Vitamins Save the Day !!

hi family.

i had a good fourth of July, i mostly celebrated by singing all the American songs i knew out loud to annoy my companion. it was a good day.

Sunday was the first time our new branch met. our branch, because it is two branches combined, has two elders quorum presidents, two relief society presidents, two young women presidents, so all that stuff has to be worked out. but even with two rs presidents, they were confused at who should be doing what, and so they just had the missionaries teach the lesson, which was the first time i had ever taught in church, and it went pretty well, i thought.

our people are doing good too. we have one lady that is so close to baptism, she just needs to come to church a couple more times. but this week she couldn't come, because all of her children had pink eye, and she was getting it too. it was so sad, all her kids had one or two eyes totally swollen shut. even her little little baby had it. we didn't even want to go in there, because i have already had enough eye infections to last me the rest of my mission. so that is really sad, i hope they get better soon.

in other news, a couple of weeks ago, my hair started to fall out. nothing big or anything, no clumps, but quite a bit. lots of hair in the shower drain, lots of hair on my combs, and lots of hair on my clothes. so i started to get a little worried, i mean, this family has a history of hair loss, especially when we are only eating mashed potatoes. or only eating rice and noddles. anyway, so i made a goal to eat more veggies. but the hair kept falling out. and one night for like half an hour i ran my fingers through my hair, and strands just kept coming out and kept coming out. it was scary, i don't want to be a bald missionary! so i called up the mission president's wife, who is a nurse, and what do you know, she suggests a multivitamin. and what do you know, three days later, i still have hair loss, but it is much, much slower. thank goodness for vitamins. i will never scoff at them again. and now i don't have to worry about eating vegetables all the time, haha. so that was one of the big events of the week, and I'm glad my email is that it has stopped, and not that I'm worried that I'm going to be bald later.

so that is everything for this week, i hope things are going good at home. say hi to all the nieces and nephews for me, i love you all, talk to you next week!

sister Harrison