Week 83

Mommy & All,

"My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul." -Jim Carey

This week was pretty good. We have been working pretty hard and just flying around trying to work with Luis and trying to get this conference ready for when Elder Bragg came. 

So something I thought was funny happened this week. Like I said we had to fly around to do stuff this week. We found some new investigators and went to teach them a few days after we found them. They were super cool and they listened to what we had to say. We had another lesson about 30 minutes after this one, but we ended up talking longer than we thought. By the time we left the house, we are already 45 minutes late to the other lesson and still had about a 30 minute walk ahead of us. So instead of taking the road, my comp decided to take the back roads which was down the mountain and through the river. Except this wasn't a normal river. It was a river of sewage or crap river as we call it haha that takes all the sewage from the houses and runs it down to who knows where. It literally looks like a natural river in the desert, but its the smell that gets you. Anyways when we got to the river, my comp wanted to cross it but i told him no way. There was a part in the middle that looked a little solid, and you could see animal tracks imprinted so things had walked over it before. So they told me we were going to jump to the middle, then to the other side. I told him no way, but if we went around the river, it would be a lot longer walk. So as we were sitting there on the bank talking, all of a sudden Elder Nelson stops in the middle of his sentence and takes a running jump to the middle part of the river. He told me later that he thought that if we just went Id have to follow him. Anyways he made a perfect jump and made it to the middle. The only problem was that middle part wasn't actually solid and it was just a deceiving look. As he landed, the man sunk into this mixture of human crap up to his shins hahahaha. It was like mud, but dark black and didn't smell like mud. He froze there for about 15 seconds and I was just dying on the other side in tears from laughing so hard. So he climbed out and jumped back across. We found another place to cross further down and ended up making it to that lesson and teaching. So another experience with crap in my mission.

Elder Bragg from the Seventy also came and visited us yesterday and that was awesome. He is such a cool dude and is the NICEST guy I think Ive ever met haha. He came and just talked to us on how we can improve on just the basic missionary stuff like planning and studying. I honeslty learned a ton and it was fun to hear him and his wife talk to us. After the conference, he came and shook every single one of our hands, stopping to ask where we were from and just a little bit about our families or our lives. That is a guy who makes every single person feel like the most important person in the world which we all know is a gift. After he did that he even pulled me aside and asked to take a picture with me which was really cool to do. But I think the thing we all thought was the coolest about him (at least us elders), was that he married his mission presidents daughter haha!! I mean you have gotta have some guts to do that. He served his mission in Mexico and his wife was there with her parents and thats where they met and we all died haha it was great. But it was an awesome experience to have him come talk to us and to recieve all the counsel he gave us. 

Much Love,

Elder Christensen