pics!

oh my goodness, i don't think i can top the cattle drive pictures, but here are the pics of my normal week! haha. the first pic is me modeling my new haircut! my a-line had grown out so i got it cut again, not too different, still short. i don't like it as much as my first cut for some reason, but it's nice to have all the ends even again :) the 2nd picture is sis yura and i prepping to go get something from the car in the pouring rain. rainy season is definitely starting up! one day in particular it poured. it was pitch dark and we were tracting. we sang singing in the rain with our umbrellas on the way back to the car though so we had fun! my boots and raincoat are awesome! BRING ON THE RAIN!

i'm trying to think if there's anything else to tell you.... oh i hit my 6 month mark this week! CRAZY! i can't believe how fast time flies. sis yura and i got our favorite pizza (veggie delite from papa murphy's) to celebrate and we ate the whole thing! awesome. yeah i can't think of much other than that. just the same old usual awesomeness. sister allan was so cute, before we knew about transfers she told us "i've been praying every day that you 2 get to stay here!" so it must be that we stayed because sis allan had so much faith :) other people in the ward were really cute too...it always makes you feel good when the ward doesn't want you to leave. there are TONS of fall colors here now...it is GORGEOUS. ah with so many trees it's just breathtaking. love it. yeah i really can't think of much else to tell you except everyone hates us during tracting lately it seems haha. i think i've had more doors slammed in the past week than in my whole mission combined. sis yura and i still have fun tracting though. our new project is perfecting her english. she speaks well and can understand everything and everyone can usually understand her, but her sentences are always out of order. so my new job is to fix every sentence she says (not during lessons though obviously). she's improving a lot! i'm also helping her fix her pronunciation when we read together in the mornings. i didn't realize how hard a language english is to learn until i had to explain it to someone. there are so many exceptions to rules and random phrases that we use. did i tell you we're teaching a korean lady english too? i can't remember what i tell you. yeah she's super cute and we're introducing her to a korean family in the ward this week. should be way fun.

well that's about it for me! sounds like you've had a fun week watching james! he sounds like such a character and it sounds like he's grown up a LOT since i left. tell him i love him :) love you all!!! talk to you in a week :)

lizzie