First, let me say thanks for the package, Mom! I do have one question about it though. Do I cook the muffins at 400 for 15 minutes, or 450 for 10 minutes like the first batch said? Also, the chopsticks work well with dumplings, stir fry, frying eggs, pizza (props to elder Wang for that one) just make sure you have something with the rice as well. Chicken teriyaki with sautéed cabbage and mushrooms with fresh carrot slivers and broccoli heads is a good one too. I may have had some companions who were decent cooks, you can rest assured that it wasn't me who made that.
We ran to the Freedom Tower and back for our long run last week, including the fact that we ran back through TriBeCa instead of just following broadway back up like we did on the way down, we ended up somewhere around 3 to 3.5 miles. Elder Zander thinks we are doing about an 8 minute mile pace currently, and on his 10 mile + runs he would average about 6:10-6:30, so it's safe to say that he's planning on speeding up as we do it more. His PR is a 4:20.
[In response to a question about the iPads they use for internet missionary work.]We have iPad minis. I don't know what generation that falls in.
Winter is still here, it snowed again yesterday morning a bit, and a little bit earlier today as well actually, although most of the snow on the ground has melted thankfully.
That's no good to hear that the AC on the RV is leaking. Hopefully this doesn't wind up having to be like the re-construction of the front half of the old trailer when we bought that. On the bright side though, if it does wind up being that big, Ethan and Wes could help a lot more than they were able to with the trailer I suspect. What about the Cabin, is it holding up alright?
We had Zone Conference last Tuesday, President really likes to tell us all the day before that he's going to call on some missionaries on the spot to give a talk, so everyone needs to have a 10 minute talk prepared just in case they are the one he choses. The only problem is he doesn't give us the topic until the day before during our district meetings, so we can't just write them a little bit each day for a week in advance.
Xxx Xxxx was baptized this Sunday, he's a super quiet guy, but he jokes around a lot when he does talk. (He calls Elder Murray a different pronunciation of his Chinese name that means 2 by 4 (the boards)). We hope he can start going to a group they just started in Boston, because it is a 3 hour drive for him to get here from Rhode Island, but only an hour from there to Boston, so he probably will have a better chance of staying active going there instead.
We met with a man who visited Temple Square, and drove 12 hours on a Greyhound bus from North Carolina to meet with us. His Name is Xxx Xx Xxxxx, and he's super cool. Unfortunately, he had to go back to China so that he can come across legally this time, since he's planning on staying here for good. He won't be able to come back until May, and since he's in China, we can't talk with him about the gospel over the phone. We did give him all the pamphlets and a copy of the Book of Mormon along with getting his Facebook and Skype info, so we're hopeful for him come summer.
We re-arranged the apartment once Elder Cook and Elder Williams left, so it's now a much-bigger-feeling place. The only problem is that it still doesn't have a washer & dryer, so we're still stuck going to the laundromat. Oh well, better than doing it by hand I guess.
Love, your son in Service,
Elder Christensen
陳少駒
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