District One:
District Leader: Elder Christensen
District Monkey: Elder Wang (4th cycle together total)
Zone Leaders; Elder Cook (MTC Comp), Elder Radford (Cook trained Radford last July)
Sister Dong (from Taiwan, will probably leave the same time as me, Cook, and Wang)
Sister Ng (from Hong Kong, started this February)
District Two:
District Leader: Elder Leung (my comp during Jan-Feb)
District Monkey: Elder Guo (Elder Leung started training him in May)
Sister Lee, Sister MacKay (both came out with me, they go home the 23rd of July)
Sister Palmer (tripanionship with Lee and MacKay)
Chinatown Missionaries currently banished to the English Program:
Elder Atkinson: serving in Harlem, this is his 3rd transfer out of Chinatown
Sister Chen: (from Taiwan, goes home the end of this transfer) serving in Monticello
Sister Astle: Serving in Middletown in the Newburg Zone, 3rd transfer out
Sister Toronto: Serving in Yonkers in Westchester Zone, 3rd transfer out.
That comment you made about knocking 500 doors reminded me of something Elder Snow from the 70 said when he came a few weeks ago. He served his mission in Germany I think, wherever it was, it was in Europe, and they weren't exactly very open to listening to the gospel. He said that on his mission, they would always remind themselves, "Don't worry, for every door that gets slammed in our face, someone is getting baptized in Mexico." We all thought it was super funny.
You know you are in for an interesting week of food when you go to a Chinese grocery market. I've had more forms of fungus than I knew were edible before my mission, and after this week I'm going to be able to cross off Chicken Hearts and skinned rabbit from my list of things I haven't eaten yet. Thank goodness elder Wang knows how to cook. Did you know that Preserved Duck Eggs are actually not bad considering they look like black chicken eggs once peeled, with green/brown yolk? Pig's stomach and intestine are also pretty tasty.
We have a couple of other people we are working with, one is named Xxxxxxx. He is a really cool guy, he goes to another church called 家庭教会 (Family Church), but he seems pretty willing to give our church a try. He's from a province called AnHui in China, but he has a bit more of a Northern accent than is usual I think for that province based on the other people I've met from there. There was an interesting moment while we were meeting with him and his grandmother. I was saying the closing prayer, and I suddenly had the "stupor of thought" effect, I had opened my mouth to say something, but I couldn't remember what. Then I got this random feeling to ask for them to have good health. They didn't have any special reaction after the prayer, but I was glad that I had the chance to follow a prompting, even if in just a small way.
We have an investigator who is one of the Greenest people I have ever met. He's trying to bribe us into letting him get baptized via taking us out to eat tomorrow. That should be really funny to watch when he figures out that we don't even have the authority to baptize him period unless bishop approves.
Happy Father's Day! The ward (sister MacKay) made a ton of cupcakes for all the men on Father's Day. They passed them out right after Sacrament. Not to be outdone, our Elder's Quorum President bought 4 large cakes to cut up and give to all the sisters after the 3 hour was over. The awkward part is we think he left during the second hour of church to go buy the cakes, which is especially ironic since the gospel principles class was on keeping the Sabbath day holy. He meant well, so...
Love, your son in service,
Elder Christensen
陳少駒
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