Monday, June 16, 2014

2014-06-16 "Loser? Ah, how about I pull one of yo antennas out of your head. Then who's the loser, me or you!?"

Hello my beautiful family!!!
Once upon a time, this was an interesting week. Some happenings this week include, one of our potential investigators passing on (that was pretty sad.. she was only about 30), stake conference (which was super amazing! We basically have a President Gottfredson here.. President Abou, he's awesome), and, yup, you guessed it, lots of finding (which has been much less successful this last transfer... people will let us teach them once or twice, and then just be "busy" from then on....).
Today, we remembered randomly that sometime like, 19 years ago, I was like... a baby or something? We thought it was pretty cool. So we decided to go grab a pizza. It was a good call. We found a place that makes pretty legit pizza. And then we ate it. I do believe that pizza in Italian means food of the gods. Maybe its greek? Na, must be Italian. like, "fra-ji-le..." Basta, its a good thing to eat. Even though it makes you fat. Being fat isn't fun. Unless you're fat enough to pass off as being pregnant and can use that to get through long lines faster!

There is this delicious thing that my comp makes. Its called "Mango float." Imagine sweetened condensed milk, cream, graham crackers, and fresh mangoes, all frozen in the freezer making a layered cake.... OOooooo, AAAAaaaaahhhh, OOOooooo (kinda like we are watching fire works, except that I am making these sounds as I eat the mango float.) "It's good, it's like a short bread cookie thing with like cream in the middle, and it's like (notices staring), it's good (cough)." -Hoodwinked. "Well what are you waiting for? Something amazing I guess!" -Incredibles.
Hmm, ano pa, oh ya! I went on exchanges with Elder Gacer in my old area, Basud!!! Gacer is a new trainee, he's pretty awesome. We had an awesome balla time in Basud! We kinda wrecked it up there. We have some boss teaching. Like, ya, it was good. He is native, I can teach, I can speak pretty well in lessons (like, pretty much fluent there... not too many problems), and put the two of us together and you just have some Astig Teaching! yeah, it was a good call. Me + him = awesomeness. Yup, and it was super good to see all my old investigators again! They are progressing well. Joel is back and doing well!!

P.S. I love Google Translate!!!!! hahahahahahaha, so, once upon a time, I just goolge translated some of my own Tagalog to see what you guys see. For all you that are interested, astig means awesome! haha, I'm not calling you all brutes!!! Hahaha, Google translate says some very funny things. Try not to draw too many conclusions from reading my Tagalog, your translation may yet be faulty! Just an awesome FYI.
Hmm, some other awesomeness that happened to me yong lingo na ito... Well, Adrian is still doing very well with his walking. We are finding lots of awesome people in Fairview with him. We found Two girls two weeks ago that are looking pretty promising. We might be baptizing them... but it'll probably be after I leave.
Oh, And its transfers this week, but once again, I get to stay here!!! I have one more transfer in my first area! I am super happy. I love this area. We have a super duper awesome ward! Especially the bishop and his family. And the Santillans (their dad just moved to Manila for work... hopefully he can save up enough money to get married and then he can get baptized...). And Adrian... And like, everyone! I do love this area and I am super excited I get it for another six weeks! By the end of this transfer I will have spent 6 months in this area! Its a good call.

Anywho, gotta run! We gots ourselves an appointment right now!! Love you all tons! Keep being awesome! Peace Out!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

2014-06-12 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELDER MATTY MATT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your momma misses you!

2014-06-09 "And there'll be little flags on the hood, with HB on the them. Yeah, for enormous BIG HEAD!!!"

Hello my dearest family!!
Haha, yes, I may have stolen that quote from you Stephanie, but it made me laugh a little... of course the rest of you know it though!! You probably can all imitate the voice too! If not, dad, Shame on You!!! haha, joke lang, joke lang!

So, once upon a time, lets all say it together, 'I had a freaking awesome kick-butt week!!!!!' haha, bet nobody knew that was coming! haha, but for real! this week was way way awesome!!!
First, my bestest creation, (You slapped a fish!! You just... Punched it!!) the Santillan baptism this week!!!! So first, to preface it, brother is unmarried still, so he isn't baptized yet... and then Jasper moved back to his grandparents house for the year. So he will have to wait to be baptized till next week... that was sad. But Francine and Fria got baptized this week!!!! It was the best thing ever!! It was a super beautiful baptism. And the Santillan girls have become super good friends with bishops daughters, so bishops daughter did a solo at the baptism. It was actually really good, especially considering that nobody played the piano with her and she is only 11.. yup, it was cool beans! So they got baptized. Awesomeness!!! Haha, one time I was joking with Francine and told her the baptism by fire happened in this little tub thing we found while we were at the church... and that she might not have any hair afterwords... I think she was a little confused and extremely relieved when we did not light her on fire afterwords!!! Haha, woops! The good thing is, she understood that she would be receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. So... ya...
Another good story from this week, once again, Sherwin came to church this week! And this time he brought his wife and daughter!!! Haha, and everyone thought he was a member this week cause he totally shut down old man again in priesthood. He says some dumb things some times, but Sherwin knows his stuff! haha, its a good call. Always remember, if you have an investigator that attends your class.. try not to deep doctrine them. Its confusing for them... and it'll be really embarrassing if an investigator shuts you down!!! haha, he is a stud. I think he is not married though... that would be a problem. the common down fall of the Philippines.
"I will give place no more, for the enemy of my soul." Also known as laundry!!! "I hate [laundry]!!! I hate it!!!!" (said while covering my face with gray hair and laying in bed, I'm also animated and fat.... go figure.). Haha, "Welcome to another episode of Laundry Wars. Only on Missionary Planet." Once upon a time, I went to battle with my laundry.... it ended with me taking it to the laundromat cause I am sick of doing it by hand!!! But I see that some people have done their homework... Haha, "silly rabbit, tricks are for kids!"
So this week, once upon a time we went to teach Nanay Liwanag (yes Dallin, that is really her name, haha). But she wasn't there. So we saw her grandkids and were like, "Seguro, gusto mong makinig sa amin?" Almost the most pathetic plead in the history of the world for someone to listen to you... and surprisingly, we got the most enthusiastic yes I have ever heard! So we taught them an awesome lesson! They look like they have some really good potential!
This other time, we were having a district activity at the beach. The ZL's district happened to be there too. They happen to have a rugby playin poly in there district that had a rugby ball with him.... we were playing volley ball... I was gone before anybody could say anything! It felt so good to hold a rugby ball in my hands again!!! Rugby is gonna be in heaven... otherwise... it'll just not be heaven to me! I imagine I will have the same feelings that I had holding that rugby ball when I hold my first child someday. Looking down at the beautiful, sand-covered ball, I said, "Its ok baby, daddy's got you." Haha, ok, maybe that is a little bit stretched. But I had a good time with that ball. It was a super good time! Speaking of which, does anybody know how my boys did at nationals this year?
Sigi, I think that's all for this week. I gotta run!!! Peace and lovin all yalls!

