week 78

"Dont try to give up, try to keep going! Dont try to quit! You already in pain, you already hurt, get a reward for it!" -Fall

This week was pretty good. On Thursday we had conference with Presidente Salerno. It was different but good. The topic of the whole thing was how we are in "The War" against Satan. So we went to zone conference dressed in athletic clothes, and when we showed up, they gave us war paint to put on. We all went into the gym and Presidente put us through an obstacle course so we could go through "training" to be more prepared to fight in the battle haha and it was pretty fun and entertaining. After that we talked about all the obstacles we face in the mission and compared it to the course we ran, and talked about what we can do to get through the obstacles and finish the course or the mission. 

On Saturday we had another baptism in our ward as Jensen and Holmes baptized David. And it was a baptism to remember. We went and turned on the font in the church a few hours before the baptism started, then went and found David and came back. As everyone started to get settled in about 10 minutes before the baptism, Elder Holmes comes running into where we all were waiting, asking for the keys to the font. All the Elders then got up and ran out and down the hall to the font. About half way down the hall, all our shoes were soaked and there was water running everywhere hahaha the font had started to over flow and flood out under the door that you open to go down in. Elder Holmes throws the door open and turns the water off, as all of us kinda looked at each other with little grins, not knowing whether to laugh or get really worried. The water had flooded the front hall, the men's bathroom, the handicap bathroom, the women's bathroom, the cleaning supplies closet, a classroom, and the bishops office. Luckily down here, all the churches are 95% tile, with the only carpet being in the sacrament room, and the bishops office. So we all grabbed mops and rags and wiped and dried for our lives. With the baptism starting, Elder Jensen and Holmes had to go, so Harper and I were on clean up duty. So we threw out the giant yellow "wet floor" signs and mopped up. we filled 6 huge buckets to the brim with all the water we got up haha. But the members weren't too mad, because we actually left the church cleaner than we found it since we mopped pretty much half of it. So that's an experience.

We also got a new teammate this week. Saturday night after the baptism, an elder named Elder Bell showed up down here to join the squad. He´s 6´8, played basketball at Olympus and played a year at a junior college before coming down here on the mission. He knows a ton about sports we have already had some good talks. We are all pumped to have him down here with us, since now Mondays and Wednesdays have become even more fun haha.

Much Love,

Elder Christensen