December 19, 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

This week has been a really good week! Things have been a little slower lately mainly due to the Holidays and everyone leaving on vacations or being too busy with Holiday parties and things. I was still sick for the first half of the week, I had gotten a really nasty cold but I got a blessing and guess what? It is gone! I think we really take for granted being healthy! But now that I am better my mind is a bit more clear to focus on the work again. Being sick while I am in the Chinese branch was pretty interesting. I got about just every remedy known to man to get better from colds. From regualr cold medicine all the way to Chinese traditional medicine and healing methods. Believe it or not I think it was the Chinese methods and medicine that helped me get better a lot faster. This week we taught our investigator Vivian, she is so amazing. The lessons have been going very well and she comes to church every sunday. This last lesson she started refering to me and my companion as her little angels. Now everytime she sees us or talks to us she calls us her little angels hah. She has recently received opposition from her christian family but she says that she feels what we are teaching is true so she keeps praying for her answer and then she will be baptized. This week was Elder Mensink's birthday, and a member had all four of us missionaries over to their house to have a birthday dinner for Elder Mensink. She asked Elder Mensink beforehand what kind of food he wanted for his birthday dinner and he told her american food such as pizza and hamburgers. Myself, Elder Bray, and Elder Mensink were all really excited and looking forward to the dinner because it has been a while since we have had normal american food. However when we got there it turned out to be the complete opposite of what we expected haha. She decided to just make him a super traditional chinese meal instead to help us all experience the culture...that is the first time I have eaten a whole pigs foot....yummm. Haha needless to say, there were a lot of traditional dishes that I would have never thought people actually ate. For desert we had a really good chocolate cake!

Christmas is this week! Time is flying by way too fast. This will be my last Christmas while on a mission so I am going to enjoy every minute of it! I love you all and I hope everything is going well! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!