when I was scheduled to come home on Dec. 3rd so he had to move me.  9 weeks left.  

We had quite a few lessons this week so that was nice for a change and we were able to start teaching some new people.  White Mesa is rough simply just because there is not much to do but I feel drawn to stay here because I really enjoy the people we DO work with.  I totally feel like I am fulfilling the scripture of "the gentiles shall be thy nursing mothers..."  cause I am.  Im gonna be pretty tired of telling people....YOU NEED TO COME TO CHURCH.......holy cow.  But whatever I guess I will be saying that to myself and others the rest of my life so bring it on.  Church is the place to be.  

We just walked around a ton this week and attempted to do service for the community.  Not much happened but we tried!  I am nearly done with the Book of Mormon again and ya...it spit the truth.  For real.  Love that book. 

 I am so dang excited to hear BYU lost again!  oh my gosh I am ready for the 2nd coming.  We have transfers this week so we will find out what happens.  I think I will be moved for some reason....dunno why.  Just my gut instinct.  I for sure will be moved by December though because I am positive I will be in Farmington for my last couple of weeks with the zone leaders or something.  Since Dec. 18th is in the middle of the transfer I will have to be close to the mission home for convenience purposes of not driving from 6 hours away.

Never thought I would be serving like 8 months of my mission in Utah...sure doesn't look or feel like Utah but nonetheless, tis Utah.  Its pretty good though and I enjoy it.  Well keep on truckin everyone!  Read your "Book of Norman!" -Thats what a thick navajo accent will do...iss da book of norman.  

  

Love Elder Christensen

Robert vs. Hearing Jet Planes

 Our recent converts house that we are at a lot teaching wwaaaaayyyy down in the canyon.   The father of the recent convert family is a nationally known mud bogger...that lil truck beats out huge massive vehicles all the time.  It's pretty cool to see nitrus and all the fun stuff.

Look at that Nitro can....it will be gone in like 5 seconds of pedal to the floor.

A horse that we take care of quite often. A nationally ranked barrel horse.  We teach the family and the girl that rides.  They are related to the recent converts so hopefully someday they will all accept it.  

 This is my bed....and the stuff that is all over my bed that I read from....so I don't have to get out of bed to study sometimes:)  Cause there really is nowhere else...

 This is the view of our camper behind my bed...its a lot smaller then it looks.

 This is my shaving quarters...the church bathroom.

This is our chapel.....yep. 

This is our beautiful Tacoma....pretty nice trucks

Maik!!!

Pretty slow week as far as missionary work goes.  We had lots of meetings and really only had 3 days to do what we wanted.  General conference was awesome, I am pumped for GC now which is funny cause before I don't think I have ever listened to an entire talk before in my life before the mission.  We are going to be having a baptism soon and that will boost the spirits up a bit but since I will be home soon that will also a nice note to end on.  13 baptisms and 13 companions....13 is the lucky number so it works.  For some reason I feel that "the last push" for missionaries is dying down.  There were a couple talks that ended like "in the not to distant future, we will know brother Joesph again.." -Elder Andersen.  makes ya wonder! and I got a whole load of Indian backup and prophecy to support the scriptures and the words of the modern day prophets soooo yep...getting close.  Very close.  

I love the fact that the General Authorities are speaking in their own native tongues.  Really brings the spirit of a "united church" and this aint just some American Yankee folklore.  Speaking of Yankees I don't hear anything about them from nobody...so that's a good sign and keeps me happy.  

Other then that we gave many blessings this week and cast out some more spirits so it was a pretty routine week on the rez:)  Thats all she wrote folks!  I'm trying to fill you in but I'm not gonna hide that I am getting pretty excited to breathe Idaho air again and soon and lets just say I am hearing those jet planes get louder and louder... but I love serving my Lamanite/Nephite family and teaching them of the REAL traditions of their fathers.

GO BRONCOS and oh man that made my day to hear BYU got stamped.  My trainee is pure utard and I have to humble him often that the Lord doesn't care that BYU wins or not haha

  

Love Elder Christensen

Robert vs The Rain

Maik!!! 

Pretty slow week but we have had a lot of good news happen.  We will be having a baptism in October sometime just dont know when.  Our investigator has to get an interview with President Batt and then he is good to go.  It has rained a TON here this week.  Rain and the desert dont mix....cause when it rains...it destroys things.  Like roads to get to houses and our camper.  I thought at one point we were gonna get blown over in the night, we were tilting like 30 degrees and I almost fell out of my bed.  About 60 mph winds shovin this little camper.  At one point while I was driving I had to pull over and wait because I was getting pushed around and I couldnt see a thing in front of me.  Fun times!!  Knocked ona bunch of doors and handed out some BOMS.  Thats about what all we did this week.  Not to many lessons but whatever I am happy with the work we did.  

We were able to give a blessing yesterday to a nonmember relative of our recent convert family.  it was received well and we have to be very touchy with these situations because older navajos are VERRY stuck in the tradition so they think we are bringing evil on their household.  But that wasnt the case this time luckily.  I think we will be able to teach them soon.  I wish y'all could see and feel what its to be looked at as some type of Holy person to a bunch of superstitious native americans.  They have faith in the power thats for sure.  Probably a lot more then I do so its a humbling experience every time.  

Had a little scare with my trainee one night driving back home. Hopefully he hangs in there after I leave.  Thats really all I wanna say because I dont wanna scare mom.  I am just tired of weird evil spirit crap.  It doesnt even scare me anymore its just annoying.  Like I dont know if every mission has to deal with stuff like that but this mission is literally a playground for "things that go bump in the night."  Hahha Now Im just leaving a huge cliffhanger on that one.  Let your imagination go from there:)   Story time when I get home!  I heard BSU got wooped and I am not surprised to be honest but I am ok and still breathing.  The branch presidency here loves football so they give us all the updates every week.  I am almost done with the Book of Mormon and again and it is so funny how many details you miss very time you read it....I go through it so thoroughly and like every page I turn Im like...I swear that wasnt there before, that had to have been magically added in.  The scriptures are awesome.   GO BRONCOS

Love Elder Christensen