week 79

Mommy & All,

"If you still talk about your dreams, if you still talk about your goals, but have not yet done anything, just take the first step!!" -Dream

This week was pretty good. Transfers happened which came as a bigger surprise as we thought. As you can see by the pics, the whole basketball team stayed, but I headed out haha. I'm now the new zone leader in Comodoro so we will see how it goes. For the 6th time in my mission, I gotta take the rousing 26 hour bus ride between the island and Comodoro so that's always an nice trip. I can't believe I'm back in this city serving again haha but now I'm on the north side instead of the south. I know all of Comodoro from centro to the south, but I know nothing of the north, so its gonna be a kind of new experience for me getting to know the area, but all in all Comodoro is Comodoro haha.

My new comp is named Elder Nelson from Utah. He played soccer at Olympus down in Salt Lake, then played a year at Westminster before coming on the mish. He is easily the best soccer player out of all the U.S. missionaries in the mission, and the Latins love playing with him since he doesn't suck like most of us (or maybe just me haha). He is really cool and was one of the first missionaries I met when I got to Argentina since he started in Rio Grande too, so its cool now that we are gonna be comps. It is kinda weird though now having a comp that speaks and understands English haha. Out of the 10 comps I've had before him, 8 of them didn't speak or understand anything, and I've only had one comp from the U.S. here with me in Argentina because the other one was Elder Harris in the MTC. So now I get my 3rd U.S. comp and it should be good. He goes home in 2 transfers, so unless they move him I will probably see him till the end. 

I was a little sad to leave the squad down there in Ushuaia there with Holmes, Jensen, Bell, Taylor, and Harper. Its good that they all stayed together though so they can keep playing basketball haha. Bell and I became pretty good friends, and that dude knows a ton about sports so of course we had some good talks. I will still get to see Jensen and Holmes once a transfer when we have leadership counsel here for all the zone leaders, so that's a good thing too. I'm excited to be up here in Comodoro again with Nelson and it should be a really interesting experience to add to the list of my mission haha.

Much Love,

Elder Christensen

Lots of Photos this week.  A few of them are from Max, some from a member and others from the mission site of their Zone meeting where they put on war paint an ran an obstacle course and compared it to preparing to fight the good fight.