At last he is Home! and really he pretty much is superman!
Elder Christensen returned home to two new nephews! aren't they cute! we are so grateful we got to be there to see him all together! Origionally we had said we weren't coming, we told them marshall wasn't coming for sure because of school but we had already bought his ticket to suprise them.. it mostly failed.. but such are secrets in a very excited family like ours! I loved getting to see max and grant play all weekend! Max just followed grant around all davit was pretty adorable! They are 5 months apart!
Elder Christensen served in St. Louis Missouri, thats right just 2.5 hours away from kirksville. but his mission extends to just 15 miles away from us! So naturally we had to see him a few times while we were close! We took max down to meet him a few times and it was pretty fabulous! I loved getting to see my sweet brother fully into being a missionary.
- so remember how i told you we tried to suprise the family by coming, well, they surprised us a bit too. My mom told me his flight was coming in at 5 pm that night. our flight got in at 9:30 AM that morning, so we arrived in sweats, with no makeup to a peppy family yelling "hurry hurry we have to get to the other terminal toms flight landed" at first I thought it was a joke but then they told us they had waited to tell us so we wouldn't walk through the other side of the airport looking for him before he came past the security lines.. so clever! so we raced over and made it just in time to see him come down the stairs.
My dad was so cute through the whole thing, while he was emotional I guess this picture is a little unfair because he did just get hit in the eye as well, thats why his eye is really red. but he was tearing up too and both his eyes got red and waterery really soon...
Here he comes!
I'll let the pictures explain the rest....
It was a great weekend as a family! I'll post those pictures soon. The funny thing is the hardest part was coming back to Missouri knowing that he wasn't so close, that he wasn't out being a cute little missionary on the other side of these corn fields. Missouri feels just a little bit more lonely now. I love you little brother so glad your home!
in the words of elder Christensen ( in every letter) -Kingdom of God or bust-
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