week 86

Mommy & All,

"That's why Churchill said that there's nothing to fear, but Fear itself!! That's the destructive monster!" -Les Brown

This week was pretty good. It was great to talk to the Fam over skype for a few min.

This week we kept pretty busy. We were either doing service, helping out with things in the church, or doing Christmas activities with the zone. My comp and I are starting to get pretty good at fixing or building stuff. One day this week, I was just chilling and washing dishes and the sink started to clog up. That has happened a couple time during the mish and I hate it. So Elder Nelson came over and started sticking a metal rod down the sink but nothing happened. So I got down underneath the sink and started to take it apart (dad you should be proud.) I but a bucket underneath with me just in case any water or whatever fell out as I was taking this apart. I kept unscrewing and turning and then when I got the first main pipe off, there was a mini explosion as all this gunk water from up top went flying into the bucket and all over me as well haha. But we figured out what the problem was. We had dumped all this oil down the drain and since oil and water don't mix, the water started to come back up. So I proceeded to take the sink apart piece by piece and we ended up just filling the bucket to the brim with oil and brown sludge. So that was cool. We also helped the bishop lay a cement floor in a part of his house that he was building so that was another experience as well. I was there just to push the cement around in wheel barrows, but it was a pretty good workout all the same. So our house building and maintenance skills are slowly improving. 

We also did a few things for the #LightTheWorld thing. On Saturday, the stake here in Comodoro put together a bunch of choirs and went to centro and sang Christmas songs. Us as missionaries had a choir as well, then after that we went out and tried to bring other people over to listen to the choirs and maybe talk to us too. Yesterday we took all the missionaries in our zone to centro and contacted people around the blocks, giving out candy and cards and just trying to teach as we walked and it was good.

Yesterday as well, we had a huge asado or argentine barbecue with Luis and his family. They served us like we were kings and are such cool people. None of them are members outside of Luis and it was way cool to see. They made a ton of lamb and also chorizo which is like sausage hotdog huge amazing meat thing so we ate until we were dead full. We talked to Luis some more and he is improving daily. Even he can see the effects baptism is starting to have on him and its so cool. He also feels a lot better now that is isnt drinking or smoking and he talks about the mission all the time which is really cool. We also started kinda teaching one of his brother in laws who was there and asked us a lot of questions. Maybe we will have the chance to talk to him again.

Much Love,

Elder Christensen