hello from beautiful Seattle

"so before i forget i have to tell you the funniest story. k so sis bush is the training sister, which means she needs to go on exchanges with all the other english sisters every transfer. that means i get to go on exchanges with every sister every transfer which is fun because i'll get to know them all! this week we exchanged with the federal way sisters, and i was companions with sis kim. she's from korea, the only member of her family . . . amazing! she's great. we had tons of fun. there's a lot of koreans in federal way so they have an english class and we were passing out fliers. i learned out to say "hi! you're welcome to come to a free english class" in korean! it was awesome. i spoke korean to real koreans. legit. anyway the funny part is . . . we were driving back to maple valley to exchange back, and LONG story but i had her get on I-5 going south instead of north and we ended up in tacoma . . . aka OUTSIDE THE MISSION!! hahaha it was awful. i felt so dumb. but it was not intentional. haha just so you know though, i'm not that dumb, we just happened to get on the freeway at a different entrance that was JUST south of the exit we needed and if we'd entered the freeway the normal way then i would have been right haha. it's easy to go out of your mission when your mission is so small.
"other fun things of the week: we played laser tag with our district last p-day and i came in 2nd!! yup that's right i whooped the elders. it was way fun. we played at this park overlooking a gorgeous lake!

"this week has been great! i can't believe how fast it flew by. there were a couple days of discouragement (not too intense no worries) because we didn't have many people to teach. we just kept working hard and the lord has blessed us so much! a member brought her roommate to church last week and we set up an appointment to teach her on thursday. it went really well!! she came to church yesterday and we have an appoinment this week too! cross your fingers :) we also got a random referral from a real estate guy who had sold a house in our ward to a family who mentioned wanting to meet with the mormon missionaries again. we have an appointment this week!! also the cute girl that was baptized a little over a week ago, her dad has been reading the book of mormon when he thought no one was watching :) his wife leaves it on the table and he reads it. they're going to ask him tonight if he wants us to teach him. we think he's going to say yes!! he's awesome and that will make a whole family! ah pray for him too :)

"sis bush and i got to speak about the restoration in sacrament meeting yesterday. we were a little nervous because we didn't have much time to prepare, but it went great! it's hard to explain, but as a missionary you really feel like you can bear testimony with power! the spirit defintely gave us what to say and it was so great! there were a few nonmenbers there so it was a great topic!"