June 12, 2011

dear family,



thank you for your diligence in emailing your daughter/sister/friend here in africa. it is very sad to hear about Bo. i will miss seeing him when i come home. i know that the Plan of Salvation is true, and if he was righteous he will be received into a state of happiness. kind of, i am a little jealous of him. what an adventure he must be on. give his family my deepest love and concern. be sure to give jane a lot of love.



good job mitchell!! glad to hear he is getting married. it is a great thing that he has found someone. i knew it wouldn't take long, especially when the first thing he told me when i saw him after his mission was, "do you know anyone i can marry, i am looking for a wife!" good for him, i wonder what their kids will be like someday... speaking of kids, HOLY CHILDREN EXPLOSION! i can't wait to get home and see all the little things :) i have been blessed with the family we have. seriously, how did i get so lucky? God really blessed me. i love all of you.


i finally reached a milestone here... we taught a white person! she is actually not even from Botswana, she is from Arkansas. she is here for a couple weeks on an exchange program. she came to church yesterday and she really "stood out" i say that because she is 6'5" tall! easily she was the tallest and whitest person there! i thought for sure she was a member so i told her to stay with the sunday school class after sacrament meeting. after a while she was escorted into the gospel principles class by the elders who pulled me aside and informed me she is in fact our investigator (she is in our area)! she is a delightful person. she knows pretty much everything and more about the church than i do, whether it is correct or not we don't know, she has been researching it on line since 2009. she became interested in the church after watching the TV series "Big Love"... she likes the church has a testimony of the book of mormon and joseph smith and wants to be baptized so we say, "sure why not?"



speaking of tv, dad, how is all of that craziness coming?



i must be going, i love you and give you some advice... just keep smiling, i have really been trying to live by the moto... everything works out just the way it is supposed to so just be happy, alright?!



are there any specific questions you wish to know about the culture, or anything that i haven't sufficiently answered?





sister blum