Bastilan! (that's Cebuano,,,)
I can't believe it's already P-day!
this last week went by very very fast and it freaks me out a bit.
I only have about 8 weeks left and i don't know how i feel about how fast weeks go by here,,
Today we were on our challenge to speak only in Cantonese but I already failed by 7:45 this morning,,,,
sigh, but I'm going to speak as much cantonese during the day as I can anyways,
We had our first TRC (don't ask me what that stands for) where cantonese speaking voluntary people come and help us practice teaching lessons on them as if it was real. it was hard, we hardly understood what they were saying back to us in cantonese, but I felt better afterwards, because most of them were returned missionaries from Hong Kong themselves and they told our teacher that they were impressed at our language skill that we were able to achieve in 2 and 1/2 weeks, apparently our teachers have been pushing us quite hard. That gives me a bit of comfort knowing that I'm not way behind in learning cantonese, but I am still working hard because we only have about 8ish more weeks of help and training here before we are thrown out in hong kong.
I made my first "phone call" appointment in cantonese with one of our investigators and it went pretty well, I was able to understand the person enough to schedule them at 12:45pm on friday, I was proud of myself for understanding that, but of course there were lots of other things that flew over my head.
So our roommates, Sister Shaw and Sister Apina left to report to Philippines (Cebuano speaking) yesterday and we miss them, our room feels pretty empty with just 3 people in 6 people capacity.
I am more and more loving my district. We are all so different and unique, but I feel like we are a family now, I feel like I have 10 brothers haha, I love them very much, and I can see so much potential in each of them. We are getting better at focusing and working hard, our improvements makes me happy.
I am so grateful to be out here. In class, we watched a clip of Elder Holland's talk that he gave in MTC devotional some years ago, and I have never seen him so passionate and so all over the place as he was in the clip before, his chastisement was strong, but not hurtful, but very effective, and his testimony is perhaps even more powerful and amazing than the general conference ones! He is so incredible, and when he expresses his love, we just feel so loved even though he doesn't even know us personally. He talked about how this our first mission opportunity is the best thing we ever had a chance to do and the hardest thing we have ever done, yet we will never ever be able to experience this again, because nothing is like the first mission. He talked about how serving our Father in Heaven requires THE Best, our best, we are participating in salvation of human soul, and we need to be voluntarily, lovingly, humbly, be willing to do God's will whose work this is. And I know what he told us is true. This really is the best thing ever. This really is my dream life, more than how I dreamed it. I am 24/7 living just for the cause of this work, to invite as many children of God as we can to come unto our Lord Jesus Christ. And you have no idea how happy I am even though it is so difficult, challenging and very demanding and exhausting. I know God is with me, I am so surprised at how much I am able to get done, well, not really, because I knew God would be with me to help me, it's just that I am really seeing it happen first hand. I love this quote: "The Lord is in the detail of our lives, He has no distracting hobby", Our Lord loves us. Jesus Christ, He loves us, and He can help us, He HAS helped us, and He Will continue to help us and love us as long as we let Him,
And I love Him, and serving Him here is my greatest joy and honor. I am so grateful that I am worthy enough to be His instrument. I am so honored that God has entrusted us with this responsibility to extend invitations to His precious children in
Ngoh Ngoi Leih,
Leih Jimuih
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