Merry Christmas and a happy 4th of July!

Halo Keluarga dan temanku yang terkasih!  Minggu ini luar biasa!

okay let me first explain the title of my  email. so the month of June was Ramadan!  Where the people here fast for 30 days!!!  Ramadan has officially ended so now, there's this week called Hari Raya,  i'm not sure what it's translation is in english, but all i know is taht the people here treat it like it's CHRISTMAS ANNND the fourth of july at the same time!!!  our neighbors are turning up everynight ALL NGIHT LONG!!! holy cow it's so awesome, I'm so glad I got to see some fireworks this week. The people go jalan jalan or "vacation" and everyone gets presents andt heres FOOD EVERYWHERE  .  it's so great i'm really going to miss ramadan, every night the people would go to all the stads and just buy POUNDS of food for their opening of their fast, but now all the cool stands are goonna be gone )):  i love indonesian food ))))':  Ya, so, now IT'S SO EMPTY here in malang!! there are no cars anywhere there's no traffic cuz everyone's gone!! it's crazy.  or if we do find people, theyre not from malang hahaha , oh well.

actually the whole no car thing was such a problem for sunday we were going to leave our bikes at the church and go pick up our investigator with an angkot.... we woke up SO EARLY Just to make sure we wouldnt be late.... we get out the house.... THERES NO ANGKOTS AND ROADS ARE CLOSED. oh my goodness i almost died from stress hahaha, but it's okay bc OUR MIRACLE CONTACT FROM LAST WEEK CAME TO CHURCH!!!! <333 she is so cute, she had such a great time in church, the members here in malang are so great, i know embak felt comfortable and i hope she felt the spirit, we're going to see her again on wednesday and saturday with members!

we had a really really cool miracle this week too.  we're teaching someone who's not christian,  and we were discussing the plan of salvation with her,  while we were teaching about the atonement she had so many great questions, she asked "why did jesus have to be baptized if he was perfect?"  so we read a little bit from 2 ne 31, the spirit was so strong while we read from the book of mormon especially from alma 7: 11-13  we testified of christs love for us, and that it's only through him that we can return to heavenly father!  her eyes were watering, and we invited her to follow the example of jesus christ and be baptized, she said yes, if she finds out it's true!! it was so cool!  It's so so interesting being in a missionary in a country that doesn't know who Jesus Christ is, It's like we have to teach at primary level, i'm learing a lot too because /I/ have to be capable of explaining who our savior is simply to these beautiful people, it's such a privledge to serve here.  I love my savior so so much and i know the people of indonesia need what we have as membres of his church.

i am lovng life in malang, there are so many people tot alk to here, we're makng so many friends and even if theyr'e not our religion they always give us their christian friends as referals its so awesome ahha!  my companion is so great, she teaches me everyday about the pure love of christ, she is such a good example to me!  (especially when we had to teach a pendeta (preacher) of another church,  i wanted to be sassy,  but sister Ratu's example helped me overcome the natural sass ha)  maybe i'll tell that story next week, it's too long to type.  I know this Chruch is true, miracles happen everyday, Heavnely Father is so so good.  He loves us all so much, he loves us perfectly and so does his son!  We need not ever fear, they're waiting for us to come unto them.  I'm learning so much on my mission it's crazy,  I can feel myself becoming a more confident person, happier person because II know taht my savior lives and he loves me!  that's so special, and the people here in Indonesia need to feel the same way too!  

Have a great week temanku (:  

-Sister Rowntree

1)lol i didnt take pics this week oops here's the outside of our neighborhood

  2)look who came to church (((:

3) i found a cat that loves me!!

4) cool stuff i get to see everyday

5) this is not  a cute pic, but i feel bad i never explain how things are here in indonesia like what they look like so here's a cool pasar "or market"  it's full of food and goodies and toys and FOOD YAY FOOD!!  

6)this is called es degan.  Or ice coconut, coconut is actually kepala in indonesian. i dont know waht degan is, but you literally drink straight from the coconut it is my favooooooooooorite thing to drink here in indonesia,  it's only like 4000 rupia which is like 30 cents in america T_____T  my life rules (: