January 13, 2014

Mumsie

What Tell? Oh no! I am so sad. I will pray for their family. Oh my goodness. This makes me so sad. Send the Udall family my love. 

This week has been very good. So fast though! I feel like time just slips out of my fingers. I swear it has not been 7 months. I feel like I just got here! The language is coming along :) I can preach the Gospel in Cantonese and that is all that matters! When i am out on the streets, it is pretty hard to understand haha. But we have been told to just learn the Gospel right now. I feel like that is all the matters and i understand what i need to. It is crazy to hear from Rachie and my other friends. They tell me that they are already doing great and the language is comfortable now....haha I think that is the 14 month mark here in Hong Kong! So we will see :) The tones just kill me sometimes. They call it a "tone day". That is when you just have a rough day and mix up the tones. Then no one understands what you are saying. mouh mantaih though because i have a companion! I love my companion! Sister Johonson is so incredible. She is so excited to meet you all :)

(and i don't know exactly when the temple will be closing) (and yeah that would be good to just let president hawks decide, i think that the other parents emailed him and asked about the whole picking kids up thing so you could do that or ill ask the other missionaries)

So what happened this week? hmmm Well like i said it just goes by so fast! Oh well we got a fire alarm from our mission office for our house and so we took it around with us that day. And every store we went out of, the alarm went off like we were stealing something. But we didn't think anything of it because someone would always stop a mom or something that was going out at the same times as us and check her kids bags. haha so then we went grocery shopping and we were walking out and the store alarm goes off again and this man comes up to us and just starts telling us that we stole something and made a big scene and was looking through our bags haha. It was like the worst feeling ever! Two little american missionaries just grocery shopping. But it turns out that it was just that dumb ol fire alarm! haha so everyone was just looking at us and our name tags and thinking that we were little siu tauh ge yahn! it was rough!

Oh i have noticed something while being here in Hong Kong. PEOPLE LOVE THEIR FOOD. When i first got here we would do calls at night and people would always just hang up on me because they said they were eating food at the moment. I though it was so mean and i was a little offended. But i have come to realize that they are really serious about their eating time. Do NOT disturb them while they are eating. I think i have taken that little characteristic up too so watch out family haha.

WELL ITS GETTING CLOSER TO CHINESE NEW YEAR!

I love it. It has changed from the "americanish" christmas to CHINESE! all the old people are out on the streets playing that super chinese instrument. It is like a one stringed violin and it makes that high squeaky noise. I bet mulon has it. Anyway, it is GREAT! and they have a whole bunch of traditional chinese food! (which is usually rice and fried stuff). And they do a lot lot lot of burning to the ancestors. They have these paper clothes. Like legit clothes that they buy for the ancestors and then they burn them. Burn them in the houses and in the hallways and on the street and on the sidewalk and everywhere. It is so cool to me! It is just amazing to be a part of their culture. But of course i will share the gospel with them and help them out a little :) but it is so cool. Just they love their family so much and they have to honor the family name and all that stuff that you just think is in the movies. They also really do have those long mustaches that just hang down. I have seen multiple of those...and oh DRAGONS are also HUGE! They love love love them. So i think my dragon dreams really are real. It is all just so cool.

Oh something else. So many people are named jackie chan. Like so many. They just love him so much. That will be the name of my first child. Or Bruce Lee. That is the big debate here. Who is the best? we will never know. 

Hmmm. oh so sometimes you will walk down the street and just smell this reched smell. like so bad. Something like dog food and throw up (sorry that is gross). anyway i decided to ask someone about it and it turns out that it is a SPECIAL SAUCE. Yep they eat it. and they LOVE it. I don't think i have tried it yet but that is next on my list.

And i have officially reached the moment where all my dreams are in Chinese! I just think it is so cool!

I alsowant to ask how uncle m is. I have been praying and fasting. And nataliw! Mission?!?!? Sweet!

Well i better get going! Love you all and talk to you next monday ! :)

this is a picture of someone i saw in stanly. They just got married and were going right to mconnals. yep. chinese.