Hai Doods!
Yeah I got your letter mom! Unfortunately it's in the other room and I would have to mafan my companions if I wanted to go get it so I'll just have to respond from memory huahua. And yeah! Singing in Priesthood Session is gonna be awesome!!! We had practice this morning and every morning since last Wednesday. So hilarious when we found out about it though cause me, one of my companions Elder Buss, and my district leader Elder Hubrich all got selected and since Elder Hubrich is the district leader, he gets all the mail. So anyways, he came into our room when Elder Buss wasn't there and was like "hehehe let's play a joke on him" and so he stuck Elder Buss' acceptance letter into the next page of his journal where he'd be sure to see it that night. I, recognizing that this joke could be augmented 10-fold, suggested to Elder Hubrich that we pretend that only him and I had been selected even though Elder Buss has a great deal of singing experience as well and it wouldn't make any sense for him not to have been. So all through dinner Elder Hubrich was like dropping hints about how he'd "just gone to check the mail before dinner" and there was some great news he needed to tell me. So when we got to the classroom he gave me the letter and we were like celebrating. Elder Buss of course was looking rather shell-shocked and since the entire district was in on it we were trying not to laugh as Elder Buss tried to appear happy for us which he did quite admirably to be honest. Anyways, the joke went on for a little while and we all started to feel really really bad hahaha. So anyways, then I was like "Mannnnn... if only there was SOME WAYYyyy that all THREE of us could sing...." and then Elder Buss realized the joke and was like "WHAT?!?!?!" Laughs were had. But the moral is.... um... it was pretty hilarious. However, I think it was funnier at the time.
Point is, it probably wasn't as good as when my last roommates Elders Randell and Jacqueir saw some random room inspection form in our room and filled it out for our room, giving me and my then companion, Elder Chan, a horrible score and a comment that was ostensibly from President Baker (My branch president here who I think you might know dad since he's been involved with china for a long time and stuff and I think he said he met you one time... anyway he's the man) that said "Elder Christensen and Elder Chan, I am very disappointed with your beds, this is a warning, next time will be punishment - President Baker"... So we thought we were in like huge trouble and were like "oh no!!!"... turned out we weren't and it was pretty funny since president baker would never write anything like that anyway and our side of the room wasn't even messy ha.
Anyways, practical jokes aside, this week went pretty well. Sundays and Tuesdays are my favorite days of the week since we have awesome talks given by incredibly inspired leaders. Yesterday, since it was fast Sunday, we had a couple of really good talks by our MTC Presidency. President Smith is always really hardcore but still the man and gave a really cool talk preceded by a stern warning that "teenage pacifiers" (chewing gum) will not be tolerated and if anyone has any caffeinated drinks stored in their rooms they should throw them out and if they get a headache from caffeine withdrawal, then it "serves them right" hahahaha. But after that he gave a really great talk on receiving answers to our prayers which was an answer to prayer in and of itself since I fasted yesterday to strengthen my testimony on receiving answers to prayers. It was great to say the least. The other talks were also really good.
I met a sister at dinner last night from San Francisco which was neat. She was telling me about how Asians are like the majority there which is good I suppose haha.
Love you! Thanks for your letters and your support! I hope you find a place to live soon... that doesn't completely bankrupt you :) Just keep praying about it and I'm sure something will come up. Another thing I've been learning recently is how much the scriptures have in them. So multifaceted. Can't believe I thought they were boring before I came here haha. Oh and btw i report to the travel office at 5 am on Oct 6 for my flight into the Oakland Airport (which I didn't even know existed...). Yeah K bai!
Love,
Ian
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Still at the MTC
Oh Hai!
Yeah thanks for [calling the MTC] dad. I am not in the slightest bitter since I do agree with you that having an extra 2 weeks is a good thing. Not only cause I can learn way more and have much more time to study how to teach and how to speak Chinese like a pro, but also cause the MTC is gonna send out a choir to General Conference on the first weekend of Oct. which if I get selected for would be awesome! They haven't said anything about who's gonna be singing in it yet though so... fingers crossed! Also, the firesides and devotionals here are really cool since they're specifically for us and always have really inspired messages. They also show movies and recorded MTC talks every Sunday night and we always go to the MTC talks since you can't see those anywhere else and they are always by Apostles or members of the 70 and are really, really good. Went to one last night by Elder Oaks about cultivating righteous desires.
