February 14, 2017

Hello mom and dad, how are you guys? This week was pretty fun, it's

been flying by though. Like, it seems ridiculous that it's already

been a week, time is just flying, its so much fun though, I love being

on a mission! Mom, as far as medication goes, I have an infusion this

Saturday, its become pretty routine now, we didn't do benedril, but

some other medicine that worked just as well, but doesn't have the

drowsiness, and that worked really well, I'll see if I can do it again

this time, but I don't remember what it's called, lol. Whatever

happens will be fine though. I'm feeling great, like super healthy,

and since I'm healthy, I can see more of what affects me, in just the

little ways. Like for example, mini wheats, their not the best for me,

like, not too bad, and it goes away after like a day, but just a

little. Anyway, that's that, I'll try to add more, but not that much

honestly happens during the week too much, but I'll try.

Hello Everyone!

How are you all? Hope you're doing well, this week was pretty great

for us, being on a mission is so great, I love being out here so much!

The Spirit is just so strong, and there are so many Spiritual

experiences, so often, it's amazing! But anyway, Arabics actually

going pretty good, I can understand and follow along in lessons pretty

well, (Except when we bring one of our members, who likes going into

super deep doctrine, for a very long time, he's so cool, its awesome,

but I understand nothing when he gets into it), but for most lesson, I

get what's going on, and am starting to contribute based on things I

want to say, and make up there, as apposed to preparing for points

beforehand and teaching those. The progress is slow, but I can't

defiantly see it progressing, and it's really nice because, here in El

Cajon, most of the people are native speakers. So while we don't have

the advantages of having a Church in Arabic (or any church related

language learning materials or anything like that), we do have a lot

of native speakers we can talk to, so thats super nice. We're still

teaching Sumaya, she's defiantly our most solid Investigator right

now, she doesn't speak English, at all, but she's so awesome. She went

to Church on Sunday, and was going to leave after second hour, because

We translate Sacrament, and have a whole Gospel Principles class just

for Arabic Speakers, but nothing for relief society (and when we have

one of our Arabic speaking sisters in the ward there, they can

translate, but they weren't there today), so she was going to leave,

but her kids (well her daughter, and grandson), love primary, so they

asked if they could stay, and of course she said yes, so that was

awesome! Kids are the best. We're teaching a man named Pablo, and he's

not Arabic, or Mexican. Totally white. For a few reasons, we're

teaching him instead of the sisters in our ward, so thats fun. It's

really nice being able to speak with an investigator, he's really cool

though, really looking for something in his life, and of course we all

know what that is! We're still in the beginning steps, but he has some

really good potential. We've taught a few other people, who could be

added, but we'll see. So yesterday and today, we had something called

MTE's (Missionary Training Meetings), where basically, several zones

get together, we get training from the Assistants, President, his

wife, and maybe some Zone Leaders, and then we go on multi-zone

exchanges, and then come back the next day, have some more training

and then leave. It's really fun, this is my second one, last time I

left, and went to a different zone this time, I stayed, and and Elder

from a different Zone joined me here, he's actually one of the four

Arabic Elders, we have four, but only two are in Arabic work at a

time, but anyway, he came here with me, so that was fun. That's about

it, have a good week, love you all!

Elder Rosenbalm

Ok, so thats that. Umm, dad, you said you changed coworkers a few

weeks ago? Are you still working with Rene? Also, you guys were in

Philipeans right? And then Europe? And now Rome? Or was the Rome trip

the Europe trip you talked about a little while ago. Anyway, sounds

fun! Also, mom, one of your parents was Orthodox, the other Catholic

right? Which one was which? And lastly, the books, you sent me Alif

Baa, and that was very useful, but I finished that a while ago, the

one I'm working on now, is called Al Kitab, but there's one here for

all the Arabic Elders, so I don't need it anytime soon. I wont need it

until I get transferred out of Arabic work, that probably wont happen

for a few months atleast. So don't worry about getting it soon. Also,

its a college text book, so it'll be pretty expensive, but you can

probably buy it used, which would be much better priced. But like I

said, no rush at all, whenever is convenient for you. So thats about

all, love you both!

Elder Rosenbalm