Elder Christensen 

2014-06-02 Pics! (Finally)


 This first one is the Lake in Bibirao...b-day pics for my momma!  Only a little late.
 The flowers at the river...
My new comp!  Elder Mariano!  Astig siya!
Hmm, don't think I've sent this yet...this is me...And as Dallin says, I'm probably pointing at food.  Don't know what else would be interesting enough to point at!

2014-06-02 "Wow, is my hair out?!"

Ibig-sabihin, my comp got a hair cut... he feels bald. In case you were all wondering. Ah, he's still pogi! So how is my wonderful family doing this fine day?!?! Basically, your all gonna hate me again. I am completely brain dead and have no idea what happened this week (this happens to me every week.....), but anywho, this week was once again a spectacular week!!!
So, first, you all need to realize how wonderful your washers and dryers are. Homework for tonight. Go to your washer, put your arms around it (you may feel slightly sheepish, but your washer will appreciate it... not to mention it'll give me a good laugh) and tell your washer that you love it. Your washer saves you a lot of hard work! Appreciate it! This week, I decided that I need to get caught up completely on laundry, but of course every day you add to it (especially if you have my shirts! Mom, don't let josh get the kind of shirts I have! They are a magnet for dirt! My two long sleeve ones that are regular material don't do this.... but they are long sleeve! So of course I don't wear them....). So, I did laundry every night... I have now given up, I am taking my clothes to a laundromat! I hate laundry!
On a slightly better note (slightly is like, so underexaggerated its like saying that Mount Timpanogos is a slight bump in the earth), Sherwin (the guy I OYM'd at the SM) came to church yesterday!!! He rescheduled work and showed up with his daughter! Man that guy is a stud. He finished the BoM again. This old guy was trying to deep doctrine everyone in Gospel Principles, and Sherwin just is like, "That's not how it is," And then he pulled out a story from the BoM and straightened him out... What?!?! This is before we have ever even had like a legit lesson with this guy! We have talked about Joseph Smith, but this is all just coming from his own research, this guy is a stud! So, basically, talk to everyone about the gospel! You never know when your gonna find a Sherwin!
Guess what else! So, for those of whom do not remember the Abihay family. They are less active. Their father is offended and he and his wife don't exactly follow all the commandments. They follow the major ones... but... yeah. They are less active. Well, their 8 year old son decided he wants to go on a mission! So we have been teaching him BoM stories at his house. Some of the other kids in that neighbor hood have been listening too!!! All of the kids in that neighborhood love me. Its rather nice. When they see us coming, [they know my name now!!] they are like, "Elder Christen" (they can't seem to get the last part down!), They always want "Up-Here's"... anywho, they have started listening too! Elder Mariano is really good at telling stories to little kids. I am working on that. I can tell them in English, but it takes some thought in Tagalog. Wow, anywho, the kid that is 8 (I am getting side-tract), he came to church this last week! And the Santillan kids were friend shipping him... Gotta love them.
Speaking of the Santillan kids, All the kids are finally getting baptized this week!!! Saturday my friends! I am super pumped for them! They are all way ready. Unfortunately, the oldest boy, Jasper, is then moving out to live with his grandparents. He used to live with them, and then came here for the summer, and his grandparents through a fit, so they are sending him back out for one more year... sad day.

So Saturday was also my comps birthday. So today we made some delicious food that we will eat tonight. I am rather excited. And the ZL's (that we live with) said they are gonna make us some bicol express sometime! I am super pumped!

Well, that's all folks, I can't remember my week. Gotta run. Peace Out!

2014-05-26 "Why do you have a bag on your head?"

Kumusta kayo yung pinakapagmamahal pamilya ko!!!!!
How the stink are yalls?!?! I hope you had a fantastic week. Because once again, I did!!! (It's almost becoming a chorus now, I don't remember not having a stinking awesome astig na lingo!!!! If I don't say it sometimes, just know, its a thing) So basically, I forgot my camera again.... Yeah, I am really glad that I am not serving stateside right now, because I think my mother would at this time, crucify me... I can just see her right now as she realizes I have no pics again, stirring the people up against me, like in the video of Christ when Pilate brings Christ out on the balcony, and then there's the old tatay down in the crowed.... "Crucify.. crucify him... CRUCIFY HIM!!!! (with her arms shaking over her head)" And then the crowed joins in and they all start yelling "Crucify Him!!" And then Pilate washes his hands.... Yeah.... I am sorry about the pics. You know the good news though!? I'm not in the U.S., and if I were, I would certainly hope that this is just me writing for the sake of writing, and my mother loves me enough not to crucify me for having no pictures. But I'll most certainly have my camera next week!!!!!!
So once upon a time, there was an elder. His name was Elder Christensen. He taught many people! The end.
If you have any questions, please forward them to my inbox...




You have no Idea how badly I wanted to just send that... It would have been quite entertaining, and I really have no idea what went on this week!!!!
Lets see, the Santillans didn't church again this week, so we have to postpone there baptism one more week... But their dad did come play basketball this morning with us... he is super astig!!!! There family is doing well, and ready for baptism!
Tapos, my Tagalog is getting a TON better! I love having a Filipino as my companion!!! It is so so so so SUPER duper helpfull! I mean, it aint nothing but a thing, but I can communicate now! Yeah!! Holla at your boy! Gus, we need the Super Sniffer.
Umm, honestly, this is just a really bad week again as far as memory goes!! We got punted a lot, and we did a lot of teaching. We have an awesome boy in Bibirao that is going to get his family reactivated because he wants to mission and he wants to know the BoM. Mom, I don't have time to write this. Maybe you can send to everyone else a shortened version about what I told to you about Bibirao...
Ummm, other than that. We were ninjas. We did awesome things. We talked to everyone... Oh yeah! We talked to that guy at the SM again. He hasn't come to church yet still, but that's cause he has work. He is trying to change up his schedule, so that his half day off comes on Sunday for church. He read the BoM once, and now he is half way through Alma again... He is a stud! That was in like, 4 weeks!!!!!
We also taught this guy this week about the Restoration, we had a killer lesson with him, and now he wants to be baptized. "That was a really nice story." - Kid History - "I forgot to say that."
Nanay Brioso dissappeared on us. Her husband was being a wicked man, so she left him. She is apparently still in our area somewhere, but we haven't found her yet. When we do, we will re-extend her baptismal date.

