This week in Knoxville has been a little like Idaho. At least weather wise. Sunny and spring fever one day and then cold and wet and cloudy the next. Today is one of the cloudy and wet ones. We have had a great week, however. The most exciting things is that Meg and Justin came to visit us for a week end coming on Friday and leaving on Monday, it is short but we will take anything. We met them on Friday at about 1:00 pm they came to our apartment and then after giving them the apartment tour we went to the park and had a picnic. The kids had a good time playing in the creek in the park and it was a warm enough day that they waded in it and of course found themselves slipping and dipping in the water. We floated tin foil boats from their creative construction. We then went and check them into the hotel near our mission office. Then we took them to the mission office and showed them around. We then went to dinner and by then we were a little exhausted and decided to call it a day. We took Eva and Maggie back to our apartment to sleep. They brought sleeping bags and pillows since we don't have those kind of things at our house now. Then next day we went to Dollywood which is an amusement park that was built by Dolly Parton. She did a great job of providing a place for families to enjoy good clean fun and entertainment. It is not like Disneyland but it is just as clean and we had a great time being with the kids and riding some of the rides. It was the opening day so we were a little afraid that it might be really crowded. But is was not that bad. I think the longest line was about 10 minute wait. We stayed until about 6:30 and Meg and Justin stayed until it closed which was 8:00. We would go again and encouraged others to try it out when they come to Tennessee. The Dolly Parton story is pretty amazing. She is a real hero in Tennessee. She does a lot for the children in TN. Every child born receives from the Imagination Library which is Dolly's charity a free book for every year until they are out of grade school.
The other interesting things that happened this week at the mission office is we found out the office is moving to a new place. It will be right downtown Knoxville on the University of Tennessee campus. It will be a 1/2 hour commute for us which we are not looking forward to because it will be during the morning and evening traffic. But we have a lease that is up at the end of May. The church has room in the institute building and it will be really nice because it will give us more room and more kitchen and bathroom space. The other downer is the charger is close to the old office and far away from the new office. So we will have to figure out how to charge the car. We hope it will become something we can figure out . They say we are not far from the stadium where everyone one and their dogs goes to watch the football game. I am not that impressed with that part of the place but I do like the fact that it is very old home that was converted into the institute building. It has a great front porch with a swing on the porch.
Missionary work is going OK. We gave talks last week in church and this week their were more people that spoke to us. So we are feeling a little more like we belong. Some of the children even remember us. We have given FHE lessons at several families homes. I love having the children remember us and come up to us.
These are some of the photos all mixed up but I have Meg and kids still here so I am feeling grateful I even got a letter and blog off. We send our love and hope all is well with you. Sister Christensen Grandma and Mom
We also had a surprise party for our mission president he turned 50. We didn't feel to sorry for him. But it was p -day and he came over to play basketball and we then surprised him.
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