April 29th

None of us really stressed out much about this transfer and who was going with who, 'cause there are only so many possibilities with four people who live together, with a fifth on the way. As it is, we found out last week that Sister Loy is not coming this transfer. She's coming from Cambodia, and will be Cambodian speaking, but the MTC decided to keep her another 6 weeks because apparently her English isn't good enough. Yeah, we weren't very happy when we found out, but we still only have one car and no Cambodian group to speak of yet, so at least by the time she gets here hopefully we'll have a group, and another car to get there. As for the rest of us, we're staying exactly the same; me with Sister McQuivey and Sister Walker with Sister Noun.

This past week one of our less active's now 3 year old daughter had a birthday party. She went all out with a Frozen/Sofia the 1st theme, purple everywhere, food for family and friends with a bouncy house outside. We went the day before for service by helping her decorate for it as her husband just got out of a visit to the hospital so she didn't have enough time. (He's the one who finally got a heart transplant!) It was neat to see most of the family together when we visited the party the next day to finish helping and meet some more extended family members. It got a little awkward when one of the sisters who's had us a over a couple times and asked us not to tell the rest of the family that she's wanting to go back to church, saw us at the party. She still gave us hugs like normal, and when her sister came out to ask if she'd met us before it got a little awkward, but if they both end up coming to church someday (hopefully soon) they'll be seeing each other there anyway, so it's about time.

Brenda and Malrut are two people we've been working on long time to go to church and this week they finally said yes!! So hopefully, if they stick to their word, we'll have two investigators at church Sunday, and all we need is one to start a Sunday School group in Khmer. Whether or not we're able to keep it up will depend on how many less-actives/investigators keep coming, but until Bishop calls a Sunday School teacher, we'll be teaching them ourselves. Thank goodness we have at least one fluent Khmer speaker!

Monday we were just about to go do an activity with the other sister and I'd just changed into my gym clothes when President Weaver called. We couldn't think of any reason why he would be calling and ask us to go to the mission home unless it had something to do with Sister Loy, but as it turned out it wasn't that dramatic. He was just calling to ask if I would accompany Elder Oliphant on the violin to replace Elder Rhodes' musical number in the fireside since he's going home and the other cello player wasn't confident he could pull it together in a week. Nothing can replace the cello, but it ended up sounding alright, so we'll get to go up to Bremmerton next Sunday for one of the last four musical firesides!

Thanks everyone for the packages and letters you've sent for Easter and my birthday, I loved them!

- Sister Dunster