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

Week 98: Back to Rockwood

This week was pretty cool. An investigator in Rockwood that I visited
a lot while I was there (weekly for 6 months) got baptized! And since
Rockwood is so close to Oak Ridge we got to drive our car down and see
the baptism. It was great to see a whole bunch of familiar faces.

Week 97: Wheels

Remember how I didn't have a car? Well now I do! How cool is that? Many of you probably don't realize how much it sucks to bike uphill all day, but it does, so I'm pretty excited to have a car again lol. Someone ended up going home early for medical reasons and the mission president closed an area, so we got the car from the closed area.

Although we had the car, this week went a little slower than usual, especially the weekend. I guess everyone was out of town for easter. We only had half as many people at church this week as normal; it was really weird.

Didn't take any pics this week, whoops!

Hope yall had a happy easter. If you never saw the #Prince Of Peace video then you should totally check it out.

Love yall

Elder Christensen 

Week 96: Wolverine

Fun fact: did you guys know that Wolverine was a Canadian? I attached some proof.

(For real though Wolverine is actually Canadian)

This week was pretty awesome. We have been teaching this guy named Mike, and he is progressing pretty smoothly. We brought a member with us to the appointment, and at some point Mike asked about the word of wisdom. He said that there is no way he could give up coffee. The member who we were with explained the word of wisdom briefly and Mike still didn't know if he could handle it. We ended up leaving the lesson on a pretty good note. He committed to come to church and continue to meet with us.  We were biking around going to see different people later that day and we ended up running into Mike again. He looked again to us and said, "boys, that coffee pot has been staring at me all day, and it's telling me that I need to get rid of it." I thought it was pretty interesting how he felt after we left.

Work has been going super good here in Oak Ridge, I really like the church members here and even biking around  isn't so bad, but I mean I wouldn't mind having a car. Hahaha.

Well, I wasn't able to get to a computer today so my standard short emails from a tablet come another week!

Miss yall

Love

Elder Christensen