Ya'aat'eeh!!!
Alright....this is some crazy news. I'm on the road again. WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY out der. The place where I am going is referred to as "Hell" here. So I guess I'm going to Hell haha. I have really enjoyed my time as a Spanish speaker and obviously didn't master the language in 3 weeks but I was able to help out in lessons a bit with scriptures. I will no longer be saying Ya'aat'eeh either. In fact I have 0 idea what they say. I am going to be about 4 and a half hours west of Farmington....in the middle of Nowhere. Literally. I looked up what the area looked like...reminds me of Iraq or Afghanistan. Lots of mountains and ravines, forever sight of dirt and NO grass at all. This place is called Polacca, Arizona. It's on the Hopi reservation which is inside the Navajo reservation at the heart of the whole thing. The Hopis are a lot different then the Navajos. I don't really know what to expect except that my area almost covers the entire length of the entire mission. We get about 2300 miles in a Colorado or a Nissan Frontier I believe. I will be cut off from all civilization and ya..I'm pretty sure the trailer I live in is right next to the church so that's cool but ya. It's a tiny little branch in the Tuba City stake. I'm pretty dang excited/ humbled. I am going to need more prayers then ever before and I will be ready for whatever comes at me. There are some very strange traditions and not so good things that happen out there so....BRING IT ON!!! But ya....I am doing well. I loved Conference and I paid attention the whole time to every talk. No more falling asleep for me during conference, love it.
Some of the Hopi traditions that I know about are pretty cool though and they are basically dry LDS members already. They actually have temples!!! They have a room in the temple for the sun, the moon and the stars. There are many other things that are very similar that I won't share cause of sacredness of course but ya....I'm serious...like all of it is almost the same. Also in their ancient traditions they believe that they are descendants of people that buried their weapons of war as a covenant with God. Sound familiar????? I'm going to the stripling warriors!! Pretty special but scary, good stuff. Lets see what else.. I have a lot of stuff to do today. Oh ya...I won't be getting packages because I'm so far away, so I will update you next week on if I can get them sent directly to me. Anyways thanks fro everything I really appreciate it all.
Love Elder Christensen
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