New Years was WILD!

Hello everybody. mainuswagon nga bag-ong tuig sa inyo tanan 'to! This week was pretty good. I will start of by saying we had rad, successful Christmas and New Year’s baptisms! The only thing is we aren't getting a lot of support from our ward at the baptisms so that stinks but we will talk to them about it. New Years was WILD! It was way crazier here in the city than it was last year in Sibalom (my first area, which is kind of in the hills.) We had a curfew at 5:00pm so that was a bummer but we got to hang out in the house and talk to the roommates. Blew up all the people here A TON of fireworks. We tried to go to bed at 10:30 which is when we go to bed every night and I fell asleep for like twenty minutes, then from like 11-12 midnight it was just nuts. It was seriously like we were in a huge war zone. It was so insanely loud. Like thousands of fireworks. Small ones, ones that go high in the air, ones that just sound loud as gunshots, everything you can imagine, insane is the only word to describe it. I got a video of it on my camera. My stomach has been weird. It isn't hurting as bad as it used to but it is....not working correctly haha. I am going back to the doctor tomorrow so we'll see. I also got a different kind of sickness this week ha I have a bad sinuses. But it has gotten better the last few days. It isn't affecting the work though so it’s all good! It sounds like you guys are having fun up at Brian Head. It is hard for me to imagine snow. I cant wait to snowboard and ice fish again. Also the pheasant hunting looked like it was fun! Good job Breck! Something else weird happened this week. A member here (she e-mailed you a while ago mom, her name is J E has a boyfriend that got shot and killed by a shotgun this week. Turns out it was a mistake and the shooter shot the wrong guy, but J's boyfriend got killed. Crazy huh! She is a good friend of ours. She was obviously super sad this week but she went to church yesterday and said she wants to do his baptism for the dead so that will be cool. I love you all and it was good talking to you all last week. Love, Elder Garrett Love you Mom. Letter for Garrett's buddies in the mission field - January 2012 Dixie Elder Hello my boys, How are all of you doing throughout the world? I hope all is well wherever you are and that you are enjoying your service. We are pretty excited here. We were able to have successful Christmas, and New Year’s baptisms here in Roxas City. We have a lot of good happening here in our area so we are excited for January and February too! I love hearing from all of you and reading how you are all doing in the service of the Lord. I am loving it here in the Philippines and I am sure you are all enjoying your countries/areas as well. I can’t believe how fast time is going. Sharp and I now have less that 10 months, Webster is almost packing his bags up haha its nuts...Something our mission has been doing is trying to complete families and it has been really cool getting to meet part-member families and be able to help complete them so they can go through the temple someday. I love hearing your stories and I think about you lots. I hope you are all working hard and see ya'll soon! Elder Garrett Christensen Hello my papa Things here are going well, no complaints...That is crazy that the NFL is close to being done. I will be there for the next one! yay! It sounds like you guys had fun pheasant hunting. Where did you go? How did Dre do? Haha thats funny that the Jazz suck this year. They lost all their good players haha. Everything is well here and no problems. I love you and miss you tons! Elder Garrett Hey britt. I am excited that you are getting better at snowboarding. I bet you are so good now! Keep practicing. It was good talking to you last week. You are so big now! I can't wait to play with you again soon! Love Gary