Email received Nov 2, 2009

Thoughts from earlier in the week: #1 Okay, now you're just spoiling me with all this bread! And thanks for the candy, I won't even need to hit the post-Halloween sales to bulk up my personal stash. BUT (funny story) both Sis Champman and I have been a little concerned that even our mandatory exercise every morning cannot keep up with cookies and dessert at every house every night, so we called our Zone Leaders and asked to be put on dessert restriction (no dessert except on Sunday.) They kindly obliged and even followed with a threat to take away our Sunday desserts if we misbehave (of course, when we're at home there are no restrictions, especially at Halloween, so don't worry that I'm suffering complete neglect.) Now don't tell anyone we were the instigators of this mandate, we've already used it to great advantage this week - laying all blame on our missionary leadership! But I am interested in investing in some more healthy snacks - any ideas? With all the money I've saved not having to buy bread perhaps I can experiment with more fresh fruits and veggies.

Thank you all for your loving care and concern during my recent troubles, I almost didn't even mention it but it was the second Monday in a row we had been in a disagreement (we had been doing better during the week) and I just really needed to talk to someone. Things have been going MUCH better, we talked things out Monday afternoon and got back to work - we've had quite a fabulous week actually. We had make-over session #2 with make-up tips (#1 was clothes and hair last week.) We laughed so hard on Wed night we were practically rolling on the ground, we couldn't even walk back to our car - it felt fabulous! We went to two Trunk-or-Treats on Friday night (the best costumes we could come up with was switching name-tags (it felt really weird) and we even tried imitating each other to much giggles and laughter.) We also tried to set up a couple people we've been working with, it was a little awkward, but you never know... Sis Chapman keeps trying to play matchmaker with everyone we meet, the latest is two return missionaries (one in each ward) that just got home in the past month - could be interesting. For Halloween night we had to be home by 6:oo pm with no instructions on specific use of the time, so we grabbed a stack of church videos, changed into our pjs (it felt so weird to be chilling in my jammies at 7 in the evening - I nearly felt scandolous!), and spent the evening catching up on Church History while helping pass out candy. There's an excellent video about Wilford Woodruff's (Editor's note: Wilford Woodruff is Katie's great-great-great grandfather.) experience finding the church - check it out at an LDS library near you! BIG NEWS: With thoughts fully turned to the jovial holiday and absolute surety of our current station, we both forgot Sat was also the night of Transfer Calls. When we checked our messages I thought it was a prank - I'm going to Fallon! That was Sis Moreno's first area up north (used to be the only sister area up there.) Well we both wailed and bemoaned and I haven't even started packing but I'm running out of time on this email, so I guess I'll share the continuing story next week - stay tuned for the address change!