So there is always so much that I cannot remember to tell you. Our apartment has a ton of roaches and two guitars, I have been trying to figure out how to play the melody to "la cucaracha" and I got it stuck in my Taiwanese companion's head, I don't even know the words myself but it is the funniest thing to hear him sing and try and pronounce the word "cucaracha". I think someone must write me the lyrics so that I can sing it properly and serenade all the creatures that share our abode with us. I just remember about the roach being drunk and cant walk and how it doesn't have marijuana to smoke. Burracha? he zui jiu? caminar? zou?
I am kind of jealous of how Mexican the family is. There are legit Mexican food places here actually, but what I really crave is the fake Mexican food, give me some Taco Bell and grade D meat. It will probably be one of the first things I will eat when I get back. That and Panda Express or some Chinese buffet. I need the fake Americanized stuff. But KFC is so awesome here. I eat it way too much, they always have the best deals and special offers and the bucket is so cheap. I think I have eaten KFC maybe twice in America and like a million times over here.
Mooncake? Yeah I have eaten my fair share of that. What an experience. egg yolks surrounded by a thick paste that can only be eaten in the smallest of portions. It is also way expensive, so there is almost no point other than for the experience of trying something new.
I have baptised maybe ten people from Chengdu Sichuan. They like to eat way spicy stuff, usually boiled in a pot in front of you. I also hear that the most pretty Chinese girls are form Sichuan. They call them "la mei" or "spicy little sisters" in reference to the unnecessarily hot food that they eat. Does the lady who lives in Grandma's basement cook well?
I am so jealous of the world's missionaries. I bet half of the investigators in the world are Chinese people. Everyone can baptise one, except me; someone who is actually in China. The training videos we watched had a Chinese student baptism too. Tatiana can baptise one in Lithuana of all places.
We have taught alot of visitors that we baptise in one day, but I really don't get any satisfaction out of it. Me and my companion had to do it twice this week because everyone else has real investigators with scheduled appointments. This gives me stress because everything that can go wrong does just like Brother Murphey said. I always jack up the paper work forget a signature, write unclearly, don't fill up the font, and about a hundred other things. Its not as easy as you think, you should see how bald I am now, all thanks to mainland baptisms. The one we taught yesterday was a girl who got baptised in England who brought her mom over to hear the gospel and get baptised. Those England elders baptise Chinese investigators too.
Anyway, sorry to be so negative. I know the gospel is true and everyone is a child of God even if they are also a baptismal statistic. I am so glad that I have a chance to repent and get better everyday. The atonement of Jesus Christ is truly the best thing ever.
I love you all,
Hua Zhanglao
Friday, October 8, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Sept 28, 2010 and Sept 23, 2010
yay! I am off of the dismal island now. I just got moved to the area that is closest to the mainland in the mission. My area got whitewashed and the previous AP took my spot along with elder so who was my companion and Elder Kershiniks companion and Cowsers trainer and Kershisniks trainer. They are both zone leaders too. It kinda sucks since I just gave out the first legit baptismal date I have ever given on the island. So now elder AP Li can baptise Sister Zhao for me. I don't want the glory, don't get me wrong, I just want to be with an investigator from the beginning to the end, and I was denied. President Chan will totally think his whitewashing idea was genious once those two instantly get a baptism. I was also fired from my job as district leader. My previous district leader is my district leader again, I love him, his name is Elder Macallister. I wasn't that great of a district leader anyways.
I am not to bitter though. I am way excited to be companions with a native speaker of Mandarin. His name is Elder Yu. He is Elder Bendalls trainee and he is from Taiwan. What is funny is that he is only eighteen. He has to serve in the military once his mission is over. AP Li also served in the singapore army too. So powerful. I call Elder Yu the secret weapon. I am getting those crazy ideas that I can find a family again. I will totally take advantage of this opportunity to learn good mandarin. It is the Lord giving me a second chance, because I never SYLed with the Malaysian Tiger. He was just too intimidating for me to speak to in Mandarin. SYL means speak your language.
So anyway, Fenling is so far away form everything. I am excited to not be five minutes away from the church's Asia area headquarters and be somewhat free in a somewhat remote place. Goodness I miss macau.
