Heewahnahtahmo!!!!
Another week with the Hopi come and gone. I feel like this will be my last week here in Hopiland which is a lot more sad then happy. Most likely I will be moved back to the Navajo Reservation. One thing I am looking forward to come August is the mission is opening up Monument Valley for missionaries to be stationed there. Wouldn't that be awesome!!! To be a missionary where all the of those John Wayne movies and hundreds of others have been made....that would be sweeeeet!!! We will see what happens! It was an interesting week to say the least and were put in some sticky situations a few times, no need for details on that stuff....but as long as we aren't doing anything that we know we shouldn't we will be just fine around here. Gotta be careful though especially dealing with drunk people everyday. We are helping a lot with the gardening program out here and spend most of the day in my t shirts and jeans getting dirty, I love it. There are these really huge weird white ant/beetle bugs that pop out of the gardens all the time and I don't know what to call other then in Hopi...Kaletatus...big heads. Kinda funny when the only way you know how to describe something is in a dying Indian language. There was a massive random blizzard that came through 2 days ago and caught a lot of people off guard and killed a lot of they're plants.
Another week with the Hopi come and gone. I feel like this will be my last week here in Hopiland which is a lot more sad then happy. Most likely I will be moved back to the Navajo Reservation. One thing I am looking forward to come August is the mission is opening up Monument Valley for missionaries to be stationed there. Wouldn't that be awesome!!! To be a missionary where all the of those John Wayne movies and hundreds of others have been made....that would be sweeeeet!!! We will see what happens! It was an interesting week to say the least and were put in some sticky situations a few times, no need for details on that stuff....but as long as we aren't doing anything that we know we shouldn't we will be just fine around here. Gotta be careful though especially dealing with drunk people everyday. We are helping a lot with the gardening program out here and spend most of the day in my t shirts and jeans getting dirty, I love it. There are these really huge weird white ant/beetle bugs that pop out of the gardens all the time and I don't know what to call other then in Hopi...Kaletatus...big heads. Kinda funny when the only way you know how to describe something is in a dying Indian language. There was a massive random blizzard that came through 2 days ago and caught a lot of people off guard and killed a lot of they're plants.
On some good news yes everything is good to go for the baptism of Ralph and Flo Choyou. They of course are related to like 500 people out here and Ralph used to be a "mongwi" or Kiva Boss. Pretty high up their in the Hopi religion. They will be baptized this saturday at 10 am in Tuba city because our font here doesn't work. Little do they know that they are being prepared for a great calling in the future. I am so honored to live among the Hopi. Another exciting thing is Chris wanted me to be there for his patriarchal blessing this sunday!! I woke up one morning a few weeks ago and was overwhelmed by the thought that...these people don't even know who they are!!!! For the last few weeks I have been asking all the members that we see and less active members...everyone....if they have a patriarchal blessing. Many have not and we are teaching a lot of people about them. I know its not recorded for the numbers for missionary work but I don't care about numbers at all. These people need to know who they are and they're divine heritage and royal birthrights. If I can help them in that way then I will be happy. Baptism is definitely the most difficult thing to get people to commit to out here...they hear that word and BOOM..conversation over. We just teach about the Book of Mormon and other gospel principles and then they decide for themselves for the most part. Oh ya, there have been people dying left and right here like crazy just within the village I live in. Weird. There was like 5 or 6 funerals last week. I'm starting to see a "slight off colored brown" thats my version of green down here and I love it!! Its like I am a child all over again learning my colors. I ate some Niqwovi last night which is mutton stew. Funny how your palate adapts to flavors and tastes so fast...I hated that stuff in Shiprock and other times I've had it but now I love it! Thats all she wrote folks! I will tell more adventures next week.
Love Elder Christensen
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