dear persons in the states,

this week was a little bit crazy and hard. I learned a lot about the atonement and how we really need to make use of the atonement every single day of our lives. If we don´t, it can be easy to let pride slip in to your hearts. Plus, that is why Christ suffered for us. So we could actually make our lives better by using the atonement. If we don´t make use of it, every day, then His atonement is in vain those days.

this week has been pretty warm here. i don´t really know how hot it got. 90 degrees F more or less. I don´t know. but i do know that we haven´t yet hit summer here and it is going to be hot here. haha. but don´t worry, becuase i´m using lots of sunscreen.

this week to celebrate thanksgiving I made a pumpkin (actually it was butternut squash) and apple pie. my companion likes the pumpkin pie but not the apple pie, because here they don´t really use cinnamon, where as there, we use it alot. but that´s ok. more pie for me. haha. oh and we ate lunch at a members house who gave us raspberries and ice cream for desert. the cool thing was that the raspberries were sooo big. they looked like black berries, but with the raspberry taste. then they let us pick some of the raspberries from their bush (it was definitely a raspberry bush too) and we took them home so i can make a raspberry pie. super excited to make that one.

and, i can´t really think of what else to write. i can´t believe it is almost december and i feel like it is june. haha. weird.

anyway, that´s all. hope you enjoy the cold. :)

love, sarah