Anyway, I have a bright outlook for my mission. I might even start exercising regularly. I like the Mandarins now, there is so much power if you exclude me. This has potential of being a blast. I only have eight months left. Elder Cowser was always correcting me when I told people that I have been out about a year. Now I have to say I've been out more than a year. I have that terrible dream where I haven't made much of a difference in the field but my mission is already over. It terrifies (if thats how you spell it) me. I do miss you guys and think it would be cool to spend like a weekend with you, but my real home is probably somehwere in the mainland. Mainland is two stops away on the train from Fenling. I have a huge desire to just go over on pday. It is so smart of the mission to keep my passport so that I can't.
Elder Yu is such an adorable teenager. I like him, I think we will hit it off. I really hope I don't squander the blessing of having him as a companion. The only two native mandarin speaking missionaries that have been in the mission since I have been a missionary have both been my companions. I am reminded of the parable about talents. AP Li was given many talents and he multipied them, and then maybe like elder Kershisnik didn't have as many talents as AP Li but he still multiplied what he was given. And then there is me, that wicked and slothful servant who was only given one talent, and then I buried it because I was nervous. And then President Chan takes my talent and gives it to the one who has ten talents. Or in other words gives my baptism to AP Li.
I hope I can get a baptism as a senior companion one day. Maybe this is why I was fired? This next transfer will be seven weeks instead of six, which will give more time to build up this area and find a family and investigators.
Was this letter long enough? I tried to write everyone who wrote me last week a little letter back. This week only mommy wrote me, but thats fine. I liked hearing about all the craziness with Spanish Immersion school. I liked reading a missionary spanish book and laughing at how all the words were english with an o at the end. It was great fun. I hope I can get in on the action when I get back home. Arriba!!(if thats how you spell it) (Harriba?)
Anyways, I love you guys.
Hua Zhanglao
9/23/10
So I got so many letters that it took a lot of time to read them and so consequently I have little time to write. I appreciate it, thanks:) We met an Elvis impersonator on the bus the other day, He is a member actually. He is the source of legends. Can you imagine teaching a guy in an Elvis costume the gospel? He sang way good and was intensly entertaining. It lifted my spirits so much to run into him on the way home.
Since today was the day after Mid Autumn Festival, it was a holiday and employers were forced to give their Filipina workers a day off, so we helped out the international elders to try and pull back sisters to the church. It was fruitless but pretty funny. I like Filipina English, it is interesting.
So we are just trying to keep track of the many investigators that we have. Not many people seem to have time to come to church on Sundays though - that makes me sad. I feel like that's the only real obsticle between us and having success. We have enough appointments throughout the week and enough people to teach, but we just need something more I guess.
I am starting to love the mission again despite the difficulties. My second companion is going home next week, his 2 years are up. The last two days we attended a leadership training which was quite possibly the most boring thing I have ever encountered from 830 to 530 two days in a row. Leadership has its rewards. The content of the lectures were good but easy to grasp and probably didn't need quite so much time spent on them. I did score some awesome training dvds that are pretty much done in a reality tv style with "real" missionaries using the training principles that we learned in "real" situations. So hilarious, I hope to show you them when I get home. they are hysterical.
Umm, maybe nest week I won't get as many letters so that I can have enough time to send you photos and a longer letter. just kidding I love you guys
hua zhanglao
I am not to bitter though. I am way excited to be companions with a native speaker of Mandarin. His name is Elder Yu. He is Elder Bendalls trainee and he is from Taiwan. What is funny is that he is only eighteen. He has to serve in the military once his mission is over. AP Li also served in the singapore army too. So powerful. I call Elder Yu the secret weapon. I am getting those crazy ideas that I can find a family again. I will totally take advantage of this opportunity to learn good mandarin. It is the Lord giving me a second chance, because I never SYLed with the Malaysian Tiger. He was just too intimidating for me to speak to in Mandarin. SYL means speak your language.
So anyway, Fenling is so far away form everything. I am excited to not be five minutes away from the church's Asia area headquarters and be somewhat free in a somewhat remote place. Goodness I miss macau.
Anyway, I have a bright outlook for my mission. I might even start exercising regularly. I like the Mandarins now, there is so much power if you exclude me. This has potential of being a blast. I only have eight months left. Elder Cowser was always correcting me when I told people that I have been out about a year. Now I have to say I've been out more than a year. I have that terrible dream where I haven't made much of a difference in the field but my mission is already over. It terrifies (if thats how you spell it) me. I do miss you guys and think it would be cool to spend like a weekend with you, but my real home is probably somehwere in the mainland. Mainland is two stops away on the train from Fenling. I have a huge desire to just go over on pday. It is so smart of the mission to keep my passport so that I can't.
