9-20-10 email

Aloha Ohana (family)
So it's been another crazy busy week..... first off after I emailed last week I ran into Kyra Williams, crazy huh, and we had dinner at the Stokes and their son dated Cheyanne Winters ( she is Kevin's age) they are such a fun family!! Oh and Cheyanne is Sister Stadlers niece, so crazy!!! We also have a baptism date for a 14 year old girl named Sia. She is a given though, they lost her baptism record so we still have to go through the lessons but she is completely active. The cool thing is her mom isn't and we are starting to teach her the lessons too so that's cool. That was all on Mon. So then Wed. we met a 19 year old boy named Jinnyson and taught him and his Dad a short lesson, it was so cool though cuz we gave him a Book of Mormon and he just started reading it. We shared some scriptures on over coming trials and trusting in the Lord and he was so excited. It was neat, then on Thurs we just had another awesome spiritual day, we net a lady named Sapina and shared a message with her, it's cool when you can tell that they can feel the spirit and they want more. Friday we went over to Christin Hoffmans house (investigator) and taught her about Relief Society and Young Women's. She just LOVES it and want to go to the Relief Society broadcast with us and wants to know when General Conference is. Then we did her hair for the air force ball, is was so much fun!!!! She is such a nice and fun lady!!! We also went and taught a guy in his 50's, Thomas, and he committed to be baptized by Oct. 30 -he has a smoking problem- he is from the Philippines and we are all smiles when he was with us, his Dad died about a month ago and he is recently divorced so it was good to see him so happy and know that it was the Spirit. On Sat. Sister Stadler exchanged with some other sisters so my companion was Sister Tueruru, she is from an island by Fiji so she has a heavy accent. She is a really fun bubbly missionary. We did get a new investigator together, we actually met her knocking on doors, her name is Sandy and she has 3 kids 8,16,18 and really wants to learn more, was excited to read the Book of Mormon and we will meet with her next week so I'm way excited! I also talked to this awesome black man named Albert Williams who said he is still looking for a church, we had to give his info the the elders though cuz he doesn't live in our area but I'm excited for him too!!!! OH GUESS WHAT?!?! so yeah, totally found out Thursday night we needed to give a talk on Sunday in the Aliamonu Ward! Ha, luckily I still had the tape that I made for Ray with my farewell talk on it so I just copied it down . lol. So Sat night I wrote my talk, oh and for dinner we went to members house, Sister Domanty, she looks about my age, or a few years older and is divorced with 3 boys. We connected so fast it was cool cuz she asked me about my necklace (mizpah coin) so I told her Ray had the other half and she wanted to hear our story so I told her, she loved it, said it gave her hope, and then I share my favorite scripture Prov 3:5-6 she wrote it down....... the cool thing was is that it sounds so silly to talk about that but the spirit was there and I really do feel like it helped her. Sunday we gave our talks and I didn't even cry!! :) It went well, Aliamonu is a smaller ward so it's not as scary. After Sister Domantay came up to me and told me how much she enjoyed my talk and wanted to get my info to make sure she has it before I leave (even though I'll be here a few months I'm sure) but it made me feel really good. After church we taught a 14 year old girl named Sam who is awesome, loves the gospel but her parents won't let her get baptized cuz they think she is too young. She goes to church with her friend and we teach at her friends house. The members in both wards are crazy about missionary work so they do what they can to help us, I honestly wound;t mind spending a lot of my mission here, I love the people so much. Oh and I'm still coughing like I was at the MTC, we think it could be the Vog.... it's volcano smoke.... you can't see it but it's there.

Thanks!!!! Write me a letter, they are so much better and more fun :) with pics!!!!!! I hope you are doing well!!!!! I miss y'all and love y'all so much !!!!!!!!

Sister Brough