yes I threw throwing knives and tomahawks....twas very fun. im pretty good.
every single little dot is an Elk.....there was over 200 easy. Couldn't get them all in the picture.
This is at Earl Ashcrofts house in Mancos. Hes the
guy that knew Grandpa Bushman. He was in the Navy growing up in world
war 2 and he traveled all over the world. Each string is a different
cruise he went on during the navy. way cool, he was a machine gunner on
the starboard side of a cruiser. He said he shot down 2 oe 3 kamikaze
planes.
ya'aat'eh!!
Things are goin alright here in Cortez. Some good
stuff and some bad stuff. Transfers are April 22nd and I am excited for
a change of something. Maybe I will go and maybe I wont but whatever
happens happens. We are emailing early today because we are going to
Mesa verde to go hiking! This is probably the only time ever that we
will be able to go and do this for the rest of my mission. Some other
fun things....on April 8th President Batt is coming up to cortez for a
zone party! We are making flour bombs and are going to play capture
the flag and wiffleball and all sorts of stuff. We had to ask the
sister missionaries to go buy some leggings because that would be really
awkward for us to buy those so we can use them for flour bombs,You just
stuff and pack the flour into the legging things whatever they are
called and they make a pretty good little ball that you chuck at people,
the best part is when you hit them the flour explodes all over them its
great.
Alright, here are some things that is goin on with the work
here in Cortez. We have pretty much ran out of people to teach, after
people get baptized your teaching pool shrinks dramatically. But we
found a Baptist lady that let us in and teach her the first lesson while
we were tracting. She really liked it and made her think about
prophets a lot, we gave her a Book of Mormon and she said she would read
it. We will check up on her tomorrow and hopefully get another lesson
in, this time hopefully with her husband that she said would want to ask
us some questions because he doesn't like Mormons, but hey that's what
we are here for. I had my first dog experience yesterday, they were
some big nasty lookin pitbulls. there was 5 of em I think. Elder
Dobson and I got out of the truck to walk up to this house and as we
were getting closer we hear this like mob of dogs barking and running
our way. We just stand there and say oh crap.....but we didn't run, we
just sat there and let them come to us and they slowed down a bit and
just came and sniffed us and then it was all good. Scary though, those
were some big and nasty pups.
The 2 boys that were baptized still come to church and
whatnot, they are really good kids I would love for you to meet them
when you come to pick me up possibly. We are going to challenge their
father to take the lessons from us this week. And the young lady
that was baptized also still comes to church and seems to be getting
along fine. Although...heres some bad news. Her mother was diagnosed
with Colon and lung cancer. They are in Shiprock right now at the
hospital, and her mother the day before she went to the hospital told us
she wants to take the lessons again and be baptized. I think she got a
wake up call. So we told the bishop and basically we are waiting for
her to get back from Shiprock and then we will give her a blessing,
teach her the lessons fast and hopefully be bale to baptize her
and confirm her before she dies. Its a race. We'll see what happens.
From what I know....its hard enough to stop 1 area of cancer....but
2....doesn't look like things are on the upside.
We have been asking the members and everyone we know for
referrals because we haven't been able to teach a lot of lessons
lately. Last Friday I went on exchanges again with Elder Mullinex. Hes
one of my favorite Elders, hes also our district leader. So I spent a
day in Mancos, Colorado. Very mountain looking town, reminds me of
McCall or Idaho City...more Idaho city. We visited this older gentleman
named Earl Ashcroft. Hes about 86 years old. His wife passed away a
few years ago so that's why he doesn't come to church often. Hes an
awesome guy. He worked on the reservation as a trader and ran several
trading posts for over 40 years! so naturally I asked if he knew any
bushmans....guess what....he goes I knew a Martin bushman! I whipped
out my pictures of him and he goes ohhhh yes I knew him! I saw him and
talked with him at many trading meetings. So scratch that off for
finding someone that knew Grandpa Bushman. Cool huh?
Well that's all I got for this week. I will try and
get some pics on here hopefully it works. I am so proud of my baseball
team. I miss them all so much.
- Elder Christensen
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