The first ever Karen name-tags!

Hello hello! This week has been good! Some super exciting things have happened! First, our name-tags that we wear are usually in Burmese since the church doesn't have anything translated into Karen and Burmese characters are similar to Karen characters. However, because the Burmese people have chased the Karen people out of their country and killed thousands and thousands of them, Karen people aren't the biggest fans of Burmese.... understandable. Most people didn't have a problem with our tags being in Burmese, but some did, and most of all
it was just confusing because we speak Karen, not Burmese. So this last week, we asked our mission president if we could make our own Karen name-tags and he said yes! He even said we can put our Karen names on them! We're super stoked that we can actually read our tags now hahaha I will include a picture of mine!

Second! Remember Pa Kee? The one who was friends with one of our members and started coming to church, then moved in with one of our other members? Well we started teaching him a couple of weeks ago and he is awesome! He is understanding the gospel so well! This past week we taught him about the Plan of Salvation and at the end of the lesson we asked him if he had any questions. Then he was asking us a question we couldn't quite understand. Sister Hicks and I both thought he was asking about when he could get baptized, but we didn't want to just jump to that conclusion haha so after he tried saying things in a different way a couple times, we figured out that is what he was asking! We set a baptismal date with him for November 18th! We hope he will keep progressing towards baptism!

I'm sorry this email isn't longer! I hope you all have a good week!

My Karen name-tag!

One morning it was really cold in our apartment and I said, "I want all of the blankets!" Next thing I know, this happened. hahaha

One of our members, Mer Ler, wants to learn how to make "English people food" so we told her she could come to our apartment once a week and learn how to make something new! This week she chose pizza! We taught her how to make a super simple, stuffed crust pizza! It turned out super good! Mom notes: I asked Brooklyn if they like weird things on their pizzas like chicken feet or fish, just joking. She said, some of them do! haha

A member took all the Karen speaking missionaries out to dinner. What a kind thing for him to do and what a treat for the missionaries!

 Brooklyn LOVES Asian food!

I just love how "girly" this breakfast table looks! Brooklyn's been sick with a cold so one day she decided to sleep in during exercise time. When they woke up they took the time to make crepes before getting to work. Looks delicious!