Elder Yu is such an adorable teenager. I like him, I think we will hit it off. I really hope I don't squander the blessing of having him as a companion. The only two native mandarin speaking missionaries that have been in the mission since I have been a missionary have both been my companions. I am reminded of the parable about talents. AP Li was given many talents and he multipied them, and then maybe like elder Kershisnik didn't have as many talents as AP Li but he still multiplied what he was given. And then there is me, that wicked and slothful servant who was only given one talent, and then I buried it because I was nervous. And then President Chan takes my talent and gives it to the one who has ten talents. Or in other words gives my baptism to AP Li.
I hope I can get a baptism as a senior companion one day. Maybe this is why I was fired?
Was this letter long enough? I tried to write everyone who wrote me last week a little letter back. This week only mommy wrote me, but thats fine. I liked hearing about all the craziness with Spanish Immersion school. I liked reading a missionary spanish book and laughing at how all the words were english with an o at the end. It was great fun. I hope I can get in on the action when I get back home. Arriba!!(if thats how you spell it) (Harriba?)
Anyways, I love you guys.
Hua Zhanglao
9/23/10
So I got so many letters that it took a lot of time to read them and so consequently I have little time to write. I appreciate it, thanks:) We met an Elvis impersonator on the bus the other day, He is a member actually. He is the source of legends. Can you imagine teaching a guy in an Elvis costume the gospel? He sang way good and was intensly entertaining. It lifted my spirits so much to run into him on the way home.
Since today was the day after Mid Autumn Festival, it was a holiday and employers were forced to give their Filipina workers a day off, so we helped out the international elders to try and pull back sisters to the church. It was fruitless but pretty funny. I like Filipina English, it is interesting.
So we are just trying to keep track of the many investigators that we have. Not many people seem to have time to come to church on Sundays though - that makes me sad. I feel like that's the only real obsticle between us and having success. We have enough appointments throughout the week and enough people to teach, but we just need something more I guess.
I am starting to love the mission again despite the difficulties. My second companion is going home next week, his 2 years are up. The last two days we attended a leadership training which was quite possibly the most boring thing I have ever encountered from 830 to 530 two days in a row. Leadership has its rewards. The content of the lectures were good but easy to grasp and probably didn't need quite so much time spent on them. I did score some awesome training dvds that are pretty much done in a reality tv style with "real" missionaries using the training principles that we learned in "real" situations. So hilarious, I hope to show you them when I get home. they are hysterical.
Umm, maybe nest week I won't get as many letters so that I can have enough time to send you photos and a longer letter. just kidding I love you guys
hua zhanglao
Sunday, September 19, 2010
15 Sept, 2010
Dear family,
I enjoy teaching lessons and I enjoy the Chinese language. Can life get better than this? As far as physical things I need, maybe I can just take money out of my account and buy shirts and maybe a suit. It is very cheap over here if you go to the right place.
So recently, no investigators really understand why coming to church is important. Maybe its my fault. There is one pretty cool investigator who just walked in to church one sunday who met with us like a million times in one week and came to a branch activity. She is pretty good, her name is sister Peng, she is super talkative so, although we have met with so so much, we havn't even got to the restoration yet. We just talk about baptism a whole lot. Kinda weird that thats how it worked out.
She is a mother who is nearly fifty and has a daughter who is 23 or so who graduated from MIT. We had the really less active girl named claire who also went to MIT to fellowship for Peng once. It went okay considering that Claire didn't know much. Claire wants us to teach her the book of mormon in english, I really don't want to do that at all. That is definately not what she needs at this point.
Anyways, I feel like I'm accomplishing things other than my purpose to baptise. Its okay I guess. I think hong kong would be a great city if everyone wasn't so unnecessarily stressed all the time and the weather didn't suck. I sent you photos of some sort of like building scenery or something. Its pretty cool being in a relatively big city. I also don't like huge population either actually.
The food though is pretty nice, the branch activity that we went on was to Lamma island and we ate so much delicious seafood and a million clams and a lot of cuttle fish and garlic scallops and schrimp and fish and delicious sweet and sour pork and it was amaising. Then we went on a lame hike in the rain with so many mosquitos. It was amaising.
