June 20, 2011

YIPEEE! go mom for using your talents to help a neighbor feel loved and
welcome. for real, do absolutely everything you can to be that families
friend! invite them over, let them sit with you at church, give them food,
go on double dates with them. if they don't like you, get them different
friends, do absolutely everything you can for that family. God needs people
to fellowship and love the lambs. that is a difficulty we are having with
our ward these days, they don't really fellowship anyone. thus our
investigators lose interest in the church FAST because the feel like they
are sitting inside a freezer. if you as a family are being a freezer, it is
time to crank up the heat, the missionaries, the investigators and God will
love you so much for it. Please fulfill your calling to be a missionary and
fellowship the new ones. please please please please please!

HAPPY BELATED FATHER'S DAY! dad, i love you. pretty sure i wouldn't be here
without you. I might, but i wouldn't have this awesome nose or my hips!
Sorry that you turned old, how are amber, cohwen and the little ones?

i think you and mom should consider going on a mission, you can start when i
have 6 months left, go for six months and we can all get home at the same
time :) tempting?.... you should. senior couples are the best.

mom, we got the ensigns! it was so thoughtful of you to send 4 of them,
brilliant, except for i don't know what i will do iwith them, i can barely
read one on my own and they all say the same thing ;) everyone is very happy
about them, i was actually going to send you an email to ask you if you can
send my companion one but you read our minds. good job listening to the
spirit! the cd's are awesome, you know your daughter too well. although
sister nalusiba hates them. it is ok though, transfers just happened,
unfortunately the nalusiba blum train has come to a halt. it is now going to
be the clendon blum show. sister clendon is from new zealand, we were in the
mtc together, we lived in francistown together, i love her very much and am
so excited to start working with her. i am sad however, sister nalusiba and
i are really close friends. the good news is, she isn't going too far,
people always say that you know you are a sister missionary in botswana when
a transfer consists of moving closets and beds! she is going to gaborone
west and is moving down the hall. i will miss that happy little head in our
wonderful broadhurst! such is life, greener pastures are somewhere ahead,
God will help sister clendon and i to find them!

due to the fact all of my clothes are shrinking significantly, i blame it on
the fabric softener, i have begun work on stretching them back out, or just
losing some weight. Can you please pray for me, i really need help. sister
lovell and i are in a contest and i am bound and determined to beat her!
please everyone, i need your help on this one. any motivational comments you
wish to give are appreciated.

other than that, life on this side is great still. we learn more everyday
how much we don't know. the area improves more everyday. missionary work is
an artform we are doing our best to learn. please pray for that as well, i
need to improve my missionary skills.

just know that i pray for my family daily, i am very concerned about your
well being and i miss you all very much. it makes me happy that we ARE an
eternal family, keep on enduring to the end so we can be together forever
and ever. also, i was hoping that i could get that picture of the whole
family, you know the one where we are all in a line... mine got taken by a
recent convert in francistown. i love to use it as an object lesson. and to
look at :) all of you are beautiful and i love you too much.

love you
sister blum