Yo Yo Yo:
Whats going on there in Snoop Dogg's
hood? Things here are going so well! We had the best week! It started out last
Tuesday. We taught our zone meeting in Arevalo to all our missionaries. We
taught about teaching our investigators to seek revelation through prayer. We
had a lot of fun. After that, we did interviews of every companionship, so it
took a while. Interviews were to find out 1. How their obedience is. 2. If they
are doing effective studies. 3. What special needs they have that we can pass
on to the stake leaders, and 4.Their needs for their investigators. It is fun
to talk one on one with the elders and sisters. We get to get to know them a
lot better. We had a dinner appointment every day this week except on Thursday
haha. We get treated very, very well in this area, which is for sure the
richest in my mission. One night we ate at Jason Hibbert's house, he is an
American here with his American wife and kids for a couple years for work. She cooked
us a chicken casserole! Talk about heavenly. Followed by brownies and ice
cream...gotta love Americans!
On Saturday night at 7, Elder Light
and I had a stake correlation meeting which is where we pass on needs of our
missionaries to our stake president, President Torres. He is the man and you
can tell he really wants to help us. President Pagaduan also accompanied us to
that meeting.
On Sunday we had the sweetest thing
happen. We have a family named the Maximo family that we are teaching. There is
a father, mother and then seven kids! They all came to church yesterday. They
don't have a car but they do have a motorcycle with a side cart thing that they
use to haul pigs around so they stacked chairs on there and rode like ten
minutes to church! It was so sweet. The kids ages are 17, 14, 13, 11, 10, 8,
and 6...so that means we could potentially have the baptisms of eight people
coming up soon! yeah boy!
Regarding the Pacquiao fight,
everyone here says it was "ihaw" which is a slang word for like
"unfair" or "pre-decided"....they all think that Bradley
paid the judges or something haha, so I don’t know. It was a pretty big deal
yesterday for us. Lots of people yelled at us about it haha, but it’s fine.
I love my companion, Elder Light and
we get along great. We are working super hard and we found some sweet new investigators
this last week. I love this area and this work.....
Please tell all the family there
that I love them a lot and think about them. Tell them I can’t wait to see them
in October. (Yes, its official, I will be coming home in October.)....I hope
you all have fun. Love you all tons!
Elder Garrett Christensen
Hey Pops:
This week was sweet. It’s official.
They asked us this week and I decided to go home on October 10 or 11 whenever
it is, we'll see...but it will be mid-October. Which is crazy because that
means I have like exactly four months left. Time to sprint to the finish.
Sounds like you are all having fun in California. I could use me some relaxing
on the beach, but this is more fun anyway.
The people are all mad about Pacquiao but that is expected
so no biggie. Luckily that will be my last time here during his fights haha. His
fight days are way hard to get any work done! Everyone is "busy"....I
love it here and am happy to be here. Love you dad.
Elder Garrett
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