This week was pretty good. The days go by really fast and it seems like I only got here yesterday even though I've been here almost 3 weeks now. I'm still with my new companions Elders Buss and Harr which is good and they're leaving the same time as me since our whole district leaves at the same time. We went and talked to Jeremy Perkins on Saturday (he works as the language tutor guy here... it's funny how many people in the Chinese language program here know people I know like Joel or Cory... or me) and he gave us some really good advice on how to learn Chinese faster and more efficiently since he told me it'd be really easy for me to just coast on the level of Chinese I have right now and not learn much. It was really cool cause now I'm much more committed to learning faster and more independently. Jeremy said that cause he went out 6 weeks early like I will, no one taught him how to study Chinese so he had to figure it out for himself which he finally only really refined like 2/3 of the way through his mission. Good thing i'm getting the low-down now so I don't have to waste so much time haha! I just hope I can be half as pro as Joel was on his mission... can't believe how pro his Chinese is now. It's like he worked hard on it or something. Which I can totally tell the difference between him and missionaries who didn't apply themselves as much - like one of my teachers Chen Laoshi who is a cool guy but I can tell he didn't work as hard on his Chinese while in Taibei.
In other news, just got back from the temple which was good. The presiding altar guy's wife was like falling asleep halfway through which was kind of funny. But not really important. Point is...
Oh yeah! Btw let me tell you what happened when I got called to the district president's office to sort through this early departure business. We were all confused about why I was leaving early and called my mission president in SF to ask him what was going on. Turns out he hadn't even known I was coming out early and like rejoiced when he heard I was coming on the 5th of Oct. He was like, "THE LORD ANSWERS PRAYERS!" It was funny since he said he'd been having trouble with transfers and that my coming would fix everything. Also, he said the Mandarin missionaries have baptized 10 people this month already! Which is really cool and made me pretty excited to go.... in 2 weeks that is. It should be really great.
Sounds like an answer to prayer on the house there. I hope that works out for you guys since living in a hotel is really lame based on my experience when we lived in a hotel at the beginning of my 10th grade and it was really lame. And yes mom I know you love to be busy hahaha :). I hope you find something to keep you that way so that dad can get some peace and quiet sometimes Hua hua hua! Jk lolooollolo!.
Thanks for your emails and your prayers! I know this gospel is true and that it's really the only way to be happy in this life and the next. Thanks for everything! Have a great week!
-Ian
Yeah thanks for [calling the MTC] dad. I am not in the slightest bitter since I do agree with you that having an extra 2 weeks is a good thing. Not only cause I can learn way more and have much more time to study how to teach and how to speak Chinese like a pro, but also cause the MTC is gonna send out a choir to General Conference on the first weekend of Oct. which if I get selected for would be awesome! They haven't said anything about who's gonna be singing in it yet though so... fingers crossed! Also, the firesides and devotionals here are really cool since they're specifically for us and always have really inspired messages. They also show movies and recorded MTC talks every Sunday night and we always go to the MTC talks since you can't see those anywhere else and they are always by Apostles or members of the 70 and are really, really good. Went to one last night by Elder Oaks about cultivating righteous desires.
This week was pretty good. The days go by really fast and it seems like I only got here yesterday even though I've been here almost 3 weeks now. I'm still with my new companions Elders Buss and Harr which is good and they're leaving the same time as me since our whole district leaves at the same time. We went and talked to Jeremy Perkins on Saturday (he works as the language tutor guy here... it's funny how many people in the Chinese language program here know people I know like Joel or Cory... or me) and he gave us some really good advice on how to learn Chinese faster and more efficiently since he told me it'd be really easy for me to just coast on the level of Chinese I have right now and not learn much. It was really cool cause now I'm much more committed to learning faster and more independently. Jeremy said that cause he went out 6 weeks early like I will, no one taught him how to study Chinese so he had to figure it out for himself which he finally only really refined like 2/3 of the way through his mission. Good thing i'm getting the low-down now so I don't have to waste so much time haha! I just hope I can be half as pro as Joel was on his mission... can't believe how pro his Chinese is now. It's like he worked hard on it or something. Which I can totally tell the difference between him and missionaries who didn't apply themselves as much - like one of my teachers Chen Laoshi who is a cool guy but I can tell he didn't work as hard on his Chinese while in Taibei.
In other news, just got back from the temple which was good. The presiding altar guy's wife was like falling asleep halfway through which was kind of funny. But not really important. Point is...
