Letter #7 YA YA YA

Ni men hao!!

 

Another amazing week in the MTC!!!!

I taught the first lesson again this week and it went way better!!! I SAID THE FIRST VISON IN CHINESE!! I am sure this probably seems kinda late, but lets just say there has been alot of translation problems!! It was so cool, the spirit is so strong when the first vison is told no matter what language it is heard in! We had a talk yesterday, from the secretary of the MTC, Brother Beeson. It was a really great talk! He read this couple page article to us that this guy wrote with all of these "facts" as to why he believed there was a God. The list dragged on and on, and there was really no feeling as he read it, i felt like i was sitting in a science class. After he finished, he looked up at the audience and recited the first vision.. tears filled his eyes and the audience was silent. He then asked us what was more convincing - where did we feel the spirit stronger? We all new the answer! There is nothing that invites the spirit stronger than a testimony! I love Joseph Smiths first vision and i dont think i ever really thought about what exactly it was until i came here.

This week my zone recieved new missionaries! I am officially one of the older Mandarin Missionaries here now, WIERD! The new missionaries are awsome, it is so nice to be able to answer other peoples questions about Chinese and the schedule! Although they are probally not going to ask me too many more questions... i like messing around with them alot!! On Sunday, i convinced all of them that they would have to give a 5 minute talk in Chinese - it was awesome! They were so relieved when i told them that was not the case! It was hallarious!! With new missionaries, unfortunately old missionaries leave! I am starting to lose some of my good friends i have made here! There were two Hmong elders that left that were so funny! One of them was from california, i was bummed to see them go! Now there is a new Hmong elder and he is the only one in the MTC!!! He doesn't even have a companion!! It is crazy!! I also lost Elder Toolson this week and that was sad! But i am exited for him, i know that he will ROCK the misson field!! I met a movie star this week! You know the church little movie clip, seminary or surfing?! Well, i met the elder in that movie! His name is Elder Kimble. He is going to the Dominican Republic and is really a cool guy!

I found out some awesome things about my misson this week!! My native Chinese teacher is from there! She lived exactly where i am going to be serving!! She said there are a ton of people that speak Mandarin there! There are enough to fill 2 branches! So that will be sweet! I am glad that i will be able to use the language a lot! I also heard that i get one couple week trasfer to English speaking on my mission! Just so i don't go insane in China Town the whole time!

Well, i hope all is going well! I love you all so much!!

 

Bao zhang lao!