Well. The Verdict has been reached.
I am finishing my mission in the Albemarle branch :)
I'm really glad...I was worried I'd have to leave for my last 6 weeks and spend it somewhere super unfamiliar. But I'm safe now! Both my companions are leaving, and another Elder who was serving in Burkeville, VA is coming in. His name is Elder Peterson. Soooo. Yeah!
Nothing real exciting happened this week except the fact I found out I'm staying. So I'm sorry for the boring email! But I'll try and save it with a picture! It shows you how ridiculous some white trash places in the south are. See if you can figure out what I mean ;) Enjoy!
love y'all
July 5th
Hey! haha So I guess this isn't too late for everyone but they finally changed the days the library was open back to monday but the 4th kinda messed that one up. So I'll be emailing on mondays from now on!
Well as I said last week my two comps were traded in for just one. Elder Peterson is his name. From good ol' star valley wyomin'. haha. It's interesting but we have been doin good together. Transfers were interesting. We were trying to find a ride up to Virginia Beach for like 4 days and no one could do it. Then on wednesday night we called one more person and we were able to ride up with him. So we get there early on thursday morning to meet up with him, with Elder Bobo and Elder Capsons stuff plus their two bikes and all of a sudden this tiny little red sports car shows up and it's the member giving us a ride. And I just am flat out convinced there is no way all this stuff is gonna fit in that tiny car. So we scramble, and make a few calls and after practically giving up we figured what we could do is I could just stay with a member in edenton while ym two companions ride up with this member. I wish I could show you how hilarious it looked with all of them stuffed in this tiny red car. It was great.
But things have been going well here. It's hot and it's humid and there isn't enough rain. But it's still the best place on the planet to be right now! We have 1 person who is planning on being baptized in august and we are really excited for that. It's hard being in such a huge area, but we do the best we can with the miles we have. I don't know if this is accurate or if I've already told everyone, but we have about 5,000 square miles to cover in this area with 1475 miles. It makes us plan out our days better I guess? haha. But we love it.
The 4th was pretty boring honestly. haha. We were fed some wonderful fried chicken by a member and a recent convert and just kind of chilled. We came into town and just kinda meandered around town for a couple of hours. Fun stuff. The fireworks started after 9 so we had to miss em this year. We could hear em, but the trees blocked the sight of them. Oh well. Such is life. It was great too...as soon as we got in a huge rainstorm came in, so all the hundreds of people down by the sound just got drenched. So I'm sorta glad I wasn't down there.
I wish y'all (those outside virginia and north carolina) could experience this humidity. Just to understand what I'm talking about haha. It's just not very fun to be outside when it's really humid. But I think I'm gonna dry up like a prune when I go home...back to the semi-dry oregon and then the desert of idaho. haha.
But this morning was especially fun. Our cuban recent convert is really tight on money and so he wanted to strip off this old metal roofing off these old fallen down barns and stuff for some extra cash. so we went over and helped out for a good couple of hours. We got all the roofing off with the only casualty being half of the trees in the area...but we also found this big old pipe down in the rain ditch and since weight is how they determine how much money you get and it's been so dry around here it only took us 15-20 minutes to pull out this thick metal pipe. Oh yeah, I also impailed my foot on a nail. And just to freak my parents out, it was a big old rusty one too :) Yay for tetnis shots!
All in all it was a good week. It's weird to think I'll only be doing this 5 more times. Strange indeed.
Oh and the name of this email was actually a line from someones testimony on sunday. Gotta love the south.
have a sweet week and thank you all for the happy birthday wishes! happy 4th (from the future)!
July 11th
SO yes. I am here once again. I'm actually emailing on p-days now! woo! haha. We had to email on tuesdays because our library was open on mondays. But they changed the schedule. Fun stuff.
Letttts see what's happened this week:
FINALLY we got a good amount of rain. Wednesday evening the bottom fell out of the sky. It rained 3 inches in an hour or so? Crazy. BUt this area needed it bad. Everything was dying. But it still hasn't taken us out of the drought which is nuts. But we hope it'll get fixed up soon.
Wednesday we also finally got teach one of our investigators at his house. It was great; we've been trying to teach him since I've been here. It was a good lesson. We went over the restoration and he definitely felt the Spirit of it all. He is planning on being baptized in August. We are super excited for him!
