As soon as you dropped me off I was whipped away to get my name tag which is awesome, then right into a 3 hour language immersion class. The teacher only speaks your language for the entire time. Cantonese is crazy. Unlike anything I have ever learned before. I feel like everyone else in my district/class is catching on quickly so I study every chance I get. My awesome companion sister pearl (Bou Ji moih) even made little flash cards so that we can quiz each other at lunch. My new Chinese name is Dung Ji Moih. It means East/Oriental. My companion and I get along super well.
Friday we had to teach our first investigator! .... in Cantonese. We have already learned so much freakin Cantonese. I thought my brain would explode by Saturday evening. I can now pray, testify and give out commitments in Cantonese. Only small phrases, but phrases non the less. Anyway our investigators name is Pauline. She is 16 and wonders about what her purpose in life is. So Friday worked all day to put together a script that we could read off of, since we couldn't say anything else... It was a really rough lesson. At one point for some reason we asked her why she thought her friend brought her to church and she went off in Cantonese, and of course I am nodding my head like I am understanding everything, apparently I am pretty good at it since after she finished, my companion turned to me and whispered did you get that? I was like Nope. Our investigator laughed and wrote "Died" Last Year" on the board. So we assumed that someone she knew died and she was depressed that's why her friend brought her to church. So Saturday when we were planning our lesson Bou Ji Moih wanted to talk about the plan of salvation, but I thought we should tie it someone into the BOM so that the next lesson we can really get down to the guts of why our church is different from other churches. So I used dads good old pen trick. I held up my pen and said "Leih" You. Then I took my pen apart grabbed the outside of the pen and said "Santai" Body. Grabbed the ink that was inside my pen and said "Linhg" Spirit. "Fann Tinfuh" Return Heavenly Father. So like your spirit returns to live with Heavenly Father and our bodies stay on the Earth. Remember that we have only had like 3 days of Cantonese at this point. We then went on to say how the BOM can answer life questions. So next time we teach, which I don't know when it will be since I don't know the days of the week are... we are going to teach about the restoration.
BAH! I thought that 30min would be plenty of time, but it is not! I will write you another hand written letter. I think that I might just send you my camera card, cause really there is like no time to put pictures on here.
But remember DearElder.com
China HONG KONG mission. Leave April 1st. I don't know what other information you might need. But BreAnna sent me a letter so I am sure that you can figure it out.
LOVE YOU so much!
I keep feeling like i need to call you... see what you have done to me!
Sister Aldana
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