Lamma island is in my area, I lthink I might so finding there one day.
I still don't write in my journal. i think I will start writing in chinese because then it will be more interesting and people who want to peek at it probably cant understand it, particularly Cantonese Elders. I don't think many people would really want to read my journal anyway though. It would be ten times more boring than my letters.
Anyway, I love the Old Testament student manual that I'm reading, it is way intertaining and helps my testimony and its weird too. I recommend it. I like how Jacob wrestled an angel and wouldn't let him go until he blessed him.
I love you all and miss you and cold weather and snow and mama's cooking.
Elder Hua Zhanglao
I enjoy teaching lessons and I enjoy the Chinese language. Can life get better than this? As far as physical things I need, maybe I can just take money out of my account and buy shirts and maybe a suit. It is very cheap over here if you go to the right place.
So recently, no investigators really understand why coming to church is important. Maybe its my fault. There is one pretty cool investigator who just walked in to church one sunday who met with us like a million times in one week and came to a branch activity. She is pretty good, her name is sister Peng, she is super talkative so, although we have met with so so much, we havn't even got to the restoration yet. We just talk about baptism a whole lot. Kinda weird that thats how it worked out.
She is a mother who is nearly fifty and has a daughter who is 23 or so who graduated from MIT. We had the really less active girl named claire who also went to MIT to fellowship for Peng once. It went okay considering that Claire didn't know much. Claire wants us to teach her the book of mormon in english, I really don't want to do that at all. That is definately not what she needs at this point.
Anyways, I feel like I'm accomplishing things other than my purpose to baptise. Its okay I guess. I think hong kong would be a great city if everyone wasn't so unnecessarily stressed all the time and the weather didn't suck. I sent you photos of some sort of like building scenery or something. Its pretty cool being in a relatively big city. I also don't like huge population either actually.
The food though is pretty nice, the branch activity that we went on was to Lamma island and we ate so much delicious seafood and a million clams and a lot of cuttle fish and garlic scallops and schrimp and fish and delicious sweet and sour pork and it was amaising. Then we went on a lame hike in the rain with so many mosquitos. It was amaising.
Lamma island is in my area, I lthink I might so finding there one day.
I still don't write in my journal. i think I will start writing in chinese because then it will be more interesting and people who want to peek at it probably cant understand it, particularly Cantonese Elders. I don't think many people would really want to read my journal anyway though. It would be ten times more boring than my letters.
Anyway, I love the Old Testament student manual that I'm reading, it is way intertaining and helps my testimony and its weird too. I recommend it. I like how Jacob wrestled an angel and wouldn't let him go until he blessed him.
I love you all and miss you and cold weather and snow and mama's cooking.
Elder Hua Zhanglao
9 Sept, 2010
I had a pretty awesome day yesterday. I just felt like I worked hard all day and I didn't really go finding at all. I hate finding in the hot sun. I like traveling from place to place on the subway and talking to people on that. I just can't explain it very well but it was probably the best day I have had since I left my Macau.
I feel like we can get someone baptised eventually although it probably won't be a family. The Zhu family is seriously hindered by the dad. He wouldn't schedule us because "Its raining really bad tomorrow". Like we wouldn't be meeting inside the chapel or something and he couldn't use an umbrella for the two minute walk from his home to the chapel. As it turned out, that day it didn't rain a single drop at all. I wish he just told me that he wasn't interested in meeting that day, it would be alot better than saying some ridiculous excuse and blame not being able to come on his daughter. I wish we sould just meet his daughter and wife. He is what makes it a family though, and he could potentially hold the preisthood. I wish dudes weren't such dirt bags over here in China. It gets tiring teaching single mothers and ladies.
I just feel like a small something is missing from my mission. I just don't feel completely satisfied with it quite yet. I had a terrible dream once that my two years were up with the same ammount of experience that I have now. It was pretty depressing. I just reasoned to myself that it wasn't the end of the world to waste my mission and that I could pick up all the skills that I still lacked somehow later in life.
At least I have eternity to develop talents and learn and progress right? I have changed I'm pretty sure. Macau changed me.
