Good to hear from y'all sounds like there has been A LOT happening without me but thats ok I have gotten used to missing out now. The highlight of the week this week was I was able to back to Cortez for a zone conference. I got to drive since nobody had any idea where it was or how to get there so I was a happy camper. When we got back into my 1st area all these memories just overcame me and I may have gotten a little emotional it was so weird. I love Cortez and I still remember where everything was so that was good. I was able to see the Balfour family again and that made me really happy to back there. Weird to think that I left Cortez 13 months ago. Time flies by. On our way back to Blanding I went to the loft I lived in and showed the other Elders what it was like. Good times for sure.
This week went fairly well and we have a new investigator that is a Ute. Its official! I have taught my brothers from like 5 or 6 different tribes now, awesome. My companion just sits and watches me teach natives its hilarious cause I start swinging my arms around and trying to paint pictures in their heads and whatnot...he probably thinks I'm psycho or something but hey it works. One of the native men we were teaching was trying to use this tree analogy on me and try to confuse me like a pharisee and my companion had like no idea what to say so I tried my best to reverse his tree analogy and oh man long story, it was weird. Thats how a lot of lessons go, using nature or animal analogies to explain the reasons why things are the way they are.
Our recent convert has been going through a really rough time....I mean rough. His daughter has the exact same cancer that his wife had before she passed and apparently things went for the worse. They weren't able to make it to church yesterday because they were in Salt Lake for emergency surgery it sounded like. Rough. That man has a lot of faith. I really hope that his daughter can pull through, she is showing the exact symptoms as her mom.
We were at a members home for dinner and they knew that I was obsessed with baseball and they refused to turn theTV off for the all star game...I tried not to watch but I'm not gonna lie I saw Derek Jeter hit and that was a tender moment. I despise the yankees....but I gotta respect the 2. I seriously had a tear well up nearly once I realized that like 20 years down the road if some kid asked me who Derek Jeter was....the only thing I could say would be, lets sit down for a minute and talk this may take awhile. Over 20 years of shortstop for the Spankees...The MJ of baseball for sure. I feel that was a tender mercy from the Lord to let me see that, definitely had some prayers of thanks that day:)
Oh ya and we had another less active come to church that hadn't been back in like 4 or 5 years so that made my week. We are doing some good things here...may not be much but as long as someone is helped and their spirit is lifted then its a success.
Love Elder Christensen
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