September 2

So we write our emails from an internet cafe thing and right now there´s a bunch of people screaming things as they play their little games... ugh thank heavens I can easily tune out Spanish. 

Yesterday at church there was a mom during our quite relief society lesson playing Gangnam Style for her baby to watch to keep him from crying... LOl. I´m not sure which one is better. And there was drum practice outside so that was just grand. 

We had a contact approach us and ask us a question and then continue by saying, well president Hinkley said in "this" conference that... and in his hand... preach my gospel. weird? Yes. very. He had read the whole thing and had more notes in it than I do in mine. He said his grandma collects religious books but really out of all the religious books we have that is just not one that someone would find... but he had never read the Book of Mormon so we gave him one of those and we will meet with him on Wednesday!

As far as our families go... one of them is just not interested. The other we can´t visit until this week so we´ll see how it goes. He works like 20/30 or something like that. Lots of the men work like that here. So many days here and then so many away. The other we need to find but they don´t feel the desire to learn fast so it´s just kind of like whatever-sure you can come talk to us. To say the least not much has happened with the families. We were promised we would find families but not prepared ones. lol. We´re going to have to work a lot to get them on the right path. 

How fun that you´re going to write the missionaries. I never really knew what to write when we did that but I liked it. I say all of the above. Testimonies, funny things that happened, we love to laugh, words of encouragement. Cheap ideas for ym and ym or ideas for how they would be inspired to do missionary work. 

Emily and I write back and forth a few sentences ever week. And I have heard from Rickie. 

There is a big celebration the 18th and everyone is talking about it like more than Christmas and saying how fun it is and all the food we´ll eat and how I´m going to gain 4lbs. that will be great fun also that is like right before I come home next year so then I just be extra fat. I´ve made a goal to try to eat healthier and not eat all the extra stuff they give if possible like the mayo or the bread... but the bread is really good and I really do like mayo on everything... EVERYTHING. yum! <OH also p day is on the 18th so I think I´ll be writing Wednesday. They celebrate the whole week though and everyone says it´s horrible for missionary work so... that will be so fun.

Love you all!

August 26

It´s off to work we go.

Hello my beautiful family! Once again I don´t have time to read your emails before but I will after. Another Pday is here. This week went by super fast. This transfer has been really. We only have 2 more weeks of this transfer. Crazy. 

So yesterday was the primary program. It was a lot different than ours. They only sang one song and then the teachers and presidency all gave a little spill... weird. The primary is so out of hand. I didn´t know until last week. wow. We need like 10 more teachers in there. 

This week we´re going to start a choir. We´ll see how long that lasts. And then next week we´ll start English class. I don´t really want to start English classes but they´ve been asking for it for 3 months now so I guess we´ll give it to them. 

So we were with the zone leaders (in our sector working with us yet again) but it was good this time because they got a phone call asking for someone in our sector and they just happened to be with us and what to our wondering ears would hear? A brother saying that his brother had a dream that he needs to be baptized! So we called his brother and then met him in the park right then! He told us that he is looking for the truth and wanted to come to our church on Sunday. He´s not married but he´s willing to do whatever he needs to in order to feel that it´s right. ... um okay! So guess who was at church on Sunday! He was! Wahoo! I´m excited to see where it goes! What else is cool is that there was like no break in the communication. He had a dream, told his brother, called the missionaries, called him, lesson. All within a short amount of time so he couldn´t forget this!  

I´m learning more every day. I´m hopefully becoming a better teacher. There is still so much to learn with that and I feel like it will take a lot of practice before I´m perfect... lol the pursuit of life. And when I have it down it will be time to go. A very good thing too because I know I couldn´t do anything without the help of the Lord.

LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!

Okay, now it´s time to go but I love you!

To where the grass grows yellow,

Hermana VandeMerwe