Anyways that's boring to just talk about me. I'm pretty sure its essentially the same letter week after week and you might be tired of it. There are so many Chinese students getting baptised in the world. Some people's mission calls are essentially just for those Chinese students. There is a MIT grad who just moved to Hong Kong. She learned the gospel in English and got baptised four years ago in America. I originally wanted to use her for fellowshiping because she is from Taiwan. But sadly because she was taught in not her native tongue, she pretty much knows nothing, so we are meeting with her to teach her about the gospel in Mandarin. She claims that the Chinese translation of the Book of Mormon is terrible but she can't understand the English. That bugged me because my father translates the Book of Mormon for a living. I imagine we will slam her with the word on this Friday. She hadn't even heard of Lehi's dream and didn't know if Lehi was the dad or the son. Anyway, when we're done, she will totally help out the branch.
That took about an hour to write, sorry.
I love you all
zai jian
Hua Zhanglao
I feel like we can get someone baptised eventually although it probably won't be a family. The Zhu family is seriously hindered by the dad. He wouldn't schedule us because "Its raining really bad tomorrow". Like we wouldn't be meeting inside the chapel or something and he couldn't use an umbrella for the two minute walk from his home to the chapel. As it turned out, that day it didn't rain a single drop at all. I wish he just told me that he wasn't interested in meeting that day, it would be alot better than saying some ridiculous excuse and blame not being able to come on his daughter. I wish we sould just meet his daughter and wife. He is what makes it a family though, and he could potentially hold the preisthood. I wish dudes weren't such dirt bags over here in China. It gets tiring teaching single mothers and ladies.
I just feel like a small something is missing from my mission. I just don't feel completely satisfied with it quite yet. I had a terrible dream once that my two years were up with the same ammount of experience that I have now. It was pretty depressing. I just reasoned to myself that it wasn't the end of the world to waste my mission and that I could pick up all the skills that I still lacked somehow later in life.
At least I have eternity to develop talents and learn and progress right? I have changed I'm pretty sure. Macau changed me.
Anyways that's boring to just talk about me. I'm pretty sure its essentially the same letter week after week and you might be tired of it. There are so many Chinese students getting baptised in the world. Some people's mission calls are essentially just for those Chinese students. There is a MIT grad who just moved to Hong Kong. She learned the gospel in English and got baptised four years ago in America. I originally wanted to use her for fellowshiping because she is from Taiwan. But sadly because she was taught in not her native tongue, she pretty much knows nothing, so we are meeting with her to teach her about the gospel in Mandarin. She claims that the Chinese translation of the Book of Mormon is terrible but she can't understand the English. That bugged me because my father translates the Book of Mormon for a living. I imagine we will slam her with the word on this Friday. She hadn't even heard of Lehi's dream and didn't know if Lehi was the dad or the son. Anyway, when we're done, she will totally help out the branch.
That took about an hour to write, sorry.
I love you all
zai jian
Hua Zhanglao
Sept 2, 2010
My family,
Thanks for writing. Today I went to the temple and I am quite happy right now. I am so happy for China to be "regularized". I feel like it was my fault somehow. I have some kind of a special love for those people of the mainland although they are quite oblivious at times. I love their humbleness and meek nature. They feel so innocent to me, like little children. I am so happy that I have had the priveledge to be here and serve them.
I feel like my mission is coming to a close and I have not made much of an impact. I can feel the spirit with me and often receive comfort and guidance from my Heavenly Father so I can't say that I am totally unsuccessful. At least I personaly have changed a little. I hope you guys can see that when you see me in a few months or in my letters I guess.
The quest for a family seems within grasp. I just noticed in the record books an investigator family that was pretty good in Kowloon East over in kwun tong that just somehow fell though the cracks. I also heard of a less active who was baptised in 01 and has a wife and child who are very nice people. I feel we have more chance of getting a family if we have more potential families. I wish we could baptise them all though.
Basically I don't know what to say. I watched the documentary "Planet Earth" today before I went to the temple. It is approved by our mission to watch. I highly recommend it. I really like the caves episode so far. It really helped my temple experience, just by helping me ponder upon all the things that God has created that beautify the earth. Some of the caves were gorgeous. I didn't know what to think of the worlds biggest mound of guano though.
As far as ping pong goes, I am pretty sucky. I have not picked up any skills on my mission even though I am in china. I can't play the guitar (let alone ukalele), I can't do a rubix cube, basketball is awful, and I can't do magic. Chopstick skills have gotten considerably better though. and my ability to eat freaken spicy junk from Sichuan has increased too.
