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Sunday, July 15, 2012

7/3/12 Email

Wow, it had rained a lot these last few days! Fortunately we never got caught on our bikes though. The rain made things cool down a bit, which of course we are thankful for. We can hardly believe that it is the 4th of July this week! Time just flies by.

This last week, we have had an interesting battle to fight. This last week was transfer meeting and we got word that in addition to running the branch, we also now have responsibility for a small part of the English ward that meets at our building. President Moregenegg, our branch president, joked that they just need to give us a small spanish area now and we can be trilingual missionaries! (By the way, I can hardly speak spanish anymore) So it has been interesting trying to figure out how we can balance our time to work the two separate areas. The easy solution would be if there were Viets in that area, but nevertheless, there are not, so we need to figure out a balance to do both. So now we are part of the Viet branch (Braeburn 2) and the Memorial ward. We go to sacrament meeting twice on Sunday and now get twice the leadership meetings to go to. Hooray!

Other than that, I don't have much else to say. Me and Elder Robison are still working together. Our Vietnamese has been improving rapidly as we study more and more. It is a lot more enjoyable talking to people now, as I can actually understand most of what they are saying (sometimes). I am really trying to improve my speech (grammar and pronunciation and such). I am also getting close to finishing the Book of Mormon in Viet. I only have about 100 pages left. My new goal is to finish reading through the entire standard works before the end of my mission.

Well have a great week and holiday!

Love,
Elder Phong Manhardt

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