Monday, February 18, 2013

Robert vs. The Chess Match with Deer

Ya'ah'teh!!
  
   I am emailing from Farmington this week.  My district leader has a docotrs appointment and they don't have a vehicle, so we gave them a ride down.  Also its Presidents day so ALL of the libraries and places that have a computer are closed. We gave up the idea of emailing today and would just do it tomrrow, so we decided to go get some KFC!! There are tons of members down here so the owner of KFC gives ALL missionaries 50% off.  oh ya livin the life.  It was deelish.  But then we saw a Navajo trading post across the street and we are like well lets just go over there and check it out.  What do you know! There are 4 other missionaries emailing here on the owners computers.  We were guided towards the right place haha.  I will lay down some thigns that are gon on so i dont forget. 
 
I ordered a couple nametags in Navajo so now I can feel better about myself haha.  Also we are getting some turquoise buttons on our nametag clips so ya, no big deal.  Some cool facts about the New Mexico Farmington mission...We have the largest fleet of vehicles in the world!  Pretty much every single companionship has a truck except 4 areas.  We are the only mission with Navajo, Apache, Ute, Zuni, Pueblo, and Hopii reservations in it.  I'm excited to be here. Oh ya! Mom, Dad, I know I've been asking you to send stuff a lot and I don't mean to be needy.  But the other day....I don't know if its my craving for French/Russian/German or I'm being told to study up on those languages so it would be awesome if I could get a copy of Francais, rooski, and Deutsch Books of Mormons pour moi s'il vous plait.  I'm missing my languages. 
 
Okay now for some actual mission stuffs...This week was pretty slow with valentines day and everything.  NObody really wanted to talk with us and people have their plans and whatnot.  So since NOBODY has really wanted much to do with us tihis week, we bought a chess board and have been playing everynight when we get back.  So far the record is 7-3 me.  Elder Dobson is determined to beat me, but im not going to let up.  Remember how I said we would have 11 people on date for baptism this week?? Well we got close...we have 9.  So we committed 4 more, its awesome to see poeples lives change for the better.  We would have had 11 but when we asked them, it was a young couple that have been investigating the church for awhile.  The wife said yes!! I want to start paying tithing and everything RIGHT NOW!! but then her husband gave a uhhhh....not yet, I don't think so. Hopefully his wife will talk with him. 
 
We aren't sure when the big Samoan banquet thing is, still dont have a date yet.  Elder Dobson and I gave talks yesterday in sacrament meeting.  We talked on the plan of salvation!  It was way good and we had 8!! investigators come to church also so it was a grand day.  Oh i forgot to mention that I actually cover 2 wards, the Cortez 3rd and 4th wards.  So on Sundays we get there at 7:30 for PEC, and we don't get out of church til 2pm! Hooray for 6 and a half hours of church!!!  Ryan, Andrew, and Kailen all came to church with their mothers yesterday so I think they are doing great.  Kaliens mom is sort of interested so we will be stopping by their house sometime and probably reading scriptures and stuff with Kailen.  Colbys family is all sick so they weren't able to come to church yesterday dangit....we pretty much prepared our talks just for him.  Try again next week.  Hopefully this week we will have a lot more lessons and things to teach but last week was pretty slow.  We haven't taught Leroys wife yet, it didn't happen so maybe this week.  That situation is kind of sketchy....We will be teaching Marcia, which is the Micklesons friend tomorrow.  Once her friends heard that she was gonna talk to them dang mormons then they brought out a bunch of anti-mormon stuff.  But Travis Mickleson told her that if she wanted to know about the church then talk to actual LDS people..not listen to made up dvds and things.  So we will be prepared for anything! bring it on!!  hopefully we will answer all her questions and things.  Oh ya, my 2 new favorite scriptures....I call them my bring it on scriptures...I shared this during my talk yesterday.  More scriptures will be added.  But right now its 2 Timothy 2:3....2 Corinthians 12: 9-10...and D&C 122.  Fun stuff.  I kinda like giving talks! wait I didn't say that....i hate  giving talks.  Well hopefully I will be able to share some more interesting stories and whatnot next week.  We almost slammed into another deer this week though, stupid animal was just sitting in the middle of the road, didn't even budge.  Lets go TOWARDS the loud noise and bright lights coming really fast.  The other deer were probably off in the distance laughing, I'm sure they told that deer that in order to join their herd then he had to get smacked by a truck.  We barely dodged it yet once again. 
 
Well I will have better things to talk about next time!  -Elder Christensen
Ayo anishnii! Agonet Shi'kis!
 
 

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