I still have around a year left though. I bet I could go back to Macau, Kershisnik is getting kicked out. You should pray for me to go to Macau instead of getting a family. That was the happiest time of my life for sure. They all miss me way bad I hear. They still haven't got that Vietnamese thing going. I really wan't to learn Indonesian.
Anyways, my companion is pretty cool and pretty tall. I keep telling him that I could beat him in a race though. His Mandarin could be better than mine. He knows some good vocabulary. I don't like basketball that much though. He's way good at pingpong.
I really like the gospel. I love feasting on scriptures and I am attempting the scripture mastery scriptures again. Right now I really like section 130; it has three scripture mastery verses in a row. I like the one about obtaining more knowledge and wisdom than others and how you will be ahead of them in the life to come. I probably compare myself with people to often. God has certainly given everyone talents and blessings though.
So I love all of you guys and hope that this letter was okay,
Hua Zhanglao
Thanks for writing. Today I went to the temple and I am quite happy right now. I am so happy for China to be "regularized". I feel like it was my fault somehow. I have some kind of a special love for those people of the mainland although they are quite oblivious at times. I love their humbleness and meek nature. They feel so innocent to me, like little children. I am so happy that I have had the priveledge to be here and serve them.
I feel like my mission is coming to a close and I have not made much of an impact. I can feel the spirit with me and often receive comfort and guidance from my Heavenly Father so I can't say that I am totally unsuccessful. At least I personaly have changed a little. I hope you guys can see that when you see me in a few months or in my letters I guess.
The quest for a family seems within grasp. I just noticed in the record books an investigator family that was pretty good in Kowloon East over in kwun tong that just somehow fell though the cracks. I also heard of a less active who was baptised in 01 and has a wife and child who are very nice people. I feel we have more chance of getting a family if we have more potential families. I wish we could baptise them all though.
Basically I don't know what to say. I watched the documentary "Planet Earth" today before I went to the temple. It is approved by our mission to watch. I highly recommend it. I really like the caves episode so far. It really helped my temple experience, just by helping me ponder upon all the things that God has created that beautify the earth. Some of the caves were gorgeous. I didn't know what to think of the worlds biggest mound of guano though.
As far as ping pong goes, I am pretty sucky. I have not picked up any skills on my mission even though I am in china. I can't play the guitar (let alone ukalele), I can't do a rubix cube, basketball is awful, and I can't do magic. Chopstick skills have gotten considerably better though. and my ability to eat freaken spicy junk from Sichuan has increased too.
I still have around a year left though. I bet I could go back to Macau, Kershisnik is getting kicked out. You should pray for me to go to Macau instead of getting a family. That was the happiest time of my life for sure. They all miss me way bad I hear. They still haven't got that Vietnamese thing going. I really wan't to learn Indonesian.
Anyways, my companion is pretty cool and pretty tall. I keep telling him that I could beat him in a race though. His Mandarin could be better than mine. He knows some good vocabulary. I don't like basketball that much though. He's way good at pingpong.
I really like the gospel. I love feasting on scriptures and I am attempting the scripture mastery scriptures again. Right now I really like section 130; it has three scripture mastery verses in a row. I like the one about obtaining more knowledge and wisdom than others and how you will be ahead of them in the life to come. I probably compare myself with people to often. God has certainly given everyone talents and blessings though.
So I love all of you guys and hope that this letter was okay,
Hua Zhanglao
August 25, 2010
I'm sitting in a coffee shop doing my email. I should hurry before people get the wrong idea. Speaking of the Estonian, I have been meaning to tell you about an Estonian fellow who lives in our apartment complex whom we played badminton with once. I am pretty sure he's gay though so we probably won't meet with him again. Elder Reber was too handsome for his own good.
Anyways now am going to be with Elder Reber's MTC companion who is name Elder Cowser, his is really tall. Elder Reber is international now and "Guess Who" is still in my spot in Macau. I am really excited to be with Elder Cowser, he is really tall and athletic, but I am pretty sure I can run faster than him, he doubts it.
I really want a family to baptise, Zhu family just got back and we probably should meet them on Saturday. I think we should get a few more families just in case the Zhu family doesn't turn out.
I feel my mission isn't quite over. I hope I can get a family and then I will be satisfied. That's all I want, probably the greatest desire of my life right now. I want something to show for myself when I get back home. In many ways I'm pretty much the same. Probably a little more righteous and patient with others flaws. Im a little less patient with my self.
