Transfer PDay!!

Wowowowow so much to say and not enough time!! This week was pure craziness so I'll try to get everything in Haha.

This week was my companions last week and we had a lot of activities and things she wanted to do before she left. She had departures on Friday and so I got to spend the day with Sister Simmons and Sister Smith who also had companions leaving. It was super fun and I got to go to the lemon grove area and meet some new people.

On Saturday we did karaoke with the Gaspar family and the elders serving in our ward. The Gaspars are soooo amazing and have now started coming back to church. They told us that many more karaoke nights are in the future Haha. The Gaspars each chose a song for us to sing. Sister Rooks got Let It Go, Elder Rhodes got Your Man (hahaha), Elder Sammons got Despacito (also hahaha) and I got How Far I'll Go from Moana. Oh boy was it hilarious.

Sunday was also super fun but sad because we knew that Sister Rooks was leaving and that probably some of the Elders were too. Every other Sunday we have dinner with Hermano Soto with the elders in our ward and another companionship in another ward. Super fun but it was sad to know it was Sister Rooks last one.

Monday was also another crazy day. The zone leaders suggested that the whole zone go on a hike really early in the morning before opening the transfer doc. Well, it ended up getting rained out and cancelled so Sister Rooks and I decided to go to IHOP with Hermanas Reyes and Lupercio. Good timesssss (they had unlimited pancakes).
IHOP- also waiter brought me my pancakes without my actual meal and we waited forever and he just gave me my meal for free yay!

The District

TRANSFER DOC: This transfer I'm TRAINING. Super excited but also nervous and this will definitely put my Spanish to the test. WISH ME LUCK. I'll write more about her next week because I won't meet her until later tonight!!

Anyways I am super excited for this transfer!! I love you all and I hope everyone has a fun week!!

From January 29, 2019

Super sorry everyone but it is the last P day of the transfer and we have been partying at the beach all day and playing some super fun sports!!
Coronado sunset!!

Carne asada fries...YUM!

This Saturday we had Raquels baptism. SOOOO SPECIAL. Raquel was soooo happy to be baptized and right after she did a little happy dance. I'm not one to cry happy tears BUT I'll admit I shed a tear. It was such a privilege to be able to help Raquel along this path and seeing her be baptized was the cherry on top. I'm so excited to see her progress in her faith even more.
Raquel speaking after her baptism.

Our District

After the baptism we headed to old town and got to experience some pioneer fun. The commemoration of the Mormon Battalion arriving in San Diego happened and there were wagon rides (courtesy of the elders), doll making, biscuit making, marches, and more. SOOOO FUN!!
Pioneer doll.

I opened the mazapan without it crumbling.

I'm really sorry for how short this is but I hope everyone has a great week! I love you all!!

Companions w/ El Presidente?!

Hola todos from STILL sunny San Diego!! I still cant believe that it's January and we are still having 84 degree days. I am CONVINCED I am in paradise hahaha.

This week I got to be companions with my mission President, President Stubbs. BEST. (half). DAY. EVER. Kind of. One of the sisters I was on exchanges with got sick and had to go to the ER and so we met President Stubbs and Sister Stubbs there. She is doing just fine so no need to worry but that meant the I got to go with President Stubbs for about 5 hours and do some errands. It was really cool because he told me about his life and his kids and it was nice to be able to get to know him more. I love President & Sister Stubbs soooo much and I'm so grateful that I get to serve in the same mission as them. After that, he dropped me off in Imperial Beach with my companion and the sister she was on exchanges with. Super fun, President also told me that I'd serve in Imperial Beach and El Centro, so we will see if that comes true haha. Since we didn't really get to do a full exchange with those sisters, we will be doing them later this week, hopefully with no ER trips.

We also got to go on exchanges with Sisters Smith and Joyce. Sister Smith came to be with me in City Heights. We had SO much even though no one answered their door the whole day except for the last door we knocked on at 8 that night. We knocked on a former investigator's door. His name is Rafael and he has a wife named Gloria. We talked with him out on his porch and he said we could come back next Friday!! We are hoping that things work out this time around for him and Gloria. Sister Smith is such a great missionary and I'm really hoping that we get to be companions some day.

