July 15

What I like about rivers is…

...You can´t step in the same river twice.

Well hello! 

How is everyone doing up north? We had a pretty fair week this week. We had a conference for the Hermanas which is always fun. we spent the whole day practicing pretty much and got home at like 830 after leaving at 530 in the morning because it was a few hours away. we also went to 2 different baptisms of other districts. We have close to no lessons this week but we worked a lot with menos activos. i think we are going to put a bigger focus on them because there are so so so many here! every one we contact ¨hi we´re missionaries...¨ÿa i know i´m a member¨  öhh...¨¨ haha. we have also put a lot of time into trying to figure out how we can apply plan alma to our ward because it´s too small to have 4 missionaries so we thought maybe 6 missionaries between the two wards and one companionship can work on the menos activos but the problem is that there are more menos activos than investigators. but we are going to try to focus on our menos activos because if we can strengthen the ward and strengthen all of these memebers to actually be members during the week they can set a better example for everyone else and we will be able to find more people to teach. I would say the biggest problem with menos activos is that they have seen the members doing something that they shouldn´t or they complain aboutthe bishop. who is amazing by the way... 

Remember that people are always watching you and most importantly people are always listening to you to. Even back home, those frieds i have that have left the church or young women that stopped coming is because they heard their young women leaders saying things about them. Remember that everyone is a child of God and as hard as it is to not say anything bad ever, your few words could take away someones salvacion so.... 

okay so my hands are freezing. just like they were at home. i dont´feel it but it´s really funny cause seriously every person i shake hands with says something about it. and let´s just say i shake hands with a lot of people. haha. they also think it´s funny that they turn different colors. their skin never changes color. wierd huh? does anyone else in the family have this problem? 

´Well. I best be going! Love you so much!!!!!! REALLY It¨S TRUE!!!!! 

Hermana VandeMerwe

so i guess i have a few minutes so i´ll tell you this story. while we were at the sisters conference i was sitting at a table with gringas so that was fun cause i could understnad the funny things lol. anyways there is this sister that kindof reminds me of the girl that we read the blog. she was talking about her grandparents serving in new jersy or something and said ¨¨ya my grandma told me ´the missionaries here all have their smart phones and now they´re just waiting for their... tablets.¨ with an enphises of disgust on the ¨tablets¨lol ¨and i´m like, please. sometimes i don´t even have shoes to wear.¨

LOL. another sister added ¨seriously. my biggest concern is if i have enough gas to last through the day¨ 

Haha!! it was really funny. probably more funny if you were there. and don´t worry i have shoes and gas. and we´re apparently getting that stuff in january so that will totally change the mission. really it would be a COMPLETE different mission with thtat. different way of teaching. different planning and so much more!ç

okay gtg bye!