April 20 Email

Thanks for the updates Family! Sounds like the weather is great down there. Its warming up here and people are a lot more happy....including us :)
Well we had really neat experiences this week finding people to teach....i love talking....you may have already known that....but i know that we really surprise almost everyone that happens to walk on the same street as us because we greet them with huge smiles and just talk to them as if they were our brothers and sisters...oh wait...they are....anyway lots of people have really surprised looks on their faces when we start talking to them. And then we have wonderful conversation and i am just having the most fun time talking to all these people. and I'm learning so much about culture, religion, philosophy, communication, and even drugs. haha! yeah and all in the same conversation haha! so its like college only interactive learning!
anyway.... i have to buy new tennis shoes today because last week we started jogging for exercise and i got really bad shin splints because my tennis shoes lost their cushion. Oh and something funny...i found out from Sister Nelson that i am the richest missionary in our mission! Yeah she actually told me its a big problem and that i need to start spending the money in my account...haha! I guess i really did learn something in young women's and relief society about being frugal. its such a funny word....
anyway i have to tell you about these Filipino's that we tracted into a few days ago. we started tracting their complex early in the afternoon but decided that contacting would be better cuz no one was home.....so that night we came back to tract that complex and the second door we knocked on Rochee from the Philippines opened the door and invited us in!!!!!!! holey moley! and so we started sharing the restoration with him and this other women who lives there and guess what he said? " i knew that i was supposed to let you in when i saw you at the door....i can tell you are messengers from God." The spirit was so strong.......we will teach them this week......this is something that has never happened to me before and i was beginning to think it only happens on foreign missions. But i guess they are foreign so maybe that's why...they are so humble and kind! wow! and also we are teaching Javone from Jamaica who is also very humble. But Dima from Russia is not so humble....anyway....its so neat to be teaching so many different people. well anyway i am so grateful for the gospel. It is so true and it makes me so happy. i love you all! Keep up the good work!
love sister flake



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