Well this week was an interesting one. I found a copy of MOTAB (Mormon Tabernacle Choir) silent
night. The one where Walter Cronkite narrates. We listen to that about once
every day or so. That is a lot of fun because now we can all sing a long, I hope
our neighbors can't hear us haha.
So every Saturday we teach an English Class and for the past few weeks
there has been hardly anyone coming so our district decided to do some banner
finding for it. So we all went to a bridge in Sha Tin and handed out fliers...
Then a monsoon started... so that was, shall we say character building. It was
actually a lot of fun. We discovered that if we said something in English then
"We teach a free English class" in Chinese It worked better. However most people
don't speak English so we just started saying nonsense like "my pants are too
tight" then "We teach a free English class" in Chinese or in English "I can't
swim". It was very therapeutic. I sometimes would speak German, then they would
be confused, then I would speak English, Then Chinese. That was some good
fun.
Yeah so as I mentioned above we had a monsoon this week. Or as we would
call it in Oregon "just another day" it wasn't too bad. just rain for a few
days. It really reminded me of home.
Also this week Elder Phung and I were out finding and we met a nice lady
and she invited us in the next day so that we could talk some more. So the next
day we went back and she had made a dessert. Which was tofu and a hard boiled egg
in some kind of broth. It wasn't that bad... the first time. but every time I
got close to finishing it she would fill up my bowl again. So I had like 4 bowls
of the stuff. So it started to be almost unbearable. The problem also was that
we had eaten before and were already full so every spoon full was a nightmare.
So when we were finally able to share our message she talked straight for and
hour and a half about terrorists. There is a Chinese Culture thing where if the
other person breathes in a sentence or in my case pauses to think of a word,
even if it is for half a second and you are mid thought they will interrupt you
and talk for as long as they want. It is really hard to think that that isn't
supper rude here. So we kinda got a message out over the TV. So that was an
interesting 2 and a half hours.
Moves were this week as well. I didn't get moved so that is nice. My
trainer and I will stay here for another 10 weeks. That is the plan at least.
There will be some shuffling in January but nothing to really worry about. I am
glad that I am staying so that I can get to Know this awesome ward even better.
Love you all,
Elder Walker
Me and my district leader
My Christmas stocking
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