Unfortunately, this week one of our investigators moved to LA. It was really last minute, but she called us and told us she still wants to keep learning and as soon as she is in her apartment and settled in, she'll send her address so we can send some missionaries up there to her. We were sad but I'm excited to see what the Lord has in store for her in LA.

I don't know why my favorite face is now sticking my tongue out?

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to participate in a huge service at Balboa Park. It was in honor of MLK day. We cleaned the parks and my companion and I and the elders in our district went to the cactus garden. It was super fun apart from when I got stinging needle all over my arms. BUT lucky we were in a garden with some aloe vera haha.

Service with Sisters Rooks and Morales

I'm super excited for this week and fingers crossed that Raquel is baptized this time next week!!! We are so excited for her and we are hoping everything works out with her! We also have another lesson tonight with a guy named Antonio. He wants to get baptized but has been so busy with his work schedule that he hasn't been able to meet but we have something scheduled finally!!

BEACH AGAIN FOR PDAY :)

I don't have much else to write about but I wanted to share a scripture that I came across the other day. The scripture is John 14:18 - "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you"

I love this scripture and I love the comfort that the Gospel, the Holy Ghost, prayer, church etc can bring you. But most importantly i love the comfort that Jesus Christ brings me. There is no other person that understands us completely like He does. I'm so grateful for Him and that I can find comfort in Him.

I'm super excited for this next week, tonight we are doing exchanges with SISTER BATCHELOR!!! I can not wait!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful week and enjoy the snow hahaha. I love you all!!

Elder Andersen!

This week was pure heaven in sunny, sunny, SUNNY San Diego. Honestly I am loving the sun shining all through winter with a few days of rain here and there. The weather is so perfect.
Sunset cliffs:

Apart from the heavenly weather, this week was filled with some pretty sweet experiences.

First sweet experience: ENGLISH WORK FOR THE FIRST TIME!! On Thursday I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Sister Montague (senior STL) and Sister Law (trainee of Sis. Montague&Whitaker). They're in English work so I was able to go a speak to people in a language that I know pretty well hahaha. I'll just start by saying that Spanish and English work are totally different, and I love them both for different reasons. We handed out a ton of Book of Mormons and added 3 people and so that was awesome. Also, the exchange was in Poway, and Poway is one of the "rich" areas of the mission, soooooo coming from the "ghetto" of the mission to there was like super weird. The sisters live in a little house behind some members and it was QUIET at night. It felt weird to not be hearing sirens and cars racing each other at night. It was also nice to have a non weed scented apartment for a night haha. We also got to help someone do some family history, which is really cool and I learned how to do some pretty cool stuff on the computer and all that fun stuff. Later that night, we exchanged back and I came back to my sketchy kingdom hahaha. I love city heights so much, so I was happy to be back.
This is how we heat our apartment.

Second sweet experience: ELDER ANDERSEN!!!! The long awaited day of Elder Andersen finally came and boy was it worth it. We first heard from Elder Klebingat. He talked about always leaving a good impression on people whether or not they are nice to us, and really just treating everyone we come across as Jesus would. It was a really good reminder. Next we heard from Elder Clayton. He talked about the power of the Book of Mormon and the importance it plays in conversion. He also talked about obedience. One thing that he said that really stuck out to me was "the difference between 6:30 and 6:31 is a lot more than one minute" aaaand if you know me, you know why that stuck out to me... Haha just kidding. But I really liked it, because sometimes on the mission and in life in general, it's easier to be obedient to the bigger "rules" more so than the smaller ones. I dont know why but it can be Haha. This small phrase has really helped me to be a little more aware of the smaller rules that maybe I wasn't following as closely as I should have been. THEN, we heard from the one and only Elder Andersen. He threw straight fire at us. He told us that if we were preaching the gospel in another language other than our native tongues, then we need to be reading the Book of Mormon, out loud and slowly, everyday. So, challenge accepted. I'll let you know how it goes Haha. He also roasted us about our church attendance numbers, he said our adding and baptism numbers were amazing but our church attendance number sucked, so we are going to put an emphasis on inviting everyone we meet to church this year, so hopefully we can improve that. He also mentioned that we should focus on the Hispanics and the young people to start teaching because missionaries have more success with them than anyone else. Super interesting!! The meeting was awesome and our whole mission was able to be there and shake his hand. It was such a blessing to be able to here from all 3 of them. I'm excited to start putting his words into action.
All of us with Elder Andersen.