Anywho, we are late again to our FHE. Gotta run! Love you all! Peace!

2014-05-19 "Get back witch!!!!""I'm not a witch, I'm your wife! But after what you just said, I'm not even sure I want to be that anymore!!!!!!"

Hello family!!!!
So basically, this stinks, I am supposed to be at an FHE right now, so I gotta run, this is gonna be really short and crummy! Sorry!!!! Mother, I took some beautiful pics in Bibirao for you of the river and the flowers there... But I forgot my card reader, so I will have to get you a late present next week.. Sorry!!! But Happy Birthday!!! Love you much!!!!
For anyone who is interested in knowing...the Philippines is hot. Imagine being inside a rice cooker... in a shirt and tie. Walking long distances.... (I say rice cooker for three reasons... one, because its humid here, much like a rice cooker. Two, because I eat rice three meals a day, so rice is on my mind. Actually, its on my everything, I'm made of rice right now, and yes, that means I'm fat. And three, because its hot and humid here, like a rice cooker, and I don't know how else to say that... And four, rice is an amusing thing... Did you know that if you throw it and it is sticky, it sticks to the wall? Hmm, it also takes a while to clean up... don't ask, just know its a thing.)
For anyone else who is interested in knowing... The power on our street is pretty much the worst in the entire city. For some random reason our street will be the only one that will turn off... literally... And you would think with the mayor living right down the street he would get that fixed!!! But no, he does not. So often times, we have no fans... It also makes taking a shower interesting... since you don't have any light its hard to locate the bucket of water... and your soap.... tut tut. Woe is me!
Hmm, for the majority of our week, see FINDING. See also, for more details, TRACTING, CONTACTING LESS ACTIVES, PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH KIDS, and BEING AWESOME. Under these sections you will find the remainder of our awesomeness... The awesomeness is too great to withhold to this puny email in which I have no time to write! Just know, believe, have faith, repent, and endure to the end in your belief that I am doing awesome things...
P.S. I am going to eventually find a soap box and do this thing how missionaries used to do it... Real missionary work! I'm gonna stand on my soap box and preach some real repentance to these people!!!!!! "And the awesomeness was exceedingly great." Oi, Bibirao is a far area though... it can take up to two hours to walk to the farther parts... "in so much that they were exceedingly sore."
The Santillans had their Bap. Int. this week!!!! They passed!!!! Unfortunately, Francine wasn't there for the last lesson or the interview, and Jasper didn't come to church... so we have to postpone until next week... oh well, super exciting!!!!!!
Ummmmm, once upon a time, two elders walked into a bar. Actually, it was only one elder, the other was a Philippino and walked right under it.... the elder was immediately flattened. That's all!
Another interesting story, is that my comp is a really good cook. He is cooking some fantastic things with food... as a result, my belly did grow....... Troubles of a missionary...
Well, I am really sorry that I don't have a lot of success stories this week, but I gotta run!!!!! Love you all!!!! Peace Out!!!!

The Middle (cause see, next week I'll be writing another letter, so it isn't the end yet...)

Thursday, May 15, 2014

2014-05-11 "Man will fly someday!""Ha! Just like a ROCK!!!!"



Hello there my beautiful family!!!

So basically, the rundown this week is gonna be less than amazing this week... but that's ok because I just talked to you all!!!!! Which was super good by the way! Love you!!!

So, this week, on Tuesday I went down early in the morning to Naga for transfers. Since Elder Packard was just going over to Basud, he didn't travel with me. So my temporary companion was Elder Panti (yes, like ladies underwear...). So me and my Panti rode the bus together, kinda weird first of all that I had a Panti to call my own, and even weirder that I left it on the seat next to me!!!! Haha, he's a good elder though, just one transfer older than me. Way cool. When we got down to Naga I saw Elder Tuitavake!!!!! Love that man!!!! You guys will all have to meet him when we get back. He says he'll probably move out to Utah and go to BYU. I am super excited for that! Man that man is an animal! (Pops, that's a good thing, in a sense I am saying that he is super awesome... He is very awesome, see previous emails for confirmation) Then we had a big meeting where we all got paired up, and I got a Filipino!!!! I am super pumped! In just a few days my Tagalog skills have gone way way way way waaaaaaay up!!!!!! The name is Elder Mariano. He is the stuff. After that we had a three hour buss ride back. We had time for one visit that night to the Santillan family. They are awesome.

This week was really slow with the split area. We spent tons and tons of time tracting and looking for LA to teach. It was a pretty successful week. We have a lot of potentials!

Yesterday was Elder Packard's B-Day! Because he is still in my District tonight we are having an FHE and we are bringing a cake for him! Its gonna be the bomb. Elder Mariano has a b day in a few weeks too... Dankness (Pops, this one means pretty much the same think as Dope, or Awesome... another good word. Actually, I wouldn't suggest Dope for your vocabulary, but maybe dankness would be a good one! I do like that word... anywho...).

Other than that, the old AP just got "Kicked out of office." Now he is our ZL. Pretty cool stuff. And because the ZL's live with us, he is now my kabahay. Dankness (There's that word again... a good one. Nephi should have used it, I do believe it would make the scriptures a little bit more interesting to the rising generation.. wait, get this, how sick would the scriptures be coming from a teenage american... like Dallin! Except three years ago... that would be pretty rad [this one Pops is somewhat like Dank or Dope... Except this ones origin is more from the punk era... also known as a word coming from Brenna McAllister...] ).

Other than that this week is getting really fuzzy... much like a mold, or a fungus.. except not, more like a drunk kind of fuzzy.. don't worry, I'm clean!

Well, I love you all! I'll talk to you all next week!!!! Peace Out! (A traditional way of ending letters in some cultures. Mostly cultures of punk and awesomeness.. In other words it says, "So long, fair well, see you later, have a nice day, keep the peace in the air, Peace is not "In with the hood" insinuating that violence is, Outside is peaceful, or in Tagalog, Kapayapaan sa labas!, which makes absolutely no sense....).


