Week 9: Nair

This week was pretty cool. It was the end of my first transfer in the mission field, which means we got new missionaries in this week. (That means I'm not the newest anymore... YAY!) Anyways one of the new missionaries is being trained by the other missionary in our ward that isn't me or Elder Goldsberry. Elder MacDonald is training Elder Gannaway. He's pretty cool I guess.  

For those of you that are curious of the title of this email, in Super Smash Bros there is terminology for naming aerial attacks. They all end in "air" (bair, dair, fair, uair, and nair.  Meaning back air, down air, forward air, up air, and neutral air.) However this is not the "nair" I'm referring to.  The nair I am referring to stands for "no hair".  It's that stuff you put on your hair and it removes it all in like 3 minutes.  Well me and Elder Goldsberry found some in the apartment and decided the only logical move to make was to rub it all over our legs.  Long story short, we don't have leg hair anymore.

I don't really have much more to report on this week other than the new missionary and the nair incident so I'll keep this one short. I miss you all!

love,

Elder Christensen

Week 8: How Much is Too Much?

So this week was way busy, but not really busy in the normal sense.  Usually busy would mean teaching lots of lessons and meeting new people, BUUUUT we did a ton of other stuff this week.

Monday we drove to Sevierville (where Dollywood is) to hang out with the elders and sisters up there for p-day. We went to a big knife store called Knife Works and I may have bought something, or maybe not.

Tuesday was honestly pretty slow. We didn't really meet too many people that day, but we play basketball at the church there every week at 7.

Wednesday was MLC, Missionary Leadership Council. My companion is the district leader so he had to go to that, but since I'm not a leader I didn't go to that so I switched with someone else for the day and I ended up in a bike area for a day with a different elder.

Thursday and Friday was really busy.  On Thursday we turned the church gym into a Doctor Who themed wedding.  On Friday it was the wedding. We had to stay for the whole thing so we could lock up.  The wedding was one of our investigators who was marrying a less active member in our ward. We were teaching them and they mentioned wanting to get married so we offered the building to use for their wedding.  They then told the Bishop they were going to have a Doctor Who theme. His face was priceless but he went with it and even wore a scarf from the show while marrying them.  I have a ton of pictures. It was a fun night but we were pretty busy being minionaries the whole time making sure nothing went wrong.  I've never actually seen the show but most of the people that came had, so it was pretty fun for them to see all the cool decorations.

ONE LAST STORY

On Tuesday the other elders in our area broke into our house and moved our mattresses from off our beds into the shower and hid our bedding throughout the apartment. We ended up finding it all pretty quick, but they totally started a war.  On Saturday it was transfer calls and we went over there so we could all hear who was leaving their areas.  After that they had to go out and do something, so we kind of just went back into their apartment and stole one of their mattresses.  It's like a memory foam mattress that he lugs around everywhere. We had it until today, so he had to sleep without it for 2 nights. (There was another mattress in their apartment since he had brought his own memory foam one so he wasn't on the ground or anything.)  It was pretty funny and he was pretty mad but totally worth it.

Also, how do you know if you have too much pop in your fridge?  We haven't decided if we need more or not, but essentially this is what our fridge looks like most of the time…

 (Although this is the most we've had at one time)

Anyways this is basically all that happened this week, I miss you all!

Love 

Elder Christensen

WEEK 7: Trampoline

Well this was a fun week I guess Our money cards got loaded up, so we could go out and buy more groceries. I found a new favorite called "Cap'n Crunches doughnut sprinkled crunch".  It is literally the best thing I have ever put in my mouth. It sounds like it would be kind of nasty but it is so delicious.  I can't get enough of it.

Regarding my email last week titled "Dr. Thunder" I went to wal-mart and it turns out Dr. Thunder is a real thing. Who would have guessed? I laughed out loud and then bought some. It's just a Dr. Pepper knock-off.  Interestingly enough, it's the Great Value brand. In Canada the Great Value brand Dr. Pepper was called "Dr Flave" so it's kind of cool to see how knock-off Dr. Pepper brands change names depending on what country they are from.

My companion has been trying to make paper clip tie clips a thing, so I support him and wear a paper clip tie clip. It actually works really well. You need to get the jump paper clips though, or else it won't work out too well.  We have a whole bunch of different colours, but my favorite is the silver one.

I don't know if I've mentioned this yet or not, but my companion actually knew the mission president before his mission; he was best friends with his son.  SO needless to say he gets a tiny bit of special treatment from the mission president. We got to go over there for dinner on Saturday because the mission president's family was in town so my companion got to see all of these people he knew before his mission.  WELL he went on the trampoline and started doing some backflips. The entire family was there. I went and did a backflip, and then he did a few more and eventually he landed one wrong.  He sort of landed with his face forward, and transferred all of his vertical momentum into horizontal momentum and flew straight sideways off the trampoline (it was hilarious).  He was still in regular missionary clothes so his name tag went flying, his pen, everything! He barely managed to land on his feet, but there was a little bit of a downward slope where he landed. He rolled forward after landing and got a nice dirty back from the grassy, muddy spot he rolled through.  Impressively, he came out of the roll back on his feet and then ended with another little hop.  It didn't hurt right away but after a few hours his knee started hurting really bad and swelling up. He took some drugs and iced it and it helped a bit but still quite a bit of pain.  We think he just pulled a bunch of muscles, nothing too serious, but he has to take it easy for a few days, so we won't be playing basketball today as we usually do.  

Well this concludes my weekly email, I have now learned my lesson that if I try to name something cool, it's already been named before.