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Dear Family,

It was great to hear from you this week! I am glad that Mom is doing much better and that Trevor and Asia enjoyed EFY.

This week has been pretty busy.

Tuesday was Zone Conference. Elder Woolley and Elder Kopsa talked a lot about increasing the faith in the mission, planning and incorporating Preach My Gospel more. As a mission, we are all going to focus on trusting God and showing faith in Him. I've really felt that these past few weeks as I've prayed and learned to trust in God and submit myself to Him and His will. We are going to be reading from PMG everyday for 10 minutes during companionship study. We are working on learning to plan better too. Sister Reese said a quote I liked about planning ahead...she said "It's easy for angels to go before you and bear you up when you tell them where you're going." Hence, the need to plan and organize ourselves so we know where we're going! The elders also had me share a thought on language...I don't know whose idea that was...I just talked about holding ourselves accountable to the Armenian people and stretching ourselves to learn the language. 

We taught Karine a lot this week. We taught the Plan of Salvation and we played Jenga to involve her two younger boys, Levon and Tigran. In another lesson, we taught the Gospel of Christ, chastity and temples. We later taught her about tithing. She is reading, praying and came to church on Sunday. We hope that she will be baptized on Saturday.

We also taught Marine this week. We went over the baptismal interview questions with her and then she had her interview. She will be baptized this Saturday. She is so awesome though! She asked us if there is a calling for sisters in the Ward to go around with the missionaries and help teach...uhh yeah! New ward missionary? I think so! She also asked if she could speak in church sometime after her baptism. She has such a strong testimony, it has been great to see her grow. 

We have been teaching Lala the new member lessons and recently talked to her about callings. We are going to work with the Bishop to see if she can receive a calling in the church soon. 

It has been a great week! I hope all has been well at home! Mom, you asked last week about service opportunities...mostly the senior couples work on big projects. But we do service to people on the street a lot. 

Funny/cool things:

There is a man in our ward who always tells us "Sisters, I will marry you off to a man in Armenia!" Haha he's pretty funny.

I had my first kabob!! It was delicious. I don't have the recipe for it though unfortunately.

But I do have a recipe for you to try...

Armenian potato salad:

12 medium sized potatos - peeled, cut into fourths and boiled

4 green onions chopped

parsley chopped fine

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

1/4-1/2 cup olive oil

1/4-1/2 cup lemon juice

1/2 tsp paprika

Let potatos cool, mix all ingredients, enjoy!

I love and miss you all! And I love hearing from you :)

Love, Misa