June 8th
This last week I have been
trying to learn chinese at a new level. I
can communicate with anyone and understand just about anything, but i want to
be better. I don't want to come home
with just a missionary vocabulary. I
want to be able to speak like a native and just have fun with it! So, i have a renew desire to study and learn
chinese better!
Also i want to be opening my
mouth more and talking with everyone! it is amazing how much better i feel when
i do that! Not much really has happened this week! i do have a visa run coming
up on wed. the 11 so that will be fun! i am heading off to Indonesia
i am doing good health wise!
maybe a little on the mental side. I
might be a little wierd but that is ok! i have been working hard! and i will
keep my Heavenly Father involved!
keep up the good work and if
you get a chance to read the july liahona read the very last page right before
Thomas s. Monson! it is really good!:)
June 15th
My week has been great! we
have been just going crazy trying to help our investigators. It has been great! some life advice: never judge anybody! we are
all out here to learn and we are all out here for the same purpose remember
that everyone can repent even if they are trying to do what they should be! i
have to do it everyday! haha i am not the missionary i should be! i should be
talking to more people and i should be inviting people constantly to make and
keep commitments! but i love the fact that i can repent and change!
well something that is
really cool in chinese! is the word 悔改 so
the first character is 悔 it can be broken up into
2 parts 心 and 每
which separately is heart and everyday then next character is 改 which means to change so when you put them together
it means repent! or everyday change your heart! so consistently get better!:)
everybody can be doing this! and it is so great to just love people into doing
it! you are a great mother and father! Keep your head held high and you knees
on the ground!:) I read this quote today during personal study it is from Elder
Richard G Scott it says " To become what you want to be, you have to be
what your want to become everyday." it makes me so happy that we are able
to just keep progressing! well i hope you had a great week!
Hey Dad, Happy Fathers
Day!!!!!
i was reading your letter
from last week!! and i am so glad! ulu emailed me this week! i was so happy for
him! i can't wait for him! there was alot agaist him going out on his mission
that just means that he will be an even better missionary! he is so powerful
when he speaks i have no doubt that he will just do wonders! i will be on the
front row of his homecoming! he is such a great example to me! and i am trying
to be bolder! i can rest when i get home!
Elder Frey is our zone
leader he actually is my grandfather in the mission i actaully am what you
could call royalty here! because he was trained by one of the best chinese
elders ever and then elder frey trained elder mitchell and elder mitchell
trained me and we are all the first borns if you will in that line. elder frey goes home in just a little bit.
no transfers so no worries! im stil in
Love Elder Fletcher
June 22nd
Hey you guys! i can't
believe it snowed it is the middle of june! almost july! that is crazy!
well some things that
happened this week is we are having a hard time trying to get our investigators
to do anything, but we were contacting out at china town and as i was talking
to this old chinese man (Mark) about the church some members came up and
started talking to us well it was a mom and a daughter and the daughter just
got her call to taiwan and the mom was so happy! haha then they gave us some
chocolate shakes and some durrian well then Mark got up to leave and i was like
oh no! but then he came over and asked for my name card and something about our
church! it was great!
i met james on the train
this morning! he is a christian and wants to go teach the gospel to the jews he
just got back for michigan that this how i contacted him i saw his shirt it
said the lake of michigan and yep haha i told him that my cousins family lives
up there! Steph's husband!
then i got on the train to
chinatown and i met lucy, Yuling, and jessy they are all family yu ling had a
baby that was 9 months old i told her about my beautiful sister that is pregnat
and they just loved talking to me and thought my chinese was great! haha they
said i sounded like i studied in china because of my accent. when i told them
that i studied personal and in singapore
oh and our investigators
Ramona and Isabella have been taught all the lessons and now just want to
finish the book of mormon before they get baptized!
i love talking with people
if i ride the train or a bus and dont talk to somebody i just feel like the
worst person on the earth!
what would you suggest for
us to do with our investigators that have been taught everything and just want
to finish the book of mormon but are reading very slow? haha i know it doesn't
matter if i get the baptism but if the keep delaying i feel like something
could come by and destroy their testimony! and i don't want that! one of them
is in 1 nephi 25 and the other one in in jacob??
i was thinking a mosiah 18
and saying look you don't need to read this book all the way there to know that
it is true and this is what you need to do! and ask them to commit to be
baptised in 3 weeks and pray about it right there with us but it needs to be
super spiritual!
