Well week three has come and maybe gone?  who knows haha its so hard to keep track of which day is which here.  Like its a blur.  Like one superrrrr long sunday.  But the best sunday ever hahah.  It is so true that the days are long but the weeks are short.  Meals are what we look forward too.  Of course haha food runs my life.  except for its a lot of fattening food and not a lot of fresh stuff so that is getting kinda old.  AH well! so lets see this week we have been teaching 3 investigators!  Its not too hard but weve been getting kind of mixed up in what weve taught each one so we need to get better at that.  So we prepared really well for two of our lessons but then the third one we thought we had down because wed given it before so we went in without much preparation.  I was super frustrated and just didnt want to teach her and so we hadnt practiced and didnt have the spirit very strong and it was aweful.  Like we couldnt understand anything and we left and just cried. But it gave us a new perspective on teaching and were really going to try to be better about preparing.  And not getting frustrated haha but thats a work in progress.  umm So big news.....Elder Holland came to our sunday devo!!  It was only cause his son was speaking but it was still legit.  It was super awkward because we sang called to serve at the beginning and some elders stood up and it was just weird and the people on the stand had to tell him to sit down and it just kinda put a weird feeling on the song.  But the talk was super good so it got better.  We sang in the choir and we sang praise to the man with Elder Holland sitting right there.  Talk about awesome!!  Even though i hate choir cause i suck at singing haha.  I go cause my companions go. 

    So for valentines day we bought some red paper and pink sticky notes and made a paper chain.  We hung it up in the room and stuck pink sticky notes every where all over the class and it was super cute.  we gave our elders a valentine and gave them each a plate full of candy.  I really hoped they liked it.  I think they did.  We were just going to leave up all the decorations but our teacher took them down.  We speculate it is because she has no love in her life and hates valentines day but who knows.  One of our teachers went with his girlfriend to Arizona so he wasnt here all week and that was super sad but it also ment that we got Brother Smith as a teacher and he is the BOMB.  He is an amazing teacher.  like he makes me figure things out instead of just telling us and then he is super encouraging and always gives us the biggest smile when we get it right.  Me and sister bergeson were so confused in class a few days ago and he gave us a little one on one time and it really made me decide i needed to work harder.  I have a green book that has all the vocab and conjugations in it and when i left the class i told him i was going to study it until i absolutely cant stand to look at it ever again!  He laughed but it is so true.  I really need to work harder.  I made it to the book of mosiah in a week.  That is awesome but were just getting more and more lessons to plan so its slow going.

    We have a big window right outside our room that has a great view of the mountains and the lake and whenever i get a spare second i always go sit there and write letters.  Letter writing is better than emails.  Umm lets see what else happened.  Oh this sunday we went to the Legacy video for movie night and it was like kind of a love story and we were all on cloud 9.  When they kissed we were like woooohooooO!!!  and after it was over we were talking about it like we had just been to the best movie ever.  Even the elders were excited.  The best part was when the guy and the girl shook hand and everyone was like aww  and someone was like hey dont diss it thats all you are going to be getting for two years!!!!  it was  the funnies thing ever.  Um  lets see we had the elders give us blessings this week and basically it was the strongest spirit ever and i just cant even describe how thankful i am that they are here for us and worthy of the priest hood.  They see us cry and they see us laughing histerically and they see us teaching on sunday and everything else crazy we do and they are still just so supportive and always give us an extra boost of support and love and its just awesome.  Me and my kasamas are still getting along really well.  Our district has decided that Nearer my God to thee is our favorite song and we sing it a lot.  Were  going to sing it as our farewell song.  OH guess what!  we get to host this week!  That means get the missionaries from the curb.  We get to miss class (or have to miss class)  im not sure which.  and it will be super fun.  The sad part is the older district leaves in one week and were not getting a new district this week and next week were only getting four.  Were going to be so small!!  alrighty well I guess this is enough for today. Love you all!  keep up the hard work.  Remember me here in Provo.  Mahal kita!

  Sister Van Tassell