2014-05-05 "Lump in my oatmeal!"

Hello Family!!!
Its been a wonderful week here in the Philippines! And its hot hot hot!!
So this week has been kinda crazy! We have transfers coming up, and we had Sister Santillan stuck in the hospital... crazy stuff!!! Splitting the area has been kinda crazy. Its official. Elder Packard is headed over to Basud, and I am staying in Daet. The bad news is, all of our new investigators, everyone we have been finding, all the work we have  been doing... has been in Basud... So, I will have the Santillan Family to work with, a new comp, and a lot of tracting to do!!!! Haha, it'll be good fun. New comp eh? Thats some pretty salty stuff!!! I'm crossing my fingers that he is Filipino. I really need a Filipino if I am ever gonna get this language down!!!

So, last monday we had Sister Santillan in the hospital. She couldn't get out cause she couldn't afford the procedure and she had to pay before she could leave... so our amazing bishop pulled a miracle, and now momma Santillan and baby are now happily at home!!! We are super happy about that!!!
Hmm, so last week, our wonderful ward mother (Sister De Gouzman.. Bishops wife) made me and my comp 150 ice candies... thats a ton!! Ask dallin, its really good, and a lot of it. So we have been eating that all week, and we are not finished yet... So thats been nice.
So we have neighbors.. go figure. You would have thought we would have realized that sooner. Suprise! One is white! That is super weird. There are no white people here. If we ever see white people here, either they are missionaries, or it is Stan... our neighbor. Anywho, he had us over the other day and fed us Pork Chops... delicious pork chops. He has a grill... those don't exist here... It was nice to talk to him. He is super friendly, but he isn't to interested.... sad day... we'll keep trying with him.

Our other neighbors who actually live in the same appartment, just a door down, we got to talk to them this week! They are super nice and invited us to come talk to them some time. We totally will!
So Adrian... The one with the phobia. We have been trying to help his family life too. He and his mom don't trust each other at all. And they have a hard time together. He really needs his moms support if he is gonna overcome his fear. Well, the report this week is that there is improvement!!! We had a super intense lesson with him and his mom, we were trying really hard not to offend people but also open them up a bit. The lesson was a success!!! We talked to them separately and they both say there is improvements in the home and they are doing a little better... Hopefully the improvements continue!!! Adrian is totally awesome. And the reason they are improving is because they are reading the Book of Mormon and doing things that invite the spirit into their home!!!
So, its transfers now. Half of our district is being transfered... I'll spend the next couple days traveling to Naga, getting my new comp, and then getting started into our rather baren area. Its gonna be awesome!!!
Well, sorry if the email is no good, but I am outa time, gotta run. Love you all!! Keep being awesome! Peace Out

2014-04-28 "There is no such thing as bad news. There is just news."" Tailung escaped!"".... That is bad news.."

Hello there family!!!!!

How are all you beautiful people doing?!?! It sounds like your all awesome, which is just fantastic. So, once upon a time, it was another totally awesome week here!!! Sobrang astig yung lingo ko! Pero, medio mahirap sa martes at mierkoles dahil masaket si Elder Packard. Kailangang namin stay sa loob yung bahay namin... medio dissapointing yan...

So, yes, Tuesday and Wednesday we had to stay inside because Elder Packard (companion) was hurt. Basketball.... tut-tut rough yan! Poor guys ankle... "Last night, my toe... was as big as my face!" Yup, so we were inside. But Tuesday we had bishops wife check it out, and while we were out we went and taught a lesson, and then the next day he was feeling well enough by night for an appointment. So thus far my record is perfect. Even with sickness and injury I have been out proselyting every day of my mission... yeah. That's whats up son! Just because I said that I am gonna end up breaking my ankle next or something....

So, this week was a good call though! We taught lots of good lessons, and Adrian! Man that boy is a stud! He still wants to go on a mission.. last week while we were out walking he had a session... it was pretty bad. It took us several hours to calm him down. But man he is a stud. Because of that we knew that returning was gonna be really hard. I didn't think we were gonna be able to go back for a while... but the very next day he went back with us!!!! He is still improving like crazy! Love him. He still teaches with us when we teach Ryan. And now Ryan is improving well too! Tonight we are gonna have a FHE with him. I am super excited for him. He is gonna teach the lesson. What would be really cool, because of his fear of leaving far from his home, if he overcomes his fear enough to mission, maybe it would be possible he would get called to the Naga mission to keep him close to home... and then get this, I train him! It would be super tight! And very unlikely, but possible!!!
So our favorite family, the Santillan now has two new members of the family (well, kinda....)! Their dad went and picked him up from Manila this last week. He is 11. Way tight! Their family is amazing and they are progressing way well! Only hold up is the marriage... the children might have to get baptized first because the marriage might take a while. They were waiting to start on that till sister had her baby, and this morning, she had her baby!!!! And she is super cute! We went and saw her this morning at bishops. The scary thing was that sister didn't do well and they were actually afraid that she might not make it, but like... two minutes ago we found out she will be ok. So we are super excited! There family just went from 5 to 7 in like... 7 days.
This morning we had a district activity on the beach. We played volleyball... It was super hard to resist the urge to jump in the water and jump in the waves.. oo, that was rough. But I did it! I'll try to get a pic for ya.
Haha, we were teaching Leo this week about Adam and Eve... haha, we were like, "so, what happened when they ate the fruit?" Cause he said he knew the story... he was like, "uhhh.... they turned to stone?" Hahahaha, not quite. Close, I think your thinking salt, and that would be Lots wife. Or maybe Medusa... Hahaha, it was funny though. He is still doing awesome. But he has lots of work so its hard to teach him.
So the other week we found Ten friends hanging out that are all way interested. Gloria is the nanay that lives there.... so Gloria and company.. Yup, they are super awesome. Lots of them already want baptism... its just hard to teach them all together... but they are leaving on a trip today (some of them), so I probably won't be seeing them again. But they are super dope!!!

Anywho, that's all I can remember for now. Peace out! Love Ya!





