Work in our area was weird this week, but we still had a baptism!

Mondays. The one day I wake up and immediately check my email. I love seeing Tab's name pop up knowing he's there emailing me. Sometimes he is and sometimes he's not. Today I missed him. I was bummed but his sweet letter was enough to sustain me until next week. Love my missionary!

Hi Mom! 

It appears that you are sleeping today. Maybe. 

Well, this week was kind of an odd one. We went to the temple on Thursday and that was pretty neat. It was a pain in the neck to try to keep all the missionaries in the zone together while going through New York. We took a direct route to the temple and on the subway there wasn't enough room so all of us got split up. It was really annoying. I hate Manhattan. There are way too many people there. Most people only care about getting to and from work on time so they can get pretty nasty if you get in their way. And the whole city smells like cigarettes. I would never live there. I like the temple though! And it was the first time I had done baptisms for the dead in over two years, so I really enjoyed that part. I prefer baptisms and confirmations over endowment sessions. All in all, it was a pretty regular trip to the temple. We ate at a Portuguese barbecue place in Newark on our way home and that was yummy. 

Work in our area was weird this week. We tried really hard to teach people and get at least 10 contacts a day and for some reason it was really tough. So we didn't have near as much success as we usually do, but we still had a baptism! So that's good. Natalie really enjoyed it. She is super quiet, but I know she was excited. She is Vietnamese, by the way. So we may be getting some authentic Vietnamese food one of these days. :) We lost track of a lot of our other investigators this week so we're probably be doing a restart this week (and transfer). Elder Comish is being transferred so I'll be leading out the area. I don't know it very well, but it'll be alright. I hope my new companion has a GPS. If not, I'll be asking for one soon! I'll let you know. 

Yes, we traveled a lot this week too. We usually do. Driving people around! Two of our companionships' cars have gotten hit in the last few weeks so they were both in the shop this week. We were helping them out with that as well. Then one Elder hit his head (funny story) and had to get stitches so we were driving around taking care of that. It was a busy week.

I am glad your surgery went well! The side-effects you had sound a lot like the ones I had when I got surgery on my pinky. Mine was less intense and I only was on medication for a day or two (oxycodone) and then things got better. But I hated taking that pain medication. It always made me light headed and nauseous. I can't see how anyone would get addicted to something like that. It stinks! My comps have told me that I breathe heavy at night but I doubt that it is my nose. i think it's my tonsils! need em out. Actually I think it's allergies too, because it hasn't been a problem in the winter. Maybe i should just have my nose cut off!

By the way that Masala and naan was super good so if you bought that at just any other normal store, let me know and I'll go find it. Thank you for that! I have yet to cook the Stubbs stuff but we have a slow cooker now. So I l will et you know how that goes next week. yumyum 

Other than that, this week was pretty normal. We made the stuff you sent and I ate all the oreos. Those were the best tasting oreos I've ever had, tied with mint oreos. I will be getting more at walmart. As for the indian food, I really enjoyed just dipping the naan in the sauce. It was better than the dish itself, with the rice and chicken. I got super full so I didn't even end up eating dinner that day. We ate lunch at about 2 or 3 and then my stomach was full for the rest of the day. I think it expanded in my belly. It's pretty dense food. I loved it though. From where did you buy it? 

Ahhh those food trucks! where's that at? jdawgs needs a truck and they need a taco truck.

Send me updates on the world cup! Not a link to a webpage but just a written out scoresheet or something. I like hearing about it - it makes for good small talk with the people we meet. Does North Korea have its own team? If so, are they doing well?

Have a good week!

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