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Slow Week



大家好! Not gonna lie, this week started out pretty slow. After being in online MTC for so many weeks I've gotten to the point where I just really want to head out to the mission field. I have friends who just barely started MTC or are starting soon and will go out before I do so that's kinda depressing for me. I'm still excited to learn and grow during this last month of MTC and I love bonding with my amazing 地区 (district).


Me and Jackson 长老 (Elder) have now taught two TRCs in all Chinese. They've been with the same person (there's only two total Chinese speakers for TRCs) which has been good for us because we could actually build off our previous lesson and not just teach the same thing every time. They actually went pretty good though and both times we did better than we thought we did. The guy we taught was super nice and helpful and would slow his speaking or kinda act out what he was saying when we didn't understand haha. I feel like I'm catching up to my companion in terms of speaking Chinese and we both switch off pretty fluidly. I've been studying a lot of vocab but I was struggling with using what I learned in sentences and just creating sentences faster and I felt like this week I did a lot better. We had a lot of role-playing teaching situations in class and I ended up not using many pre-made sentences but mostly making them up on my own so that felt really good.


BYU Game on P-day


We talked a lot about the Atonement this week and how essential it is for us to be able to return to God's presence. Someone shared an analogy from Brad Wilcox that I really love. It's something along the lines of "Christ has paid for our piano lessons, and because we love Him we practice the piano. We can't learn the piano by doing one thing or the other. Only with both lessons and practice can we become good at the piano."

We've all been given the gift of the Atonement but without us doing our part we cannot receive it's benefits. I love that as a missionary I get to share this with other people and help them understand that they can have peace and comfort among other things that come from the Atonement in their life.


District Halloween Costumes

Thank you all for the love and support! 我爱你们!

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