The First one is us on the Beach.. playing Volleyball.
This is part of our area... by the way that green grass is the path we were walking on... its super gorgeous... be jealous!!!
Oh, and I invented a rat trap.. that's what that last one is... Here are the ingredients:
1 medium sized bucket
Water
Instructions:
Fill the bucket mostly full of water.
Yup, that's it. We had 4 rats commit suicide in the bucket. I think they were trying to drink and then fell in. Tight!!!! Yup, that's our lesson for today on how to get rid of rats! Love you all! Peace Out!!!



2014-04-21 PICS!!!!



Us on the beach for the service project.











This is Bishop and his wife and one of his daughters. Bishop is a stud!!! Love them!












That's Adrian on the left with his Bagong Gupit! Pogi siya. And Ryan on the right. The investigator that just came back and told us he wants to be baptized.












Oi! And I just figured out how to send that as an attachment!!! That last pic is the Banana Soup that Ryan made for us!

2014-04-21 "They call him P-diddy for short. What, cause it takes all day to say "Puff!" Whew! I'm exhausted!"

Hey there fam!!!!
So its been a good week here in the Philippines! A little bit slow because its Holy Week. But a good week never the less! Unfortunately, I am already overtime, so I gotta write this fast and get outta here!!!

So on Monday we had a FHE with Bishop and our Investigating family the Santillans!!! It was super good! Bishop is a stud, and I love the Santillian family. Best Family ever. And there was food. "Can life get better? I submit that it can not!!!"

We played a slow game of football this week with maraming punts! But it was cool beans because it gave us time to find new investigators! Not to many though, because everyone was out for holy week. Not gonna lie, it was a temptation that I faced to preach on a soap box out in the middle of one of there conventions. Holding the Book of Mormon over head yelling, "Magsisi Kayo!!!" or in other words, "Repent ye!" But I resisted the temptation.

The other thing that was awesome is that we got caught up in a parade of greif for Black Friday. They all had candles and marched solemnly to a very depressing song with a statue of the Savior crusified in the front... That was interesting.

Also, one of our investigators that dissappeared came back and said that he got an answer that he needs to be baptized!!! That was nice. He has a lot of work to do before that, but it was super tight! Then he made us delicious banana soup for dinner!

Oh, and one of the elders here played for Highland back in the day! We got to talking and we've totally been playing against each other for years!!! It was fun to talk to him.

Tom moved... He didn't get baptized... and he is going back to a house of Jehovah's Witnesses... That'll be interesting. Hopefully he will find missionaries there and he will decide to get baptized... but that was pretty sad to see him go.

Brother Santillan has a kid in Manila that he wants to get baptized with their family. So Sunday he left up to Manila to go get him! He is gonna be baptized too! Super excited for them! I'll try to get a picture of them to you today or next week. They are my favorites!!!

We got to go to Mercedes Saturday for a service project! It was super awesome!! The beach was sobrang maganda! And It was actually a pretty clean beach. There were lots of kids there that now all consider me to be there best friend. Yeah, that's whats up son! Pretty much anybody 6 years and younger thinks I am the best. Because you see when your that young you have fun without talking. Everyone else realizes how hard it is to talk to me and I am the "eh" missionary...

And, McDonalds opened up right down the street from the computer shop. So we totally had a big mac last week! What?!?!?! That was awesome.
And I just deleted this email. Luckily I got it back though... that was intense.. like the fire at the circus! Not very unmuch like camping.

Anywho, sorry this email sucks.. like a vacuum. Gotta run! Peace Out!

2014-04-13 "And we played the first thing that came to our heads, and it just so happened to be. The best song in the world. It was the best song in the world."

Hello Family! I hope you all had an awesome week!!! I'm really sorry, my emails are starting to get lame... because once again I am outta time and gotta run!!! But, First of all, I love the fam! Air Hugs to yalls! Second, conference was dope! We just got to see it yesterday! super dope yan! Ok, and now, I'll have to be brief, like the underwear.

So, Joel is actually leaving for two months now, and when he gets back, he won't be in my area. So Joel is gone. That was sad. But he is still super dope!
Once upon a time I was forced to drink tons and tons of soda... I am not saying i like it yet..... but its growing on me... like a fungus. Not very much unlike a mold, slightly different from a mushroom. But it doesn't taste as good as either.
Also, my fear of spiders has not changed. A certain family found this out. And now they wait with baited breath for my coming always to throw spiders at me! Yeah!!!! I kinda set myself up for that... But, to prove that I was not a little girl I let them put a particularly large one in my hand..... man my insides felt.... squeamish. I didn't like that.
You know what I did like? The curry that I made this week. You know what I didn't like? The feijoada that I made... I didn't notice that the beans were "salted." Ya, It was like trying to eat the ocean with some rice and some very very sweet meat. Worst flavor in my life. So my cooking isn't perfect. But, no matter! We are really good at top ramen! This week we are gonna try Mac and Cheese!!! They don't really have cheese, but I'm gonna give it a try!
We met this lady named Gloria about two weeks ago. We started teaching her and her 10 friends that she happened to have over. Now they are all coming and are committed to baptism!!! We are super pumped for them!
My Tagalog is a work in progress. People give me some very funny looks sometimes. The beautiful thing is that I don't know what I have said wrong! Like, the other day as we were leaving this part member family, I was talking to the mom and asked her if between visits she could help him identify when he reads and stuff, the feelings of the spirit. It came off that she thought I was saying she was distracting from the spirit during the lessons and she was very offended until we finally cooled the fire... Woops!!!!

Anyways, this is just a rubbish letter. But I gotta run! Love you all! Peace Out!!!

2014-04-06 "It did not matter how many foes he faced! They were no match for his bodacity!!!!"

