Entering into week 8 here in Reno.  This week was one of the funnest weeks yet. 

This week  Sister Toft and I decided to ride our bikes. It has been soo nice here 

weather wise. Of course we live in the hilliest area in Reno.  So up and down the 

biggest hills all day is such a great workout!  Along with the burning of the 

muscles, there were some great laughs coming from both Sister Toft and I.  
 
Lesson wise,  we had 30 lessons total this past week.  Now looking back I don't 

even know how we are crawling into bed at night.  We have met some new potentials 

this past week though.  One of them her name is Allie, she is about 19 or 20. 

She is super nice and very open to learning more about our church.  
 
I was able to have authentic Indian food this past week at Pushpa's house. 

We were sitting down with a few dishes of different kinds of curry infront of us. 

As we were serving ourselves, Pushpa and her mom kept bringing more dishes out to

us!  There had to have been like 20 different dishes on the table.  Most of the 

dishes were so spicy! My mouth was on fire!! then once Pushpa and her mom sat 

down.  We found out that they were fasting that day, and that when they break 

their fast they only eat vegetarian dishes.  WHAT! haha here there are like 20 

different dishes and only like 4 of them are vegetarian.  Sister Toft and I did

the best that we could to eat what we could.  It was all super good though! 

And I asked why she made so much food for us. She said that in India when you 

have guests come over you make really big meals.  It was super nice of them to 

make this food for us but we definitely did not need all of that food for just 

2 of us who were eating. 
 
So yesterday Cleave and Gloria came to church! They are both in the late 70's, 

and they are both less active.  The CUTEST couple EVER! They remind me a lot of 

my mom and dad.  Cleave is white and has a fun stubborn personality, and Gloria 

is Spanish with a fun bubbly personality but helps everyone that she can no matter 

what.  So i think that is what my parents are going to end up looking like. I 

would be okay with that.     Anyways we have been talking to them about getting 

sealed in the Temple.  We have met with them every week.  But the past two weeks 

we have been talking to them about the Temple.  Each meeting was just amazing! 

They are both them are talking with one another and keeping their commitments 

that we give them each week.  This past week their commitment was for them to 

come to church.. AND THEY DID! They both enjoyed it and had great comments.  We 

are going to stop by this week and see how they are feeling.  
 
Well transfers are in 4 weeks.  We decided to do a 40 fast in our ward. 

So each family that signs up.  We ask them to fast for that day that they are 

feeding us. They are going to be fasting for a missionary opportunity. 

Then at the end of the 40 days we are going to be holding a fireside and have a 

little testimony meeting.  So excited to see how that goes.  We started it all 

yesterday so we shall see! 
 
Well new and exciting things are coming!  Love you all and miss you! 
 
 
Sister Oborn

Sister Oborn is serving from the Northridge Ward in the Reno, Nevada mission.