September 26, 2011

Hello everyone!!!!

This week was soooo amazing! It is literally like stepping into a completely different world!! A world where there is much different food, language, customs, humor, and just everything! I love being back in the Chinese branch! I feel much more prepared for it because I have a much better outlook on it all, I have a lot better study habits and I am just so excited to be back! This week I was able to teach English class again for the first time in a very long time! I was able to teach a lady who is a friend of a member in our branch. She is from Taiwan and she really likes the church, but she for some reason always puts off meeting with the missionaries, so I was able to spend most of the class talking to her about her previous experience with this church and about having missionaries meet with her, it will happen very soon! I am adjusting to using Chinese again, I am surprised because I really didn't forget too much of it, I understand almost everything they say now and I am trying to work on my responding and conversational skills which are bit more slow than the listening is. The branch members were excited to see me again, and I think one of the biggest changes is that we have dinners with members now (we never had them in the singles ward)!! This Sunday I was able to see 'James Pan' receive the priesthood! He is a man that I found by knocking doors while I was a zone leader in Newport, and he is super prepared for the Gospel, he was taught and baptized within 2 weeks and it just so happens that now I come back so I can participate in teaching him the new member lessons!! He was very excited I am there too :). I don't know what else to say other than I am really excited and I am going to be working and studying super hard! I love you all and am very grateful for everything you have done for me and the examples every one of you have set for me. Until next week!