February 27 2012

Sooo today is pday... yep another one, and yesterday it felt like that was pday yet it was a week ago, time is flying by!!! This is so so so uber crazy!! I love you all!! Thank you mom for your letters they finally got to me... dear elders take some time to arrive here. just an FYI. I am planning on sending the book of Mormons today... and letters that i got in the mtc... so you can just put them with all my other stuff... but other than that, i don't have anything to send sorry. well... lets see my week... hmmm.... well we dropped two investigators... well they dropped us, but they were not ready for the gospel and now we have a lot less stress on our hands which is very good!! this week tonight is the only night that we don't have a dinner appointment, that is supper crazy!!! hmm last week, we had a lot of appointments for dinner too that is always nice :) hmm well i just started reading Alma and i am enjoying it a lot!! oh so i had a thought because i was reading about Noah... so when the flood happened they were in the boat for a very long time.. so the garden of Eden was here in America... so when the flood happened that's when they floated over to the middle east and started civilization there... its just a thought i don't know if it is true but it does make sense in my head. hmm i really don't know what to write... i really liked your email mom. it was short but it was still an email. that's nice. there has been a little drama between the seven of us ASL missionaries because one elder feels like he is the one who needs to do all the work... we hope it is all worked out, well yesterday there was a lot less stress so we pray  that it is over!! thank you for your comments about Joe i really like to read them. and oh yes i am praying for amber... oh can you send me their addresses again... i lost them pleaseeeessseee :) 

so lets see the crazy food i eat this week.... :D -- we on Saturday we went on exchanges and sis Nixon and i went to a hearing area... and the family that fed us that night took us to a restaurant. this place as Vietnamese.. i thinks that's how you spell it.. anyway the place is called PHO (fua) we pho is soup... it has noodles and broth and some type of meat in it. then you can add basil and sprouts and lime... and hot sasauge and plum sauce... well i added everything.. and it was really good, and in fact i would eat it again if i had the chance... but that was not the crazy part... the crazy part was the shake at the end you will never guess what kind it is... AVOCADO!!!!! it was sweet it was different and given the choice i would get it again.. but yep i had a green avocado shake and it was good :) that was my crazy food this week. 

the family that we are teaching is moving along so well!! this week we finished the plan of salvation. and they love it. they come to church they are involved at church they ask us so so so so many questions and they read the book of Mormon together as a family and i just love them to death. they have a baptism date for April 8 we know that they will make this date and we are so so so happy about it :) the parents are both deaf and their two children are hearing. the mom and the daughter have the same name and the same name sign. the son is not yet 8 but he is still asking questions in the lessons :) he is a little bit younger than Cali. we have so so so much fun teaching them. the dad is funny he knows both ASL and msl (Mexican sign) and he will sometimes get them mixed up, but he was so happy when he learned that he too can have the priesthood to bless his family it is so much fun. the names are dad= Sergio mom= Ana daughter= Ana son=Thomas

then there is a man, Stephen, we are teaching, his wife was baptized a year ago. but we are so so so happy because he received an answer this week about Joesph smith!! ya!! now he just needs to understand that baptism is important and that he wants to do it :) 

and then the other investigator i told you about "Jane" well i was told i can use their first names but not their last names. so Juana... is coming a long nicely we have a ride for her for church but not a ride home... we hope we will get one soon. 

hmm lets see, next week Tuesday sis Nixon goes home, i will miss her i have learned so much from her!! 

OK mom  :) the things that i need... :) or would like for my missionary work :) .... the doctrine and covenants church history DVDs in ASL... it will be around $4.50, any and all of the old testament, new testament and doctrine and covenants stories on DVD in ASL please please please please!!! :) and more family history... please i was looking over the chart and i want to learn more and more please on all sides please :) i think that is it and as always more and more more chocolate :D

so i love all :) i pray for all :) i want to know how everyone is going EVERYONE!!! please and what is going on in the news what is happening i have no clue at all!!!! please please please!!! love you!!

God be with you til we meet again :) 

<3 

Sister Longan