Oh yeah! Btw let me tell you what happened when I got called to the district president's office to sort through this early departure business. We were all confused about why I was leaving early and called my mission president in SF to ask him what was going on. Turns out he hadn't even known I was coming out early and like rejoiced when he heard I was coming on the 5th of Oct. He was like, "THE LORD ANSWERS PRAYERS!" It was funny since he said he'd been having trouble with transfers and that my coming would fix everything. Also, he said the Mandarin missionaries have baptized 10 people this month already! Which is really cool and made me pretty excited to go.... in 2 weeks that is. It should be really great.
Sounds like an answer to prayer on the house there. I hope that works out for you guys since living in a hotel is really lame based on my experience when we lived in a hotel at the beginning of my 10th grade and it was really lame. And yes mom I know you love to be busy hahaha :). I hope you find something to keep you that way so that dad can get some peace and quiet sometimes Hua hua hua! Jk lolooollolo!.
Thanks for your emails and your prayers! I know this gospel is true and that it's really the only way to be happy in this life and the next. Thanks for everything! Have a great week!
-Ian
Friday, September 17, 2010
Oops! Change of plans --- again.
Turns out that there was a mistake (at the MTC???) and Ian's name got on a list to leave early with the English-speaking missionaries from his mission. Fortunately, after consulting with Grandpa Barrus, Brent called to talk to Ian's District President to see why he was leaving so early. The Pres. hadn't heard about it and was glad Brent called because otherwise... I hope Ian is feeling a little relieved himself. He will be leaving on Oct. 5 which is earlier than the normal 13 weeks for language missionaries, but gives him a little more spiritual prep time. We'll see what he has to say about it on Monday.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Leaving for San Francisco! (Already?!?)
Hey guys!
So guess what? I'm going to San Francisco one week from TODAY! So crazy. They told me on Thursday that I was for real going to get moved up a district and that because the Oakland/San Francisco mission's next transfer was on the 21st of September, that's when I’m gonna get sent out hahah. I was like... wait what?! But I guess it's all good... I mean I AM practically a native Chinese speaker already and they only get 3 weeks in the mtc too... haha except not really! I'm learning pretty fast though and I can only assume I’ll learn faster when I get out in the field... I suppose I’ll kind of have to since I’ll be out there doing it haha.
My new district is awesome. I have 2 companions who also happen to be the zone leaders and they are great. One is Elder Buss who is from Wyoming and went to BYU Hawaii last year but he's the man since he's going to Toulouse, France and already speaks French since he did a year study abroad there as an exchange student. His Chinese is also already quite good since he took a semester at BYU-H and seems to be naturally gifted at languages. He said that he's been doing that thing that apparently president monsoon did when he was younger which was memorize a scripture every day for a year which apparently helped him to develop a photographic memory. I hadn't ever heard of this before but I started doing it a couple days ago and today memorized Jacob 2: 18-19.
Anyways, my other companion is Elder Harr who's Chinese is... well... less good. But he is still the man as well and is like 6 foot 7 and wears size 18 shoes which is absolutely ridiculous since it's double my shoe size haha. So massive.
This week has been good. The transition has been pretty easy between districts and my new district is cool. They keep telling me all the tricks of like gaming the cafeteria system. Like for instance, there's a trick to always getting a good cup of hot chocolate in the morning by opening the machine and shaking the powder keg thing at the top so that more powder falls into the other tube thing. Pretty genius. And the other day the line for taking dirty dishes and trays back was really long so we stacked everything onto the two sister missionary's trays and they walked up to the line where some of the other elders in line proceeded to take the trays from them. It was super funny too cause one of the elders who took a tray from one of our sisters just grabbed it with one arm and when one of the elders from our district offered to take it in for him, he was like "no i got this"... anyways, then he walked into the little alcove thing and we heard a glass hit the floor and shatter and were like "and THAT'S why you don't carry two heavy trays for no reason. Hahaha.
Went to the temple today for the first time since being here which was good. We just got back in fact and I have about 12 and a half minutes left on the clock haha. Anyways, it sounds like you guys are doing well in VA, despite not having a home... maybe you should just stay in the hotel for the rest of the two years! :D. That's cool that you ran into Mark Friend. How random. And I can't believe Marcus joined the Navy. I guess I could see him in the military though and that does sound like a sweet deal where they basically chuck money and degrees at you haha. Maybe I should do that... man... nah... i'll just live off of your guys' income for the rest of my life!
We got to watch a couple recorded talks from previous devotionals done here at the MTC last night. One by Elder Bednar called "becoming a missionary" and another by Elder Lund called "being guided by the spirit". They were both really really good although I think I preferred Elder Lund's cause I think it was a more interesting topic and it was a really funny talk. Also Elder Bednar just scares me since he seems super hardcore and I feel like I wouldn't be able to say anything around him without fearing rebuke or something haha.