Hello Family!!!!!
So, twas another unreal week! But this week I truly have no time!!
So basically, the awesome things, we had Zone Conference. President is an amazing man. For part of ZC though, we watched a talk by Tad R. Callister. The Blue Print of the Church or something like that. Kinda an unreal talk. Everyone should watch it!
And this week we killed it! Like... yeah, on record this is the best week we have had. We found heaps of people. We have heaps of people moving towards baptism. We have Less Actives coming back to church. Adrian is teaching with us! He is getting over his Phobia! He actually looked it up and its a thing. Its got a name... yeah, but he is starting to do very well.
Tom is going super awesome! He has his Baptismal interview this week!!!!! Such a stud siya! He is leaving soon though, which is sad. He introduced us to someone else in his area and she has a baptismal date now!!!
If you don't remember Joel, he is the one that asked for missionaries and now he reads everything he can get his hands on. He cant afford to go to church in Daet, but now that it is in Basud, he can walk there!!!! I am super excited for him. His problem is now the same problem that everyone has here. He needs to get married, which is expensive, so he won't be able to do that for a while.... Sad day. Love Him!
This week I literally talked to everyone and there Dog!!! We have a couple new investigators as a result, at my Tagalog is improving a ton!!! Hopefully when I talk to Dallin at Mothers Day we can speak in Tagalog!!! Its gonna be a thing.
You know what else is a thing. Spaghetti. I totally had a dream last night that the children here were chasing me trying to eat my Spaghetti. Basically imagine Braxton McCallister running away from children with spaghetti in hand, being a ninja. That was my dream. Except that it was me. And not Braxton. Only the power of the spaghetti combined with me and my awesome mind, can I ever achieve awesomeness like his...
Anywho, we were missionaries this week. We did awesome missionary things. Like teach. Confound smart people (like a random reporter that wanted to bible bash), and basically be awesome. That was us. But I don't have time to fill you in on the details, so imagine the spaghetti, and imagine me, and imagine missionaries, and you are imagining my week.
Love you all! Hope that's good enough to satisfy the cravings you all have to know whats going on in the life of Elder Christensen. Oh, by the way, you need to imagine meat balls in the Spaghetti.

Love You all! Peace till next week! (afterward, there will be major destruction!!). Gotta run!

2014-03-30 "Why do you have a bag on your head?!?!

Hello my beautiful family!!! How are yalls doing?! I heard a certain brother of mine is back in the area! Give that man some lovin for me!
Well, as far as I go, my week was super maganda! We found an apartment for the new elders. Now president is not sure whether he wants to do an emergency transfer and split the area now (the most likely thing is that Packard and I will be split if that happens, and Packard will go with the new area) or wait till the end of the transfer.... We shall see. The work was a little bit slower this week but it was still a super good week!!
First, Alma came back from Manila! She left right after we baptized her. She is still going to Saudi Arabia for the next two years starting Thursday, but it was super good to see her again at church yesterday!! She is awesome!
Good news, Tom decided he is not leaving yet! so we will still be having his baptism in.. 3 weeks now? Yeah! I am super pumped for him! Apparently he has just been blindly believing us this whole time, and we finally got him to pray about the Book of Mormon and he got an answer! Finally! It has been strange arguing the counter arguments so that he realizes that there may be a possibility that it isn't true in order to freaking get him to pray about it! But he did pray, and he did get an answer, just like we promised him he would!
The Santillans are amazing! I will try to get a picture for you! There dad had kinda the same thing happen this week as Tom. But he has an amazing testimony, and amazing faith. They are gonna be baptized at the end of the month. They are gonna be having a child probably this week. And the baby will be the Brother of Jared!!! (Jared is his 3 year old brother... cutest kid in the whole world. We are good pals...).
Haha, so one time we were on the jeepney, and I was talking to this old guy, but he couldn't really here. I ended up inviting him to listen to us right before he left, but I had to basically shout it... yeah... after he left I turned around and felt like I was a vulture eyeing my prey! I turned on them and I could feel all the heads looking away from me. Then it was just like, alright, who wants to talk to me next! Bring it on! Hahaha, yeah, woops, cats out of the bag, I want you all to listen to me!!!!
Bah, I always forget the journal..... Well, Cool story about a kid we are teaching. His name is Adrian. He has a phobia of leaving his neighborhood and hasn't even left it in three years. He does everything we ask him though and he has a lot of faith. He wants to serve a mission some day. But cant leave his neighborhood. We've had a string of like, 8 lessons with him that have just been KILLER AWESOME!!!!! Spiritual monster lessons those. Well, he has a lot of faith, but we all decided, its time to start exercising his faith. So we decided, since his problem is fear, we are walking him out to his "boundary," going a little bit further, he gets scared, we have to stop, and then we teach a lesson, bring the spirit really strong, and it chases the fear away. And he can enjoy that area. And then we keep walking, when we have to stop again, we say the closing prayer there, and then walk him home. He progressed a ton this week!!! The main road his about a 15 minute walk from his house. He could walk about five minutes from his house... we are hoping to reach the main road withing the next two weeks or so. It'll be a while before he can make it to church, but it is good to see him exercising his faith and getting out! He's the stuff! Love him.
Well, that's kinda it for this week! I love you all! And I hope you have tons of fun. Dallin still can't get married till I get home, so Dallin, "You better get comfortable down there, real comfortable." -Remember the Titans.

Haha, Peace out Family!

Monday, March 24, 2014

2014-03-23 "Well, he's not as dead as we would have hoped..."" Kroooonk!!!



The Second Epistle of Matthew to his brethren in the land of Utah 
Chapter 2
1. And the Elder did say unto his brethren, "Lovest thou me?"
2. And they answered unto the Elder, and said, "Yeah Elder, we do love thee." And he said unto them, "feed my Inbox."
3. Then he saith unto them again, "Lovest thou me."
4. And they replied again unto him again, "Yeah Elder, we do love thee." And he said unto them again, "feed my Inbox."
5. And then he saith unto them a third time, "Lovest thou me?" And they replied, "Yea Elder, Thou knowest that we love thee." And he saith unto them, "Fill my mailbox. That I may have reason to rejoice when I shall enter therein to the computer shop. 
6. And thus saith the Elder unto his brethren in the Land of Utah, for they had given unto him no such thing. They had not headed unto the words of their brother in the wilderness when he did cry unto them with one voice, and in one accord, saying unto them, that they should read these things, and ponder them in their hearts, that they might know of a surety of themselves that the elder did want their letters. 
7. And the elder did prophesy many things unto them, concerning the desires of there hearts, but they would not heed unto him, insomuch that the elder did receive no mail. 
8. The Elder wept.
Chapter 3
1. And now I say unto you, how think ye? If a man have an hundred people to write, and one of them hath written back, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth unto the one, and respondeth unto that which hath written him? 
2. And if so be that he find that one hath written him, verily, I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that person, than of the ninety and nine which did not write. 
3. Even so, it is not meet that man should be alone. So it must needs be that he receiveth mail from his brethren. 
Chapter 4
1. And Behold, there was a man which did want to write his brother. And they asked him, saying, is it lawful to send letters on the sabbath day? that they might accuse him. 
2. And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
3. How much then is an Elder better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath day. 
4. And thus spoke the elder in parables unto his brethren. And this, that his brethren would understand the meaning of the saying, write thine brethren in the mission field, that thine days may be prolonged upon the land. But his brethren understood it not, for he received no mail. 

