June 25, 2014

I talked to a JW missionary in Chinese last night. I didn't even try
to talk religion with him, we were standing underneath the Manhattan
Bridge, which means that every 2 minutes a train passes overhead and
you can't hear anything you or the other person is saying, and the
rest of the time it's still really hard to hear them, let alone the
fact it is in Chinese, and there is a less active member who was
baptized 2 years ago that no-one has seen since standing next to you
getting confused about if Heavenly Father is Jehovah or not. Talk
about a run-on sentence.

We ate rabbit for dinner a few nights ago, and we had chicken heart
pasta a few days before that. Food in Chinatown can be weird
sometimes.

I was on a split with Elder Radford yesterday.  We were doing language
study after lunch because of a meeting we had with the Bishop.  I
noticed Elder Radford fell asleep, so I took my ring off and dropped
it on the table really loud, he jumped a bit as he woke up, and
literally 2 seconds later, Xxxxx walked into the chapel. We weren't
planning on meeting with him today, so Elder Radford went from
completely asleep to teaching an unplanned lesson within 3 seconds.
Speaking of Xxxxx, he wants to get baptized! He's planning on moving
to Missouri in August for college, but I might get to see him get
baptized after 3 years of investigating. That will be super cool.

陈伯颜 is back!! He was in Tennessee for a long time for work, but he
finally quit his job so he could come back to NYC to try and go to
college. It was a pretty big step for him because it was a family
restaurant, and he basically got disowned by his family when he
decided to leave and come back. He's really cool though. He only did
it because he knew that his family would have him working in the
restaurant 12 hours a day for the next 40 years (he's 21). He's been
in Tenn since Mid April, and we've been teaching him over the phone
once or twice a week for the interim.

We taught a guy after English class who was super cool, but he went to
North Carolina for a while. He should be coming back though.

The Smocks left this week. Brother Smock was the first counselor in
the bishopric, so we should be getting a new counselor soon.

Have fun at pageant!
Love, your son/sibling in service,
Elder Christensen