Second Letter

I'm pregnant. Or at least that's what I accidentally said in Chinese to my class this week. Oops. Don't worry, it's not actually true. We say some odd things here on accident. "I know that prayer will bless your monkey" Oops.  Someone asked me what I like to eat, and I responded "Everyone" Oops haha. I meant "everything." While about to say the prayer at the beginning of a lesson, "Do you mind if we say cake?" Oops! In someone's lesson, "Shen ai ta de haize." It was supposed to mean, "God loves all his children," but instead said "God loves all his midgits." While that is very true as well, it wasn't exactly what they meant to say. The word for midget is "aize" and the mere absence of the slight h sound changed it completely.

 

Haha oh what a fun experience learning Chinese is! We are studying our little hearts out though, and the Lord blesses us accordingly. We have 2 new investigators this week that we are teaching everyday, so that's really neat. Teaching makes all the hard parts worth it, even if the lessons don't go as planned. We are able to sit down and try to explain what is so very important to us. We tell families they can be together forever. We tell people searching for happiness and peace that it can be found through prayer and scripture study. We tell them that we are all children of our Heavenly Father and that he loves us more than we can comprehend. Yeah, we have the best lives ever! And to think, it's only going to get better as we really get the opportunity to teach in Taiwan.

 

I'm happy as a clam. I've never quite understood that phrase. Are clams excessively happy? I hope so. If not, think of something else that is extremely happy and that's what I am. Wait... is the phrase "I'm happy as a clown"? My companion just said that's what it actually is... if so I've always said clam on accident. Oops! Haha well we all know how great I am at the english language so that would make sense. Well I love you all dearly and keep you in my prayers. Send me letters! I like them via any source. I'm not picky :)