Haha, anyways, it was quite the awesome week. We started the new group in Basud this week! And now as soon as we can find an apartment for them we are going to have new elders moving in and we are splitting the area!!! We had so many people come to church this week!!! It was awesome! So in the morning we went to Daet for church, and then at 2 we went out to Basud to be with them for there sacrament meeting and other meetings. 6 hours of church! Whew! Ya, after that we walked to Joels house. He is doing just awesome... still struggling as far as work goes, but he's doing a little better I think. We finally got his wife to start listening to us! We are super excited for them! 
The Santillan family came again! There dad is a stud. He had a couple problems with the WofW, but he dropped it just like that, and is gonna be baptized with his kids! He has a kid in Manila that he is gonna have come down for the baptism. 
And because we were starting this new group down in Basud we had a TON of less actives come! Most of them just had a problem coming to church because it was too far. Now because it is so close to them, they are all coming! Super exciting there! 
So the nice thing about this area, is the hardest thing... we just don't have enough time to teach everyone! We weren't looking for new investigators this week and ended up with 6. It is slightly a problem, because we only hit each city twice in a week, and we have so many people that two days isn't enough to get everyone! Its nice, but its rough sometimes. 
Sad news, Tom is now leaving back home sooner than we thought, so now he will be being baptized when he gets home. He'll be solid, but he leaves in a weekish. 
Bah! My memory is aweful! I cant remember exactly what happened this week and my handwriting takes too long to read. So.. Pictures na!

This first picture is me and the two Elders leaving on missions in the next month. The one in the middle is going to Utah! So family, look for him! Elder De Leon! He's a man stud! The other one is going to the Philippines... Hes really awesome too. Both of them work with us a lot, so I am gonna be sad to see them leave.

This one is for Stephanie. Randomly they had an awesome Pineapple hanging on there door. This investigator is unfortunately never home, but there pineapple is now very familiar to me! Hmm, also another thing that I am noticing, they have a dang nice door!!
As you can tell, I like the night photos... I'm not sure this one is as cool as it was for us, but, yeah.... it was a beautiful night! 

Alright, I love you Family! I hope you all have marvolous weeks! (Especially with that brother of mine heading back home!). Peace Out Folks! "Tha that tha thats all for now folks!" -At the end of every Loony Toons


Monday, March 17, 2014

2014--03-17 OOOH the Shame! I put a change in my Name! And I got down hearted, every time that I... Pumba! Not in front of the kids! Oh, Sorry!

Hakuna matata! What a wonderful phrase!

Anyways, sorry, I am singing lion king in my head right now....

How is my wonderfully beautiful family on this fine Monday morning?!?! I hope you are doing as well as me. But, that's doubtful! Oh yes, it was a fantastic week for me! Our week didn't look as good on paper as it did last week, but it was just as good if not better!

So first of all, Tuesday was fantastic because we had Trainers Training. Which means I saw my comps from the MTC! Such a good day! It was so good to see them. It was a very good meeting and it was a very nice time seeing my comps. Elder Tuitavake is on the other side of the mission from me, so that is the only time for a very long time I will see him again, but it was a good call! Unfortunately, I left my journal at home again! So.... yeah, I'll do my best to remember the week.

First off, This morning. The Assistant Ward Mission Leader in our ward is a returned missionary. He is a total stud, just got back from Cali. So this morning we played some ping pong with him for fun. What I was unaware of, is that he is pretty much a ping pong champ. Ping pong is the sport over here! So, I am okay at ping pong, but he was the Bicol Region Representative for Ping Pong... Basically, he is way good. I played him this morning..... I didn't win. haha, yeah, I was actually keeping up with him really well for a long time, and then he spanked me... My comp is actually really good too. He beat me. That one was a lot closer, but... these guys are legit!!! You would have that the Filipino was doing some sort of MMA combat fighting the way he jumped around with his paddle! That was some pretty salty stuff! Anywho, I have been humbled...

So the best part of this week, is that we found an AMAZING family!!!! The mom is a member. The father has a WoW problem, and he and the kids are Catholic. Luckily for us, they live right next to us, so we can visit them any day of the week. So we visited them three times this week. And they were AWESOME lessons!!!!! Sooo good! Basically, they all have baptismal dates, came to church yesterday, and they are just super awesome. Actually, the girls asked us if they could be baptized before we even challenged them! It was way sick! They are always super excited to see us! They are my favorite!

So yesterday, as well as the Santillan (the family previously mentioned), Tom came to church again! He is progressing very nicely to baptism. The problem is, he is only visiting his sister, and in a month-ish, he is gonna be heading home... He is making good progress, and he still comes and teaches with us!!!

So, apparently there is this girl that has been coming to church for sometime that we never knew about. She is the maid of one of the sisters in the ward and is interested in the church. So we taught her this week. Visiting them is their grandpa. He is WAY COOL!!!!! Basically, he is a killer artist! He sells his pictures for thousands of dollars! and he actually has a picture of Christ hanging in Salt Lake somewhere. He is a member. And tattooed head to foot. But he is way cool. And super funny! Josh needs to meet this man, that's all I could think about as I looked at his pictures. They were way cool!

We also went on splits with the ZL's this week. They are way cool! I went with Elder Maroket to his area. It was way cool. Hard, because he is Filipino and didn't translate or anything for me. But I am getting to the point where I can pretty much understand what is going on. I miss lots of words, but usually I know what's going on. It was way fun to teach with him. He is a really good teacher and its always fun to learn from someone like him! We were teaching this LA family. Basically the mother finally told us that when they were baptized her husband prayed about the BoM, but she didn't. He was the one that received the answer, she didn't. And basically she struggles a lot with her testimony, but no matter how much we tried to get her to read the BoM and pray about it, she was just getting offended saying that we were doubting her testimony, which got me really confused, because the whole problem we were trying to fix was her doubting her testimony... Yeah.... she didn't make any sense and I don't know enough Tagalog to help that make sense to her.

Sooooo, yeah, lots of really good stuff happened this week, but I don't remember all of it cause wala journal. Sorry, it is slightly disappointing...

Hmmm, I started reading a little from Jesus the Christ this week... Its way good!!!

