Letter#2

hello!!!!!!
Nihoa!
 
So it is insane to me that i am already writing another letter!! The weeks go by so fast here!!! it is really wierd but i am still loving it! oh and BIG NEWS! i am not staying twelve weeks i olney get 10 and a half because of the time that transfers happen to new york so i am kinda freaking out about that! THIS LANGUAGE IS INSANE!! i feel like i need to stay in here my whole mission! It is hard but when i look back at my progress i am actullly doing pretty good! it is just hard to do that when eveyone in your district is fluent! haha! ha but it is good it is challenging me and making me really work, wich i like! i am getting so much better at studying and organizing my self! I am so happy this is going to help me so much in college, and in life! I have not missed one day making my bed scene i have been here! which is not because i am over achieving, they ask you to, BUT STILL! i think i have made my bed more times here then i have my whole life! but i love it it is really turning into a habbit!
This week was my first teaching appointment, well a pretend one but it was very good practice! I had to cantact them in chinese, which did not go very well! but then i taught them the first lesson on the resteration! which i really enjoyed! one thing that i learned is that if you try to teach people by your self with out looking to the lord the whole time, or listening to the spirit your lesson will not go any where! it is so important to completly rely on the spirit and the needs of the investigator! it is amazing how things start to change when you really do that! Sometimes you dont even teach the lesson that you have been working the whole week on! you just do what the spirit says!
I have also learned this week that studying the gospel makes the language come sooo much faster! last week i would just try to cram in as much chinese as i could! but this week, i would start studying by reading my scriptures! and every time i felt like my head was going to explode i would crack open my scriptures! it is amazing how much it really helps! i was able to absorb so much more when i would do that! and it helps me to really learn the gospel better! you can never feel like you know every aspect or princible of this gospel! there is so much to it, and the more you study the more you will realize that! It also helps you to come closer to the spirit which helps you learn faster!!
I am making so many new friends here! i love it! every one already treats you like there best friend because we are all here for the same purpose! we have all left the same things behind, and that makes really united! i feel like i can walk up to anyone here and immediatly be there friend! my roomates and i are still having so much fun! my chinese name is boa zheng loa, and now when ever some one has to go to the bathroom they say i have to go drop a boa zheng loa! i hope that you can understand this with out me going into detail! but i will tell you that boa is more purnonced bow! ha it is really funny! lets just say the caffiteria food is rough!
Thank you all so much for the letters and packages! i never realized how much they meant to a missionary until i was one! i hope that you are all recieving my hand written letters i am sending!! the mail system here is really late i think! i have been getting the hand written letters really late!! but the dear elders and the packages come really fast i dont know it is wierd!! but i will keep writning you guys as much as i can! I love you all so much!!! wai ni men! ( I love you guys in chinese!)
yes i know i am a boss........
 
scincerly,
              Boa Zheng loa
 
P.S. i go to the temple evey p day and it is amazing!