I am really thinking about buying one of those ponchos.
After the funeral banquet
Brother Naha and the scouts. We played basketball.
2 puppies that I found outside my door, so we fed them some cupcakes.
Chris was not baptized this week. His date was moved to the 23rd of this week at 4pm. There was a big funeral scheduled on the same day so Chris out of respect for the family decided to change the date. Respectable move on his part so I have no problem with that. Maybe you heard of the funeral, it actually went worldwide. There is a family here that are members of the church but are kinda less active. The Youvella family and we actually had a lesson with them about 3 weeks ago. There is a boy named Charles Youvella that was 16 and he was the star running back for the football team. Great kid. He was what seemed like the most popular kid in school and everyone loved him. The Hopi football team went to state for the first time in a long time. When we heard that they were going then we both knew they were gonna get pummeled because they are so small compared to the white and black kids. Well unfortunately we were right, they lost 60-6 to Arizona lutheran in the first round playoff game. Charles played a really good game but during one tackle he hit his head really hard on the ground but he got up and ended up scoring their only touchdown the next few plays. He then collapsed at the sidelines and was taken to the hospital where he died last Monday. Weird that I just saw and gave him a bro hug about 2 weeks ago. There was over 1500 people here at our church in little Polacca, Arizona for the funeral on Friday. The entire community was pretty impacted. We helped out with the funeral services and such, it was a sad day for everyone. So we are going through that with all of the people here. Its also Hopi tradition that wherever a dead body has been you don't go to that place for 4 days so there was a significant decrease at church yesterday but its understandable. I think we will try and visit the Youvella family soon to see how they are doing.
Yes the package is here, and I will pick it up today but I wont give it to Chris until he is baptized cause its a surprise. He knows i have a present for him though. Other then that I will be staying here in Hopi land for another 6 weeks with Elder Pebbles! Christmas with the Hopis! WooHoo! I'm pretty excited actually. We taught 88 lessons this last transfer with is like triple from what this area usually gets in 6 weeks so we set a goal for 100. We are going to be taking Chris out with us to lessons because he wants to be the "translator" for the Hopi people. Pretty sweet. Even if we don't get a single lesson the rest of our time here it will be a success because we got to hangout with Chris. He really wants to meet our parents and things already but at least for me he is going to have to wait about 14 months or so. I am dong awesome and not quite sure I am ready to be 20 years old yet. We have a little charlie brown christmas tree and we will take lots of fun pictures during christmas. We have some pretty funny ideas but we will see if they happen. Thats it for da week! Go BRONCOS!
love Elder Christensen
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