Happy New Year! Can you believe I've already been here for 2 weeks! Crazy! Who would have known. The days go by really slow sometimes, but this last week seemed to fly by. Is Grandpa Dinsdale in a rest home now? How is he?

So this week was kinda rough. Our only investigator that was on-date for baptism won't call us back or come to the door when we go over. Pretty much all our other progressing investigators fell through on the their appointments or don't answer our calls. We spent a ton of time tracting and it was rough. I don't think I care for tracting that much. We literally went to dozens of doors and only had one person say he might go on a Church tour with us, but he's not interested in the Church. It's a good thing God is patient with His children, because I definitely lose patience with them sometimes. We came up with a new finding plan though. We've visited pretty much all the inactives already and so we're going to start visiting all the auxillary presidencies and try to get them motivated for mission work. It's so hard when only a few of the members really actively partcipate in the ward and in missionary work, but hopefully we'll change that this week. Plan Motivate the Members and Have Them Invite Their Friends to Church is now Activated. Funny story though: we tracted this one lady in a trailor who for almost 15 minutes would not put down the frying pan she had to protect herself. She was really crazy, but it made for a good story. I now have a fear of dogs and frying pans.

It's funny because I think I spoke and heard more Spanish in the MTC than I do now. Most of the people we teach are English speakers so when we transition over to Spanish is gets really hard for me to remember what to say. Sister Haws, my companion who is still awesome, and I talk mostly in Spanish, but I struggle a lot with it. She's so patient and helps me with the same word over and over again. The Latino culture is so funny though. Their doors are the only ones we ever get invited into and they're the only ones that say they'll come to Church, but unfortunately they're not the only ones who don't follow through. They really do just say yes just to be polite and it's crazy!

So we visited a ton of members and recent converts this last week and I get one of two responses every time. Either: "Where's Sister Hicks?" or "They were all right, you are very tall." It's pretty funny because Sister Hicks was who I replaced and she was here forever so everyone knows her and is sad she's gone, but then my reputation for tallness overwhelms that fact. It's pretty funny especially in Latino homes. Usually with Latinos the old grandma will come and kiss us and then come up to me wrap her arms around my waste and then start rattling offto her family in Spanish and then laughing. They think it's hilarious the height difference.

Our one golden investigator from last week went back to Alaska to fish for several months. That was hard to see him go because he could have been baptized right away. Our only other family we're really working with is la famila Lopez. They've had several baptism dates already, but they just need time. We have to teach them really slowly but they're so amazing. They could be the most active members in the Spanish branch if they'd only get baptized. Maria Lopez even had a dream about baptism. I'll write more about it when I have more time.

Well I love you all and am so grateful for all our support. Keep the people of E. Wenatchee in your praryers so that we can invite more to Christ and be protected from frying pans ;)

Hermana Probst