Sounds like the trip to Cali was fun. Did you spend any time in the Chinatown there? If so, you might have run into elders I knew in the MTC (Seegmiller, Smith, George, and I think Senken were the Elders in the MTC I knew were going to Cali Mandarin speaking.)
If you take a look on the Ensign for General conference on page 74, you will see a picture of a woman walking a double wide stroller. She's my bishop's wife. The boy in the stroller with really big eyes is named Matthew, and seems to be convinced that I am actually Huang Kai (the bishop's first counselor.) This would not be a problem, if it weren't for the fact that every time he see's me he yells "HUNG KAI!" and trys to grab onto my legs, at which point he can be somewhat difficult to remove.
Xxxx came to church again this last week, but she left after sacrament, when we asked her why, she said she wanted to buy a longer skirt and a physical bible, since she liked the feeling of using the book in the chapel instead of her phone copy. We haven't even taught her the first lesson yet, and she's already teaching herself keeping the Sabbath day holy (aside from the not buying things, we'll work on that). The sad part was that she didn't get to see Chen Bin's baptism afterwards, but hopefully there will be another baptism between now and the 23rd of next month.
I don't know if I've told you yet, but no-one seems to be able to comprehend the idea that Catholics are actually Christian here. Either you're Catholic, or you're Christian, but if you try to say that they both believe in Jesus, they won't believe you, even if they ARE Catholic or Christian. So confusing. Had to teach a 50 minute lesson on the street yesterday with Elder Cook (we were on splits) and about half of the lesson was spent trying to get that point across. And yes, it was all in Chinese, and I could actually understand a decent bit of what they were saying. I'm starting to finally feel like its getting back to that I don't know enough vocab, and not that I just can't understand native speaker's accents.
The new English program was given to us by Elder Christensen. If I didn't describe it, we break into huddles and get them to interact a lot more with the teachers than before, and they aren't allowed to take notes/read the English during that time. We also talk about the fact that if they have faith in themselves and in god that he will help them, then their English will progress faster, and we teach how to pray in every lesson and try to get someone who has never prayed before to do it with us. Oh, and Elder Christensen is half of a senior couple that came in that are serving up in Harlem, Spanish speaking. Sorry, I'm not THAT creative.
Spiritual thought of the Email: If you manage to feel the spirit while praying with a couple that you just semi-argued with for the last 50 minutes, you both get to set a new record as the first time you teach a full lesson on the street, and get to know that you're doing something right. Also, Tired mom, is what you feel when you've been contacting since 1 and it's now 7:30. And it feels awesome.
The weather has been beautiful this last week, but today's description was Clouds and Thunderstorms, so the Bronx zoo is probably out. We're thinking about going to the Met. museum of art instead. Personally I really want to go to Intrepid sometime this summer. Oh, and we're going to a Yankies game on the 5th of June. That aught to be fun.
Love you all, see you in a few days,
Your relative in service,
Elder Christensen
No comments:
Post a Comment