I hope everyone has been doing really well
this past week! I have been doing pretty well! The language is still
hard but I am slowly learning more and more. I try to learn around 20-30
words each day! It is very hard because a lot of the words are spelled
the exact same but have different tones and mean completely different
things. I have a little journal that I write down all my words in and
its starting to become pretty big! I can only still talk about gospel
related terms so it is very hard to understand what people are saying
about their lives because I only know church words. But, I have
continued to pray multiple times a day to be able to understand and
speak the language. And I know that with hard work and trusting the
Lord, I will be able to understand and speak Cantonese!
My week started off pretty great! On Tuesday
we got to hear from Elder Cook which was really spiritual! He bore his
testimony at the end and I cannot describe how I felt! So that was
really sweet! After that everything seemed to be going really well! We
taught our investigators and we asked one if they would be baptized and
he said yes! So we have set a date for him to be baptized on October 13th! That was a really cool experience even though the investigator we teach is our teacher just role playing as an investigator!
Tonight
we teach our first Skype TRC lesson which is where we get to Skype
someone that is in Hong Kong and teach them a 30-40 minute lesson! I am
very excited about this but also kind of nervous for how it is going to
go. I am afraid that I won't be able to understand the member but I know
through the help of the Lord and the spirit I won't need to be able to
understand the language very well; the spirit will be doing the
teaching.
Funny story of the week: on Sunday
we get to watch gospel movies and to get to he good movies we have to
sprint from the devotional to the movie building. We were with Elder
Newsome and his companion Elder Brown who is a big guy and after the
devotional Elder Brown sprinted as fast as he could to get to the movie
and when we got there we didn't know what movie we were in so he stood
up and yelled "EVERYBODY LISTEN." And the whole room went quiet out of
fear because Elder Brown can be pretty intimidating if you don't know
him. Then he said "what movie is this?" in a really soft funny loving
voice and everyone just broke out laughing!
This
week Elder Newsome left for Guatemala which I was pretty sad about
because we have known each other ever since we were way young, but I
know he will be a great missionary! Guatemala is lucky to be getting him
and Elder Brown!
Well Let me know how you all
are doing! I enjoy hearing from all of you! Let me know how the sports
teams are doing! I love getting those updates!
Ngoh ngoi leihdeih (Love you all)
Gu Jeunglouh
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