So our mission has adopted the new dinner policy this year and we now dedicate 5-7 every night to solely finding. We have been having some really cool experiences with that and have added a few more people to start teaching, so fingers crossed that they all workout.

This morning I had the opportunity to go to the temple. I am loving the emphasis of the importance of BOTH roles in the gathering of Israel. I am so excited about all of these changes and its definitely an exciting time to be a woman in the church. I'm pretty sure the whole mission decided to go to the church also Haha, there were so many missionaries.

After the temple, we went to La Jolla cove. I am convinced that I am serving my mission in paradise, or my version of paradise. I looooove the ocean soooooo much. There's a spot that has a ton of seal and I dont know what smells worse, them or the church gym I'm currently sitting in with 40+ sweaty elders. Last week we went to sunset cliffs and oh my gosh I am so in love with that place. We got some cafe Rio and sat on the cliffs and watched the sun set. We also watched someone get engaged hahaha classic. But sunset cliffs has definitely been added to one of my favorite places ever. I will attach many photos hahaha.

 

Anyways, I'm excited for this week and to see what happens with the new people we have added. I love you all and I hope everyone has a great week!!!

twenty nineteen?!?!

Hola todos!! Wow time flies, I haven't spoken to you all since last year hahahaha dad jokes <3 my sense of humor right now is finding everything funny and I'm guessing it's because my missionary cicada rhythm was thrown off last night when I stayed up till midnight ahhhhahahaha. 

This week was so fun but unfortunately most of the people we have been teaching are in TJ until later this week so we haven't really been having too many lessons. We have been doing A LOT of walking this week because we had 0 miles but hey, new month, new miles.

Nothing terribly interesting happened this week. On Monday (yesterday) we had MLC (Missionary Leadership Council) and it was super cool. We got to discuss our mission vision and improve it so we can be more successful as individual missionaries and a mission as a whole. Because this was the first meeting for 2019, we all got to create goals for the whole mission for this next year. President Stubbs gave an amazing training which gave us a lot of motivation for this next year. Sister Rooks and I were happy with the goals that were set  and we are so excited to now start implementing them with the sisters!!

Walked to the chapel to meet with an investigator (that didn't show up) :(

The best part of Monday though was Monday night. Sister Batchelor (my old comp/trainor/my fav person) and her new companion, Sister Decker came over and we had a sleep over!!!!!! It was so fun and we ate way too much junk but it was so fun to be with my old companion again. There's are new year tradition that Mexicans do and basically you just shove 12 grapes in your mouth within like the first minute of the new year. I thought it was within the first 12 seconds and I shoved them all in my mouth and almost choked Haha whoops!!!

Welcoming in the new year with 12 grapes in my mouth hahaha

This week, Elder Andersen is coming and we get to be together as a whole mission which I'm super excited about!!! I can't wait to hear him speak!!!

Anyways, I hope you all have a great start to the new year!!! Hahahanewyearnewmemeshahahaha

Christmas

Holaaaaa todos and FELIZ NAVIDAD (for yesterday)!!!!!!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful CHRISTmas!!! 

This week has been amazingggggg!! I've learned that people watching here in City Heights is one of my favorite things to do, they're is such a wide range of cultures here and I looooove it. I've already met so many people. My new ward is full of so many great people. One in particular is Hermana Galvas. She is very very very affectionate haha. She is also so crazy and hilarious and loud and her favorite thing to do is spoil the missionaries. She also makes goooooood food. There are so many others who are just as amazing too and I'm so grateful I get to know them.

Funny(ish) story: Earlier this week we came back to the apartment for dinner. Hermana Rooks and I were talking and eating and all of a sudden we noticed that a helicopter was flying around right by our apartment complex. It had been flying around for while but we didn't really pay attention to it (they're are a lot of weird noises that go on in this complex haha). But my companion said that the police were probably looking for someone and she just went and locked the door. I guess it's pretty common here. Anyways, the next day we found out that someone had been shot by our apartment and they were looking for the guy haha so that was nice .. 😊  despite all the craziness here, I love it. It makes our days really interesting and gives us funny memories!!!

