schedule and surgery

good news of the week:
Wes finally got his hernia taken care of! He is now recovering, near the mission home (whatever that means), and it sounds like everything went well with that! I will update more on that when I hear from him on Wednesday (hopefully)! And other good news, Wes finally enlightened me this week on his what his schedule is like! So now I have a little better idea of what he does all day every day and of what his apartment's like! OH and he enlightened me on the love the brazilian women have for the missionaries... one more thing to worry about while he's gone I guess! :)

june 23rd email..

answers time!----
Schedule:
6:30wake up
630-7 Excersizes ( i swear i spelled that wrong it looks stange.. whatever.)
7-8 get ready, eat "breakfast"
8-9 personal study
9-10 comp study
10-1030 language study
11 leave the house
11-2 lunch for 1 hour inbetween 11-2 oclock
2-9:30 teach, walk, contacts
9:30-10 plan tomorrow
10-1030 shower
10:30 sleep.

the apartment is tiny tiny tiny! ha its cool, its 1 room and a bathroom.so the fridge oven study desks and beds are in the same room haha.
we dont do much on pday today we´re going to a members house today to kick it with them they have 3 kids. 2 boys that are like 15 and 12 and a daughter thats like 3 years old. but we went to the zoo a while back. sometimes we just sleep. ha
money. we get like 40$ a month to spend on everything. food groceries, bus, etc. i dont have money to buy cool stuff to bring home but im gonna figure something out. cuz my personal credit card got blocked haha so it doesnt work. :) its all good!
the members are cool now. i dunno why they like me. the members didnt like the missionaries when i got here the hated the missionary that left before i arrived. ha but they like us now!! so its all good!
girls. you know i dont like girls!! just kelsey! but the woman here like the missionaries. ha i guess they did like a questionare or what ever its called and the mormon missionaries are the number 2 fetish in Brasil. haha i think fetish means that people like them. i dunno really.? but yeah. i know that youre gonna get all mad at all the girls in brasil now haha but you know that im a missionary and im serving the lord so i dont pay attention to them! ha k i decided i wouldnt tell you this till i got back. but, ill tell you to get it out of the way! in itatiba we were buying crackers at the supermarket and i went to the entrance to get our backpacks while elder pedroso paid for them and i looked over and there were 2 girls entering the store looking at me. so i made the angry face haha and looked forward. like i should! as they passed i heard, "Mmmm.." haha and one of them almost ripped my butt cheak off ha... so.. there you go!! but thats it dont worry!! but there isnt a problem with snakes here so its cool.
And. yes, ill have surgery tomorrow morning at 9am. ha so yeah.. thats about it!!!
-Elder Christensen

And here's part of his letter to his family..

this week has been good! we had a mission conference yesterday to say goodbye to Pres Castro Deus and he gave an awesome talk.he said something that i thought was so awesome. seriously. i think he stole it from a nike commercial or something. ha just kidding but its sweet. he said,"Vida é doura, por quem é mole!"
it means, Life is hard, for those that are soft. not the meaning of soft as in soft hearted. soft as in week minded. it made me think about times that ive thought in my head, "dang it its so hot today, no one will open the door, i cant get enyone to talk to me, etc." I realized that my faith was "mole". that things are only tough if we let them be. if we let the situation beat us. we always have the savior by our side if we are willing to do what is right. but we have to have faith and be strong. be willing to fight.

Doesn't he sound great?! Hopefully he'll still email on Wednesday and I can give a better update on the surgery recovery! keep him in your prayers!