August 4

HELLO HOME!!!

Good afternoon from Scarsdale, NY! It's a beautiful, breezy day outside- looks like the heat wave finally passed!

This week was TRANSFER WEEK! Elder Mcmullin and I are still together- BUT... SADLY, we are no longer in our Spanish Branch!! We had more Spanish Sister Missionaries come in than we had room for in the Mission, so they got our Spanish Branch and we are just in the Scarsdale English Ward! Which is grand- and we will love it and are very excited to work in it- but we will miss terribly our little Branch- I have been in there since January! All is well, the Sister Missionaries who took over are AWESOME and I know they will do wonderfully. :)

Elder McMullin and I are doing well! We continue to teach a young man from India- he is such a great guy! We've been teaching him for some time now- and he consistently comes to church every week and we meet with him regularly. It's such a blessing to see people REACHING towards the Gospel. He has a very cool story- he got called on ACCIDENT by the Missionaries once, and after a difficult time in his life, looked back up the number, called the Missionaries and asked to be taught! We are actually meeting with him tonight! Every time we meet with him, he brings us a special Indian treat! There is this amazing thing called a "Galobjom" (spelling?)- it's like... well... take a Dunkin Donut- with the same taste and everything- then CONDENSE it into a little ball the size of a donuthole. SUPER DENSE and SUPER TASTY! Haha- then one week he brought SUPER HOT PICKLED CHILI SAUCE and it about KILLED ME! haha- Indian spice is different than Spanish spice!! :)

We are working hard! It's SO different working in ENGLISH- sometimes the words WON'T COME to me- I'll have the Spanish word pop up in my head and can't think of the English one. Elder McMullin and I are excited and I'll send an e-mail home next week of how it's all going! Jubilate Deo!

Sorry this is such a short letter- next week isn't TRANSFERS and I'll have more time to write!

All my Love,

Elder Hellberg