Today at 9:17 AM

This is going to be my last generic email from the MTC (hopefully)!  This christmas week, we had
David A. Bednar come and do a huge Q and A session.  He passed out over 100 cell phones to 
everyone in the MTC, and we all texted him our questions.  It was really cool even though he only
 answered about three questions.  After listening to him, we then ate a really unpleasant christmas
 meal and packed our sack dinners.  For the rest of the day, we stayed in the auditorium and 
watched a reading of "the christmas carol", a movie titled "Ephrums rescue", and a surprise 
performance by David Archuleta!  It was really great!  I can't wait to go down to Argentina on Monday!

Hey everyone! 

This week in the MTC was almost exactly the same as last week!  Nothing very interesting happened...  I'm still learning a ton of Spanish, and I'm still feeling the spirit almost all the time!  I'm just starting to get used to MTC life, but it's weird.  My digestive tract might be getting destroyed because I'm drinking so much chocolate milk.  Seriously, I drink a glass of it during every meal...  I'm sorry this is such a short email, literally nothing interesting happened this week (besides getting packages from the family!).  Love you guys!

It only feels like I've been in the MTC (or CCM in spanish) for a week, but it has been two and a half!
I'm starting to get into the groove of things here, but my companion has been sick for about a week now.
This last sunday, he was too sick to get out of bed, so I had to stay in the residence hall with him for 14 
hours yay!  I finally found a way to send pictures, so I'll start taking some good ones to send you guys.  
When is Alex coming to the MTC?  I only know one other person here...  this is the only picture I got with
him though, sorry it is so bad.  Anyways, merry Christmas everybody! 

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I've been here for a week now!  For thanksgiving, we had Dallen H Oaks (and family) come and speak.  It was cool seeing a general authority, but I still fell asleep during the rest of the four meetings that day.  After a week here at the CCM (MTC in spanish) I have seen more miracles than in my whole life combined.  The gift of tongues is really cool: I'm learning spanish faster than I could have ever hoped.  Almost every day my companion and I have to teach "investigators" in spanish.  Our last few lessons have been very successful (as opposed to our first few, which were trainwrecks).  It turns out, Elder Hyer has a problem with spanish while he is asleep.  Almost every night now, we have been woken up by random spanish screaming at 3 AM.  Our district leader, Elder Meyers, is seriously like a miniature version of someone I know... I can't put my finger on it, but I'll try to figure it out.  I haven't found a computer that lets me upload photos yet, but I hear that they exist, so I will keep looking.  Tell Ali happy birthday for me!

Thanks,

Elder Christensen

This is the email I want you to send to whoever wants it:  Today marks my third whole day in the MTC!  Life here is very different than I am used to.  On wednesday, I was paired up with the wonderful Elder Fish (my companion).  He lives about twenty minutes away from the MTC in Utah, does ballroom dancing, and prays in spanish better than anyone else.  Since I'm going to Argentina, I have to learn how to speak spanish in 6 weeks.  After only three days here, I have learned more than I did with four years of spanish in public school.  In the living halls, I am rooming with three other elders: elder Fish, Hyer, and Taylor.  Our room is located in the fluent spanish speaking hallway, so we have been going crazy trying to learn spanish.  In our room, we try to speak mostly spanish, but it is hard.  Last night Elder Hyer woke everyone up because he was screaming random spanish words in his sleep.  So far, the food here is terrible, but they have chocolate milk on tap so I am content.  Yesterday, Elder Fish and I had to teach an "investigator" in spanish.  It was horrible.  Despite the terrifying lessons and nasty food, this has been one of the most spiritual experiences I have ever witnessed.  I can testify that the "don de linguas" (gift of tongues) is real.  I'm trying not to get too homesick, but I am thinking of you guys all the time!

Thanks,

Elder Christensen