Jun 27, 2011

dear all,

i have the funniest and best parents in the whole wide world! surely it sounds like you are all having a blast traveling the big wide world to texas. Mom, i especially liked the part where you said "somewhere in the middle of nowhere texas she blew." it reminded me of a similar experience we had, only it was somewhere in the middle of nowhere ukraine we found a five star hotel! truly we have been a blessed family. happy birthday to Tate, sorry that i didn't say so sooner. the bobot party may have been a little too crazy. Mom, i hope your electrical burns don't stay too long (if you are confused look at the email dad sent me)

my new zealand companion is very amazing, i am so excited to work with her. the only problem is that people don't understand our accents. we lost an investigator this week because she couldn't understand us. she told us not to come back unless we had an african person with us. we have decided to adapt, we are not learning setswana (there is no time) rather we are using visual aids in most of our lessons. it is making things so fun, truly, preaching the gospel should be fun and it is with awesome visual aids!

i like that you had so much talk about tires in your last email, like you, we had our own experience. on our way to an appointment the car in front of us lost their tire completely, fortunately we were slowing down for a red light and we were not tailgating them. it was strange to see a wheel rolling down the road and a man jumping out of the car to chase after the wheel. about two minutes later we were going through a traffic circle and the car behind us made some funny noise and then we didn't see them anymore. when we left the traffic circle we saw the car on the side of the road with a tire that perfectly unrolled itself off of the rim! (dad, what causes tires to do that?)


we met a white guy, he asked us for a copy of the book of mormon. he is a very nice man (which never happens in botswana) turns out he is from zimbabwe. as we were talking to him i found out he is a paramedic. i told him my sister was a paramedic. he had a friend who was with him (also a white guy from zimbabwe) and i found out he is a mechanic. "what a surprise" i said, "so is my brother in law!". then i asked the friend what his name was, his name is Gordon. "hey, that is my grandpa's name!". the three of us came up to a conclusion, we were supposed to meet. we gave them the book of mormon, hopefully something awesome will come of it.


so i went on this little diet thing before my companion got here, i don't eat sweets anymore. the first thing she said to me when she got here was "my mom sent me a package full of sweets and she told me i had to share them with you!" that stinker, she tempts me every morning during study. i hear this little wrapper and i look over at her, then she eats it and asks me if i want one. she likes to test me. then she makes me keep her wrappers on my desk as a constant reminder to stay strong! i think you would like her.

anyway, the adventure continues. please pray for us that we will find man father led families that are ready to hear the gospel. thank you for all of your prayers thus far, i really know that heavenly father has been listening. i feel a strength coming from somewhere that acts as a shield of protection. thank you :) i love you all, until next week.


sis. blum



give the little ones (yazzi and tate) big hugs and lots of tickles from their aunty ri ri