Dear Family, Day
1
I am alive and well.
I’m not able to get on email until Monday, which is my p-day. So, I have some pictures that I can send you
then.
Today we learned that you need to teach the person and
really put yourself in their shoes to understand them. (In) my first experience
in the MTC, I was shoved into a room where everyone was speaking Chinese and I
had to learn super quick! Well it looks like I (am) taking one suit case.
My companion is Elder Baer or Xiong Zhang Lao. He is from
I don’t know what to write in these thing so good bye for now. The church is true!
From,
Elder FletcherQui Zhang Lao
Dear Family, Day
1-1/2
Well we as a district have decided to read one verse each of
the Book of Mormon in Chinese (Shawn “he explain this later on”). It’s kind of
crazy! This language has a very humbling
spirit about it. The Mandarin speakers
are the best of the best, but we can’t let it go to our heads, because others
look up to us. The words people use are “we have to have a culture of
righteousness about us or we won’t succeed and the language will slap us in the
face”.
I am really feeling the spirit in everything we do
here. I mean everyone in my room is
writing and saying prayers. Well, its
11:20, way past lights out, but I will send this off tomorrow.
Day 2
Wow this day has flown by.
I really can’t believe it. Well
to make a long story short, I have been overwhelmed with this language. My district is really trying hard to do our
best! Every night we have a district
prayer and we each read a verse in Chinese out of the Book of Mormon. Everyone in my district is a lot better then
I am at Chinese. I really am having a
hard time. I don’t know what to do. I can’t figure this out. I am praying every second for help and I just
don’t get it. Then today when I thought I was starting to get the hang of it, I
got slapped in the face. This language
has brought me to my knees more than once and I have only been here 2 days.
Well today it was interview day and I was nervous beyond
belief. President Dunn shared a
scripture with me in D&C; it talked about angels round about us. This gave me comfort even though it felt like
it took place a long time ago.
Well, I can’t take too long I plan on mailing this tomorrow. The Lord saw fit to bless me with more
responsibility even though I feel like I am falling behind in Chinese. Don’t get me wrong I am blessed and thankful
to be speaking this wonderful language.
I have been blessed in being the district leader. My companion told me that
if I take this responsibility seriously, the lord will help me with my
Chinese. I am grateful for this
opportunity! I pray for all of you. I was able to speak my first prayer in
Chinese today so maybe it is already helping.
Well, I got to go but I got mom’s Dear Elder. Thank you I am doing fine
I hope you guys are doing OK as well.
On to day 3.
Derek FletcherQiu Zhang Lao