7 on 7 football tournament…awesome.
Wayne is on the far right and Mitchell is in the middle. Brother Harris, who baptized them, is on the left.
Ya'aat'eeh!!!
It was a good/hectic/spiritual week this week. Didn't get that many teaching opportunities of course with 4th of July being like the world series/super bowl of Blanding. We spent about 6 hours helping serve food at a gas station to whoever wanted to eat. It was alright but both my legs fell asleep after about 4 hours of just standing there serving beans. They had a huge parade but I didn't get to see any of it unfortunately. I also didn't take any pictures because I forgot my camera all day.....I failed big time. The town exploded to about 10,000 people it seemed like in one day it was insane! We had like 300 people come up to us of course and take pictures and ask us all the where ya from's and how long you been out's….I'm pretty annoyed about answering those now. I figure I got about 400 or 500 more times to answer that. It was fun to feel like a celebrity though for a day. We werent allowed to do any of the festivities which killed me....softball and football all day…I was dying to take a few swings. Since we couldnt watch the fireworks with everyone at the park we just watched them from our house. I am definitely coming back sometime soon for the 4th here. It would be a blast! Apparently there is like 100 guys spread out throughout the wards that served there missions in Blanding and eventually came back to live here. I someday may become part of that group.
The end of the week was great! Wayne and Mitchell were both baptized. Mitchell didn't NEED to be baptized but he insisted and so we got permission from everyone and it went well. Mitchell just kinda sat down in the water after the prayer was said. Brother Harris who was baptizing him had like no idea what to do. But hey it works!! Then Wayne had to be dunked twice cause his hand popped out of the water. On the way up the 1st time he slipped and smacked his head against the wall....what a spiritual day:) It was ok though and he wasn't too embarrassed so the 2nd time he went down worked out. We did the confirmation in the chapel on Saturday as well and you could certainly feel that his wife was in the room watching it was an interesting experience.
Everything went well overall this week and I plan on the rest of time in Blanding to be productive and help some people.
Love Elder Christensen
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