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well it’s been a great week here! we’re keeping busy which is good :) [J] is doing wonderful! this week we taught her the gospel of jesus christ and talked more about modern prophets and conference etc. she is so strong. she’s moving to a house in provo in october so we’re already planning on being provo friends in 2011 haha. her baptism is scheduled for aug 22 at 7 pm. i’m way excited. it should be a really special day :) . . .

so sad story of the week . . . we had to wait at the DMV for FIVE hours the other day. isn’t that crazy?? sis yura has been trying to get her american drivers license and she took the driving test on Friday (and passed!). but then we waited FOREVER to actually get the license and then it ended up that she needed another paper to prove her residency here. ugh by the end our brains were fried. i got to talk to people while we waited though so that was good! i had a couple hour discussion with this cute woman who was reading her bible and heard me talking to someone about eternal marriage. she asked me about it and turned to that scripture where christ says “after the resurrection they are neither married nor given in marriage’ or whatever it says, so we had a talk about that, and priesthood authority, and faith vs works (or rather how they go TOGETHER), etc. she goes to a non denominational christian church and has the sweetest testimony of jesus christ. her uncle is mormon and she told me she’d read the book of mormon! so that was cool. i also talked to this cute laotian lady who is buddhist. she left with a plan of salvation pamphlet. it was frustrating to sit there so long and feel like there was so much work to be done (the DMV isn’t open on Mondays so we had to do it another day) but at least we still got to teach a bit.

oh also we met a man the other day who spoke cantonese so i tried my cantonese out on him and he didn’t understand anything! hahaha cantonese was like his 3rd language though so i’ll pretend that could have played a role hehe. i’ve met some way cool people! people from israel, russia, ukraine, phillipines (erg i can’t spell it), laos, china, vietnam, etc. makes me excited for you to go to ukraine popsy! the girl we’re teaching at u dub is mongolian but has also lived in russia and ukraine for a number of years. liza is way cute. she has a baptism date for aug 22 but she’s having some doubts. pray for her :)

well that’s about it!! life is very good :) yesterday i was looking through a bunch of the conference ensigns to find an article and i kept reading talk after talk and feeling so strongly again that these are prophets of God. I know this is Christ’s church on the earth and it brings me so much joy :)