Letter #15

Hello everyone!!!

 

Wow... this mission field is amazing! I remember being in the MTC thinking that time went by really fast! I feel like every other day is a P day in the mission field! WOW it is going by way too fast!! But i am loving every second of it!!

This week was really good for my companion! We received a ton of new phone numbers from street contacting! AND we had a ton of lessons scheduled however, we got stood up on every single one of them!! In chinese they say that "we got our pigeons released"! YES it was very surprising but we still have more numbers, so i think that at least one of them should end up meeting with us!! However, we did have one really cool lesson this week Chen Rei Lin brought down two of her daughters from China!! Chen rei lin is a recent convert. We had the opportunity of teaching both of them!! It was soo cool!! They didn't even know who God was! Their knowlege of christianity was very small because they were from China! The government allows very little religious beliefs. The lesson went great though and they were so exited to learn about all of these new things! We had to use so many visuals and analogies to help them understand each subject! But when it would finally click, they would light up and get so excited!!!

English class this week was hilarious! I read them a children's book called, "small brown dogs bad remembering day"! They were so confused why a dog would be talking! They thought that it was the funniest thing ever! at least i think they did! After i would read each line, they would all get very confused faces.... but then as i translated the words, they thought that it was hilarious! I felt like i was reading a book to my little sisters, it was so awesome! I really love the chinese people they are so funny!! I have been loving contacting!!! It is so funny when you speak chinese to them...they get so excited!!

Well most of the time they get excited! One time this week, i accidently contacted a Filipino lady in chinese!! YAH that was not a fun experience! She got very mad and started to yell at me! Luckily a big bus went by so i did not hear to many of the words that she had to give me!! But that was horrible, i really need to get better at telling the races apart! I had a lot of stories like that, that same day! I felt like i was having the worst day contacting ever! It seemed like chinatown was just in a horrible mood or something!! BUT then at the very end of the day, i ran into one of the nicest, most friendly people that i have ever met! She was an older lady that had just invented a new product for the i phone! It was a case that was also a battery... it was really cool! She was so nice! She gave us her card and offered to buy me and my companion dinner!! It is so crazy how blessings come like that! Heavenly father really makes you work for them! At least in every miracle i have seen or heard of, it always takes a lot of work.... they do not come for free! We are tested until the point where we feel like we are going to give up! BUT then right at the last second, you have an experience, that is so personal you know that it was a gift from heavenly father!!

Oh and this is a great story!! SO Elder Faulkner AKA Chad! (for some of you that might know him!) Chad was walking up to our church when he saw a large jewish man! He said "hi" they talked for a while then he left. About twenty minutes later, the jewish man comes up into our church and starts talking to Elder Faulkner! I walked out of teaching English class and saw him (thinking that he looked very familiar)! It turns out that he told Elder Faulkner he left his wallet in a taxi and had no way of catching a train to go back to New Jersey (where he lived) AND asked to borrow 100 dollars. Elder Faulkner (being the great man that he is) allowed him to borrow the money! The man said that he would be back tomorow to pay him back! I am sure that you can see where this story is going! The man didn't come back the next day to give him the money! AND I remembered why he looked familiar! HE TRIED TO DO THE SAME THING TO ME WHEN I WAS CONTACTING ONE DAY!!!!! He said he was stuck in chinatown and needed 20 dollars for a hotel and dinner! AND that he lost his wallet! He also told both of us the same jewish saying! (which means one good deed!) Luckily at that time, i did not have 20 dollars to give him! AND i saw he had a hole in his yamaka, so i thought he was homeless! haha oh you have to love chinatown! NO worries though Elder Faulkner had a lot of extra money saved up so he was ok!

OH and one of my friends from the English program ran into the Berthas!! Thanks for the notes that was so awesome!! I was so excited!!! I came to watch the stake opera show! There are four famous opera singers that came and oh my gosh opera is interesting!! It is amazing how loud these people can get their voices to go!!! OHHH there is so much talent in New York! AND at another thing i went to, we had one of the main characters from "wicked" sing a song! Her name was "gladia" in the play i think! BUT i guess she is mormon so she gave us a show! IT was awesome! Gladys Knight is also in our stake as well! IT is so crazy what talent is here! I hope that now you understand why i am so scared to do my little musical number in CHINESE this weekend! haha!
Well i love you all so much! Thanks for all of the letters, it is so nice to feel your support!!

Love BAO ZHANG LAO!!