March 30 Email

Well Hello family! sooo wow dad first counselor. Holey moley. that will be a new experience and i know that you will do such a wonderful job dad. but no one told me who the bishop is. Could you give me more of a low down please. and Danielle looks so cute with her big tummy. and how fun that you could celebrate her birthday with Brandy. That is so nice. Well how tall are my brothers now? how are they doing in track. I hope that they like it. You know hockey is huge here! Way bigger then the NFL. Do you know how much it costs to get all the equipment to play. Your looking at around 500 dollars. so i guess its a good thing that they dont play much hockey down there. well you asked me some questions that i guess i should answer cuz i usually avoid questions...sorry. so anyway we wake up early so we can get a ful half hour exersice in. we do 800 jumping jacks and then we have free weights that we use. i weighed myself for the first time on the mission and found i have only gained three pounds. apparently thats really good for this mission. haha. and pdays we have been just hanging around at the house relaxing or go shopping together.... we get along so great. we are more then just companions we are great friends....we have sooo much fun together no matter what we are doing and she has a laugh that she cant hold back ..kind a like mine so its great fun. and im learning cool stuff about hong kong and china and even learning to speak a little chinese. i will practice for you on the phone on mothers day.
as for my easter package get what ever you want. but make sure you get stuff for my companion please. she doesnt get much from her family. she is the same size as me. and we share clothes. so thats fun too. my clothes are getting so boring. haha.
so anyway this week was great. we tracted some houses by the Okenogan lake. so we had a beautiful view as we walked from house to house. we have alot of great conversations at the door because the people here are way layed back. we talk about hockey, the weather, or telecommunication powers with normal and odd people and then find some way to tie it into the gospel....its really fun. we found some hippies this week. and also taught a really wonderful christian family. they looked like mormons. we asked them simple questions that they could not answer. so we layed out the plan of salvation and testifed of the simpliicty of Gods gospel and that the truth can be felt....i think they felt the spirit but then they disagreed because they told us that their pastor told them that they cant trust thier feelings.....sooo sad.....we also spend alot of time at peoples doors trying to convince people that not all christians are hypocrites. you would be amazed at the new teaching skills we have aquired as a mission. we hardley ever say statements....we put everything into quesion form...its the only way to keep the door open...we have also found that the more compliments we give those we are talking to the longer they keep the door open....im learning so much about communicating. anyway....i will let you know as soon as we get some progressing investigators. right now we are teaching about 15 people but only one is progreesing. you should pray for Geoffry to decide on a baptism date. he is an african american who is 12 years old. he has been going to church for 2 years but doenst want to commit tell he feels ready....he is awesome! You should pray for him. thanks! Love you all so much! The gospel is truer then ever ! Love, sister flake