I left you some toilet treats.
Love,
Elder Hudson
This week was awesome! I think I have deduced that it's the water causing me all these toilet adventures. I have a funny story about my companion: After lunch one day we both needed to poop really bad so we went to one of the washrooms with 2 stalls in it. Since I was pretty used to the whole experience, I went pretty quick. I leave the bathroom and wait for Elder Hudson to leaven; it took like 10 minutes. He walks out staring at the ground, looks up at me and smiles and walks toward me saying, "Do you think they have a plunger anywhere around here?" I immediately burst out in laughter. Turns out he clogged the toilet super bad and water started overflowing out of the toilet after he flushed. The stall door turns inwards instead of outwards so in a panic he was climbing over the stall walls to avoid getting drenched by nasty toilet water. On a brighter note, I convinced everyone that frost bite is the number one killer in Canada; they believe everything. Today is the last day I'll be able to visit the temple for my whole mission, which is kind of depressing, but it's gonna be a fun time. I leave Tuesday to enter the field, not sure where in my mission I'll be but I'm super excited to find out.
Another story that happened this week just popped into my head. For whatever reason one day we weren't allotted gym time, instead we had personal exercise time. What this means is we had to work out without equipment, doing things such as running, push-ups, sit-ups etc.. Now me being who I am, I ran with my companion down to the vending machine to grab a Cactus cooler (An orange pineapple soda in the States, it's pretty good.) While consuming the soda I made up a pretty sweet exercise plan for my companion and I. We were on the fourth floor in the residence and we were going to run down all the stairs, run around the building to the other stairs, run up the stairs and then do 5 pull ups on the pull-up bar on the top floor. So naturally after feeling all pumped to work out, an elder in the room neighboring mine says: "Hey Elder Christensen, you want a brownie?" I thought about the answer for a little while. Only one option was popping into my head, so I sat down and ate the brownie. After I finish it he offers me another one, and I can't refuse, so I ate that one too. After eating both brownies my companion and I did our workout. Once I get to the top floor and only get 2 pull-ups, I then start complaining and wussing out saying I can't do another one. My Companion forced me to do another one, and so I did. After getting to the top I did my 2 pull-ups, and then sat down in the room where I got the brownies. I was panting pretty hard when one of the more fit elders in our district asks: "Christensen, you need some water?" I replied with: "I need a brownie."
I guess it's worth saying that I gained 8 pounds in the first 5 days here. How unreal is that? I've never been able to put on weight in my life but I finally managed to gain some.
-Love Elder Christensen
