Monday, November 12

Well, the baptism did happen for all 3 boys...as you can probably assume from the picture. It was really good and there were quite a few people there! We were happy so many turned up to support! It was fun last week trying to locate enough baptismal suits in the right sizes though. The young men's president who baptized them had to wear like a triple XL suit and he is such a skinny man that we had to find a white belt to tie around so it would help keep it on. :) So that was fun! The talks were given by (the boys' choice) one of the young men who is 13 and a primary boy who is 7. It was really cute and touching. So we have 3 new members in our ward.

Yes Thanksgiving is next week. We don't necessarily know who may feed us. We have 2 American families in the ward (one parent being American) who said they would like to feed us, but when the list got passed around for the month, a Canadian couple signed up for that night and I don't even think they know that it is Thanksgiving that day for us. So we'll see. In answer to mom's questions, we do get fed quite a bit here. Depends on the week but most weeks we get fed about 4 times. This week we have tea appointments Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. So not fairing too bad this week. Bishop says we should be more persistent in getting members to have us over for tea, but in a small ward like this it's hard because we are only allowed to eat at the same member's home twice in a month and we also have to watch the mileage on the car so we don't go completely over our limit.

 

When I was budgeting our mileage for this month, oh boy are we not going to be under. We are going up to the temple the week after transfers for a session and then a holiday meal together as a mission (well half the mission, the other half will go the next day). It's 115 miles to the temple from our area, but President tells us it is always cheaper for the mission to use the cars than it is to take the train. So if we know we are going to go over our miles we have to call President for an extension (I called Halloween night to get an extension of 350 miles for November). It's a bit crazy with our area. Our limit is 1600 miles a month, it's hard to believe that it's only been under that amount once in the last year (we keep track of the records). Our area is not small.

We taught Sharing time yesterday and they wanted us to talk about missions. We let them have a kind of Q & A session with us. We got questions like, "Do you have to wear certain things as a missionary?" Why yes, we, as sisters, have to wear skirts for instance. "What?! Are you serious?! You HAVE to wear a skirt?" Yes. "How many doors do you have to knock on?" It depends. "On average?" Well, yesterday we knocked on probably about 40. "What?! 40?!" Yes.

It was great. I love little kids. Sister Smith asked the question, "Where do you think I'm from?" "America!" "Yes, which state?" "China?" oh so close.

The other night we got marshmallows and have been roasting over the hob (stove). That's been a nice thing in this bit of cold damp weather we are getting.

We are doing pretty good at staying warm when we are out and about lately, everybody keeps telling us it is going to be a horrible winter though... I'm like, thank you... Some members tell me I won't survive.... Once again, Thank you.

I'll try to get my tooth fixed. It's so hard with their health care over here... All the NHS dentists are full and the private dentists are supposedly really expensive. So we'll see.

I'm assuming Kade is still waiting a little bit. I'm getting excited for him to come. I have it marked on every calendar in our flat when he is supposed to be coming.

Well, I don't have much else to say since I just wrote on Friday, but I hope you are all still doing well and that Baby Kade isn't causing too much grief in his momma's belly.

I love you all very very much!