Wounded Knee

hi family,

today was definitely a feast day on the email front, not only did i get a lot of emails, but they were all very long, i love my family!

things here in kuching are going O. K. time is going by really fast, it seems like every day is full of people to see and places to go, and by the time i know it, we are on our way home for the night. that's the way i like missionary work. it seems like since I've been in kuching, i have just noticed how far i have really come. i have a new confidence about missionary work that i have never had before, its a pretty good feeling. the language feels good, I'm not scared to talk to people, i have things to say in lessons. there is still a long way to go, but it is nice to feel like i am getting somewhere. and sister seve is aWEsoMe. we get along really well, it is so nice when that happens. i know (from experience) that i'm not going to be best friends with all of my companions, but it is just so nice when you do get along well, maybe that is one of the reasons things feel like they are going pretty good here, and going pretty fast. its so sad, she leaves in august, and she keeps joking that I'm going to be a trainer when she leaves aaaaahhhhhhhhh. i don't think i am ready for that kind of responsibility. but we'll see, it is a long way off.

do you know what i hate? when people work on Sunday. it is so sad, because if they can't come to church, we can't really teach them. we are teaching this sixteen year old boy named Fabien, and he is really cool, he reads and prays and knows a lot about the gospel, we've been teaching him for awhile but i think we are going to have to drop him because he can never come to church. it takes a lot of faith to quit your job to come to church. anyway, that is the thing that i am most sad about right now, because he is so cool, and the church could help his life so much. we are teaching some other cool people too. one is this really old grandpa of a member, he can't hear very well at all, and he only speaks Iban. so we say something, and his grand kids yell what we say in Iban into his ear. he smokes, but i think he will stop. he came to church last week, and he looked super classy, this really Iban man, in gray slacks and a maroon button up shirt. i hope he gets baptized.

anything else? oh yeah, my knee has been giving me some trouble. i twisted it back in KK, and it has just been swollen and stiff since then. the other night, i was carrying my bike up the stairs and it gave out on me a little bit. Its really scary to me, because this same kind of thing would happen before my surgery. anyway, I've been taking ibuprofen to lessen the swelling. i remember my doctor saying it doesn't matter when you take it as long as you take the same twenty for hour dosage.

anyway, my knee has been feeling better now, i think the bike helps it a little. I'll keep you updated, and I'll go in if it starts to get worse, don't worry.

anywho family, i love you a lot, thanks for all of your emails. until next week,

sister Harrison