Selamat Petang!

Selamat Petang! (Good evening)

We did laundry this morning and are emailing, then we'll eat lunch, go to the temple with our district, and come back to hopefully chat with you guys and then prep for TRC. TRC is where we teach a lesson in Malay to returned missionaries that speak Malay. It's pretty nerve-wracking, but I'm glad we're going to the temple today which will bring a calming spirit. I've been SO EXCITED for the temple all week!!

I'm a bit low on time, so I'll try to make this fast and fill in the holes later today:

- this week we practiced teaching one other missionary in our district a lesson. The other missionary would pretend to be someone they knew that wasn't a member and we would have to teach them a short 5 minute lesson based on their concerns in life. Sister Gordhamer and I taught "Andrew," and we didn't really know what to say at first with his situation, but as we spoke, we each said things that helped him understand and the lesson went really well. It was neat to experience the process of listening to their needs, inviting the spirit, and testifying of truths that relate to them in their life.

- Our branch president, President Gould, also taught an hour long lesson on Sunday about the Atonement and it was super neat. I'll tell you more about that later today.

- what I learned in choir: make your mission your Ebeneezer, eat veggies every day, and don't eat the holes in swiss cheese

- we played a friendly game of dodge ball with the Indonesian speaking missionaries a couple days ago. There's a small, friendly rivalry between us since our language is almost completely the same, so our district presidents were trying to dissolve that with the game, but it only sort of egged it on, haha. We're focusing on being more friendly to them as a district this week, though

- So Sister Gordhamer and I accidently got locked out of our room this week! It was hilarious, we had to walk all the way to the info desk in another building, while in our PJs, to get a temporary key. But that didn't matter because on Wednesday, they had all of the sisters in our building MOVE buildings! Meaning pack everything up from R3, drag it down the sidewalk, and unpack in R9. Each building is named after someone, like at BYU, and our old building was Erastus R. Snow. So this week, we said goodbye to Erastus and hello to LeGrand Richards.

- I also saw Elder Nicholls, my friend from EFY going to the Czech Republic, the other day!

I'm so sorry about the time, but it's temple day and we need to chow, so I'll talk to you later!

selamat tinggal (goodbye)

sister hamner