Week 3 "I know Chinese" and other lies I like to tell myself BUT JK BECAUSE GIFT OF TONGUES 9/30/2019

A meme for you about my Chinese:

Me|

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A word I       |

Don't know   |

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Using Chinese words

I do know to explain

The word I'm trying to use

Hence the title of my email. But wait. There's more! Presenting *drumroll* the gift of tongues!!!!

We taught 4 lessons back to back to back to back. What a time to be alive. 2 were our teachers though (phew) and the other 2 were members (yay!) so it was all chill. All those lessons  turned a 180 and me and my companion taught about something that we completely weren't planning on, and I know the Lord definitely helped us get across the language barrier and it went smoothly! Cool story with one of the lessons.

I had found a scripture (D&C 6:23) about how the spirit will speak peace your mind. Because our lessons are in Chinese, we had to prepare the scriptures in Chinese. So I has found it and put a little tab on it. Usually me and companion just had phones, but when using Chinese, we have this version of scriptures that's English, Chinese, and Ping Ying (did I spell right? But basically English letters that help you read Chinese) to help us read the scriptures. Right before we left for the lesson, I took that version of the scriptures of the D&C and my companion was like, we're not using that in our lesson though, right? And I was like, yeah, but just for backup. One of the first questions asked in that lesson was "I feel peace when I pray, but I don't know if that's me or God giving me those thoughts." Bam. Scripture. The church is true. 

Also, Chinese is genius. You know how people are like, "You good?" and you answer with "We good." And all cool. Well how you say Hello in Chinese is "Ni hao" which literally translates to "You good?" and you answer with "wo hao" which literally translates to "We good." Just saying, Chinese people were cool way before their times.

Our district also got to host this week!! For all the mothers out there, yes, I am that dreadful missionary at the parking lot that has to take your missionary away into the dark dreary world of the MTC. Sorry . . . .  but it was so fun!! The spirit is just so strong when all the new missionaries come in though. Also, we get to host next week again! Which is pretty rare. Guess we did such a good job they want us around for round 2. Haha I am totally just kidding. 

Hope all of you are doing well! See you all on the flipside.