LETTER #3!

Hello Everybody!!!

 

So this week was a really cool week! it is amazing how fast that the weeks go by here! i still feel like i just barely wrote an email! well, where do i start! let's start with the funny stuff! so my zone assigned all- of the new missionarys mentors this week. (which has been really cool) the mentors are all really nice. One of my roomates mentors is halarious! he came into our room and started showing us the "secerets" of the MTC. the first secret was something called a narnia hole! it is a smal compartment in all of the closets that past missionarys hide various items in! we looked in ours and found a sword made out of toilet paper rolls!! it came with a note! that said this sword is named shengling (which in chinese means the spirit) it also said next door has a matching sword and do what you will with it! it was awesome! we have been having many wars with our new narnia toilet paper roll swords! the next seceret was the CREAM SODA TREE! some of you may have seen the picture i sent of the grass that said "dont step on me i am trying to grow" well the reason they don't want you to go on the grass is because the tree smells like cream soda!! it is incredible! i smelt it with out touching the grass of course! no joke leaned and sniffed! he also convinced me to try something called veggie paste and said it tasted amazing! (i know i am an idiot) i tried it and nearly threw up but it was totally worth it! what also really made my week was... every one is now getting their visas and flight plans! every one has been excited! a few days ago, an elder ran out of the mail room screaming,"i have a one way flight to boise baby!!!" that was the funniest thing that i have ever seen in my life! everyone was all amped about all these crazy places and he was so exited to go to idaho!! i love the MTC! this week i contacted 3 doors in chinese and talked about families! however, not as cool as it sounds! i had a bunch of phrases memorized, and had no idea what they were replying back! so i would just say "Hen Hao!" which means very good! or "dui!" which means correct! so hopefully all of them had families because i just continued through with my lesson! on the third contact, i taught the person the first lesson! but not in chinese, in english! but it went pretty well. i taught two guys and both of them were really nice! For any one that has not been reading my letters, these were staged investigators, and were not real! on the spiritual side of things, i bought a fresh copy of the book of mormon and have been marking every reference, attribute, doctorine, and words of christ! all in different colors! it has been so cool to really see how much that book really is another testiment of jesus christ! almost the whole book is completly marked up so far! i love doing this, i really recommend it to anyone that has enough spare time! it is a really neat expierence! i also heard a quote from gordan b hinkly that says "if you are learning a language, if you read the book of mormon at the same time, by the time that you are finished reading the book of mormon, you will know the language!" I HAVE BEEN READING REALLY FAST!! hah! i love my mission and the MTC. my testimony has grown every day from studying these things so much! I am still making so many new friends! Oh and another couple funny things... me and T J Toolson (Elder Toolson) are going to start writing letters back and forth! haha we got each other's box numbers (at the MTC)! that is going to be really funny! we had alot of catching up that we wanted to do! so that will be really good! and the other thing that was funny was last night about 400 young men watched "the testaments", it was funny to see 400 young men bawling their eyes out at the end of the movie!! you can't beat the MTC! I love all of you soo much and thanks for all of the letters! i look forward to them everyday! and they really do help me get through the week! 

LOVE BAO ZHENG LAO!

 i found our that Bao translates directley to warm buns! pretty seet name huh?!? elder warm buns!