Thursday I got to go to zone meeting up in suffolk. It was a great one. We mostly just talked about church tours and whatnot. It's something we are trying as a prosylyting thing to show people the chapels so they aren't so unconfortable with it all.
Other than that nothing to awesome or exciting happened this week! haha. I basically sat in the house until just recently so we could get out and email! Fun stuff!
I hope you all are doing well. I love y'all and hope things are going for the best. Enjoy life!
- Elder H Christensen
Well the time of coming home is sooo close and were very excited to see hunter here is his Itinerary. Whats up with the 11pm return home! sheesh!
MISSIONARY TRAVEL
VIRGINIA RICHMOND MISSION
SERVICE DATE FROM TO DEPART ARRIVE
_____________________ _____ ______________ ______________ _______ ______
DELTA AIR LINES 09AUG RICHMOND VA ATLANTA GA 420P 605P
DL 1178 TUESDAY RICHMOND INTL HARTSFIELD JAC
T ECONOMY TERMINAL S
NON SMOKING NON STOP
RESERVATION CONFIRMED 1:45 DURATION
AIRCRAFT: BOEING (DOUGLAS) MD-88
SEAT 20D NO SMOKING CONFIRMED
DELTA AIR LINES 09AUG ATLANTA GA SALT LAKE C UT 715P 919P
DL 1333 TUESDAY HARTSFIELD JAC INTL
L ECONOMY TERMINAL S TERMINAL 2
NON SMOKING FOOD FOR PURCHASE NON STOP
RESERVATION CONFIRMED 4:04 DURATION
AIRCRAFT: BOEING 757-300
SEAT 30C NO SMOKING CONFIRMED
DELTA AIR LINES 09AUG SALT LAKE C UT EUGENE OR 950P 1045P
DL 4752 TUESDAY INTL
L ECONOMY TERMINAL 2
NON SMOKING NON STOP
RESERVATION CONFIRMED 1:55 DURATION
FLIGHT OPERATED BY SKYWEST DBA DELTA CONN
AIRCRAFT OWNER: OO SKYWEST AIRLINES
AIRCRAFT: CANADAIR REGIONAL JET 700
SEAT 10C NO SMOKING CONFIRMED
I am finishing my mission in the Albemarle branch :)
I'm really glad...I was worried I'd have to leave for my last 6 weeks and spend it somewhere super unfamiliar. But I'm safe now! Both my companions are leaving, and another Elder who was serving in Burkeville, VA is coming in. His name is Elder Peterson. Soooo. Yeah!
Nothing real exciting happened this week except the fact I found out I'm staying. So I'm sorry for the boring email! But I'll try and save it with a picture! It shows you how ridiculous some white trash places in the south are. See if you can figure out what I mean ;) Enjoy!
love y'all
July 5th
Hey! haha So I guess this isn't too late for everyone but they finally changed the days the library was open back to monday but the 4th kinda messed that one up. So I'll be emailing on mondays from now on!
Well as I said last week my two comps were traded in for just one. Elder Peterson is his name. From good ol' star valley wyomin'. haha. It's interesting but we have been doin good together. Transfers were interesting. We were trying to find a ride up to Virginia Beach for like 4 days and no one could do it. Then on wednesday night we called one more person and we were able to ride up with him. So we get there early on thursday morning to meet up with him, with Elder Bobo and Elder Capsons stuff plus their two bikes and all of a sudden this tiny little red sports car shows up and it's the member giving us a ride. And I just am flat out convinced there is no way all this stuff is gonna fit in that tiny car. So we scramble, and make a few calls and after practically giving up we figured what we could do is I could just stay with a member in edenton while ym two companions ride up with this member. I wish I could show you how hilarious it looked with all of them stuffed in this tiny red car. It was great.
But things have been going well here. It's hot and it's humid and there isn't enough rain. But it's still the best place on the planet to be right now! We have 1 person who is planning on being baptized in august and we are really excited for that. It's hard being in such a huge area, but we do the best we can with the miles we have. I don't know if this is accurate or if I've already told everyone, but we have about 5,000 square miles to cover in this area with 1475 miles. It makes us plan out our days better I guess? haha. But we love it.
