I totally forgot about Mother's Day this Sunday until this week, so
I'm excited to be able to talk with some of you! I am not sure if 5
will work on Sunday because I am getting transferred to another area!
In fact I will be in the same area I was for the last two calls home,
which is the Spanish area in Flagstaff! Anyways, I can probably call
between 5 and 7, and I will just have 40 minutes as usual.
We don't have transfers till tomorrow so no one really knows yet, but
it looks like I will be finishing up here in Flagstaff. It's been a
pretty fun 12.5 months so far! Anyways, we pretty much have to go in
and figure out if we are going to try to make a Spanish Branch or not.
The work has been struggling apparently and there isn't much member
support, and our mission is dealing with a shortage of Spanish
speaking missionaries, and missionaries in general. I was kinda bummed
at first just because I wanted that area to have some fresh eyes of
another missionary. But having been in the stake this long I might as
well finish here and use what I know to benefit the stake.
Ashley got confirmed and she was super happy all week! She bore her
testimony on Sunday after her confirmation about how simple the
gospel is and how she made the decision to be baptized harder than it
needed to be. We are glad she made it though!
This last week we had a few training/council meetings on how to use
Facebook and online resources with members to do missionary work.
The Montoyas were out of town this week so we weren't able to meet
with them unfortunately. Hopefully the Elders can keep teaching them,
they're awesome. We also found a new Investigator last week named
Herman. He is blind and just randomly called us up to have a visit. He
has had lots of experiences leading up to us meeting him that have
been preparing him to receive the restored Gospel.
Anyways, I did like your Mousectomy mom and dad, it was impressive!
And no I haven't contacted anyone in ASL ever, they just tell us to
write back and forth with them and get their contact info. Dad asked a
couple questions...
-Could you tells us more about your day to day activities? What does
you typical day consist of?
Our typical day includes studying preach my gospel and role playing
the lessons, making lesson plans, teaching Investigators at the
welcome center on south campus, trying to find potential Investigators
home, serving at the food bank or a members house, having
district/zone meetings, testing out new ways to use Facebook, eating
with members, visiting members to get referrals, having coordination
meetings, teaching more Investigators, showing up to activities to
meet non members and show them we are real people, and calling people
throughout the whole day to confirm, follow up, report or
reschedule.....yea I'd say we stay busy!
-Do you ever have to cook for yourselves? What do you cook?
We usually get fed dinner but we usually cook for ourselves for any
other meal. I usually make breakfast Burritos, eggs, oatmeal, salads,
stuff like that. But we usually get junk food from members so that's a
weakness...it seems like it's every members goal to make us more
chubby.
-Do you ever ride a bike or are do you stick with cars/trucks?
We are always in our truck because the area is so big. I haven't had
to buy a bike still and it doesn't look like I will need to.
-What is the goofiest thing your companion has done to you or you to him?
My companion and I don't really tease each other as much as we do the
elders we live with, besides emitting unspeakable fumes during
prayers, studies, planning and locking the windows, doors etc. Are
roommates are two redhead elders...and I don't know if I'd be
comfortable admitting to some of the things we have done to them.
Don't worry we aren't cruel.. Hah
I hope you have a great week! Thanks for all your support!
Elder Collin Christensen
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