Here's the latest on Sister Hirst:

• She absolutely loves being a missionary!  Pretty much every letter starts out with telling us how being a missionary is THE BEST!  It's really very challenging, but she loves it anyway.
• They don't teach "Southernese" in the MTC so she's had to learn it on her own!  There have been many times when she had no idea what people were saying until she said a prayer.  Then she could understand what they're saying!
• She really wants to share the gospel and wishes people would show up for their appointments.
• It's very hot and humid, but she doesn't mind.
• There are lots of awful bugs that inflict awful bites.
• Recently she knocked on the door of an elder that she knew from when he was a missionary in Elko!  She had worked with him a lot and knew him fairly well.  To have him open the door one day while out tracting was quite the coincidence and a shock to both of them!  It made her day, to be sure!
• She's SO full of love! She loves God.  She loves everyone!  I didn't know she could be more loving than she already was but she keeps getting more and more full of love!