Robert vs. Alcohol

Loloma!!!

I am happy to be here on Hopi until the Beginning of May.  Elder Johnson is the driver now so I believe that is my warning for I am being transferred this next one.  I will be sad to leave but nobody will ever be able to say that they loved the Hopi more then me.  We have 3 on baptism date for April 19th so hopefully those work out.  We had to reschedule the other 2 dates for May 3rd to give them some more time to overcome their alcohol addiction.  I have come to the final realization that....I hate alcohol.  Every single day I talk to multiple drunk people and I see how it destroys lives and families..but they don't stop.  I would love to take the CEO's of all alcohol companies and bring them out here and make them stay and interact with the people even just for 1 week...to see the destruction and evil that they bring upon this humble people.  It sickens me.

This was probably one of the most exciting weeks so far since I've been here because there was a group of 50 LDS kids from Salt Lake area that are part of a rotary club group and did some service down here.  We helped them a lot with wood and things and ah man it was fun to see a lot of white people again.  We are like celebrities out here it is so funny.  Everyone wants to take pictures with us and things...we even got some people to marry their sisters that are almost done with their missions.  Funny stuff.  We cleaned up the church grounds with them and had a huge tumbleweed bonfire.  Its so funny though, deep Utah mormons have this funny perception of missionaries like they can't touch us or talk to us very much.  It was good times and they put on an Easter egg hunt for kids here so we invited all of our 6 investigators and they brought their kids but one of them was wasted out if his mind and we didn't want him to bother other people so we went into the Relief Society room and just talked to him for like 3 hours....it was ridiculous.  Crazy but fun week!  Elder Johnosn and I are doing great, I would go nuts without him. 

Love Elder Christensen