Birthdays just aren’t the same anymore. i want to cake but not the age, you know? oh well. and just so you know i porbably wont get any mail until like two weeks, because well the mail here is a little struggling right now (not untrustworthy yet, just slow), so even if you sent things on time and all that, it doesnt really matter. but i assume iw ill get things eventually. hehe and no i never got headlamps from michelle. maybe she is jinxed with the mail system....hopefully they get here someday....anyhoo yeah this week has been pretty great. we had a conference in coban with elder cook of the twelve. that was the highlight of course. he spoke about the preach my gospel book and how inspired it is. i love that book. but i love hearing the works of apostles. man it was powerful he spoke of loving the poeple and the work and all the ways we can improve. he gave us an apostolic blessing that our familes would be blessed for our service. i have seen that already!! i sometimes wihs i could listen to him forver. i really can feel that he is called of the Lord and wow i love that we have prophets and apostles. its a powerful thing. then we can back and got back to the grind, working and working. and sunday things started looking up. this family that we have been working with FOREVER finally put a baptismal date. and we didnt even ask!! the dad asked us when there were baptisms and if they could join. left us wide mouthed and giddy. so we have 5 bapstisms scheduled for the 16th if all goes well. i have been able to see here in ym time that the lord is slowly prepareing people and that we WILL find the chosen throught hard work and faith. its pretty cool. please pray for the work, that these people will follwo through. i have seen miracles in people and i know we can have more. also i was so happy, so many people were bearing their testimonies in scarament mtg about reading the book of mormon. our campaign is really working! i KNOW this branch can improve with the book of mormon. its poweful. man i love this work. i was thinking this week, as i hit 10 months, how much i have been blessed abnd how much i have learned. i cant imagine myt life know without all these blessings. and i cant beleive it took me so long to give in to something so wonderful. when i resisted and finally decided to go on a mission, i had no idea what was in store for me. if i have known, i would have left the minute i turned 21. its great. hard, but rewarding. i love this work. i love it.
oh yeah, this sunday is mothiers day. happy mothers day to all you moms. i hope i dont have changes. because may 10 is the last day of changes, and so if i have changes i might have to leave. who knows. the work os progrssing and my testimony is still growing. take advantage of the gospel. in the end its the ONLY way to happiness. !!!!!
love you long time!!!!
hna hall