I had to give a 5 minute talk yesterday to introduce myself to the ward. It went alright, I talked about how basically everyday I check my call letter to make sure they didn't sneakily put in there that I was actually called to speak Chinese. Sister Chuo got a little talking to about teaching so many Chinese because when she leaves at the end of the transfer all of the Chinese speaking investigators will transfer to the Chinese speaking elders and if we are teaching no one else then I will be left with no one to teach. So we are trying to find more Non-Chinese people to teach. I am not exaggerating about how many Chinese people we teach. This last week we taught 25 lessons, 21 were to Chinese people. I don't make this up. Granted some of them were repeats of the same Chinese people, but still.
We had our first district meeting this last week. President and Sister Preston decided to come to ours. No pressure. There are only 6 of us in our district (3 companionships). After district meeting Sister Preston had arranged to come out teaching with us. Once again, no pressure. I don't know if Sister Chuo was worried I'd make her look bad or if I just looked like a deer in the headlights, but for the time Sister Preston was with us, I didn't get to talk much. It was good though.
We have 5 "Tea" (dinner) appointments this coming week. I guess people in the ward like me. That's good right? They eat so many potatoes (spuds) here it's slightly ridiculous... and they say Idahoans eat a lot of spuds...
Saturday night they had a big stake activity called roadshows. All the wards had written little plays to perform in this competition. We got permission to go if we had investigators to go, so naturally I was doing everything I could to get investigators to go. We got a few people to go and it was really fun. Was able to experience true British humour at its finest.
We are going to go to the Titanic museum they have here, apparently the Titanic sailed out of this harbour or something. We are going as a district outing. I'm pretty happy to go.
Tell anyone who is expecting letters that I haven't had time to write any yet. I feel bad about that.
I haven't gotten anything from you yet, but that would be because when it is sent to the mission home we don't get it until zone conferences or special trainings, so hopefully next week I will get what you have sent.
I have been asked to sing the special musical number in the specialized training next week. I wonder what they would do if I got up and sand in my chipmunk voice.... hmmm? I won't really, but it'd be pretty funny...
We have one investigator we are teaching named (Name omitted). She has a sort of social phobia. She came to church once and didn't like it because everyone kept talking to her. I explained that's just how the ward is to try to get to know her and better know if she needs anything. We didn't really know how to deal with it, but we decided to take a member with us to teach her to try to get her a friend that she would be more comfortable being with at church. We called one of the girls in our ward who is 20, also goes to Liverpool University where she attends. Turns out when we met up for the lesson, she knew the girl we brought. They are both studying law and have classes together. They got along great and (Name omitted) came to church yesterday. So that was good progress!
Well, I have to dash, time and all.... Miss you all!
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