Hey family! How is everything going??!! Thank you for all of the love and support!
This week has bee very tough and yet a great week! It started out really tough because I felt really sick. I had a pretty bad headache for a few days in a row, I couldn't eat much because my throat was killing me, and I was constantly nauscis lol I have no idea how to spell that.. it was tough to keep working while I felt like that! It was really hard to focus on Investigators and their needs instead worrying about when I was going to throw up next or something like that. It was also though because I could tell Elder Nutt was getting a bit frustrated with me being sick.. I can understand why, it would be annoying dealing with a sick companion on our busiest days of the week. Overall he was very patient with me though so that helped me out a lot! But now I am finally getting a lot better and feeling better everyday! We all know how it feels to get over a sickness.. you feel like you are on top of the world! So I feel really good right now and am just trying to keep that energy and joy for as long as possible!
This past week has been one of the coldest weeks since I have been here! I can only remember the temperature for one day and it was 0 degrees F! But I think there have been a couple colder days than that!
So I want to tell about something that I think is really funny here.. the taxi system! They have just regular taxis or you can just go out to the side of the road a wave down a car and offer to pay them money. When we need to take a taxi we always do it this way. At first I was really hesitant because I didn't want to get killed and it seemed really weird, but now when we do it everything seems natural and fine. I just thought you might think that was interesting.
Well I ate one really weird thing here this past week and it is the dreaded food among missionaries! It is call halladets... I don't know how to spell it in English. It is so nasty! Basically what it is is all the fat and oil from meet mixed with gelatin and cooled down, they put a little meat and few vegetable in it and then they eat it. Basically it is a jello full of meet and fat.. it is horrible! But when you eat at someones house here it is very rude if you don't try everything on the table so I have to try it.
Haha well the language is still coming along everyday. I still cannot say that I understand everything or that I even understand most of what is said. But I can say that I am progressing! :)
We have been working really hard on switching over our English investigators to Gospel investigators. It has actually been going a lot better than I thought it would! It is amazing how the Spirit leads our conversations and lessons with our investigators! There is one English Investigator in particular, his name is Farhat, he has no religion but has a very strong relationship with his family. So this past week we decided to share with his the movie Together Forever in English and help him understand it... it was amazing! After they movie I just felt so strong to testify how strongly I feel for my own family and it led our discussion to the Plan of Salvation.. Now when he comes for English practice he always has questions about our religion and is interested in learning more. It is amazing the way the Spirit works and when it works especially in the times you least expect it.. I love this work that I am apart of and I only hope that I can do my part to make my Father in Heaven proud. I hope I can represent him in a way that he would have me represent him. I hope I can be sensitive to all the feelings and promptings that I get and can act on them with boldness! I am grateful for this gospel and I love you all very much! I miss you of course but I also love where I am! thank you for all that you do once again and I pray that you will be able to feel how much love I and our Father in Heaven has for you!
ELDER WEIHING
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