week 90

Mommy & All,

"We must program our minds, or our minds will be programmed because humans are goal driven!!" -Les Brown

This week was pretty good. We had a few changes around here though.

So Elder Nelson went home. We actually just got back from dropping him off at the airport to catch his flight. He is heading back a week early to start school and keep his soccer scholarship at Westminster. The guy was a great comp and one of the best missionaries I've ever seen and he will be missed. In the airport he cried as he hugged all of us goodbye and I said those are the tears of a man who cared. He honestly cared so much about the mission and people and he had tons of success down here that came with trials and he just embraced it all and loved it all. That was something to see and he was an example to me for sure. So for this next week I'm gonna be with Elder Allen because his comp is going to the office to be the new financier. He has about 15 months in the mission and went to Corner Canyon high school in Utah and he is pretty chill so it should be a good week.

Another great thing that happened this week was the secretaries went to Buenos Aires for a conference and they brought us back MCDONALDS!!! I got a 20 piece and I about died eating it because it was sooooo good. It has literally probably been 2 years since I've eating Mcdonald's since the last few months of my mission I spent eating my last american pizzas and not one McDonald's. But the nearest McDonald's to us is in Buenos Aires and the only american food down here is the Subway and Hard Rock Cafe in Ushuaia, and the Subway they have here in Comodoro but that's it. So it was AMAZING to eat some nuggets again and I was grateful for that hahaha.

We are continuing to teach Jose and work with Luis as the weeks go on. I did divisions with Elder Fogo who was my comp in Ushuaia and now is in my zone again, and we went and taught Jose. We taught more than anything about the Restoration and about the authority we need to affect baptisms correctly. Its been hard to teach him lately because he has an answer for everything haha but he came to church this Sunday and seemed to be okay. Luis hasn't come to church these last few weeks because his mom takes him out to see food so they can have little more money. But he is doing really good with reading the Book of Mormon and trying to keep up his testimony in general. Its gonna be a crazier week than usual not having Elder Nelson here, so it will be interesting to see what happens.

Much Love,

Elder Christensen