So this week was good. Here are some pictures from the last two weeks. I should be getting my bible today! Super excited. English KJV and Chinese.
I'm glad you guys got the package. Aren't the chopsticks legit? They are kinda cheaply made but the case still looks awesome.
I'm glad you guys got the package. Aren't the chopsticks legit? They are kinda cheaply made but the case still looks awesome.
OK Story time. So I was on a bus on the way home from doing exchanges with the district leader, and two white ladys walk on. Which is weird because it is literally in the middle of nowhere. Then the bus driver wanted them to sign his bus. But they didn't speak Chinese so the bus driver called me from the back and told me to translate. so while they were signing the bus I asked them where they were from just making small talk and the older woman said she is from San Diego. Then the other, younger one said she is from the "bay area". And I was like "oh really? where at?" she said "do you happen to know a place called Benicia?" I almost pooped my pants. Ummm lets just say YES. I know Benicia. I said "Yes it just so happens that I spent quite a few years there growing up." Then (this is the weird/ cool part) she said "Wait, were you in the ward there? Did you know the Picketts? Jamie Pickett? Or did you know Saydie Panye?" I pooped my pants again. She told us that all of her good friends were all Mormon and that she used to go to all the young men young women activities. But she never joined the church. And now she is an English teacher up north near the air port. Then she continued to update me on all the people in California. It was just super "its a small world" feeling. Literally on opposite ends of the earth. CA and here. So yeah that was interesting. So that was my story for the day.
SO yeah that's kinda it.
SO yeah that's kinda it.
Oh yeah one more story. So there was this investigator that we met with the same night as the above story, and he is a huge guy. And he has been wanting to be baptized for a while but he stopped coming to church because his brother got in a huge car accident and he had to look after his brother. And because of all the worrying for his brothers life, he started smoking again. But anyway, we met with him and we were trying to set a new baptismal goal with him. He wanted to do it that Saturday. I told him that that was too fast. and that he needs to quit smoking and start coming back to church. So I suggested 2 weeks later and he said no. Fine three weeks, he said no. 4 weeks. no. 5, 6, 7, 8, weeks. No. "Xie di xiong you just said you wanted to be baptized. Why can't you do it any of these days?"
"Because I have to go to prison next week." for the third time that day I pooped my pants. "wwhhhatttt?"
I thought that I just heard wrong and that because of my bad Chinese, I just heard the wrong word. So I looked up in the phone the characters that he said. and hou4 lai2 yes he was going to prison for 8 months. And nobody is allowed to visit him for the first 3 months of him being in there. So I may not ever see this man ever again. We still aren't sure what he did... All we know is that last time he had to go, it was because he cut off someones leg.
"Because I have to go to prison next week." for the third time that day I pooped my pants. "wwhhhatttt?"
I thought that I just heard wrong and that because of my bad Chinese, I just heard the wrong word. So I looked up in the phone the characters that he said. and hou4 lai2 yes he was going to prison for 8 months. And nobody is allowed to visit him for the first 3 months of him being in there. So I may not ever see this man ever again. We still aren't sure what he did... All we know is that last time he had to go, it was because he cut off someones leg.
Love you guys,
Elder Graham
Elder Graham
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