The Ten Indian Commandments
Navajo, English, and Spanish name tags...don't think he'll get one in Hopi, but that would be pretty cool.
Eagle feathers and "chops the woods"
Heewohnahtahmo!!!
Well another week down in Hopi land. I'm sorry to say mom and dad....but....I ain't coming home. I am home. We had a record number of people at church this week. 64!!! instead of the usual 35 or 40. It was another interesting sacrament meeting as well. Try about 1 hour 45 minutes of it....but it was actually one of the best sacraments ever. Since there are 3 new families that moved in they were all asked to stand up and share a bit and so yeah, that took awhile! But we had 4 investigators at church and one that we are really working with right now we didn't think he would show up cause it was about 10:50 and he calls me and was all, I'm in the parking lot where do I go? We ran out the door and grabbed him and sat him down in the front row with us. He got to see the next 50 minutes or so of sacrament so he's all good. But the Polacca branch hasn't had a convert baptism since June of 2012. That's about to change on November 16th!!!! The same guy that came to sacrament late. His name is Chris Lowe. Pray hard for him to forgive his wife and other people that have hurt him. He's had a rough life. In fact he has a 7 month old son and he is divorced and he loves his son more then anything in the world you can tell that he just wants to be a good example for his boy and family.
There was a man that grabbed his son out of his carseat and threw him on the ground, so yesterday during church we went to young mens with him and the lesson was on forgiveness and he broke down and said he knows that's what he needs to do but its hard for him. Don't blame him, that's some rough stuff there. But he wants to change his life and oh man is he ready! He wants to be baptized pretty bad and we all had a good long talk with the Branch president yesterday to and he already has a testimony its ridiculous. I am learning a lot form him. We watched the shortened restoration video yesterday and after it was over we asked him what he thought about it, the first thing he said was that he was angry at the preacher for telling Joseph to his face that he didn't see God and Jesus Christ. He made a good point that that man was a "man of God" supposedly and he should have been one of the first people to believe Joseph! Good stuff, never thought of it that way. Anyways, he is ready. We also have another date set with a lady for December 7th, so we will find out how that goes.
We chops lots of woods...yes that is CORRECT grammar down here. The stake bought us some brand new axes and oh boy they chops the woods like butter I love it. Its a lot of fun to teach people that are super into Hopi tradition and then to see there eyes get wide whenever we relate it to the Book Of Mormon. They believe that there are "tablets" about their people buried in the ground and one day a 'Bahana' or white man will bring them to them, kinda similar eh? So we show the picture of Moroni burying the plates and oh man there is always a groan like...ohhhh...ahh..something like that its great. I have gotten very attached to the people here and I never want to leave. There was a huge rockslide yesterday on the mesa as well, and they believe that when we know that the Hopi traditions have fallen is when the mesa will fall down...yet people live up there still? So maybe it will all come down while I am here! That would be cool, cause then we would have a very large teaching pool for sure. I shouldn't hope for that forgive me...kinda. Elder Pebbles and I get along pretty good, he is 18. He thinks he's the best teacher in the world sometimes and doesn't just sit and listen to what the people say, then just feel by the spirit where to go from there. I am learning patience and long suffering for sure, I understand those 2 words now. Anyways things are all good for the only Hopi missionary in the world here. Hope everything goes well for you people in those big cities.
singadee
Love Elder Christensen
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