Wooo.

My teacher was telling us a funny story where he accidentally shared 3rd Nephi 1:7 instead of 1st Nephi 3:7 with an investigator. If you want to know why that's funny, you'll have to read it.

Nothing else happened this weak except for teaching the second lesson.

Ahh...

I gave a talk in Church this last Suday, which was pretty scary, but not as scary as it use to be in English, for some reason. After going through my prepared talk in about 2 minutes, I had to keep going for a while, which was pretty cool, because I realized that I could just keep talking pretty fluently, actually more fluently than reading.

Also met an Elder Pack the other day, he didn't seem too impressed that we shared the same last name...

ZaiJian

Hello World

The most interesting thing this week was learning that I'm related to Mitt Romney through some guy born in 1597. (My dad told me, this means that we're probably 12th cousins, once or twice removed...) This week we've started teaching the gospel completely in Mandarin, which actually isn't as hard as it would seem, but that's probably just me. We get new Madarin missionaries here on Wed, which is really exciting for some reason. It's nice to know that other people will look up to us and marvel at our Mandarin skills.

That's all.

Cao Zhanglao.

It's been a month....wow

Well, I've been here a month. The longest month of my life, but time seems to be moving faster now.

We taught a real investigator last Saturday, which was amazing. He was from China and was the guardian of a little girl he picked up in Guam. (odd story, I couldn't understand all of it, it was in Chinese and he had an accent....) I could see that as we shared our message he could feel the truth of it. He had a interesting story. He grew up as a Catholic and actually went to some LDS activities on Saturday nights during collage for some reason. After moving to the US and then to Utah he was impressed by how nice and caring the people were and started reading the Book of Mormon. Then he somehow ended up volunteering to be taught here at the MTC. He said he'd come next week, so maybe he'll end up with us again.

Today I just got a hair cut. (Wo hen shuai....look it up, :-) ) The barber asked me how I wanted it cut. I had no idea. They'd probably cut it the same way even if I told them....

Until next week, Cao Zhonglao.