Hey family,

The weather here is finally getting nice. Tomorrow its getting up to 80! The trees (well like half, other half still dead looking) are getting leaves and blossoms, the birds are singing, the golden squirrels are frolicking (see picture). Ya there are a couple of golden squirrels running around, never seen them before. Anyway, the weather is nice and people are finally starting to come out of hibernation.

Tina is doing great! She is all set for her baptism on Saturday and is excited as can be. She even took the initiative to ask everyone personally on the program before we could do it. Shes still getting a lot of pressure from her friends and family, but it seems like the more pressure she gets, the stronger she becomes. Its probably going to be my last baptism, but I'm ok with that, shes so awesome.

Gestina is still awesome as well. Yesterday, after church, one of the members presented her with a brand new set of scriptures with her name on them. Gestina was really happy, she kept running around showing everyone. Shes going to the Temple to do baptisms for the dead this month in Chicago!

Kyle is doing well too. We had a lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and re-committed him to read and pray daily as well as attend church. Because of his job as a consultant for refugee camps hes gone on business trips a lot so attending church regularly is going to be hard.

The guy who walked in to church said he didn't have enough time to devote to it' soooo dropped. We are going to meet with the other lady this week. Yesterday at church, during gospel principles class a couple from Taiwan walked in from off the street...Two weeks in a row thats happened. They stayed for the lesson and then we introduced them to a lady from Taiwan in the ward and they talked for a bit. We got their address and said we'd drop off a chinese b of m to them. Didn't seem necessarily interested, just curious, but we'll see what happens.

O one interesting thing that happened this week, we were street contacting and ran into two guys from Saudi Arabia. They didn't speak English too well so he invited us in to talk to someone who could translate. We were kinda hesitant, but weren't getting any bad vibes so we went in. There were like 5 other people in there (one guy sitting on the floor was wearing a sith robe...) all arabs. They didn't speak English too well, but spoke well enough to communicate. We had a really cool conversation talking about each others beliefs and practices. By the end they were curious about the b of m and 3 of them wanted one in arabic.

Ok have a great week family!

Love