September 13, 2010

Alright,
This week has been very busy and very interesting especially since I am now in a trio companionship. We have found that having three people makes it difficult when teaching and contacting because it is hard to switch off talking, but one good thing is that we all get along very very well, so it is extremely enjoyable. We had a lot of referrals to go visit this week so we traveled around quite a bit. We had a really interesting experience one day in the car, as we were stopped at a red light a wasp flew into the car and the light turned green so we had to go, but if you could imagine three elders in a car spazzing out, laughing with a wasp flying around, and we couldn't pull over for about five minutes, luckily no one got stung but it was pretty hillarious. We met with one of our investigators Xiao Yue Hu (Vic) and we taught her about the Plan of Salvation and then commited her to baptism, she accepted! We have been meeting with her often and she has been progressing so much, however she speaks so quickly, she actually came up to me after one of our lessons and she said she is surprised we understand as much as we do because she has friends that were born in china and are fluent that still don't understand her when she speaks because she speaks so fast. We had another investigator this week that we taught, her name is Kin Tran....we hadone of the coolest experiences ever, she speaks mandarin, cantonese, english, and vietnamese (all fluently). When we taught the first lesson my companion used cantonese, I used mandarin, and the brother we brought used english, having the opportunity to be in the lesson where someone is being taught the gospel using three different languages was quite the experience! At our english class after I had finished teaching my assigned portion I sat next to a little boy (his family is in our branch) named Gabriel. He speaks chinese and he had me play a game with him that he called "feiji". He was explaining it to me in chinese so i didn't quite understand all of it but he is so cute. Now I can tell you all the most interesting part of this week. We were taken out to eat by one of the branch members and they took us to a chinese resturaunt. They ordered a fish and they brought out the entire fish....sister chen then scooped out one eyeball of the fish and put it on my plate...she told me in taiwan and china they always give the eyeballs to the guest as a sign of respect....yes I ate a fish eyeball!!!!!!!!! Not the best thing to eat in my opinion, but I did it ;). So all in all this week has been one of lots of first experiences. I am so happy to be doing this work and spreading the Gospel. I know this Gospel is true, and it is the only way to return to live with God again. I thank you all for the continued love and support and hope all is going well! I love you all! Until next week! Zaijian!