February 21, 2017

Hi Mom and Dad,

How are you guys? I hope that you're recovering well Dad, thats a bit

scary that you had to do the emergency surgery and everything, but I'm

glad that it all went well. Mom, hows life in Utah with all the kids?

I hope you're both doing well. Things here are awesome, you guys got

that letter from Seth? He was actually one of the very first Arabic

Elders here, actually now that I thing about it, in the world, but

he's been back at BYU for a while, and now TA's for the Arabic class

their, so he's super good at Arabic now, we Skype him into one of our

lessons that we taught over skype, so it was a three way skype, but it

was an awesome lesson. I'll name the guys we taught محمد (Mohammed),

because there's some complications, and it would be super dangerous

for certain people to know where he is, but he's so cool, he was

reading in the Book of Mormon, and new, and old testament every before

we started teaching him, he's so cool. But ya, I'll probably go into

the weekly now,

Hi everyone, hope you're all doing well, San Diego's great! It's a

bright, 71 degrees, the palm trees swaying gently in the breeze (not

exaggerating a thing), its the best! This weeks gone by quickly, but

its more acceptable of a speed, the last couple weeks before seemed

like a day, but this one seemed like a good four, so thats good. This

week was pretty fun, we taught some people, we're still teaching

Sumaya, she's so cool, this week was actually the first time that we

were able to get everyone in the house for one lesson. We've taught

all of them at different times, but never all at once, but this week

we we teaching Sumaya, and then one by one they all trickled in, until

we were teaching Sumaya, her five kids, and two grandkids. So that was

fun, we've taught a few other people, we'll see if they turn into

much. We do a ton of Skype lessens, primarily with Sweden, because

there are so many refugees there, who don't really speak much English

or Swedish, so we help them a lot, there are actually a lot people

there who've been prepared, and are ready for the Gospel, we usually

skype 1-2 lessons a day, though there was one day, when we Skype four

different lessons. So, on Thursday, the scouts had a fundraiser for

their weeklong, and they do it a bit differently here, they hold a

dinner, and then a dessert auction, it was so much fun, the dinner was

good, your average church gathering dinner, it was good, but the

auction got intense. There were multiple bidding wars, that got

ridiculously high, and people just wanted to donate, and were doing it

for fun too, it was hilarious, but those scouts made bank. Today was

transfers, but my companionship stayed the same, so not much change,

which I'm totally happy with, my companions great, and I love being in

Arabic work. Ok, that's about it, have a good week everyone,

Elder Rosenbalm

Ok, so ya, that's about it, I hope you're both doing well, is there

anything that I can do to help you guys? Let me know if there is.

How's Renett doing? Are you still working with him dad? Have you ever

thought about inviting him to church? Anyway, have a good week!

Elder Rosenbalm