Week 2 in Washington

Hey family!

This week was great! The first part was really hard but it got easier as it went along. It is safe to say that we think that all of the fleas are gone! Yay!! I love it here and its a great place to be. There are so many families here that we are helping and meeting with. I love this ward! There is this one family that reminds me of Ben and Phebe!! They have the exact same personalities almost. They are awesome!! They are awesome!!  I love serving here.

There are two families that have kids that go to BYU-I and they both went to Get Connected!! That was awesome!!! Yesterday we gave out two Book of Mormons, it was great and both were within an hour of each other.

Sorry, there is this guy sitting next to me in the library that is singing this song that I have no idea what it is, but its not that good and its distracting me and I can't function with it. I am not listening to what he is saying but my mind is just not working because its so uncomfortable to be next to it and I am on a timer of a computer.Well anyways so bear with me.

Yesterday was great, we taught this family that had a daughter that wants to get back into the church, she is 17. The same family is going to be adopting a boy who is 18 and he is not a member but he wants to learn more and we gave him a book of Mormon! It was great!

Then we went tracking after and the first door we went to was this guy named Chris and we gave him a book of Mormon as well! He wants to learn more!! A few houses down the guy who lived there didn't speak English so my companion started speaking Spanish to him, He wants to learn more and so the Spanish Elders are going to come back for a lesson. That was awesome!!

 I just love everyone in this ward! They are so great and very fun and loving! They want to do so much for us and I love it! We have a few people that we are starting out to teach and continuing to teach. This work here is getting better and moving forward. I love it and its great to be here in Washington!

Cool fact, I have seen 40 Yellow houses! believe it or not!!! I have been counting, and there are so many of them here. They are all different shades and different types of houses but I love it. It makes me happy when I see all of these yellow houses.  Just thought that you would want to know that. So I came to the conclusion that I don't want to live here because I don't want every other house to be yellow!!! :) haha

What I love is that so many people are coming back to the church! It is really great.  There are so many different reasons for their leaving and coming back but that doesn't matter. What matters is that they are coming BACK!!!!

There are many different cultures and religions here. There are Buddhists, Muslums, RAMTHA....,Jehovah Witnesses, Christians, and many more. Most of them don't like us and don't want anything to do with us. But there are a select few that are kind to us but also don't want to hear what we say.

Funny,crazy and interesting story, so we went tracking and knocked at this guy's door and we were talking with him and he is Christian. Anyways while we were talking he randomly brought up that he was "very single".......... um ok? right? Well anyways we told him that we are only here for a bit and only to do missionary work.

Anyways... I went on my first exchange. It was great! There are many different people there as well and that area was way different as well.

I love it here and there is so much to say in so little time!

Just know that I love you all and I want all of you to know that I know this Church is true and I love it. I wouldn't be out here if it wasn't true or if I didn't love it. I love my Savior! He really does help us in our times of need!!

Love you all!

Until next week

Love,

 Sister Keely Tanner :)