March 20th 2012

Hey mom and dad!

Sorry about the long response. We have zone conference tomorrow so we are traveling to Plovdiv today so our p-day got changed! Oh and the scripture is D&C 31:3. Hopefully it will finally work with that haha.

That's so exciting that Rianne is getting married! Oh can you tell her congrats from me and that I give her a big hug and wish her the best with everything and I wish I could be there! That makes me so happy :)

It's good to hear that everyone is doing well. I just found out that I will be training very soon! The Sister who I will be training will be arriving on June 20th...so Happy Birthday to me haha. My Trainer has been out for over a year and she goes home at the end of May. So its really really rare that people start training when they have only been out a few months... I am pretty nervous about it!

That makes me so jealous that Keith just went and got some taco bell!! Ugh. haha but I am glad he enjoyed it. Hmm... Let's see. Nothing too exciting happened this past week just the usual missionary work. Except it has started to get much nicer here these past few days it has been so warm. Even though it is warm people look at us really weird because we aren't wearing a coat. They sometimes come up to you and say "Why arent you wearing a coat?!" And i say because its hot outside and they say "But it's March!" For some reason they think that just because its March you HAVE to wear a coat...even if its 80 degrees outside. Crazy.

We had a women's conference this past saturday. The General relief society, young womens, and primary president's talked to the women specific for Eastern Europe. It was pretty cool. Except for the fact that it was an hour and a half of me not understanding 80 percent of what was said... haha. Then we had a Lunch prepared by the men and after that we did a service where we made cards to give to the less active in the branch (there is a lot) in the branch here there are about 15- 20 people who come each week. So its pretty small. Sometimes its hard because the missionaries pretty much run everything...so if for some reason we couldn't make it to church on sunday the branch wouldn't really function right at all. We are trying to get them less dependent on missionaries but its really hard because they don't know any different. So we are working on that slowly....

Oh yeah my district (my companion and two elders) is doing a musical number tomorrow at Zone conference...kind of a big deal haha. So we will see how that goes.

I hope everything is going well for everyone there! Tell everyone I am doing great and thanks for all the support! It's nice to know that even though I am all the way on the othre side of the world with not much support from people (because the church is sooooo tiny here) that I have lots of support back home!

Well I love you a 100 Killer whales, 10 spider monkeys, 50 Unicornfish, and 80 siberian tigers :)

Love Your Favorite Daughter (out on a mission),
Jodi :)