6 weeks down... 3 weeks to go! Thank goodness we don't have
to be here 12 weeks. As much as I love it here.... I might have gone insane if
I had to be here 12 weeks.
This week nothing to exciting happened... it was the hump week for us, so it went really really slow. But it is all down hill from here! Next week I believe that we will get our full Chinese name tags. Right now they have our names in English and the rest in Characters, but after next week we will get to see our new name tags! I am excited to have a name tag that says Dung Jimuih! Then the next week we will get our travel plans! BAH! I am so excited! I will get to call you from the airport as well! The older district had a 3 hour layover in LAX where they got to call their families and talk for quite a while. I will let you know more information when we actually get our plans.
Our lessons this week have gone alright.... we taught Kim about the resurrection. When we explained that we get perfect bodies and will live forever she responded with.... Vampires? We have no idea what she said though, since she is speaking in Cantonese. We were like what is that? Then she says Twilight. And we are even more confused....... then it hit us. So we put our fingers up to our mouths to look like fangs and say Vampires? And she says Yeah! I just started laughing. I guess the resurrection is kinda sorta like that.... but No. Defienetly not. We live forever and have perfect bodies, but we don’t eat flesh and blood. So that was a great lesson. Really funny. I love Kim so much. The next lesson we taught her was about the 3 Kingdoms and how we could live with our families forever. We then explained the temple and how we can be sealed. This was a huge road block for Kim. She said that she doesn’t want to accept the gospel without her family. Which I can understand, which makes it so hard. Right after that lesson I went straight to Elder Woodburn in our district who is a convert to the church and asked him how he overcame something like that. We said that it was really really hard for him. For the longest time he didn’t want to be with his family. The only thing that got him through that is focusing on his future family. He said it even scares him now that he is not sealed to anyone. It is kinda crazy. I have never really thought of families being together forever has a stumbling block for some people. But we teach Kim again on Wednesday so I will let you know next week how we recover from this road block.
TRC was really really good for us this week. We have been focusing alot on companionship unity in class. So we have been working hard on me talking more and Sister Pearl talking a bit less. Alot of the time I am cool with her just talking and then me jumping in with a few questions for our investigator and a quick testimony. But we have been evening out the talking, and it actually makes things so much easier. We are able to build off of each other’s thoughts and keep the investigators engaged. It also brings the spirit into the lessons more fully. Our feedback from our investigators on Saturday was that we had awesome Comp unity. It was so satisfying to see the fruits of all the labor we had put in.
Thanks for trying to send some cookies! They ended up hard as rocks though.... kinda tough to eat. I am glad AZ is good and NO was good! I still need some pictures of Luna. I only have like 2 of her as a newborn, and honestly I would much rather have a picture of her cute face now than when she was fresh out of the womb. I am jealous of Grandma! What the heck! Swimming with dolphins! Who does that! .... she would. I agree with Michelle about God has a plan for all of us. God is one smart cookie. He knows what’s up. All we gotta do is trust him. And dad... I am proud of you for standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Sometimes I cannot believe that people who live inside a bubble, inside a bubble, inside a bubble of mormoness could be so closed minded. Haven’t they learned to think what would Christ do? Honestly.... I know what he would do. It says in right in Matt 9:10-12. Maybe you should tell people to read it. Just kidding that probably wouldn’t go over well with them. But that really is what Christ did. We should all be opening our arms to those who are sick and sinners. We are to heal/help not critisize and rebuke.
This week I have kinda been on an Apostle/Christ's ministry kick. I have been reading about each one of Christ’s apostles in the bible. I have decided that Peter is now one of my new heroes. I want to love the Lord like he did. I want to help others as he did. I want to follow Christ to the end. I love the Lord! And I love this work!
Love you all!
Shea
This week nothing to exciting happened... it was the hump week for us, so it went really really slow. But it is all down hill from here! Next week I believe that we will get our full Chinese name tags. Right now they have our names in English and the rest in Characters, but after next week we will get to see our new name tags! I am excited to have a name tag that says Dung Jimuih! Then the next week we will get our travel plans! BAH! I am so excited! I will get to call you from the airport as well! The older district had a 3 hour layover in LAX where they got to call their families and talk for quite a while. I will let you know more information when we actually get our plans.
Our lessons this week have gone alright.... we taught Kim about the resurrection. When we explained that we get perfect bodies and will live forever she responded with.... Vampires? We have no idea what she said though, since she is speaking in Cantonese. We were like what is that? Then she says Twilight. And we are even more confused....... then it hit us. So we put our fingers up to our mouths to look like fangs and say Vampires? And she says Yeah! I just started laughing. I guess the resurrection is kinda sorta like that.... but No. Defienetly not. We live forever and have perfect bodies, but we don’t eat flesh and blood. So that was a great lesson. Really funny. I love Kim so much. The next lesson we taught her was about the 3 Kingdoms and how we could live with our families forever. We then explained the temple and how we can be sealed. This was a huge road block for Kim. She said that she doesn’t want to accept the gospel without her family. Which I can understand, which makes it so hard. Right after that lesson I went straight to Elder Woodburn in our district who is a convert to the church and asked him how he overcame something like that. We said that it was really really hard for him. For the longest time he didn’t want to be with his family. The only thing that got him through that is focusing on his future family. He said it even scares him now that he is not sealed to anyone. It is kinda crazy. I have never really thought of families being together forever has a stumbling block for some people. But we teach Kim again on Wednesday so I will let you know next week how we recover from this road block.
TRC was really really good for us this week. We have been focusing alot on companionship unity in class. So we have been working hard on me talking more and Sister Pearl talking a bit less. Alot of the time I am cool with her just talking and then me jumping in with a few questions for our investigator and a quick testimony. But we have been evening out the talking, and it actually makes things so much easier. We are able to build off of each other’s thoughts and keep the investigators engaged. It also brings the spirit into the lessons more fully. Our feedback from our investigators on Saturday was that we had awesome Comp unity. It was so satisfying to see the fruits of all the labor we had put in.
Thanks for trying to send some cookies! They ended up hard as rocks though.... kinda tough to eat. I am glad AZ is good and NO was good! I still need some pictures of Luna. I only have like 2 of her as a newborn, and honestly I would much rather have a picture of her cute face now than when she was fresh out of the womb. I am jealous of Grandma! What the heck! Swimming with dolphins! Who does that! .... she would. I agree with Michelle about God has a plan for all of us. God is one smart cookie. He knows what’s up. All we gotta do is trust him. And dad... I am proud of you for standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. Sometimes I cannot believe that people who live inside a bubble, inside a bubble, inside a bubble of mormoness could be so closed minded. Haven’t they learned to think what would Christ do? Honestly.... I know what he would do. It says in right in Matt 9:10-12. Maybe you should tell people to read it. Just kidding that probably wouldn’t go over well with them. But that really is what Christ did. We should all be opening our arms to those who are sick and sinners. We are to heal/help not critisize and rebuke.
This week I have kinda been on an Apostle/Christ's ministry kick. I have been reading about each one of Christ’s apostles in the bible. I have decided that Peter is now one of my new heroes. I want to love the Lord like he did. I want to help others as he did. I want to follow Christ to the end. I love the Lord! And I love this work!
Love you all!
Shea
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