Week 3- May 15, 2012

Wassup everyone,

This week was good and went by pretty fast.

Last week on Saturday, we had TRC which stand for training resource center. We basically went there and got to teach people that are Taiwan natives. They are members of the church and they help us with our Chinese. First, we taught an older man from the states and his wife from Taiwan. Then we talked to a dad and his 15 year old son that are living here. They said they go back to Taiwan every summer so they were excited that they're going to be there when we we're there. I told them I played basketball and their faces lit up and they were really excited about that.

The older generation of mandarin missionaries all left today. Most of them went to Taiwan but some went to the states and others went to Singapore and Australia. All of the Taiwan missionaries are really excited to leave. They said they were flying to Detroit first and then all the way to Taiwan. I wish it was me leaving right now!

Since all of the older kids left, the 30 or so of us mandarin missionaries left have to do a lot more work such as give sacrament talks and stuff like that. I got released as district leader on Sunday because they make changes every 3 weeks so different people get a chance to experience leadership.

Last Tuesday at the devotional, Elder Christofferson spoke to us. He just talked about how our main role as missionaries is to teach people about repentance which brings them closer to Jesus Christ their Savior.

one of the kids in my district is really good at singing so he is gonna sing at a Tuesday night devotional in front of everyone and a girl from the district is gonna accompany him on the piano so that'll be cool.

Not much else is going on. We get like 30 more mandarin speaking missionaries coming in next Wednesday so that'll be cool to have them in our branch. Now a little Chinese for you...

wo zhidao zhege jiao hui shi zhen shi de. Wo zhidao Moermenjing shi shen de hua. Wo ganxie shen cigie wo zhege chuanjiao de jihui.

wo ai nimen! ping'an!

In essence it means: I know this church is true. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I am grateful for this opportunity to spread the gospel. I love you guys. Peace.

Jordan, our new missionary

This is Jordan's MTC district. This is on a pday when they get to go to the Provo temple

Jordan wishing mom a Happy Mother's Day

Here is his nametag in Mandarin Chinese.  It is so cool!

This is Jordan with a guy in his district at the MTC. His name is Elder Bian.  He went to Canada on his mission.