Oct 21st

We didn't really have that many investigators in the first place, so now that we've split the companionship we've been hitting it hard in finding. Poor Sister Humphreys is probably exhausted from all the knocking/potential checking, but at least we've been able to have a few sit-down lessons with a few non-progressing investigators (eternals) or recent converts. Side note: this past week Sisters Walker and Loy knocked into a family that suddenly moved away and we couldn't contact them for months, so when they saw them the father went and almost hugged them the family was so happy! Love it when that happens!

One night while tracting we talked to a guy sitting in his car outside a house. He said he'd met with missionaries before, and although he had his opinions and wasn't really interested in learning, he always ended up picking up the Book of Mormon here and there to read a little more since his fiance's father became a Mormon. I was about to ask him the father's name, but he kept going on about what he felt was wrong about the Book of Mormon. I could tell he wasn't going to change his mind, so I tried to keep the discussion as friendly as possible and asked in the end if he'd be alright saying a prayer with us before we left. He accepted, and when I asked if there was anyone in particular he would have us pray for, he the named one of our close members' daughters that we're going to start teaching soon who's been having health problems with her baby. As it turned out, he was the almost son-in-law to our close members that are working so hard to get their family to accept the gospel. I was grateful that for one; I didn't get into a bash with him, and two; that if he does start investigating the church soon, I'll know a little bit about what's holding him back. And now that we don't have any English sisters in the ward anymore, we can teach English investigators if they would rather take the lessons from sisters than from elders - which is a little intimidating seeing it's hard enough for me to teach a good sit-down lesson in Khmer, let alone in English where you can end up saying too much.

It's been really weird with this transfer finally having an even balance of four elders to four sisters in the ward and it's even harder for the English less-actives that were baptized by sisters to see it change over to all elders. We've helped a little in that aspect to get a hold of some and help set them up to go to church so they can meet the elders and get to know them better. As for our own less-actives - I caught one coming home on Sunday from the Buddhist temple and committed him to go to church this Sunday, ha! Supposedly he'd been sick, but if Buddha's a good enough reason to get him out on a Sunday afternoon, than he can certain attend the right church for a much better reason!

For P-day yesterday all the sisters in the nearest 3 zones got together to play basketball. I've never played in my life other than shooting hoops, so I pretended to act like I knew what I was doing - though for a little while another sister and I just "guarded" each other while watching the ball go around. It was actually more fun for us than for those watching since we only had about 4 seriously good b.ball players, so not a lot of points were made. But that's the thing about not keeping score; we were there for a good time, so the second the ball touched my hand and I yelled "What do I do?" they would coach me on how to throw, and where to go. The best learning opportunity is through experience, so I can now say I know a lot more about basketball than I ever did before!

Sister Dunster

 1. Saying goodbye to great missionaries. (the Mountain View elders also happened to be there, so it's Elder Kearns, Sisters Loy, Walker, Elder Esquivel - the one "dying"-, me, Sister Humphreys, and Elder Johnson.)

                                                                           2. Us & Sister Young

                                       Playing ping pong in the parking lot! gets pretty intense :)