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Well, I have no clue what to actually tell ya'll about this week. It has been a pretty slow week, but since I didn't write really anything about last week I guess I could do that :)

Dont get too excited. There isnt too much from there either. :)

Last week we picked up a new investigator, his name is John. He is 73 and has taken lessons from the sister missionaries before. We have only met with him the one time though, so that is about all I have to report for that :) 

Also, our investigator Francisco is AWESOME. He is 17 and is living with an active family in our ward. He is a senior in high school and super busy all the time, so we  dont get to see him as often as we would like to. However, this week he paid tithing on his first paycheck. Wow, he's the bomb!

I also forgot my planner for writing you today maybe that is why I am at such a loss of what to tell you all. I feel like I havent told any funny stories for a while, so here are a couple:

Story #1

Me and sister Letoa were at the church on saturday helping the stake YW presidency with some stuff. While we were there, the saturday cleaning crew was also making its rounds. As we were getting ready to leave, there were a bunch of kids making a commotion in a classroom yelling, "THERE'S A REAL LIFE LIZZARD!! GO GET DADDY!"

We stopped to see what was going on and as I turned to see a Dad coming down the hall to catch him and put him out side I see in the corner of my eye Sister Letoa with her shoe in hand ready to smash the poor thing. My reaction was too late, and the Lizzard had an early end to life. Worse though was all the little kids screaming "YOU KILLED IT" and then crying. I couldnt help but laugh and Sister Letoa said, "What? In my country we kill lizards." Culture. Its pretty funny. poor kids :)

Story #2

Umm, I am pretty determined to stop my habit of spitting on the ground while we are walking. 

This week while we were walking back to our apartment for dinner one day, I went to spit on the road after all the cars had passed and a man on a bike rode past just in time to get it all over him. Wow. I am terrible. Sister Letoa is still laughing at me about it. 

Anywhoo, on that note. I love you all! I hope that you are having a wonderful week! Do something good and be something better :) 

Love, 

Sister Hope 

OLD

Well, I have very little to no time to write you you all this week! I hope that you know how much I love you all though! 

This week I got old. This is what 20 looks like in case any of you are wondering :)

I also got tan this week. Dont mind the ridiculous lines :) 

and i thought chacos tan lines were bad. it only gets worse from here!

I love you all! Have a wonderful week and take the time to tell someone that needs it that you love them!

Love,

Sister Hope

Tolofa! Greetings from Palm Desert!

Transfers. Yikes. Can I just tell everyone that I hate moving? Even more than that I hate packing.

However it is so much fun to be in a new place :) 

I am now in Palm Desert in the Bermuda Dunes ward! 

My companion is Sister Letoa. She is from American Samoa.

 Its been in the 80s and 90s this week, and we are in a walking area :)

I am so sad that I didnt get to stay in the Mountain View ward longer! 

It was so much fun! I simply love the people there! They are WONDERFUL :)

Tanya and TK

I feel like I have almost entirely changed missions. Its a little strange. Also, I do language study now helping
Sister Letoa learn English :)

Anywhoo, The desert is wonderful so far! Definitely plenty warm! We have an awesome ward though! 

They are so willing to help us out and give us rides anywhere that we need. We are super grateful for them!

This week has been a little slow. Monday and Tuesday we were mostly packing and visiting some people for 

my last time. We also had to move around our apartment because there was another set of sisters moving in. 

Busy busy busy :) 

Wednesday was transfers. It took a bit of time to drive out here, and then getting all settled in. Its been real fun :)

Sister Letoa has been laughing at me all week because (as I am sure you are all aware) I have no fear and am 

always waving to all of the cars that drive past us and talking to the random people on the street. I think I have 

become incredibly grateful that I didnt have to learn a language for my mission. I think I might have lost a bit of 

my courage! Now I just have to keep working on the humility and on not being weird. I think I have become weird. 

Yikes. 

Well, we have a couple of families that we are working with here. We picked up David this week. David is 

married to a less active member, Kristine. He has taken the lessons before, but we aren't too sure what 

happened with that. They seem promising though :) We taught them the restoration, and that went pretty well. 

We will see how things progress!

We are also working with the Bomaritto family. Once again Sister Bomaritto is a member, and Brother Bomaritto 

is not. They are great though. We havent been able to really teach them yet, but soon :) Brother Bomaritto is a 

lawyer, and is super busy, so its hard to find him home. we had dinner with them at another members house 

last night though, and that went well! He seems to want what the Gospel offers, so hopefully things go well from

here. :) 

We definitely had an interesting experience with the Bomarrittos this week! We had dinner with them on Thursday,

and it was quite the adventure. Their 5 year old let me pull his tooth out! Woah! Put that one in the books :) 

Off and away!

Woah! Another week already gone? seems crazy! I think it must have been a busy one because I cant remember a whole lot of it.

Lets see-- we had a super awesome lesson with Jean! Well a couple of them. We got to talk about the Plan of Salvation and temples, and then another day watched "Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration." She is doing Wonderful! We just love her! :)

We also had a great lesson with T.K. We talked about the plan of Salvation. He had a lot that he wanted t talk about there, so it was great! He is an interesting guy. The lesson was great though. We were able to bear testimony and it was awesome to see his defense wall come down and let the Spirit work on him. 

In latest news---- I am getting transferred yet again. I will be on to area number 6 and companion number 8! Woo Hoo! I am not really sure many details. I just know I am going off to the desert :) Time to go work on some funny tanlines I guess :) 

I really have loved serving in Redlands. I dont know If  I will be so lucky to come back and serve here a 3rd time, but I have loved my time spent here. I am so grateful for the Lord placing me here to be able to meet so many wonderful people :) Well, "The Spirit of the Lord has called [me] another way" (Alma 22:4), and I am so excited! I told President Van Cott at the very beginning of my mission that he could send me to the desert in the summer and I would love it! We shall see if I get to stay that long :)

Love you all! have a great week!

Sister Hope