So this week was pretty awesome!!! There have been some massive changes as well! We have been working together with the other Asian speaking missionaries in our mission and we are going to try and vamp up our English classes that we teach every week. SO we are going to call the Taiwan missions and the Oakland California mission to get their English class materials from them because they all have really well organized English classes. So this week Elder Bray and I went to the mission home to meet with our Mission President so that we could call the other missions and work out the logistics with him. As we were doing that President Bowen leaned over and said "O by the way elders, you and Elder Bray are now zone leaders of a new zone. That is in effect starting now." We thought he was kidding but he wasn't! I am zone leader again, this time with Elder Bray, and we are the zone leaders over the 'Foreign Mission' zone. That is what they chose to call it. It includes all the Korean speaking elders and the Vietnamese speaking elders, all the Chinese and the two Samoan speaking sisters. We have been running around like crazy just trying to get everything set up and organized, it is crazy being a zone leader again, there is always a ton of things to do but I love it.
This week Elder Bray and I taught two of our investigators Mr. and Mrs. Wu. They are from Taiwan and they are the funniest older couple in the world. Well at the end of the lesson Elder Bray and I asked them to say the prayer and the husband volunteered first, so he started praying. This what he said in the middle of his prayer "ganxie Jidu Yesu zhu a, Yesu zhu a, zhu, tian shang de zhu, zhu, tian zhu jiao." Hahaha, ok that is in Chinese (pinyin) but I will translate it into English. He said "Thank you Christ Jesus Lord, Jesus Lord, Lord, Lord in heaven, Lord, Catholic church." Haha it is good to note that they are pretty new to Christianity so he really didn't know what he was saying, but we told him afterward and he was laughing pretty hard. Elder Bray and I looked at each other after we heard him say thank you to the Catholic Church in his prayer, it was soooo funny. Every time we go to their house they make sure to feed us, even when we say we are very full and we just ate she will go to the kitchen and cut some fruit for us, make us a soybean drink and give us some Chinese desert to top it off! That is how a lot of traditional Chinese people are, you cannot and will not leave their house until you are either full or about to explode haha.
This week has been great, there is so much to share but I will catch everyone up next week! I love you all! Until next week!
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