Filipino Food!

Hey everyone,
So this week was good, we are opening an area which means we are kind of starting from scratch and neither of us know where anything is so it's been interesting...... we are teaching a couple of people right now from the Philippines!! I just love them, they are the happiest people I have ever met. They have been through some pretty tough things in their lives and they are still just so happy, Alex and guendalina they are brother and sister! We had dinner with them a little while ago and she was so excited to share Filipino food with us, it was SO GOOD!! They are special people and are progressing really well. Our other pretty solid person is Errick we had a lesson with him 2 days ago over Facebook that was really good.... he is so funny, he's super tall and plays a lot of basket ball...his accent sounds kinda like a new Yorker, Haha I love it. He is so prepared. Well that's was about all for my week! Twas a good one. I hope you all have a really good week and if you get some time check out the talk called "Keeping lifes demands in Balance" by President Ballard it is amazing!! Love you all!!
Sister Peine
p.s. The pictures with the pool and palm trees are the apartments where we live.

First Mission email from Florida!

Hey y'all as these southern people would say haha I love them and there are people from all over the world here so we are learning lots of new things. I don't have much time but a quick update.... I ran into Elder Renlund at the airport on the way here and took a picture with him and his wife.... I was a little star struck and kinda just stared at him smiling like a weirdo, but I managed to tell him a little of my story and we chatted for a bit. It was something that I will remember forever. Then moments after that I saw Elder Christoffersen running by to go somewhere, he looked like he was in a hurry so we didn't talk but we did make solid eye contact for about 4 minutes so that was good and we said hello. If you ever want to meet an apostle just go hangout in the Salt Lake airport I guess haha! So I am in an English ward but everyone in our area speaks Spanish and I have heard there are some Portuguese speaking people, I haven't found them yet but I'm sure they are here somewhere and we will find them in no time but I have learned a lot of Spanish. It's kind of hard to keep straight with Portuguese but My comp Hermana Palmer is a Spanish Missionary so we are teaching in 3 languages....... its gonna be great!! She's is awesome. We are in the Citrus Park ward! Serving in the USA is completely different..... like the work is the same but wow....... AC, Phones, cars, and shower curtains really make a difference hahah what a blessing! It is soooo pretty here, I will send some more pictures next week. I love you all and hope you have a great week!!
Love, Hermana Peine

Kayla's Surgery and Recovery

Kayla had her surgery March 4 at the Huntsman Cancer Center. The surgery went well but they ended up having to remove her left kidney with the tumor because they could not safely save the kidney as the tumor had stretched the blood vessels too thin that went to the kidney. Had her mission president not had the inspiration to send her home when he did the blood supply could have been completely cut off to the kidney shutting down both kidney's and putting her into renal failure. It was a blessing she came home when she did and had the tumor removed. Kayla stayed at home and recovered for 2 1/2 months. She wanted to return to the mission field for the last few months of her mission and was reassigned to the Tampa, Florida mission.