July 13, 2015

Dear Family, 
   Well I got to go bowling Monday with two investigators and Lori 
Hinsdale. We split in to two teams of three and made a deal that 
whoever lost had to teach the winning a lesson. When we originally 
started talking about this the deal was the losing team had to feed 
the winning team dinner/lunch! My team was Lori, Keith (one of our 
investigators), and Me. Then the other team was Sister Hoofman, Sister 
Lythgoe, and Jeff (the other investigator). My team dominated and beat 
the other team by 200 hundred points. So the other team has to teach 
us a lesson! I'm feeling like a winner. 
   On Tuesday we had a thing called Golden Retraining. It's were 
trainers and their goldens (the brand new missionaries) met together 
and President and Sister Anderson and the Assistants talk to us for a 
little bit. Then the assistants take the trainers answers any 
questions that we may have. President and Sister Anderson take all the 
goldens and see how they are and how they are liking the mission. Then 
we pretty much switch and President and Sister Anderson talk to the 
trainers and ask us and talk to us what they think that the goldens 
are feeling and stuff like that. The assistants pretty much answer any 
questions that the goldens might have. Then after that we get to do 
some role plays. 
   A missionary served here about a year ago and was visiting. She was 
stoping in my area Tuesday and one of the members was having a bbq for 
her. We were invited and so was a couple of other members that wanted 
to come. We got to talk to the return mission for a while and she 
talked a lot about what she did in this area and asking if we taught 
or were teaching the same people she taught. She asked us for our 
number to because she wanted to send us a list of people that she came 
across in this area that she wanted us to stop by which was really 
cool. 
   It was funny because yesterday when we were on dinner break and 
President Anderson texted asking about a couple of people in our area 
that we are working with. When he sent us the messages I asked Sister 
Hoofman when him and the assistants start figuring out transfer and 
she said usually about two weeks before. I am now convinced that my 
mission president might split my area. There use to be two sets of 
missionaries a couple of transfers before I got to this area. Now I 
think that my mission president might be thinking about putting 
another set it. Which would be a lot of fun. I got my golden to start 
freaking out about it to and I couldn't help but laugh about it! 
   We didn't have as many lessons as the week before but that is ok. 
It was kind of an off week. But we will be teaching a lot more people 
this week. Well have a wonderful week and I love you all! 

Love, 
Sister Paige Bluemel 

P.S. I don't like the humidity at all but on the plus side its really 
green over here. 

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The volcano!