things are going well. we had a great turn out at church yesterday. unfortunately i had to go to the other side of the city to be companions with the other sister missionary (sister banda). sis hadlock (my companion) has an incredible singing voice. she felt prompted to sing in sacrament meeting for the ysa ward. sis lovell (sister banda's companion) is the only one who knows how to play the piano so we had to do a little bit of an exchange. i went to the sacrament meeting at gwest (the ward i serve in now) then i left to exchange with sis lovell in broadhurst. i wish a lot that i could have been there to hear her sing, apparently it was stupendous and fantastic. everyone keeps calling her sister dion (as in celine dion).

church in the old ward that i used to attend (broadhurst) was nice. i was able to see a lot of the people that i baptized and what made it better was that they had callings and were teaching classes and things. :) i miss that side a lot. it was a little crazy because sister banda had a baptism that wasn't prepared for. fortunately, we were able to work it out and the service ran smoothly and was very nice.

funny story, the ward (in gwest) decided it would be a good idea to have me play the piano. the piano has a lot of recorded songs and all you have to do is locate the song and press play. i thought "sure, how hard can it be?" especially cause i know how to work the piano. when the time for the opening hymn came, i couldn't find it on the system anywhere so the conductor just started everyone acapella. then i found the song and waited until i thought was the beginning of the next verse. when i pushed play, the congregation was in the middle of the chorus, then it just got worse, i stopped the music then started it again, and on and on. the bishop finally stood up and started the song over. the second councilor had to sit with me and re-teach me how to use the piano, and the corrister wasn't too pleased with me. the missionaries in my district were laughing so hard they couldn't sing and my companion was so "proud" of me.

one of our father-led families came to church for the first time! that was nice too. they had a great time, participated a lot in classes and made many new friends. we have been teaching them for about 4 months now and they are progressing! whoot whoot.
anyway, that was an adventure from the week. hope the rest of you are doing great, i am loving life. one request would be to pray hard for our investigators, they are all struggling. satan is making it so hard for them.

anyway, love you
sister blum