Week 87: Angel's Baptism

Howdy!

This was a pretty solid week! Angel was baptized. She is Connor's aunt. She is super solid! The only thing was that pretty much everything that can go wrong at a baptism went wrong; lol we suck at planning xD

This week was pretty unique. I actually took quite a few pictures!

This is us with Angel:

We decided to take some pretty sweet shots while the font was filling up:

Elder Gannaway really likes Krispey Kreme:

We also got Legend of Zelda Tattoos (Don't worry they were the kind that come off in an hour):

We also saw this wonderful work of art:

Well, life is good here in Johnson City.

Love Y'all!

Elder Christensen

Week 86: More Snow!

We got more snow up here in Johnson City. It's been pretty fun.  Most of the members here aren't too thrilled about the snow but I love it!

The business factor has been pretty exhausting lately. Doing the administrative stuff on top of working our area really hard is pretty intense!

One of our investigators we have been working with a lot lately finally made the leap of faith and came to church yesterday! That was pretty awesome! She really enjoyed it too which is a really good thing.

One of the boys we are teaching invited us to his 11th birthday party! It was just as fun as it sounds.

My companions and I gained access to a Sam's club card and were able to purchase a bunch of healthy groceries so on top of working out we are going to fix our diet and lose some weight! 

Anyways, work is good here in Johnson City!

Love

Elder Christensen

Week 85: 2 Chains

We had a pretty solid week this week. We went on exchanges with the APs which there are 3 of, and then there are 3 of us, so in the end we had 6 missionaries all in one area, all sleeping in the same room! It was pretty intense!

Working out at Jake's has been crazy as always.



I got to hold a bird on my shoulder. I seriously felt like a pirate.



Always moving people around here in Johnson City.



And knocking doors like crazy!

Week 84: Waterfalls

Well this week was super awesome! Our investigator Connor was baptized, it was an awesome experience!



Today we went on a hike with our Bishop, it was a pretty awesome hike, it was called Red Fork Falls.

I'm definitely going to miss all of the greenery when I leave to go back to Canada, so I'm going to enjoy it while I'm here!

Miss Y'all!

Elder C

Week 83: Snowed In!

Well, we got a pretty good amount of snow this week. We really only had one big dump but it was definitely a lot more than I was expecting!  Elder Hammond (The Greenie) is doing very well here in JC. I think he enjoys having 2 trainers. It is a heck of a lot of fun!

We were grounded one day this week because of the weather conditions, but since we have a truck we just assumed that it didn't apply to us! We spent our whole day going to our appointments we had set and the looks on people's faces were quite something! It is completely out of culture to visit someone when it is snowing, but it was a heck of a lot of fun!

Here is a picture of us shoveling out the entire road in front of our apartment for it to only be plowed away 30 minutes later!

 

Elder Hammond is the one on the left and Elder Gannaway is the one on the right!

This last week has been such a blast! I love my comps and we have so much work going on here in Johnson City!

I miss and love all of Y'all!

Elder Christensen

Week 82: Happy New Year, Homies

Hey Y'all! 

Transfer call was this morning, and I will be getting 2 new companions! Elder Gannaway, who I have served around for quite a bit of my mission, will be my companion and we will be training a new missionary!

I'm pretty excited to keep the whole trio thing going on!

Hope Y'all can keep your new year's resolutions!

Elder Christensen

Week 81: MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas to all of Y'all!

I don't really have much else to say other than that!

Love Y'all!

Elder Christensen

Week 79: Elder Neilson

So the reason this email is coming in on a Wednesday instead of a Monday is because we had a Half Mission Conference Monday and we had an MLC on Tuesday so our P-Day got changed to Wednesday.

We Went to the Quantum Leap trampoline park again this week, and I attempted my first backflip off of a wall. (You can hear my inspiring words of "If Peter can walk on water, then I can do this!" It was pretty comical in the moment. 

This week was pretty solid though. We ended up teaching 23 lessons with a member present which is pretty legit. We have been so busy with teaching that we have to use every blank moment of the day finding or else we can't hit our desired amount of finding time.  The Mission is crazy!

Miss Y'all!

Love 

Elder Christensen!

Week 78: Fire!

Well, this week was pretty average, still teaching lessons like crazy.

We are switching to a new trampoline park today, it's called "Quantum Leap". It will be super fun! So expect some cool videos next week.

I did my max dead lift today which was pretty fun, I got 300 lbs. It's not that much, but hey, I'm still growing!

Starting to get really hyped about the Light the World calendar. If you haven't checked it out look it up on Mormon.org; it's on the front page.

There were some pretty intense fires down in Gatlinburg, which was a neighboring area to my first area (Maryville). There was a lady in our ward who went down there for a vacation but got evacuated by police late in the night and didn't get to finish out all their trip; they also had to leave everything behind. Luckily the building they were staying at didn't burn down so they can still go back and get their stuff. (They walked out with nothing, basically). Although the city is in such a muck, they haven't been allowed access. Anyways, where I was going with all that is Elder Simonson and I as well as 2 other missionaries in the area decided to go pull her weeds for her as our service activity for the 1st day of December in the light the world advent calendar. Just being able to know you brightened up somebody's day is all I need to keep going!

Anyways I'm going to sign off here but I miss all of Y'all!

Love,

Elder Christensen