Hey everyone! so I'm not sure how many of you heard but Monday night we had the chance to meet with the Chinese Ambassador/Delegate so that was like way cool! Then the next day we got to meet with the Consulate General of India which was pretty sweet! he asked us a lot of questions on why we were all serving so it was a unique experience!
So this week went super good this past week I have also started reading the missionary library (True to the Faith, Our Search for Happiness, Our Heritage, and Jesus the Christ). In the past week I have read Our search for Happiness as well as Our Heritage. I feel like a lot of questions I had were answered in those books. In Our Heritage there were a lot of great stories about early church members as well as missionaries. It has helped me to see that God always helps his missionaries but he also allows them to go through trials. This past week has been hard to stay motivated on learning the Chinese, sometimes I feel like there is so much that I don't know. After reading a story about a missionary who was learning a language and became fluent because of Gods help it inspired me to push on and now I am trying to focus more on using the language each day.
So the reason for the title career change is this last week I had the opportunity to shine my shoes, which I had never done before so kinda a learning experience. Anyways I think that I'm going to be one of those guys in the airport who shine shoes!!!! ok probably not but it was actually a lot funner than I had imagined it would be. So definitely something I'll be doing every week now.
Lets see this week has gone by super fast! we didn't get to go to the temple today because my tong2ban4 (my companion) somehow lost his temple recommend so that was quite the adventure we had to go to all sorts of places to look for it. Eventually we gave up and President Teng (our branch president) is getting him a new one tomorrow night.
I hope you are all doing well, and everything is going great! It is really good here the weeks go by really fast and I feel like I'm learning a lot about the Gospel as well as Chinese.
Well thats about all my adventures this week,
Love Elder Jackson
我愛你們! 神可以幫助你跟你的生侯!
Ok can't actually write but I can type a ton of characters now! so thats fun
So this week went super good this past week I have also started reading the missionary library (True to the Faith, Our Search for Happiness, Our Heritage, and Jesus the Christ). In the past week I have read Our search for Happiness as well as Our Heritage. I feel like a lot of questions I had were answered in those books. In Our Heritage there were a lot of great stories about early church members as well as missionaries. It has helped me to see that God always helps his missionaries but he also allows them to go through trials. This past week has been hard to stay motivated on learning the Chinese, sometimes I feel like there is so much that I don't know. After reading a story about a missionary who was learning a language and became fluent because of Gods help it inspired me to push on and now I am trying to focus more on using the language each day.
So the reason for the title career change is this last week I had the opportunity to shine my shoes, which I had never done before so kinda a learning experience. Anyways I think that I'm going to be one of those guys in the airport who shine shoes!!!! ok probably not but it was actually a lot funner than I had imagined it would be. So definitely something I'll be doing every week now.
Lets see this week has gone by super fast! we didn't get to go to the temple today because my tong2ban4 (my companion) somehow lost his temple recommend so that was quite the adventure we had to go to all sorts of places to look for it. Eventually we gave up and President Teng (our branch president) is getting him a new one tomorrow night.
I hope you are all doing well, and everything is going great! It is really good here the weeks go by really fast and I feel like I'm learning a lot about the Gospel as well as Chinese.
Well thats about all my adventures this week,
Love Elder Jackson
我愛你們! 神可以幫助你跟你的生侯!
Ok can't actually write but I can type a ton of characters now! so thats fun