The Book of Elder Christensen

The Book of Elder Christensen

A record of Elder Christensen and his dealings with the people of New York.

Chapter 8

1. And it came to pass that 97 days had passed since Elder Christensen had left the land of Utah.

2. And it also came to pass that Elder Russon did enter into the land of Cheektowaga. He did take up spiritual arms with Elder Christensen.

3. They did go out into the land of Cheektowaga and did preach the Gospel unto as many as would hear their words. For the people of Cheektowaga did dwindle in unbelief. For it had been many months and the people of Cheektowaga did not soften their hearts to the Gospel.

4. Elder Russon did bring much faith and good works to the land of Cheektowaga. For the two Elders did prosper exceedingly because of the tender mercies of the Lord. For he did surely put them together for the keeping of the sanity of Elder Christensen. For He knoweth that Elder Christensen would rejoice exceedingly at the works of Elder Russon.

5. And they did not dwell in a tent.

Anyway,

Elder Russon is fantastic!!!!! "Oh sugar plumb pie and all plumb pudding!" (Sister Lawrence) He is a good one! Very willing to just go out there and work. We had to walk because it was raining to the City Hall to get another portable map copy and to also try and find some good service opportunities. Sadly this was just shy of halfway to the other side of our area. It was a little bit of a walk! A little over an hour one way. So we are nervous about the winter months and how we will plan these days where we will have to walk all the way to the other side to visit our people. No worries though.

Transfers were nice and simple. Everything went over pretty smoothly.

We helped the Baker's (Senior Couple) with their little dinner activity that they planned for all part member married couples. As a get to know each other and just be like friendly and what not. It actually turned out pretty well. We were the servers but also ate food and socialized a little. It seemed to help a little. Hopefully that got people a little more interested in knowing others of our Faith. Just some good ol' fellowshipping.

With Elder Russon and the no limitations on what we do because he is down to do whatever, we are finding a ton more work to do. We are also getting into more doors. So that is pretty fantastic! We've been go go go go go go since he got here. It's nice! It's tiring. But it's nice! I can tell that my time with him in Cheektowaga is just going to FLY by.

So I think Elder Russon's uncle happened to be Dad's boss back in the day. We were talking and I mentioned that Dad worked for a company that made video games that went under. He mentioned that his uncle part owned a company and he got to test PS1 games like Jet Motto. I then told him my dad helped make that game.... SO ya... If you know a Mike Bartholomew then.. yep! It's definitely a small world! Plus Elder Russon lived like oh... down the street from the P.G. house on the American Fork border. He went to American Fork and lived there all is life. He is also another football player but very humble about it and not really in your face. He is going back to school to UVU when he gets home in about 15 months.

Sunday, the other two elders had a baptism. 88 year old. Never too late. That is for sure! It was a good baptism and he was a little late! haha It was funny mostly because I didn't have to stress I just kind of waited and set up chairs. Elder Houskeeper was on the edge of a heart attack or so it seemed.

Everything is going pretty great! Except I washed that nice blanket Grandma bought me a week or so ago. Worst mistake of my young life. It has been shedding ever since. So after a couple of washes, a lint roller, packing tape and everything else I could figure to do, it has been banished to the top shelf of our closet. My clothes still have little pieces on them. It's everywhere. So I had to go to target and buy this comforter thingy for my bed. It's pretty nice. It keeps me warm enough now that we have kind of figured out the heater in the apartment. It doesn't really like to work. So we have to put the normal hours down to like 59 degrees and then like 6:00am right before we wake up it goes up to 64 degrees so we don't freeze to death. We were still doing what we were doing with the air conditioning which was just keep it off and turn it on when we need to. But we were waking up to a 52 degree apartment and that was just a little too chilly for me. So we figured it out.

Not much else to report. Still trying to work hard and I have a real solid companion that is excited to help me turn this area around. This is his 4th area which is a LOT for only 9 months out. So he has some good ideas and he also was in a Spanish area for a little bit. So we are messing around with some spanish words all the time. It's fun.

With my extreme awesomeness (And lack of humility) with online Shopping, I love Old Navy. I have gathered a solid amount of sweaters and stuff that I can wear over my white shirts for a fraction of the cost by balancing sales and promo codes. I was quite satisfied with my thriftiness.

Hope all is well! Staying dry and warm. Or at least trying to.