Thanks for starting a blog for me mom! I think it might be a good idea if you could get Michelle to go on my facebook a post a link to it on there cause that'd probably be the best way for my friends to be able to see it. Also, I would send you guys more pictures but I don't think I can really attach them to my emails until I get into the field but I do have some good ones so I'll send them to you when I can. So I've gotten a couple letters since being here, one from my friend Jenna Wylie and another from Alicia Lewis which was nice. I'll probably write them back today even though I’ve never really sent or mailed a letter before ever haha so we'll see how that goes...
Anyways, sounds like the ALI is really fun to work with dad haha. It seems like you do a lot of hand holding in every job in the foreign service.
Ok I only have 5 minutes left and still need to email Joel. Things are going well. I really like the MTC and time is going pretty fast too. Have a great week mom and dad! I love you!
-Ian
So guess what? I'm going to San Francisco one week from TODAY! So crazy. They told me on Thursday that I was for real going to get moved up a district and that because the Oakland/San Francisco mission's next transfer was on the 21st of September, that's when I’m gonna get sent out hahah. I was like... wait what?! But I guess it's all good... I mean I AM practically a native Chinese speaker already and they only get 3 weeks in the mtc too... haha except not really! I'm learning pretty fast though and I can only assume I’ll learn faster when I get out in the field... I suppose I’ll kind of have to since I’ll be out there doing it haha.
My new district is awesome. I have 2 companions who also happen to be the zone leaders and they are great. One is Elder Buss who is from Wyoming and went to BYU Hawaii last year but he's the man since he's going to Toulouse, France and already speaks French since he did a year study abroad there as an exchange student. His Chinese is also already quite good since he took a semester at BYU-H and seems to be naturally gifted at languages. He said that he's been doing that thing that apparently president monsoon did when he was younger which was memorize a scripture every day for a year which apparently helped him to develop a photographic memory. I hadn't ever heard of this before but I started doing it a couple days ago and today memorized Jacob 2: 18-19.
Anyways, my other companion is Elder Harr who's Chinese is... well... less good. But he is still the man as well and is like 6 foot 7 and wears size 18 shoes which is absolutely ridiculous since it's double my shoe size haha. So massive.
This week has been good. The transition has been pretty easy between districts and my new district is cool. They keep telling me all the tricks of like gaming the cafeteria system. Like for instance, there's a trick to always getting a good cup of hot chocolate in the morning by opening the machine and shaking the powder keg thing at the top so that more powder falls into the other tube thing. Pretty genius. And the other day the line for taking dirty dishes and trays back was really long so we stacked everything onto the two sister missionary's trays and they walked up to the line where some of the other elders in line proceeded to take the trays from them. It was super funny too cause one of the elders who took a tray from one of our sisters just grabbed it with one arm and when one of the elders from our district offered to take it in for him, he was like "no i got this"... anyways, then he walked into the little alcove thing and we heard a glass hit the floor and shatter and were like "and THAT'S why you don't carry two heavy trays for no reason. Hahaha.
Went to the temple today for the first time since being here which was good. We just got back in fact and I have about 12 and a half minutes left on the clock haha. Anyways, it sounds like you guys are doing well in VA, despite not having a home... maybe you should just stay in the hotel for the rest of the two years! :D. That's cool that you ran into Mark Friend. How random. And I can't believe Marcus joined the Navy. I guess I could see him in the military though and that does sound like a sweet deal where they basically chuck money and degrees at you haha. Maybe I should do that... man... nah... i'll just live off of your guys' income for the rest of my life!
We got to watch a couple recorded talks from previous devotionals done here at the MTC last night. One by Elder Bednar called "becoming a missionary" and another by Elder Lund called "being guided by the spirit". They were both really really good although I think I preferred Elder Lund's cause I think it was a more interesting topic and it was a really funny talk. Also Elder Bednar just scares me since he seems super hardcore and I feel like I wouldn't be able to say anything around him without fearing rebuke or something haha.
Thanks for starting a blog for me mom! I think it might be a good idea if you could get Michelle to go on my facebook a post a link to it on there cause that'd probably be the best way for my friends to be able to see it. Also, I would send you guys more pictures but I don't think I can really attach them to my emails until I get into the field but I do have some good ones so I'll send them to you when I can. So I've gotten a couple letters since being here, one from my friend Jenna Wylie and another from Alicia Lewis which was nice. I'll probably write them back today even though I’ve never really sent or mailed a letter before ever haha so we'll see how that goes...
