Email December 8, 2008

Hello!
i love you! thanks for the updates! Sounds like you are all doing well! That makes me so happy! Thanks for the pictures... a little update..... it is warm here....well compared to Provo. it stays around ten degrees celcius... sometimes i dont need a coat...just a sweater and guess what we have not been outside...we teach constantly and dont have time for tracting and only can contact on the way into appointments. so remember when we use to get like 600 contacts a week? well that hard work payed off because now we just teach and get not much more then 20 contacts a week....and God is really blessing us because we still get about three new investigators a week from referals etc. Amazing!
And Christmas is big here too. We helped our landlord with her Christmas tree and tonight we are having FHE with Deanna, Larry, Gil, Sammy, an Sherry putting up a tree! All of my favorite people...we had FHE last week together too....i guess its tradition now. Its great because Sammy and Deanna are recent converts, Larry is an investigator and Gil and Sherry are less actives. so its really enriching for all! Also they are all really poor. so i was hoping that we could buy Deanna Scriptures for Christmas? I could get a member to buy them at the distribution center and pay them back. Did i tell you she wants to go on a mission in a year? Yeah she is on fire! mom..she doesnt do email....so just write a letter...Thanks.
So anyway its just amazing to me because Deanna is just like the glue that holds all these people together. Its great because there are alot of rich people in the ward who they dont really seem to fit in with so its great that they have all found freinds with in each other. But like the humble Zoramites in the Book of Mormon, the poorer people are way more prepared to listen and more welcoming to other people....cant we all be a little more welcoming to new people? Anyway....today we are taking the sky train to Vancouver! Wont that be exciting? Maybe you can google it to see what im talking about.....its like this train that travels 30 feet above the ground. Pretty cool.
I dont know if i will be transfered i will let you know as soon as i can. But i just love the people here so much! They are angels and my life has been changed forever from associating with them. Another thing is I love the youth in the ward here i have made lots of friends and have tried hard to strenghen them as well.
Merry Christmas! Cant wait to talk to you! Good job being missionaries yourselves!
Love, Sister Flake