Week 105: Fin!

Well, here we are at the end of the road! How crazy is that? I will be
home in almost 72 hours!

Super randomly this Sunday I had to get up and speak in church. There
were 3 speakers and they all went way under time so I was called on to
give a talk right there on the spot. The funny thing about it was I
had a thought the other day that went something along the lines of
this: "Wow I've gone my whole mission without getting randomly called
up to give a talk in sacrament meeting!" And then boom, my very last
Sunday it happened.

I'm excited to go home and continue to talk to y'all via other forms
of communication, so hit me up on social media.

I'm super excited to go home to Canada. The humidity is getting worse
and worse every day, but I'll also be a little sad, I think. The place
that's been my home for the last 2 years is going to turn into a
memory soon, kind of sad! I am glad that I dedicated these last 2
years to serving a mission though. I've learned so much and grown so
much in the process; it's crazy! See Y'all!

See you on the other side.



Love
Elder Christensen

Week 104: MIA

No contact

Week 103: Drawing Closer

As I approach my last 2 weeks in the field I can't help but notice how
slow it's going. It seems like any sort of free time I have is spent
thinking about what I'm going to do back home. It kind of sucks,
honestly. It feels so weird knowing the life I've known for 2 years is
just going to end abruptly and I will thrust back into the real world.
I'm excited though.



Anyways, we have this raccoon that breaks into our garbage every single
night at like 2 AM, and we have tried everything. We found a whole
bunch of old bricks and bungee corded our garbage can to a wooden beam
and he still managed to knock it over. Our most recent idea was to
poor bleach all over our garbage area and hopefully that will get him.
Does anyone know how to get rid of pesky raccoons?

Love,
Elder Christensen

Week 102: Pyramid

I attached some pictures!!! First picture is our district after
balling it up at a Baptist church. Second picture is me wearing cat
ear headphones.





So more on the Baptist church thing. We were invited to attend a
Baptist church in the area by one of the deacons. He apparently told
us the wrong time because we went and there was nobody there, save a
few cars that looked like were people in meetings. Anyways, we had our
whole district there and it was getting closer to the end of the
night, so instead of just driving home and calling it a night, we
found a basketball hoop they had set up and grabbed a basketball from
the car and played some 3 on 3 in our missionary clothes. We got a lot
of weird looks from the few people leaving the building. Afterwards we
took a human pyramid pic with a dope background.

Anyways, I go home in like 3 weeks.

Love y'all!

Week 101: Arby's

So my companion Elder Mueller and I decided that we were going to
treat ourselves Saturday night, after having several appointments
cancel on us. We ended up making our way to Arby's because we had some
coupons there. Elder Mueller got this one combo that came with 2
sandwiches and a bunch of fries and a drink. Now him trying to be all
smart and stuff decided to save one of the sandwiches to eat later.
However once we were right about to leave, he accidentally threw it
into the garbage. It has been a time of mourning in Oak Ridge, a Brave
sandwich lost his life, unable to fulfill his calling in life. Who
knows where it is now?

Anyways it's been pretty awesome here in Oak Ridge. The work is
picking up a bit which is always awesome. I was trying to attach some
pictures that I took this week, but then I realized I haven't taken a
single picture for like 3 weeks, WHOOPS!

Anyways, I miss all of you!
Love
Elder Christensen

Week 100: Seeds

Well, this has been a super solid week! We were actually able to set
quite a few return appointments, so we should be busier this week than
any other week that I've been here in Oak Ridge.

Mother's Day was awesome. It was great to talk to my family one last
time before I head back and see them in like 5 weeks. Shoutouts to all
the mothers out there!

[Here is a screenshot I took of the call:]



I got to eat ribs for the first time in over a year yesterday so I'm
still kind of freaking out. I love ribs so much! We were invited to a 
Mother's Day celebration and that was what they cooked, woohoo!

Something very traumatic happens this week: I had a secret stash of
sunflower seeds that I was saving for a rainy day, and that rainy day
came, so I opened the bottom drawer of my dresser to grab the seeds,
and I notice that there is mouse poop everywhere and sunflower seed
shells scattered all over the place! Turns out a mouse got in my
bottom drawer and then nibbled through the bag and helped himself to
some spicy sweet chili sunflower seeds! I had no idea that mice liked
spicy food! And it's not like he ate one or two either, like half the
bag was just scattered throughout the whole drawer, completely open. I
didn't even know mice had the ability to crack a sunflower seed shell.
Needless to say I was pretty hurt when I found out that a mouse ninja
made his way into my drawer and desecrated my holy stash of seeds.
There is still a void in my heart that I am unsure will ever be
filled.

Love y'all!

Elder Christensen

Week 99: Final Transfer

Well this Wednesday is transfers. I will be staying with Elder Mueller
here in Oak ridge for my last 6 weeks. 6 weeks... wow, I only have 6
weeks left.

We had a pretty awesome week. I pulled my signature move again and
forgot to take pictures after telling y'all that I would try and take
more. I guess I'm just a liar.

We went and did service at a museum called the American Museum of
Science and Energy or AMSE for short. I was with another elder in my
district and we were helping little kids make pocket solar systems for
a few hours. It was a pretty cool experience, minus the fact that I
suck at trying to tell kids where to put a sticker on a piece of
paper.

Now that I'll be starting my last transfer I'll need to start figuring
out what stuff to pack to take home with me. I've acquired quite a bit
of crap over the last 2 years.




Anyways we have some service planned today so I gotta go do all my
basic needs before that.
Love y'all!

Elder Christensen