Umm.... Oh yeah! So last week I said that there is this awesome lady here, Nanay Abiera. Well, I was talking to her this week, she has has over 175 referral baptisms!!!! She is so unreal! She has a new referral for us like, every week or two. And most of her referrals lead to baptisms. She is way cool. She was studying to be a nun when she found the church. Now she is the best member missionary I know. The missionaries that baptized her had NO IDEA really what exactly they were doing. We could easily start a ward with all the people she has referred to baptism. Easily. Yeah, anyways, she is just my daily dose of inspiration!


Alright, gotta run! Mahal Ko kayo! Kita Kitz! Peace Out!

Monday, March 10, 2014

2014/03/09 "Hey dad, why can't dinosaurs talk?...It's cause they're dead."

Hello Folks!!!
How is my wonderful family doing!?!? For those of you who don't know the quote (said some what like a child bearing his testimony, "for those of you who don't know me, my name is Matt C


hristensen, I 4 years old.) its from Brian Regan. His son made it up. Isn't that wonderful?! haha, maybe not, but i think it is. Anyways, speaking of wonderful things ("rain drops on roses and whiskers on kittens"... hmm... actually I think I recall them being the favorite things, but wonderful works too.) It was another killer-awesome-fabulous-blow-everyone-away kind of week! Oh do I love this area!!!! So basically, the bad news is, I locked my journal in the church yesterday after meetings and now I do not have any kind of notes or anything to go off of! And this week is kind of a blur to me... The other bad news is that I now have The Sound of Music stuck in my head! haha, I guess that's ok.

Ok, so I know that numbers mean nothing, but we seriously found at least one new investigator every day and they are all gonna be quality people! Ten new investigators!!! And they are all awesome! Like, so this one day we were walking down the street and my comp was like, "Kumusta Po Nanay." Basically like, "whats up woman." And he was speaking to a man.... yup, whoops!! So we quickly booked it down the next street, and then we walked up, saw this guy on his porch and started talking to him. He was like, "yeah, I have a Book of Mormon. My wife used to get taught by some sister missionaries last year. We just couldn't put it down! It just made us feel so happy and light inside and we just wanted to know more! Will you come back and teach us when my wife is here?" haha, (jaw drops to the ground, kinda like a Tom and Jerry kind of jaw drop) umm... I suppose we could come back... if you really want us to... we might make you beg though! haha, not! So they are gonna be awesome. This other guy we met was like, "yeah, I have a Book of Mormon. I've been to your church before but its hard for me to get there cause I am old now." No matter! We can help him! Super good week!
So we got this referral from the ZL's, they met this lady last week. Turns out she is a less active and her family is all catholic. She has been attending catholic mass but asked for the missionaries. We went there last night. It was a super awesome lesson!!! The two older girls said that they want to be baptized and the father was super into the lesson! You could just tell, they are as golden as it comes. They will be a very strong family in a very short time. Haha, they were all very intrigued by my socks... you see, they may or may not have small purple spots on them in a very professional way, and the children very much enjoyed that! Haha, they were also very impressed that I could do some magic tricks! Dad, I used yours, and then I did a card trick, and then i did my favorite one. I have them close their eyes really hard and think of there number (before they close there eyes I had them tell the person next to them so that we knew they "weren't cheating"), and then I cheated and while they had their eyes closed I convinced there mom to tell me the number! Then when they opened their eyes I knew the number! hahahaha, as the scriptures say, "They were sore amazed." well, maybe it says that, it sounded fun to say! Anyways, they are a super awesome family! And my Tagalog is improving in heaps and bounds (I say this every week, and yet, I am still awful.... it feels like its improving a ton though!!!).
We had a half day mission this week! It was super good! All the ward members came with us into Basud and we went and talked to all the less actives there!!!! It was super good! For lunch we went to a members house and cut down coconuts and drank coconut milk, and we ate the insides, we harvested some Jack Fruit, the members said we will have to have some this next week. I'm down! Then we had some bread. So it was coconuts and bread for lunch! Which was actually quite delicious! We are starting the new branch soon. First though, they are going to have it be under the direction of the ward. They will just have like 7 or 8 people to sacrament meeting up in San Felipe and the bishop or whomever he sends will preside over it for now. Then in a bit when they find a real place to meet and have more people, they will make it into a branch! And then the mission president says we will split the area!
So, randomly Sister Alma (my first baptism) moved up north for work. We had no idea she was moving until she was gone. Her mother says that she was just waiting to be baptized and now she is gone. We had no idea, so it came as kind of a shock!
Haha, so we had an investigator come to church yesterday. Leo. He is amazing!!!! Basically, I don't remember if this was last week or not, but whatever. They gave him a BofM a while ago. Now we are visiting him again. We asked him if he's read much and basically he reads every morning and every night. He just finished the Words of Mormon... yeah, we can't get anybody to read that much! Then we were talking to him and we was like, "I like reading it a lot! But there is something missing." We were just like, Uh-oh. And he was like, "yeah, I read this verse about repentance and baptism... I feel super good when I am reading but then it goes away. I just feel like I need to be baptized and then I can feel like that all the time." Yeah, another jaw drop moment. haha, Then he came to church and was like, "yeah, I just feel like... I don't know (makes an uplifting motion with hands)... inside me." hahaha, yeah, he's awesome!!! He's a for sure baptism. Both he and Tom like to go out as investigators to work with us! What?!?!! Its super dope!!! The rest of his family is starting to be interested too.
So basically, Tons of other awesome stuff happened this week, but I cant remember!!! I am sorry!!!! This week we have splits with the ZL's, that is gonna be super awesome!!! And we have newbie training!!! Which means that I get to see Elder Tuitavake again and Elder McMurtrey! Well, I actually say Elder McMurtrey this week too! He is in my zone, so I saw him at Zone training. That was pretty sweet!
"I say unto thee, farewell. For my time is short at hand. I leave unto thee these final words. Cleave unto the Lord thy God in all thy doings. That thine days may be filled with joy and happiness. May the lord thy god bless thee in all thine doings. I say unto thee, farewell, my love is with thee, from now till the eternities. And thus ended the forth week of the reign of the Elders, and thus ended the writings of Elder Christensen on these plates." 2 Matthew 4:12

(obviously 1 Matthew would have been in the MTC, 4 for the week.... and 12... for the hour of writing... I suppose. hmm, sometimes its fun to talk like the scriptures...)
Peace Out!
(P.S.- Translated into normal English, I love you all!!! I hope you have a fantastic Week! Gotta Run!!!)