November 22, 2010 Cigarette Experiment

Ok hello family. So today was move day. But our entire district is the same haha so woooohoooo I'm am still with elder Lai! He is so Asian it’s awesome. Apparently President Bishop was in one area when he was on his mission and so he doesn't like to do lots of moving around. Which I like. Oh but a lot of my friends from the MTC are senior companions now and my MTC companion is a district leader already. wow. He is so legit. He has already read the Book of Mormon in Chinese and is reading the doctrine and covenants in Chinese. so sweet. I just barely started on characters and right now I have about 200 down. But it’s cool because Elder Lai is trying to learn English and so we quiz each other on the same words. We learn it better that way.

An experience.... hmmm sometimes I feel like contacting a certain person for no specific reason. Sometimes they turn me down and I'm sometimes really confused about why the spirit told me to contact that person. Maybe it’s for a reason unknown. Or just to see if I would follow a prompting. Another time, when we were at monkey mountain, I ran ahead of the group and I thought my companion was right behind me. I stopped at one point and my companion wasn't there and neither was anybody else. A thought popped into my head to turn around. So I went back and it turns out I had taken a wrong turn at one of the many forks on the trails of monkey mountain.

This week I did a little experiment. Anytime anyone was smoking I would ask them to put out their cigarette and ask them to give me their pack and their lighter. I thought it was interesting how the younger they were the more willing they were to give it up. But as you get to the older generation, they freak out at you when you ask them to give you their smokes. One young kid (about 15) actually thanked me and said he would try and quit. so in the last week my toilet has swallowed lots of tar and tobacco. haha sweet.

Thanks for Josh's address. I'm not allowed to go on dearelder.com... Oh well.
This move call is going to be exciting! Thanksgiving and Christmas! all in the same move call! Oh yeah. Our American bishop is having us over for thanksgiving to eat turkey! yay.
Sorry there aren’t a lot of pictures today. We didn’t do anything fun.
Love Elder Graham