Reality Check

Squad!

What is up?! First, I wanna give a big ole s/o to the Lady Leps and especially #17 on a heck of a season. You win some, you lose some, just like in the mission field…I wish I could’ve been there no matter the outcome. But I’m the proudest big bro because of #17! Hearing how Katia just balled out in the playoffs puts Jayne and I to shame. That’s my sis! Everyone give her a big hug for me :)

Well the week was pretty wacky to say the least. The past month we’ve been flying high and this week God so kindly decided to throw us back down to reality. I think it was that and the Iowa weather just putting a damper on everything. Most of our peeps are just moving slow so that just makes it really frustrating. No matter how many times we tell them, they just can’t figure out their priorities. The world we live in. So some our homies might be thrown on the back burner for now so we can focus on finding some new solid homies. Grind time!

Da Boyz

Our girl Katrina is doing well though. We were able to get her back to church and progressing towards her baptism on her birthday. She has some definite obstacles to tackle until then but this woman has the faith! Katrina is hilarious at church too. She’s the type of person who needs to comment on everything, expresses her opinion, and basically the person who interrupts everyone. It’s a challenge to get her to stop talking when we’re teaching her, but nice comic relief to sit back at church and see the teacher trying not to go nuts. Obviously, the Relief Society loves her and they are good to her. But multiple people have come up to me and have asked, “Who’s the lady you’re teaching who really likes to talk?” Katrina is the bomb though. Send some prayers up for her as we help her stop smoking!!!

Weekly pic of Jesus and Paul

Earlier this week, we also taught a homie named, Pierre. Pierre is your typical 65 year old, black rights, grumpy black man from down south. He’s awesome. As we teach him, everything clicks. It’s funny because we make a point, he thinks for a second, then says, “Yup, that makes sense. Let’s move on.” So funny. The best part is that he sees everything from a similar perspective as we do, which we don’t see a lot. He sees all the hypocrites out there, told us a funny story about walking into a church with an ATM in the foyer and how he legit walked right back out. He honestly said to us the other day how, “no one is ministering like the Savior did”. We were jaw dropped. But gotta count on Satan to ruin a good thing because when Sunday rolled around, Pierre woke up with a swollen foot that sent him to the hospital…smh. But planning on next Sunday with him.

Everything is going “tan bakan” as Barker would say. And our boy Brett is “straight chillin” (per E. Straight) and ready to be dunked next Saturday.

Love you all! Besos!

Elder Christensen