January 31, 2017

Hey Guys, mom, thanks so much for the news! I've heard bits and pieces

of it, but I wasn't sure how reliable it all was, that's so crazy! I

love it! Whether or not you like Trump or what he's doing, you have to

admit, he's making good on his promises. He's not forgetting what he

said, and I think people will remember that. Those who voted for him,

will remember that he didn't balk, but did what he said. I love it!

Anyway, things are great here, not too much happened, it literally

seems like yesterday when I last wrote, times flying. Arabics coming

good, and you should totally teach Andrew and Thomas, there's going to

be a lot more missionary's speaking Arabic, and if they know a lot,

there's a good chance they'll get called Arabic, which is the best

language to be called. As far as motivation, I don't know, maybe pray

for the desire and strength. It is a good thing, and they'll be much

more effective in building God's kingdom, if they have that knowledge,

so God will help. And once they get started, it will be easier.

Totally do it though, and it doesn't have to take too long, or be

hard. So ya, I think I'll get into the weekly now,

Hello Everyone!

How are you? It's a warm 70 degrees here is San Diego, bright blue

skies, palm trees, we're going to go watch seals by the ocean today

for P Day, its a best. Things here are awesome! Arabic is coming along

well, its a hard language, but I'm glad that I get to learn it, its

such a blessing! I'm also lucky, because there are a lot of Arabs

here, so we get to talk with a lot of natives, which helps a lot. As

far as our investigators, we're still teaching Sumaya, we had another

Great lesson with her with our Recent Convert Adam, he's such a good

teacher, it was great. She is still hesitant about being baptized

again, but she is praying to know Gods will, and when she receives

that answer, she will follow it. We're teaching a few other people,

one man named Hassan, he's from Syria, super cool, he's gone a lot at

school though, so that's a challenge. We're also teaching a man named

Mohamed, he's also awesome, but like Hassan, is gone a lot because of

work and school. So thats fun. There was a huge missionary broadcast,

this week, and that was super exciting! It was really cool, because

they had one last year, and it was good, there were talks, and things.

But this one was really interesting, because most of what they did,

was have a council. Basically, all the people from the missionary

executive council (Elder Bednar, Elder Oaks, and Elder Anderson were

the Apostles in it), it was awesome, they played clips of last years

talks, and just talked and discussed them. It was awesome. They

changed a few things, but things here really aren't too much

different, we plan in the mornings for the day now, which is

different. It's still a bit weird, but inspired, so good. That's about

it, love you all

Elder Rosenbalm