July 29th 2009

What a week! I LOVE being a missionary! LOVE IT!!!
Cory is progressing really well. We are now seeing him 3 times a week and keeping dailey contact with him. He comes to FHE on Mondays, we teach him in a members home on Wednesdays, and we meet with him at his house on Thursdays. We had a sweet FHE just this last monday. We did "The Armor of God" and had a video and popcorn and had some visuals and shared scriptures and insights. It was a lot of fun. We had to push Margie's baptism back to September 11th because of her living situations. So it's no longer on August 8th. But Casandra's (unbaptized youth) is still set for August 22nd. We have been working a lot with less active members and trying hard to get the reactivated. We've actually had some pretty good success with that. We are solidly teaching 3 LA families and 2 Part members families.
The weather is getting super hot! the humid is KILLER! Oh man, you walk outside and you are just wet with sweat. Pretty sick I know. When we tract it makes for long days. WE're all sweaty and stinky, who in their right mind would want to talk to us LOL
This morning we went rock climbing with the stake president for a work out. He was a rock wall in his back yard. It was sweet! I felt like spider man and climbed right up that wall! Piece of cake LOL
We had a dinner appointment with one of my favorite families, the Justesens! on Monday night. She has 4 little ones. Between the ages of 12 and 11months. We had breakfast food and the set it up like it was a restaurant. So they made us menu's and what not and let us order. It was the cutest thing seeing them in their aprons and what not. I love that family. She is so strong. she's going through some CRAP with her "husband" but she's so strong and solid and is a GREAT mom and person. I really admire her. I love her!
There's an older lady in the ward and her birthday was yesterday. She turned 84!! That's old. But she's still kicking around like she's 20 LOL Her name is Sister Verboom. She's dutch and can speak like 5 or 6 different languages. I can't understand her on the phone most the time. LOL she talks so fast!! I love her though! and she sure loves the missionaries.
Things are going great here though! I love this area. Things are still continuing to look up and improve here. People are starting to open their minds and hearts some and we just bare good strong heart felt testimonies!
Thanks for all your letters and support. I'm sorry if I dont' write back very fast. I'm sure you all understand though
I love you
-Sister Oreo
-A new nick name one of the Young single Adults gave me