You're really going to get a kick out of this, the pen was in my pocket the whole time!!

                                    

Dear Family,

The last week has flown by and dragged on all at the same time.  I can't believe its only been two weeks, but then I think I've already lost two weeks of my mission so it's a weird process for sure.

                                       

So this week we had to drop Arsen for some reason.  We don't really understand since everything is in Armenian, but then we started up with Tigran and Margarite.  Margarite is very open to the gospel but Tigran is former military so he's not about to change his ways yet. It kind of makes me sad.  The investigators are played by our teachers, but they are real people at the same time.  Brother Wahl told us that he loves Arsen like a brother.  The MTC is sweet because they have the teachers play the roles of real people because if we say something that can help them, the teachers can turn to the real people and help them.  Since we're set apart as the Lord's missionaries we are given revelation for those investigators regardless of whether their just role play or not.  Teaching is fun its hard though.  Our last lesson with Margarite, I accidentally said that I know that through the Holy Ghost true.  It didn't make any sense... 

                                      

One of the elders i sit next to in class got sick and he gave it to me.  So last night I had like a half hour of sleep, which was rough.  We went to the temple this morning and I fell asleep a couple of times but luckily my trusty comp was there to keep me awake.  But then he fell asleep so the old man next to us had to wake up both of us because we started snoring in the session. Whoops!! 

                                      

On Sunday we had a MTC travel guy talk to us at the devotional.  It was actually really good.  He talked about how he hopes all of us get dear john letters so we can focus on the lord.  He had everyone stand up who had someone waiting for them and most stood up.  He also asked whoever received a dear john letter to stand up and one elder stood up.   We all clapped for him.

Life's good here in the MTC.  My comp and I decided to make a goal to SYL all the time so we'll see how that goes.  We have to put stickers on our tags so the other missionaries know we are only speaking Armenian.  So far so good though.  I'm not sure how well it'll work out but it's worth a shot.  Thank you for the package and also thank Phyllis for me.  I'm pretty sure I'm doomed to get fat here based on how much food we have now.  Anyway love you all!!

Love,  Elder Christensen

Package from Elder Cox' sister's mother in law:)