Hey ya'll! I am glad to hear you got some snow! We had a big storm this weekend and got like four or five inches but that has been the only real big storm here. It is snowing lightly right now. To answer your question I will tell you my Sunday schedule.
8 breakfast
10 priesthood meeting
12 district meeting
1 lunch
1:45 sacrament (in a building at the mtc with just our zone approx. 40 people plus branch presidency)
2:45 study time or walk to the temple
5:45 dinner
7 devotional (people wait hours in line to get good seats)
8 movie (they play like BOM movies, Legacy, Testaments, etc)
9 planning
9:30 back to the dorm...
Sundays are nice because they are the day we can sort of relax and cool off from continual studying the whole week. The devotionals are also fun to hear someone speak. Lots of people wait hours to get seats because they dont let you in the auditorium until 6:30 but my classroom is in the building so at 6:30 our district walks out and get the best seats (haha we are cheaters).
Thanksgiving was awesome. We had breakfast, then a devotional that Elder Holland spoke at and it was awesome! He spoke about giving to the poor and needy and how sometimes we forget how blessed we are and why. He cited Alma 4 and Alma 34 in which it talks about how we must give to the needy and poor. He also talked to the people going to poor places and said that the best way to love them is to live with them, eat their food, sleep in their homes. It really has hit me while I have been here how blessed I have been my whole life. A lot of the kids in my district have hard stories and have had rough lives, but I have had such a perfect life. Perfect family, perfect friends, almost no trials. So I got to thinking and I really think that since our family has been so faithful and must have been very faithful in the pre earth life, that our trials are different. We are tested to see if we are willing to give to people in need, then share what we have been blessed with to the poor. And not be greedy. I think going to the Philippines will be a good start to showing me how to truly be service-minded and love people less fortunate.
The language is going well. We started teaching in Tagalog which is rough but from now on we can't teach in English. I am sure I slaughter the language but I try haha. It is hard sometimes because my companion is not very diligent so he is far behind everyone in the language so it is like 99% me teaching and all he can do is bear his testimony. Maybe just another trial I have been given haha.
How was your Thanksgiving? Hopefully everything went well and you ate plenty of food. We did a service project also on Thursday and we made 63,000 backpacks to give to poor children throughout the world with school supplies. It was fun to be a part of. Also something fun you might want to know about is that every night before bed we have a rap battle between two kids in our district. We are given a gospel subject and write a rap about it haha. It is hilarious sometimes. Also during free time, we put up a blanket in the middle of our room and play tennis with a raquetball and our hands as racquets. So yes, we get pretty bored sometimes.
One of these days i am going to send britt a cool book in Tagalog.
Anyway i gotta go so I will talk to you later.
ps I have more time so I will get on tonight and e-mail dad back.
Love you all
Mahal ko kayo
Elder Christensen
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