Christensen Honduras Mission: Christmas 2025

Merry Christmas!! We started the day talking as a family

Garret-Chile

Tanner, Emilie, Jade-Cyprus

Kirt, Emily, Katie, Kyden-Honduras

Kirt and I in our Light the World t-shirts. We didn't get matching PJ's so we had to find some way to match.

We had the AP's and the office elders over for Christmas. We had a lot of fun. We wished that we could have invited all of the missionaries over for Christmas. We started the day off with brunch-egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, and smoothies. Then they missionaries played soccer with the missionaries from the West mission. They had somehow found out that they would be here with the Hiatt's for Christmas and they had the game all arranged. Then we played some games that Katie and Kyden had prepared for them. They had a ton of fun with the games. We laughed so hard. Then we had calzones for dinner. We had a gift exchange and the elders left. It was a great Christmas.

Elevator picture

Brunch

While the missionaries were playing soccer (which I didn't get a picture of) Katie, Kyden, Elder LaFrance, and I played pickle ball. It was so much fun. Elder LaFrance played in his socks and we still beat Katie and Kyden 2 games to 1.

This was the bow game. All the elders put 5 bows on their backs and then they ran around and tried to knock the bows off the other missionaries backs while not letting anyone knock the bows off of their back. Elder Ortiz won. He is very competitive.

The candy bar game. They stood around the table and rolled dice. If you rolled doubles, you had to put a sock on each hand and then use a table knife to unwrap this big bar of candy. Once it was unwrapped, they had to use the knife to break of parts of the candy bar and use the knife to eat it. You got to do this until someone else rolled doubles and then it was their turn to try.

This game was hilarious. They had to race to see who could get the shorts on fastest without using their hands. They had a really hard time getting them up over their butts. But elder Obando somehow did it once.

This game they had to pick up the paper bag with their mouths but they couldn't use their hands or go down on their knees. Then after each time they did that, we cut an inch off of the top of the paper bag. Elder Ortiz and Elder Obando could get a piece of paper off the ground with their mouths without using their hands or going down on their knees.

Who could stack the tower the highest? Elder LaFrance and Elder Quej could!

Elder Quej had to get on the piano bench because his tower was so high.

The partnership had to see how many marshmallows they could get off the table on to a paper plate. They each could only use one hand with a cup on it. They would have to get the marshmallow between the 2 cups and squish it and move it to the paper plate and drop it on the plate.