"Scared, Potter?"...

..."You wish."

We have the weirdest problems in our missionary work out here. For example: How do you report your numbers for the week if you're not sure if the person who came to church today is an investigator or a less-active member? Because you've been teaching them as an investigator for the last month or so, and this is their 2nd time at church, and then all of a sudden they have a flashback that indicates maybe they've done this before and so they tell you they're pretty sure they were already baptized in this church, but you can't find their records because they don't know how the cambodian spelling of their name was translated into English letters. So do you report that as an investigator at church, or not? This is the type of question we ask our district leader every week.

It's an interesting thing, because when I first got here I started the joke of, "all Cambodians are already members" because nearly every Cambodian person I met said, "oh yeah, I was baptized in your church in '82". Every referral we get from other missionaries we type into the gps and when we arrive at the house, we're like, hey, we already found this guy on a ward list a month ago. And then every once in a while, someone will call us and be like, "guys, I just found someone who moved from Cambodia a few months ago, so they're probably not a member already". And then as it turns out they were baptized in Cambodia like right before they came here. But still, there was a general understanding that this was an exaggeration. I mean, it had to be. There's no way every single Cambodian person here can already be members of the church.

Then Sunday happened, our investigator decided he remembers learning all this before, and tells us he's probably already been baptized. In '89. Now I'm starting to believe that every single person of Cambodian decent living in the greater Tacoma area is already a member of this church.

An Elder in our zone made us all wands that are hand-carved to match us personally. Mine is oak, and long and sleek with all these subtle details. I feel like a pretty powerful witch with it in my grasp. We spend a large amount of our getting-ready-time in the morning just trying out different wand poses in the mirror. Once we find ones we're satisfied with, you can expect a plethora of HP themed pictures.

Until then, here's a more everyday picture of me eating a Krispy Kreme donut off of my wand.

 And here's me with Hermione's cat Crookshanks. We are not friends.

Go watch something Harry Potterish for me this week, okay?

Oh yeah and also my birthday is Saturday so I would appreciate a telepathic e-card or something of that sort.

I've been in the WA-TAC 33 weeks, I'm almost 20 years old, and the church is true here too!

-Sister McQuivey

 These last two photos are from Janessa's Mission President's Wife's blog.  Just a little bonus!