The 4th was pretty boring honestly. haha. We were fed some wonderful fried chicken by a member and a recent convert and just kind of chilled. We came into town and just kinda meandered around town for a couple of hours. Fun stuff. The fireworks started after 9 so we had to miss em this year. We could hear em, but the trees blocked the sight of them. Oh well. Such is life. It was great too...as soon as we got in a huge rainstorm came in, so all the hundreds of people down by the sound just got drenched. So I'm sorta glad I wasn't down there.
I wish y'all (those outside virginia and north carolina) could experience this humidity. Just to understand what I'm talking about haha. It's just not very fun to be outside when it's really humid. But I think I'm gonna dry up like a prune when I go home...back to the semi-dry oregon and then the desert of idaho. haha.
But this morning was especially fun. Our cuban recent convert is really tight on money and so he wanted to strip off this old metal roofing off these old fallen down barns and stuff for some extra cash. so we went over and helped out for a good couple of hours. We got all the roofing off with the only casualty being half of the trees in the area...but we also found this big old pipe down in the rain ditch and since weight is how they determine how much money you get and it's been so dry around here it only took us 15-20 minutes to pull out this thick metal pipe. Oh yeah, I also impailed my foot on a nail. And just to freak my parents out, it was a big old rusty one too :) Yay for tetnis shots!
All in all it was a good week. It's weird to think I'll only be doing this 5 more times. Strange indeed.
Oh and the name of this email was actually a line from someones testimony on sunday. Gotta love the south.
have a sweet week and thank you all for the happy birthday wishes! happy 4th (from the future)!
July 11th
SO yes. I am here once again. I'm actually emailing on p-days now! woo! haha. We had to email on tuesdays because our library was open on mondays. But they changed the schedule. Fun stuff.
Letttts see what's happened this week:
FINALLY we got a good amount of rain. Wednesday evening the bottom fell out of the sky. It rained 3 inches in an hour or so? Crazy. BUt this area needed it bad. Everything was dying. But it still hasn't taken us out of the drought which is nuts. But we hope it'll get fixed up soon.
Wednesday we also finally got teach one of our investigators at his house. It was great; we've been trying to teach him since I've been here. It was a good lesson. We went over the restoration and he definitely felt the Spirit of it all. He is planning on being baptized in August. We are super excited for him!
Thursday I got to go to zone meeting up in suffolk. It was a great one. We mostly just talked about church tours and whatnot. It's something we are trying as a prosylyting thing to show people the chapels so they aren't so unconfortable with it all.
Other than that nothing to awesome or exciting happened this week! haha. I basically sat in the house until just recently so we could get out and email! Fun stuff!
I hope you all are doing well. I love y'all and hope things are going for the best. Enjoy life!
- Elder H Christensen
Well the time of coming home is sooo close and were very excited to see hunter here is his Itinerary. Whats up with the 11pm return home! sheesh!
MISSIONARY TRAVEL
VIRGINIA RICHMOND MISSION
SERVICE DATE FROM TO DEPART ARRIVE
_____________________ _____ ______________ ______________ _______ ______
DELTA AIR LINES 09AUG RICHMOND VA ATLANTA GA 420P 605P
DL 1178 TUESDAY RICHMOND INTL HARTSFIELD JAC
T ECONOMY TERMINAL S
NON SMOKING NON STOP
RESERVATION CONFIRMED 1:45 DURATION
AIRCRAFT: BOEING (DOUGLAS) MD-88
SEAT 20D NO SMOKING CONFIRMED
DELTA AIR LINES 09AUG ATLANTA GA SALT LAKE C UT 715P 919P
DL 1333 TUESDAY HARTSFIELD JAC INTL
L ECONOMY TERMINAL S TERMINAL 2
NON SMOKING FOOD FOR PURCHASE NON STOP
RESERVATION CONFIRMED 4:04 DURATION
AIRCRAFT: BOEING 757-300
SEAT 30C NO SMOKING CONFIRMED
DELTA AIR LINES 09AUG SALT LAKE C UT EUGENE OR 950P 1045P
DL 4752 TUESDAY INTL
L ECONOMY TERMINAL 2
NON SMOKING NON STOP
RESERVATION CONFIRMED 1:55 DURATION
FLIGHT OPERATED BY SKYWEST DBA DELTA CONN
AIRCRAFT OWNER: OO SKYWEST AIRLINES
AIRCRAFT: CANADAIR REGIONAL JET 700
SEAT 10C NO SMOKING CONFIRMED
