November 8th, 2010

Family,

This week has been a good one, we went down and helped out with the Symposium held at a college, it was really cool. Yet, as missionaries on campus we weren't allowed to proselyte, we were there just to answer questions and show that mormons are normal people. There was of course a little confusion in the presentations, because a lot of them were done by religious professors and the like, so they weren't always accurate, but they weren't strictly contrary to our beliefs either. My favorite lecture was called "God is an American" It wasn't as bad as it sounds.

E. Perry and I were in charge of the art gallery and the homeless choir exposition. Yeah, apparantly an LDS guy wanted to do some good, so he rounded up a bunch of homeless guys and taught them how to sing. They weren't half bad! They didn't really mention the church or anything at all though...but it was a nice concert.

I've still been nasty sick this week, but only this awful cough remains now. The funniest thing happened in English class.

So our Iranian friend is studying and working in cryptography, which is message coding and decoding. He was trying to explain to our chinese lady student, what it was, so he got up and wrote and example on the board. This is the example he used.

"Attack on the eleventh September"

Using a sequence, he coded the message with Alberta wheat can't.... etc...Just a simple sentence, with which if you have the key, it's easy to read. There was a miscommunication upon the date eleventh september, so to jog our memories, our Iraqi friend drew two buildings and a plane flying right into them.

So quick recap. An Iranian, and Iraqi and a Chinawoman are discussing cryptography with the sentence "Attack on eleventh September" on the board next to a drawing of one of the most tragic terrorist attacks in history.

I'm teaching english to a terrorist cell. Haha. Anyways I thought that was humorous.

I'm excited for this Saturday, it is the day of our investigators baptism. We've got everything picked out and everything, she's just gotta make it to that day. Cross your fingers, or better yet pray. It will be exciting for sure. Today is E. Perry's last day in the mission field, tomorrow we're driving up to Montreal for Transfers, my new companions name is E. Cherry. Kinda strange, eh?

He's only been out 3 transfers, so it is going to be fun, we will both learn a lot.

There's not much else to say....


E. Holm's Christmas list.
1. Christmas music, more specifically Amy Grant and Taylor Swift's christmas album.
2. Christmas music, more specifically Amy Grant and Taylor Swift's christmas album.

Maybe possibly just send christmas music if at all possible as soon as possible? I am grieving over the lack of Christmas music on my ipod.

Have a good week!

E. Holm