Anyways, sounds like the ALI is really fun to work with dad haha. It seems like you do a lot of hand holding in every job in the foreign service.
Ok I only have 5 minutes left and still need to email Joel. Things are going well. I really like the MTC and time is going pretty fast too. Have a great week mom and dad! I love you!
-Ian
Friday, September 10, 2010
The beginning
Ian has been in the MTC for one week and two days. He's left a bare spot on our sofa and a piano and computer that are missing his touch. We miss him, too. He was set apart by Pres. Warner from the Grandview West Stake. Pres. Warner pronounced some unusual and beautiful blessings on him. We look forward to seeing those unfold as Ian's mission gets underway.
In the meantime, I will be posting pictures and his weekly letters on this blog so here goes ---
Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 (FIRST LETTER FROM MTC)
First days have gone pretty well. I feel like I’m much more receptive to the spirit and definitely recognize it a lot better than I used to. My district is pretty awesome. They're all good guys and two sister missionaries as well. My companion is pretty cool. Elder Chan whose parents are originally from Hong Kong but he grew up in Fremont CA so basically right next to where I’ll be serving. I can't believe they only give us 30 minutes to write and read all the emails haha. It's so dumb. I only have 2 minutes 40 seconds left except my companion and i were told this like exploit thing where if you log off the computer at like 2:04 or something then it rounds back up to three minutes so we can have unlimited time technically but it's a huge mafan to do since having to log in and then out and in and then out is really really annoying and it's tough to collect your thoughts when you're constantly looking at the clock in the top right-hand corner.
I’ll try to tell you what I've been up to in the (ostensibly) 3 minutes I have left. So the days here are really long. Waking up at 6:30 is pretty tough and probably the hardest part of the MTC so far. As far as the classes go, they're pretty good. We have two teachers mainly: Weilaoshi and Konglaoshi. Konglaoshi is some hardcore RM from Taipei and weilaoshi is a sister missionary who served with Joel in Taizhong. I also knew Weilaoshi's sister at BYU last year and went on a couple dates with her even which is hilarious cause I met a guy who was in her (weilaoshi's sister hannah's) ward last year and with Michael Slawson as well and who dated Hannah too and it was really funny as we imitated how she always would say "THAT’S GREAT" after every single thing you'd say hahaha. It was funny. There are loads of people here that I know from last year actually. I keep running into a bunch of guys who were in
Helaman Halls last year. My district is good and I'm rooming with an elder from NZ and an elder who's like 25 who's from France. He's the man though and I learned "zhe busoi da le o' toilet" from him the other day which is probably the most useful thing I’ve learned so far haha. jkjkjkjkjk lulululu.
We’ve been listening to Elder Holland a bunch and that's been pretty cool. He's the proverbial man and his talks are all really inspirational. Oh and I’m being accelerated I think so I’ll probably be out of here in about 5 weeks or so which doesn't seem like much time at all. But I’d definitely get sick of it after the 12 weeks that everyone else has to stay and since my Chinese is already better than most of the elders and sisters who got here 6 weeks ago I suppose it makes sense. I'm learning pretty fast here in the MTC which is cool. I've learned a bunch of religious Chinese vocabulary already and my testimony is definitely strengthened as I study the scriptures and PMG.
Today is P-day but it hasn't really felt that different since I’ve still been in a suit all day since we thought we were going to the temple this morning (it was closed for labor day...) and you have to be in missionary dress if you want to get into most of the buildings here anyway. So basically there's not much point in changing into normal clothes just for like a tiny part of the day. My companion, Elder Chan, and I went to a room in the main building for about 50 minutes today so I could play the piano which was pretty good. It being P-day and all I deemed it an appropriate activity. (Man this timer is annoying...)
I only have 30 seconds (ostensibly) left cause I keep going too slow and letting it drop below the minute so I lose a minute haha. I should probably go since we need to do laundry but I love you guys and it sounds like your house search is going just about as annoying as this timer that makes me forget what I'm saying and panic (although not quite that annoying since I get to write like 1 sentence and then have to logoff!) Haha my companion and I are like lolling so hard cause it's impossible to concentrate on what we're writing since we have so little time left and keep having to log off.
