Hello Everyone,
Happy Valentines Day!! For the past 20-ish years I've had a pretty insignificant valentines day so why change that now?? Just another day. Just kidding I really like Valentines Day, lots of pink! But people here don't celebrate it. The only reason they know about it is because of white people and movies. But, I did get a few members wish be "Selamat Hari KuKasihi" or "Happy I love you Day" It was cute that they even remembered or knew about it.
On Sunday we were at one of our recent converts house teaching and we told them that Valentines day was on the 14th. Sister Wong told them they needed to go on a date or do something special for it. We went back a few days later and found out they had sent their kids over to the Grandma's for a sleepover and spent the night just the two of them. When we saw them again Ida, the wife, said," ya, it's like we are just married again! no kids". I think it was healthy for them. Husbands and wives don't ever act like they enjoy each other here. It's the weirdest thing, I'm sure I've mentioned it before.
The morning of the 14th we had a knock on our door and found three valentines day cards laying there waiting for us that read, "happy valentines day lunch is on me! - sister lowe" I love sister lowe. She reminds me a lot of mom, always looking for an excuse to celebrate something. Around 12:00pm she showed up at our house with lunch. It was awesome. She brought fixings to make sandwiches like one you could get at a deli, complete with Doritos. Oh it's been awhile since I've eaten Doritos. She's the best. That's about the extent of our celebration. It's sounds like you all had a fun time. that's good.
Sister Lor is great. Nobody here knows what Hmong is. Everyone just thinks Mongolian. She's been teaching us a little bit of her language and it is insane. I believe there are 8 tones. Man I thought learning a bit of Chinese with Sister Lim was hard, but that language only had 4 tones or something. It's crazy. Yesterday we were knocking a lot and I think because Sister Lor was with us we had beginners luck. Everyone invited us in. After the fourth house of drinking hot chocolate Sister Lor said, "this is really fun!" My thoughts were, "ya...it is fun isn't it?" Sometimes I get caught up in things and forget to just sit back and think, "man, missionary work is a lot of fun" Because it is, it really is. Thanks for the reminder Sister Lor.
I feel a little bad for Sister Lor because she is stuck with two companions who love to talk. She hardly gets a word in on the lessons, which she is totally fine with. But we need to be better about giving her a chance to say something. She's kind of become the designated testify-er. She doesn't quite feel comfortable teaching she says, so after we teach a principle we turn to her and tell her to testify. She does a good job.
Everyone, this letter is lame because this is computer is lame. I typed a nice lengthy email home but when I went to press SEND it all decided to freeze. The last auto save was 30 min. ago. I don't have time to retype. Sorry, you get what you get. I hate cyber cafes!
see ya later
sister viehweg
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