Irmã Brooks.: You know the nail ladies?

...And how we always look at them as if they are unintelligent, because they can´t speak English. Yeah. Well, THEY´RE PROBABLY BRILLIANT in their own little Vietnamese minds. That´s what I´ve realized this week. Everyone looks at me like I´m an idiot when I speak and I feel like the biggest impostor trying to speak their language, but ya know what? I´m smart okay! It´s not my fault I wasn´t born into this country speaking your language. Ughs. Whatevs. I have a new appreciation for the nail ladies. That´s all.

HOW ARE YOU FAMILY?!?!?! Why are you guys the greatest? Seriously the greatest I tell you.

Mom, thank you so much for going out and teaching with the missionaries! Getting members to come along with us can be such a struggle, but it is absolutely awesome when it works out!! Sisters--do it too!

Let´s see. This week was great. Last P´day, we went to the mall and I was in heaven. Except, I also felt like I was like beyond onver-stimulated with all the ads and signs and music and happiness. I was enjoying the real world a bit too much. It´s fine. Whatever. Little miracles. No, seriously. Like when a man drove by us on the street this week, and I was SO TIRED I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE SLASH CUT MY FEET OFF and then Michael Jackson just starts blaring down the street. It was the perfect pick-me-up. Miracles I tell you.

Also, I had my first set of divisions this week. Sister Wilde and Sister Urilges came to our area and we were split up and it was great and hard and I learned a lot and I thought my head was going to explode and i was so afraid of doing something wrong and yeah. but they are awesome angel human beings and i am so glad i got the opportunity to serve with them and learn from them. They´re our Sister Training Leaders or something like that and only have a couple more weeks in the mission, but they´re awesome and at night it was like a big sleepover and so I was just laughing lots and feeling like it was the freshman year dorms all over again.

Oh my goodness. The breads slash pastry deliciousness things are going to kill me here. You know how much I LOVE those rolls you make me Kristan? Yeah. The ones they have here are like a bajillion times better and they make them fresh everyday. So...that´s fun. BUT. They don´t have anything like the cookies we make, so everyone in the ward just noms on my chocolate chip cookies, and obviously I love it. But it´s the funniest thing, because they´re always asking for more and there isn´t enough time in the day to make them, but I don´t mind, because it gives me an excuse to make them whenever there is time-heheheh.

BUT IN OTHER NEWS!!! MIRACLES!!!! Okay, so everyone and their mother and dog has been dropping us like the plague and it made this week SUPER hard and exhausting and I literally feel like I got hit by a bus and then a train and then a car and then an airplane (okay, whatever, i´m dramatic, i get it.) EVERY morning when I wake up. No, seriously. What is this? BUT. On Saturday night, we were walking to an appointment, (that didn´t show-shocker) and I saw this guy crossing the street. And we kept making eye contact, and we kept walking in opposite directions, and I am terrified of contacting people, but we kept looking back and forth at each other and so finally, I just turned around and we started walking toward him and I´m pretty sure I didn´t even say hi. I just said `We´re missionaries from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.` And then he just started talking to us and was SO excited we were Americans and just went on and on and on and I didn´t understand a word, but he was SUPER happy and that made me super happy and it was awesome. Then on Sunday, we were leaving church and the Elders told us that he showed up during Priesthood!!! What?!? AWESOME!! He came all on his own!! And apparently he told the Elders that he had been so sad all week and wondering what God wanted him to do with his life, and then when we walked up to him, he said he had just been thinking about it again and was all sad and he´s taking us as his answer from God! AH WHAT?!?! SO COOL!! Anyways, so we called him right away, and I am SO excited to meet with him tonight. We´re going to have a Noite Familiar (Family Home Evening) with one of the member´s family and him and I am SO stoked!! We might finally actually have some people to teach!! God is SO good!! And this kid is seriously so awesome and so funny. I love him already!!

Also, everyone thinks we´re from London, so that´s funny. Like today, these boys started shouting `harry potter! harry potter`in bad british accents at us and we just go....we´re americans!! hahahah I love my life.

I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOO MUCH!!! YOU´RE THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS!! I KNOW THEY´RE WORKING!!! I MISS YOU SO SO MUCH!!!!

PS. WHAT THE FREAK?!?! SJ IS ENGAGED?!?!?! I AM SOOO EXCITED FOR YOU!!! AHHH I CAN´T BELIEVE I´M GONNA MISS THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY, BUT I AM SOOOO EXCITED FOR YOU!!! EEEEE!!!! WE LOVE LOVE!!!!

PPS. HAPPY EARTH DAY KENA DEAREST!! I´m trying to save the earth one plastic bag at a time over here for you too!

xoxox,

Sister Brooks