Sister Rooks and me

CHRISTMAS!! For Christmas we all got together as a zone and opened our Christmas gifts. After that we played games and sports and it was soooooo fun. Our zone leaders made breakfast for everyone and then we all ate the candy that we had been sent. Soooooo good. It was super nice to be able to talk to my family both in Utah and Australia. Super grateful for things like Skype!!!

This Christmas season was so amazing and I'm so grateful for the real reason for the season, Jesus Christ. I'm so thankful that I get to be a missionary for Him and that I get to share His gospel with the people here in San Diego. Being a missionary has been such a blessing already in just these short 4 months and in excited to continue doing this. I love Jesus Christ so much and have really come to rely on Him so much more.

I love you all!! Thank you so much for all of your sweet emails/letters/packages etc. I am so grateful for them and for you all!!!

Me and my old companion, Sister Batchelor

Another photo

-Hermana Wolferstan

Cambiossss!!!

Hello everyone!!

I apologise in advance for this email because we had tranfers today and I dont have a lot of time and it will probably be a little scattered. 

This week was so fun but also SAD because I got transferred to the Ghetto of the mission: City Heights whoot whoot!! Please pray for my safety hahahahaha. I'm also an STL (Sister Training Leader) now so wish me LUCK. 

I finally finished training!!!!! I'm super sad to be leaving my trainer Sister Batchelor but I'm excited to be in a new area. My new companion is Sister Rooks and this is her last transfer :(

So my new apartment is pre-scented with marijuana. haha yeet And we have some nice background noises of rowdy SDSU students and some gun shots here and there, nice ;). It was hard leaving El Rey, the members and the people we are teaching there are amazing!!

Also we sang Christmas carols in Swahili!!! Soooo cool!!

Sorry for the short email but I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas!!! I love YOU ALL!!

Lily and !!! My little mini me hehehe 

Sally!!!! Cutest baby ever!!! 

Rain and Shine

Hola todos!! This week we got hit with some wicked rain storms with some minor flooding. It made finding super fun but also veryyyyy cold. It actually helped a lot because people were more willing to let us in haha so now we have a couple of more people to teach. 

RAIN!

Last Monday we found a lady in our area book, her name is Marina. It says that she's a member, just inactive. We decided that we would stop by to see what was going on. We went and knocked her door. Her little apartment was FULL of stuff and we couldn't really sit down anywhere. Her husband Guillermo was there and he was very nice (not a member so we are hoping that we will be able to start teaching him soon!!). Marina was very sweet and we could tell that her health wasn't doing really good, so we are hoping that next time we see her we can talk about her getting a blessing!! We stayed for a little while and chatted and talked about the church. We left and she told us to come back on Friday. So, on Friday we went back to see her. Her apartment was still a little messy but she had cleared a space on the couch for us to sit and things were a little more organized. She told us she felt the need to clean her life up a little bit after we had left and she decided to start with her house. It was only a small change but it's a start and it made us super happy. We are so happy that we get to be helping her back onto the gospel path and maybe even her husband too.

Meet Eldin and his chickens. He speaks perfect Spanish. I guess that's what happens when your mom is Mexican and your dad is American.

On that same Friday before Marina, we had a lesson with Karen. Karen is progressing so well. Her family has started warming up to the church and even her boyfriend has. We have been working so hard with her. Her boyfriend is fine if she goes to church now so we are crossing fingers, toes, arms, and everything that she comes this week. I think my favorite moment this week was after we had left Karen's house. Hermana Batchelor and I were driving away and came to a 4 way stop. We noticed a homeless man trying to cross the road but no one was letting him cross. When it came to be our turn we waved and smiled at him to let him know that he could cross, and you would have thought that we had told him that he won the lottery. He smiled SO big and gave us a little wave. I am not even kidding when I say that Hermana Batchelor and I started crying as we drove away. I still get emotional about it if I am being honest hahahaha. Good times!!

On Sunday we had our stake Christmas concert. It was so fun and there were soooo many people. We even got to talk to Catholic nuns and they were sooo nice! (If I'm being honest, when I first saw them I thought they were playing a part in the nativity because there were some other women in similar clothing in the program haha). Anyways, it was super cool to talk to them and get to understand their religion a little more.

