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Sunshine and...winter is coming up!

(NOTE:  Received April 13, 2010)


Hello!


Guess what!  It's Pday!  Hooray!  And I got three letters on the same day last week...all from the Snyders!  Cool, huh!  They love me.  So first, about this email.  I decided to stay at the MTC today to email, so that I can try sending pictures again. I think it will work this time, actually.


First of all...Last Tuesday, I was walking around after gym with my district, and we were looking at the pictures on the wall here.  They have pictures from a bunch of the Brazil missions, as well as the Provo and Chicago missions.  So whenever I look at them, there is always a part of me that wonders if maybe I know someone.  This time... I did!  And you do too!  I found a picture of Michael Orr on his mission!  I took a picture of the picture.  Funny.  But it was awesome.  I got so excited, my district probably thought I was even crazier than they already think I am.  


That night, there was a dog.  That barked.  All night.  That pretty much happens pretty frequently.  Last night, I woke up and I think the dog had a muzzle on it, because it sounded different.  Or maybe I just dreamed it.  I don't actually know.  But it sounded way different, and in my half-conscious state, I figured out why.  Just like the other night, I woke up around 1, and my clock looked like it said 21:00, and in my half-conscious state, I was trying to figure out how I was up at 9, when I went to bed at 10:30.  I just didn't think about the fact that my clock is not in military time.  Hahaha.


Also Tuesday, in gym, we were playing volleyball.  About gym.  Sometimes I go running on our tiny track, because it helps me clear my head.  And yesterday, Sister Nielson and I went to the weight room, and went for a bike ride.  We never decided where we were riding to though.  Oh well.


This last Friday, we went proselyting!  It was fantastic!  We talked to like 8 people in the 3 hours we were out there, and gave away 2 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was intense.  Fun though.  We get to go out again next week.  Hooray!  I have so far to go with the language though.  But it's alright.  My teachers tell me I am doing well, so that is definitely encouraging!  Saturday was funny.  Every Sunday, 4 missionaries are called on to give 5 minute talks in church.  But we never know until then who is talking, so we all prepare.  Saturday, our Elders were practicing them.  The topic was patience.  It was hilarious, because they took forever to find scriptures (to waste time), and one of them just got up and stared for like 40 seconds, then started talking about patience.  I guess you had to be there.  


Sunday I took a nap.  The other day, maybe Sunday, we were sharing family pictures in our district.  Today I went to the Temple as usual, and it was awesome!  I got Portuguese scriptures, because the ones they gave us here were pretty lamesauce, so I got nice ones.  I began reading the Book of Mormon in Portuguese a while ago, and am almost in 2nd Nephi!  Hooray!  AHHHHHHHHHh I have so far to go before I am fluent!  I am doing pretty much all my prayers in Portuguese now, and that has REALLY helped me.  And I can say so much more than I think I can.  Alright, I'm going to try to email photos now.  Mark 11:23- Faith is awesome!  We can have this much faith (enough to move mountains) if we act in faith and ask for more faith, and work every single day to increase our faith.  I love you all!  Have a fantastic week!


Love you!


-Karen


(The following photo was attached to a second email received just a few minutes later.)









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