Robert vs. Flooding with the Book of Mormon

Loloma!!!

Well this week was pretty boring to be honest but some good things happened.  There were 3 people that died this past week in the village closest to us so everyone was doing funeral ceremonies.  We don't attend funerals here unless they are in the church, due to ceremony stuff and once you show up you are pretty much stuck there for most of the day.  Plus Saturday and Sunday they had a ceremony called "racer kachinas" I don't really wanna explain everything about that right now...it would take a while.  I will tell you stuff when I get back in like 9  months now.  Our mission has decided to flood the reservations with the Book of Mormon.  We were givin 10 extra copies last Thursday....we have 3 left out 13 total.  Apparently the mission won't give us more until later....so much for flooding.  So Dad if its possible you can hook us up and send us a case or 2 that would be awesome.  The branch doesn't really have the resources to order some because pretty much the only functioning position in our branch is Branch President and RF Prez.  All the money goes to buying wood and propane and food for people.  Crazy.  

There was only 1 investigator that came to church this week so that means all of our others we had to drop basically.  Flippin frustrating.  I swear this has to be the one of the most challenging areas to serve in the world.  It's worth it though, and I am hoping I can squeeze out 6 more weeks here but I doubt it.  I ate a lot of traditional food this week.  I have gotten so used to food that really doesn't have much flavor and looks questionable in the first place that I have forgotten what spices are.  The main spice here is salt....that's it!  You don't need anything else!  Ever!  Good stuff.  The A1 sauce you sent me is the only thing that's keeping me sane.  

Handing out Books of Mormon is pretty fun though.  Basically you got about 15 seconds before they get defensive here and don't want to talk to you anymore.  "Its a gift"  Name that movie.....  Oh ya for the funny moment of the week.  Elder Johnson and I are basically the same person just different skin color so we think a lot alike and we are extremely sarcastic with each other.  Which is fun because its the only entertainment we have is each other so you better like your companion on the Rez or else its a loooong 6 weeks or more.   Anyways Elder Johnson and I will fake Bible bash or act like atheists and try to argue different things and sometimes we get so into it that we don't realize that we are yelling at each other and our little RV has 0 sound proofing.  Then Elder Kamka thinks that we are actually yelling at each other and  the other day he kinda burst into our RV and threatened us that we needed to resolve some problems out and he even told us that we needed to have an Emergency transfer.  I spoke up and told him we are just messing around and stuff.  I dont think he really believed me.  He thought that Elder Johnson was like verbally abusing me all the time cause he said that I always look angry or not happy recently.  I just laughed...why has that been a problem my whole life!? All through high school and whatnot everyone thinks that I'm mad or sad or anything but happy. I am a happy person!  That whole situation was just funny and we laughed pretty good after he left the RV.  Needless to say, we watch more carefully what we say how we act around the Kamkas now.  Good times.  I'm having a good time with the Hopi still and nobody wants me to leave so I am Happy.  

Love Elder Christensen