How is my father's Chinese? I really want to read the art of war and the analects and journey west and three kingdoms and dao de jing. I bet it will be decades before my Chinese abilities will be able to tackle that kind of literature. Is that what your're studying dad? I tell everyone I want to be just like my dad when I grow up. I totally brag about you way to much.
I love you all,
Hua zhanglao
Anyways now am going to be with Elder Reber's MTC companion who is name Elder Cowser, his is really tall. Elder Reber is international now and "Guess Who" is still in my spot in Macau. I am really excited to be with Elder Cowser, he is really tall and athletic, but I am pretty sure I can run faster than him, he doubts it.
I really want a family to baptise, Zhu family just got back and we probably should meet them on Saturday. I think we should get a few more families just in case the Zhu family doesn't turn out.
I feel my mission isn't quite over. I hope I can get a family and then I will be satisfied. That's all I want, probably the greatest desire of my life right now. I want something to show for myself when I get back home. In many ways I'm pretty much the same. Probably a little more righteous and patient with others flaws. Im a little less patient with my self.
How is my father's Chinese? I really want to read the art of war and the analects and journey west and three kingdoms and dao de jing. I bet it will be decades before my Chinese abilities will be able to tackle that kind of literature. Is that what your're studying dad? I tell everyone I want to be just like my dad when I grow up. I totally brag about you way to much.
I love you all,
Hua zhanglao
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Aug 18, 2010
Hello my dear family members,
How are you guys? I will remain on the Hong Kong island this transfer. Hopefully we can get new investigators someday. If we have faith it can be done.
I am the oldest missionary on Hong Kong island. Most of the missionaries have been on a mission for three to four transfers. I am going on ten. I am such an inspiring person to look to for adivce because I am so full of wisdom and experience and I know what I am doing when it comes to missionary work.
I agree with James. In someways I am a mindless zombie for the Lord. I think it would be more accurate to say like a power tool or some kind of instrument or something though. I just want to infect the whole world with the message of the restored gospel. Think of how much easier it would be to just have to bite someone instead of having to tell them my message and help them decide to get baptised. It would also help if nothing could hurt me. I also have a unquenchable hunger for investigators and human flesh.
Hey, so Im a district leader. There are two Cantonese companionships in my district. I don't think I can do baptismal interviews for them. All I will basically do is inspire them will my pep talks and motivational speeches. I can do interviews for mainland visitors though. I did two yesterday and probably will do another today. Talk about akward. Have you ever had an abortion? are you sure? Have you ever had a gay relationship? really? and the best part is that its all in mandarin.
Maybe this letter is inappropriate for children.
I am starting to love teaching, I really want to increase my skills and language. I think teaching by the spirit feels really nice. Its pretty bogus the other way. Too bad none of the people I teach are ever investigators.
I finished Jesus the Christ, I want to read the Old Testament, but I bet that won't help my teaching.
I love you all,
Hua zhanglao (Elder Wall)
How are you guys? I will remain on the Hong Kong island this transfer. Hopefully we can get new investigators someday. If we have faith it can be done.
I am the oldest missionary on Hong Kong island. Most of the missionaries have been on a mission for three to four transfers. I am going on ten. I am such an inspiring person to look to for adivce because I am so full of wisdom and experience and I know what I am doing when it comes to missionary work.
I agree with James. In someways I am a mindless zombie for the Lord. I think it would be more accurate to say like a power tool or some kind of instrument or something though. I just want to infect the whole world with the message of the restored gospel. Think of how much easier it would be to just have to bite someone instead of having to tell them my message and help them decide to get baptised. It would also help if nothing could hurt me. I also have a unquenchable hunger for investigators and human flesh.
Hey, so Im a district leader. There are two Cantonese companionships in my district. I don't think I can do baptismal interviews for them. All I will basically do is inspire them will my pep talks and motivational speeches. I can do interviews for mainland visitors though. I did two yesterday and probably will do another today. Talk about akward. Have you ever had an abortion? are you sure? Have you ever had a gay relationship? really? and the best part is that its all in mandarin.
Maybe this letter is inappropriate for children.
I am starting to love teaching, I really want to increase my skills and language. I think teaching by the spirit feels really nice. Its pretty bogus the other way. Too bad none of the people I teach are ever investigators.
I finished Jesus the Christ, I want to read the Old Testament, but I bet that won't help my teaching.
I love you all,
Hua zhanglao (Elder Wall)
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