amen, joseph smith jr.!

I'm not an apostate missionary, I promise! The reason I'm emailing on Saturday this week is our pday was changed so we could help with the 20 missionaries leaving the mission on Tuesday and the 19 new missionaries that came in on Wednesday. New blood! It's weird not being the youngest anymore. Which means we also know about transfers obviously...they already happened. I'm still here in Singapore with Sister Howard and loving life :) Sister Kubota is a mommy! Training before her training is even finished! Crazy. She'll do so great though. So, because we were so busy helping, we got a little reward from President, today is our pday and we get to go see THE LION KING!!! Oh my goodness we're so excited. I saw it in London, but it's supposedly got some Singlish in it here, so it should be grand. I'll let you know next week.

Thank you for sending Jillian...uhh Sister Hicken's posts, Mommy. They're great!

One of the sisters in our ward treated us to fish spa last week for pday! It was the weirdest feeling ever. I couldn't stop laughing.

So here's a little review of the very long week. We met with NG twice and she's still on date to be baptized next week. I love her so much! We had an awesome lesson on the Plan of Salvation at a member's house last Thursday night and then taught her about the Gospel of Jesus Christ on Sunday night at a different member's house. Basically we just like showing off how adorable she is to all the members. Jk! But they love her and she loves them, so it works! She prayed for the first time in our lessons finally. The prayer was in Korean so I obviously couldn't understand it, but she just broke down in tears during it and then gave us a big hug after she ended it, so we're taking that as a good sign. We could all feel the Spirit so strongly. You can just feel Heavenly Father's love for her and how happy He is that she is coming closer to Him and our Savior.

B (uhhh I can't remember what I've called him in the past...) is getting closer and closer to baptism, it's just still this tithing problem. He understands everything, he wants to be baptized, but he's convinced that he can't afford to pay tithing after he's baptized. We really don't know what else we can do. Every lesson is on faith now. Keep him in your prayers please (even though you don't have his name, I'm pretty sure God will know who you're talking about).

We met with TT and she shared some awesome news with us. She's pregnant!!! That baby is going to be adorable. We're so happy for her! We taught her about the Restoration of the Gospel through the Prophet Joseph Smith. I wouldn't say she was skeptical at all, she's so believing by nature, but she didn't accept it without question. Which is what we want of course. We never want people to believe what we teach them just by hearing our words, we want to introduce an idea to them and let them take it straight to our Heavenly Father in prayer. He will teach and testify of the truth. So, we just hope that TT can follow through with that now. With how much she's searching for truth, I know she'll find it in this gospel. She took off for China for a few weeks though, so it's hard to know that we won't have contact with her for so long. Another one to just keep in our prayers.

Y and I. Y is the awesome Muslim guy who we met at Harbour Front a while ago and I is his friend that he brought along to learn. Meeting with them is the highlight of our week. It's really a miracle. It was a miracle the night that we met Y. It's a miracle that he brought I. It's a miracle every time we're able to meet with them, because of certain circumstances, they can't arrange times to meet with us ahead of time. Whenever we're able to meet up, it's because everyone had plans fall through, every single time. It's so blatantly the hand of God in the work. They're hilarious and so earnestly seeking truth, which is why they've found it! I is on date for baptism in August! Y is in a bit more difficult situation, he knows this is true but there are a few big obstacles for him. I have so much respect for how far he has come and how willing he is to follow God. When I think of the situation he's in, it just breaks my heart a little bit. But I know that we can't give him advice on what to do, it's not our place and I wouldn't even know how to begin giving that advice. He just needs to continue praying and fasting for his answer. (You're probably reading this right now anyway, haha. I know that you'll get your answer. God has led you this far and He doesn't plan to desert you now when you need an answer. He'll show you which way to go. You're in every single one of our prayers, day and night! We know Heavenly Father has an extremely special plan for both of you. He loves you!!)

N. He didn't come to church unfortunately. But we invited him to be baptized again and he half way accepted...he's just scared of what his family will think. So, we're going to try and meet with them all next week. Hopefully they'll open their hearts to the message he's been learning about and realize that it will bless their whole family.

Oh goodness. The other sisters met an Indo girl on the MRT who is a student here right now. We'll call her A. She and her friend S were passed to Sister Howard and I and we all went to their hostel a few nights ago, she has about ten friends that she wants to learn with her. Maybe more. Incredible.

For all of these reasons and more, we're just going to call August our "Expect Miracles" month. We couldn't be more excited for all the work that's in store. It's about time we got the Singapore First Ward rolling!

As for my papa's letter. Reeeaaal funny, Daddy. It took me forever to crack the code and figure out how to read your letter. But you know I loved it. Thank you so much for the pictures and details about Cody's wedding. I loved hearing about and seeing all the family! I love you and miss you all! Lily had a skirt for the wedding?? Wasn't it enough that a dog was the flower girl? The women in this family have cracked. I'm so proud to be an Andersen ;) Wasn't there supposed to be a letter from a brother of mine? Apa hal abang saya?! Saya mahu surat dari kau! Kirimlah!

I think that's enough yeah? Thank you all for sending messages to my mommy so she can forward them to me, I love hearing from you! I hope you have a great week. The worst part about actually making an effort for this email is I'll have to top it next week.

Love you all!!!

Kasih,

Sister Norton

HFI