All is well here in God's Country.

Well this is Elder Christensen with some crazy news from Roxas. We had transfers this week and like we expected, Elder Price transfered (He transferred to my old area, New Washington), but here is the shocker haha. My new companion, is also my old companion haha. I am assigned with Elder Williamson(my companion from New Washington.) I am not sure what happened since I have never heard of that happening before but its true haha, we are back together. It is okay since we get along well but it will definitely be a big change. I wont lie, I miss Elder Price and the way he was about the work. He was a stud and I will chill with him post-mission. Other than that, I got one other new roommate. Elder Latu from Hawaii is also here in my house. He lives by North Shore, Hawaii(where we went when we visited Hawaii) and he is cool too so we are all happy and healthy. Regarding the work, it has been getting better and better, but we have still experienced challenges. We had a family of three with baptismal dates on December 24 but when we visited them on Saturday, they told us the Father will not allow us to visit them again. So that was a bummer but we still have five people with a baptismal date for December and January so we are excited for the progress of our area. Regarding calling home on Christmas, we are allowed to use Skype(including the video this time) but I assume we will call on Monday which will be Christmas there? I will let you know when we get more information. I got the package this week so thank you mom for all the gifts and pizza stuff! I also love the M & M's! I wont lie though, I opened the calendar since we were planning for January and had no calendar. I love all the photos and it is a way sweet calendar! I left all the other gifts unopened though so I will do the twelve days thing like last year. That is rad about Tyler Condie and Tanner Theobald, if I remember right, didn't Dallas Theobald also go to Brazil? That will be sweet for those two. When do they leave? Like February-ish? I am not sure about Jim Weaver's nephews or where they are from, I bet you could find out faster than I can by e-mailing him since I cannot e-mail him back and a letter to him takes a couple weeks. Anyway we had a good week and have a lot of good investigators that I am excited to help come closer to Christ. I love the work here and am happy and doing well. I am thankful for you all. I am thankful for the Church I Love You all, Elder Garrett Christensen Hey Britt how are you? I am glad you are doing well and loving life. I am excited for you to be able to go snowboarding, I miss that a lot. I bet it would be fun to do that! I can't wait to be able to go with you again! I heard you did great at your piano recital! Good Job! I love you and miss you! Bye! Elder Gary Hey Pops, whats up with you? Things here are going great. Both of my new roommates love sports so we talk lots about sports so that is good. What is the update on the NFL? who is doing well and who is...not doing well haha. I can't believe the NFL is slowly coming to a close. Is it playoffs already? Have you been scouting at all or not yet for deer? Have you been ice fishing this year yet or is it not cold enough yet? That is cool someone Elaine knows is coming here to my mission. They will just love it haha. It has been super hot the last few weeks but its not unbearable. It hasn't affected the work at all. I loved seeing the picture of you fly fishing on the calendar mom gave me, it looks so pretty up in the mountains. It is pretty here too but just different. Here it is tropical. Palm trees everywhere and everything is green year round but there, its pine trees and stuff like that so it is just different. I love it here but I am excited to get back to pine trees and four wheeling at Boulder Mt. haha. I am also stoked for a little fishing/relaxing. It's coming up faster than I can imagine so I am trying my best to work super hard. All is well here in God's Country. I love and miss you Dad, Elder Garrett