Ok I need to go and I really can't think of anything more to say even though I know there's tons but I’m too like pressed for time and flustered---
Bai bai, love you guys,
Li4 Zhanglao. (Yes I finally adopted the family xing haha)
P.S. I totally understand how Joel gained weight here now since we do like no exercise and the food is plenty and not altogether healthy. One missionary in my district from Hong Kong Elder Tam (so so hilarious cause he's SO Cantonese) eats like 10 plates per meal haahahah I don’t know how he's so skinny still. Deng yi deng i guess. Yue lai yue pang. Ok I really have to go now. Have a great week!
In the meantime, I will be posting pictures and his weekly letters on this blog so here goes ---
Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 (FIRST LETTER FROM MTC)
First days have gone pretty well. I feel like I’m much more receptive to the spirit and definitely recognize it a lot better than I used to. My district is pretty awesome. They're all good guys and two sister missionaries as well. My companion is pretty cool. Elder Chan whose parents are originally from Hong Kong but he grew up in Fremont CA so basically right next to where I’ll be serving. I can't believe they only give us 30 minutes to write and read all the emails haha. It's so dumb. I only have 2 minutes 40 seconds left except my companion and i were told this like exploit thing where if you log off the computer at like 2:04 or something then it rounds back up to three minutes so we can have unlimited time technically but it's a huge mafan to do since having to log in and then out and in and then out is really really annoying and it's tough to collect your thoughts when you're constantly looking at the clock in the top right-hand corner.
I’ll try to tell you what I've been up to in the (ostensibly) 3 minutes I have left. So the days here are really long. Waking up at 6:30 is pretty tough and probably the hardest part of the MTC so far. As far as the classes go, they're pretty good. We have two teachers mainly: Weilaoshi and Konglaoshi. Konglaoshi is some hardcore RM from Taipei and weilaoshi is a sister missionary who served with Joel in Taizhong. I also knew Weilaoshi's sister at BYU last year and went on a couple dates with her even which is hilarious cause I met a guy who was in her (weilaoshi's sister hannah's) ward last year and with Michael Slawson as well and who dated Hannah too and it was really funny as we imitated how she always would say "THAT’S GREAT" after every single thing you'd say hahaha. It was funny. There are loads of people here that I know from last year actually. I keep running into a bunch of guys who were in
Helaman Halls last year. My district is good and I'm rooming with an elder from NZ and an elder who's like 25 who's from France. He's the man though and I learned "zhe busoi da le o' toilet" from him the other day which is probably the most useful thing I’ve learned so far haha. jkjkjkjkjk lulululu.
We’ve been listening to Elder Holland a bunch and that's been pretty cool. He's the proverbial man and his talks are all really inspirational. Oh and I’m being accelerated I think so I’ll probably be out of here in about 5 weeks or so which doesn't seem like much time at all. But I’d definitely get sick of it after the 12 weeks that everyone else has to stay and since my Chinese is already better than most of the elders and sisters who got here 6 weeks ago I suppose it makes sense. I'm learning pretty fast here in the MTC which is cool. I've learned a bunch of religious Chinese vocabulary already and my testimony is definitely strengthened as I study the scriptures and PMG.
Today is P-day but it hasn't really felt that different since I’ve still been in a suit all day since we thought we were going to the temple this morning (it was closed for labor day...) and you have to be in missionary dress if you want to get into most of the buildings here anyway. So basically there's not much point in changing into normal clothes just for like a tiny part of the day. My companion, Elder Chan, and I went to a room in the main building for about 50 minutes today so I could play the piano which was pretty good. It being P-day and all I deemed it an appropriate activity. (Man this timer is annoying...)
I only have 30 seconds (ostensibly) left cause I keep going too slow and letting it drop below the minute so I lose a minute haha. I should probably go since we need to do laundry but I love you guys and it sounds like your house search is going just about as annoying as this timer that makes me forget what I'm saying and panic (although not quite that annoying since I get to write like 1 sentence and then have to logoff!) Haha my companion and I are like lolling so hard cause it's impossible to concentrate on what we're writing since we have so little time left and keep having to log off.
Ok I need to go and I really can't think of anything more to say even though I know there's tons but I’m too like pressed for time and flustered---
Bai bai, love you guys,
Li4 Zhanglao. (Yes I finally adopted the family xing haha)
P.S. I totally understand how Joel gained weight here now since we do like no exercise and the food is plenty and not altogether healthy. One missionary in my district from Hong Kong Elder Tam (so so hilarious cause he's SO Cantonese) eats like 10 plates per meal haahahah I don’t know how he's so skinny still. Deng yi deng i guess. Yue lai yue pang. Ok I really have to go now. Have a great week!
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