It was a great week this week and we're getting closer and closer to CHRISTMAS!!!! I'm so thankful for this time that I have to focus even more on my Savior Jesus Christ and that I get to share the happiness of the gospel with my brothers and sisters here in San Diego. It's not always easy, but the good times have always outweighed the bad and I know that with the help of my Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost, I will be just fine 😊. I love you all!!

Thank you for all of you emails, I don't always get to reply to all of them right away but I really do appreciate them!

Hopefully this week is just as good if not better and comes with a little less tamales hahaha!

Sorry for the lack of pictures!! Hopefully next week will be better haha

#iluminaElMundo

Hola todos!!

I cannot believe it is December already!! The Christmas season is in full swing and I am loving it!! Also I guess tamales are like a Christmas thing for Mexicans so we have been eating SO many and getting deliveries of them from members. We are also going to be learning how to make them #FullTimeMissionaryPartTimeChef 👩🏽‍🍳

This photo is literally how most of our meals are haha

This week we kicked off December with some Christmas caroling. It was SO fun. Everyone told us that we sounded like "angelitas" hahaha and for those of you who have heard me sing know that that is a fat lie. BUT on the other hand, if you have ever gone to a Spanish ward and heard them sing the hymns, maybe we do sound like angelitas haha. But nothing brings the spirit like music!

Light saber!!!! And star wars Christmas decorations!!! 

Stitch!! Cute lil pup!

I don't have a ton of time left but I just wanted to encourage you all to check out the light the world program from the church and to get involved in service. It doesn't have to be something big. But I know that if we all choose to serve, the world will be a little more brighter.

I love you guys so much!!

Thankful for Pepto-Bismol and dresses with pockets!

Hola todos!!!!! This week was soooo fun and such an adventure! 

My beautiful comp and I:

Pepto-bismol was a life saver this past wednesday. We were eating at a members house and I all of a sudden felt soooo sick. I got up to go to the bathroom and ended up just barely making it to the bathroom before I threw up. It was AWFUL. I felt so out of it and I thought I was actually dying. I guess I was in the bathroom for a while because my companion had to come find me haha whoops. The lady we were eating with is like our mom and she gave me all the pepto-bismol that would fit in my pocket. She was so sweet about it. I guess my body is still not used to all the beans and rice and tortillas it has been fed. We went home for the rest of the evening haha. I have started running in the mornings here because all of the tortillas and rice and beans I get fed is crazy.

THANKSGIVING!! Thanksgiving is probably one of my favorite American Holidays. We ate thanksgiving dinner with a family that knows my family in New Zealand. It was really cool to talk to them and be able to talk about things that I grew up with. (MUM WE TALKED ABOUT SHORTLAND STREET AND MCLEOD'S DAUGHTERS!!!). They were really cool and it was fun to be around them. I look like I could be her daughter apparently. Her husband is from Iraq and his family was there too. Very different cultures to be mixed but very fun. I had prime rib for dinner too. It was a little rare for me but I think Marlowe and dad would have loved it.I actually missed Marlowe's stuffing this year. I had two different types and it was not as good. The food was amazing and my comp and I thought we were going to explode, but good thing we wore dresses without waistbands hehe.

 We had a dinner with a member this week and she would not stop making tortillas. I couldn't handle anymore so when she wasn't looking I grabbed some and wrapped them in napkins and shoved them in my pockets. My comp did the same thing BUT she didn't have pockets so we did a little pass off in the middle of the prayer. We both about lost it during the prayer but we managed to keep it together until we left.
Us and our tortillas we shoved in our pockets!

Another lady makes us tamales every week now and brings them to church so we have had lunch every Sunday. Very sweet of her but man she brings us a lot.

This week we have been really trying to find people to teach. It has been a little harder because the sunsets at like 4:30pm and no one wants to talk to us when it's dark :(. We found two people that had genuine interest and one guy that we handed to the English elders. It's the best feeling when people want to hear more and make time for you to come back. Especially when you have had so many people tell you they aren't interested. So we are excited to start teaching them this week!! Saturday night we had been out all day and were exhausted and a little discouraged because no one wanted to talk to us haha so we decided that we were going to make cookies for a member that has been going through a hard time and write a little note for her telling her how grateful we are for her. We figured that since we were only going to drop them off at her door and run that we could just wear our flip flops. BIG MISTAKE. I knocked on her door and we started running away. I got to the bottom of her drive way and went to turn and totally lost my flip flops in the middle of it. But I didn't want her to catch us so I just kept running. We hid behind a truck and we waited for a long time. Me and my comp were DYING of laughter. So much so that she totally heard us. When she saw what had happened she started laughing so hard that she had to run inside to go to the bathroom so she wouldn't pee her pants. It was super nice to be laughing super hard (and for those of you who know my laugh, you know dang well that I was wheezing haha) after such a bummy day.
Cool frijoles!

