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Family!

Well. Long time no speak! It was good to hear all of your voices yesterday and to confirm that you are, in fact, still alive. I hope that it was a good Mother's day, Mom. Yesterday during dinner we made a cake for our mothers. We'll eat it in proxy for our moms today. It's kind of hard to do much more than that when you're in another country, but at least we were able to call home!

The work in Kitimat is going really well! We're finding a lot of people to teach and teaching a lot of lessons, which is awesome. No stone is being left unturned. You kind of have to adjust how you handle missionary work based on the area that you are in. Because of my time in Vancouver I've come to like street contacting because of how many people you're able to talk to. And... the only places here where there are enough people to try street contacting are in parking lots. We were teaching a lesson outside the doors of the SuperValu grocery store the other day, when we had to cut it short because the manager wasn't a big fan. She let us say a closing prayer before she broke it up, at least. Hopefully they still let us shop there today, because it's pretty cheap.

There are pretty awesome members in Kitimat. There are four young families that pretty much make up the whole branch: The Van Hornes, the Syphuses, the Kaberrys, and the Streeters. All of them have us over weekly, and so even though there are fewer members here, we still get fed quite frequently. Mother Dearest, Sister Syphus is a food blogger, and so you should make something from iwashyoudry.com for your next internet recipe experiment. It might have been illwashyoudry or something like that, but that's the gist of it. Anyways, because there are so many members, we're learning a lot about member work. We do things like bake a cake, cut out a chunk and make a box out of chocolate bars and put a note inside it with a missionary-related commitment on it. Yeah. Cumorah caked. Member lessons have to keep kids entertained, so we have to think up lots of visuals and activities and things like that. It's been fun.

Well. The church is true! Hope that you all have a great week. Jacey Lou, the locks of love haircut looks just beautiful!

Elder Blotter