Ya'aat'eh!!
Yep! Transfers are today! and........nope! Im
staying here in good ole' Cortez Colorado!! In fact my last companion is
heading to the Phoenix mission! I will still be a four corners
missionary. Which is awesome because I really want to get on the
Reservation. My new companion is Elder Neilsen. I have never met him
before and he will be here in Cortez most likely on Wednesday. I am in a
trio with some other missionaries until he gets here. I do know that
he has been out for over a year so hopefully he can help me learn a lot
more. I will be "taking over" the area since the new guy has never been
in Cortez before so I will have to show him around and whatnot. I have
pretty much all of Cortez memorized, at least my area. Lots of old
country dirt roads and hills. I have a couple of pranks set up for my
new companion with our ward mission leader in 3rd ward. It was his
idea, so that should be way fun. Some of the people that we are
teaching like Colby; know that I am getting a new companion and he wants
to act like a crazy person and answer the door with his double barrel
shotgun when I first bring him over. I kind of hope he doesn't do
that....but then again, it would be funny. Oh well.
My last week with Elder Dobson was definitely not the best week
as success and teaching goes. People just don't even want to hear what
we have to say. Most of the time we don't even get to open our mouths
when we knock on a door, most people just open it say something very
derogatory and then slam!! Not very nice but they are entitled to their
opinion and I don't take offense from it. We went around saying
goodbye to people the last 2 days and some of the members here are some
of the coolest people I have ever met. I really like being in Colorado
but I will probably be here until june or a bit longer!
Ive learned how to say a very basic prayer in Navajo, pretty
complicated stuff but its fun to learn. Thanks for
sending the CD's!! I will cherish them, and the more the merrier so
don't be bashful in sending General conference talks or anything like
that. We also are allowed to listen to Movie soundtracks as long as
they aren't crazy loud and ya you know what I mean. Our mission
president is very chill, and understands that we are in the truck a few
hours a day so he is lenient on the music thing. So if you want to get
on iTunes or something and get some John Wayne soundtracks or like, some
baseball movies (sandlot, the rookie, the natural etc.) feel free but
don't feel obligated.
I will end with a little experience we had on Friday. We
were out knockin on doors around our apartment because we were trying to
save miles. Probably walked about 5 miles or so It was fun! Also the 2
dogs we take care of were following us and we couldn't get them to go
away so we just let them be with us. They would walk up to the door
with us and just sit there as we talked like little protectors or
something. Anyways, we knocked on this lady's door and just like usual
we didn't even get to open our mouths and say anything before she
started bad mouthing us. She said, "I believe in God and Jesus Christ
and none of your evil Mormon philosophy and psychology!"....slam! that
was pretty disappointing.....only if she knew that is practically
AAALLLLL we talk about and teach!!! Everything is revolved around
Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. EVERYTHING. Spiritual,
physical....EVERYTHING! so that was kinda sad, because she probably just
was listening to what her friends told her and what crazy people on the
internet say. If people want to just understand a bit more about
what "Mormons" believe....who else better to ask then a missionary, or
at least someone who is LDS. Missionaries may not have the answers to
ALL the questions, because I certainly don't because I am still learning
but we just try to help people gain or get faith and provide
information basically. I think the Islamic religion is pretty
interesting but I'm not going to just rely on what the news says and what
people think. I would love to run into a Muslim down here and
understand more about it. Anyways that's my spiel for the week
love, Elder Christensen
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