Yesterday Quinn and Ellen came and saw me!!!! For those of you who don't know who that is, it's my BFFs Sister and brother in law!! The Gregoires are basically my second family. But it was so nice to see them and and catch up with them. They have been such a blessing in my life and I am SO grateful for them!! Shout out the Gregoire fam for kickstarting Christmas ❤

Anyways, this week was so fun and me and my comp are having such a good time. The mission has taught me a lot and made me realize that I can do things that I never thought possible, like speak Spanish. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that one day I would be able to even understand Spanish past the point of "Hola". It has taught me that with the help of Heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost, nothing is impossible. Learning to rely on the Holy Ghost has been quite the process and I am still learning to, but it has blessed me so much.

I hope you all have a good week this week!!! It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!!
The only tree that knows it's the end of November!!

If it's spicy going in, it's spicy coming out

Hola everyone!!!!

This week has been sooo fun and full of so many amazing experiences. Time is flying by but I guess that's what happens when you're having fun! San Diego is getting "cold" and by cold I mean below 70 degrees sometimes hahaha. I LOVE the sun and the warmer weather!!

This week Hermana Batchelor and I had so much fun. On Wednesday we did a little bit of cleaning in the apartment and rearranged the rooms because we now only have the 2 of us instead of 3. We have a lot of space now and it has been great haha.

My comp and I, it's black and white because she wanted to hide how grown out her hair was and LOOK I did my hair for once, haven't done it since the first week in the MTC haha.

And another selfie.

On Thursday we had a meeting with the bishop and the other elders in our ward. He is so great!! He is really trying to get the ward to be better member missionaries and acknowledged that our ward mission leader was crazy and hinted that he might be replaced soon. Don't get me wrong, Hermano Dantes is really nice but is loco fo sure so a change would be nice! We went finding later in the afternoon and found  lady that wanted us to come back!! We were so excited! Finding people has been really hard lately so that was really fun for us.

FRIDAY!!! Friday by far was my favorite day this week!! We went to La Jolla for a doctors appointment for my comp and on the way there we get a call from an 801 number.. Utah!! We answer it and it's TINA GREGOIRE!! For those of you who don't know, Tina is my best friends mom and basically another mom to me too haha. She was in San Diego and we happened to be pretty close to each other. So we totally met up for lunch and it was SO fun!! I had a blast just talking and catching up! After we said bye (sad face), Hermana Batchelor and I went to an appointment with Karen. Karen is still progressing so well, we just need her to come to church. She has a car now and should be able to make it this Sunday, so fingers, toes, legs, arms, eyes, lungs, and everything crossed that it works out. We then had an appointment with a referral that we have been trying to meet up with for so long. It finally worked out and we went and saw her. She is totally excited about learning more and really loved the scriptures that we read together from the Book of Mormon. It is sometimes kind of nerve racking to bring up the Book Of Mormon to Catholics BUT I love talking about it and bearing my testimony of it. It is such a powerful book!!

Last night, we had dinner and FHE with the Gomez family and a set of elders from our ward. She made these things called "Poppers". Basically it is a whole Jelepeno wrapped in bacon. They said if we could finish 3 of them, they would give us our own little thing of ice cream. Challenge accepted and accomplished. My comp and I and the elders all downed the poppers and got our ice cream hehe. I definitely just stuck my lips in the ice cream for a good solid 3 minutes. They were on FIRE. But just like my subject heading says.. "if it's spicy going in, it's spicy coming out"..... Yikes.

Selfies in the laundromat with Lily and Lulu, we have been helping they're mom out with household stuff and this week it was laundry!!

Anyways, I had a blast this past week and I am looking forward to this next week!!! I love you all and I really appreciate all of your emails! Till next week!!