“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” (Michael Jordan)
June 29th
Hey Family,
This week is transfers so i
will let you know what is up! Well this week has been sad... all the chinese
elders in
we met with Hanfei and she
brought a new friend so taht was good! and we went out to get a pass off lesson
from the english elders but she never came! but there is still hope! well I
have alot of cool presents that i have gotten for everyone! and i will put some
sneak peaks on the pictures! well my week was ok i have learned alot we had
zone conference this week the topic was repentance i had to give a talk it was
ok! i shared Either 12:27 about how we all came on our
missions and now more then ever i have learned my weaknesses and god has been
showing me them so that way i can humble myself and repent and become better!
well it went ok i just shared about how that has really helped me in my mission
so that was cool!
Well the pain from a couple
months ago is coming back.... i think it might be due to stress because it
happened up in miri when diana told us she wouldn't be able to get baptized and
it happened again this week right after isabella told us she didn't want to
learn anymore.. so i am not sure i don't want to tell president yet because i
don't want it to affect transfers but i am going to email and tell him today
after transfers come out so no worries! i
am trying to learn all i can from the tough moments!
we are going to play on the
beach today and it just rained so it wont' be to hot! that is always nice! and
i know the package is here but we could grab it yesterday it because it was
sunday! but i do know it is here i am going to grab it tonight!
Transfers just came in, I am
Staying in Singapore
Love you guys to so much
thank yo for the support! you guys are great! I love you so much! is there
anything that you want from here i like dad got alot of cool chinese things but
what else is there be thinking! oh and something i want in my next package
is........... home made cookies!!!!!:) love you guys!!! take care talk to you
next week!
July 6th
so i got my package!!! holy
cow!!! that is so much!!! haha i love it so much thank you guys!!
oh the humidity!! well i
have basically gotten used to it... so it will be weird when i come back and it
will be all dry!! i got the youngs letter and just finish writing them back, i
just need to go buy a stamp! and then i will send it off!
well this week has been
abosolutly crazy!!! we have just so much work now!! Elder Wang and I went to
chinatown one night and everybody that we talked to was from china and wanted
to learn about the gospel! it is insane with in 30 minutes we had passed out 4
copies of the Book of Mormon and taught them the first lesson they all had so
much interest in everything! and want to learn more! we didn't have any more
copies with us so we just used pamphlets and just tried to talk to everyone! it
was crazy! we talked to so many people and we got so many numbers then later
that night we went to a party and we talked to tons of people there and alot of
them came to church! one said that she wouldn't be able to make it but told her
friend about it and her friend really wanted her name is Miao Miao. she loved
it and wants to learn so much!
This week the Lord has
decide to bless us and we have just seen mirical after mirical! it was insane!
we can't all that has happen!
well something
interesting.... my companion can't speak English... so everything i say to him
has to be in chinese or else he doesn't understand! and when ever somebody
speaks english to him i have to translate for him... haha so this has just been
great he has been helping my chinese so much and it is just great! members say
that his accent is rubbing off on me because i sound like a person from china!
oh and in other news I am now
having an eat off with some chinese people! they said that i couldn't eat hot
stuff so i am used an ancient chinese idiom and then they challenged me to a
spicy eat off! haha so that will go down this week!
well that was the short
verse of my week! i feel like Mormon when he says that he can only write 1/100
of what happened this week! but no worries my journal might contain 2/100 haha!
hopefully i try not to forget anything!
haha the highs and the lows are crazy! i really does show that the Lords hand is in everything! because we need those lows with out the Lows we would not appreciate the highs and work as hard as we are to keep it high!
Love your son/brother,
Elder Fletcher
July 13th
Hey Family!! i am doing
pretty good today sorry i am so late at emailing my companion was struggling
this morning he is a little sick!
Speaking of your foreign
exchange students: Tina and Rain! I am uploading a voice recording for them! it
should be good!
Here is the translation of
the voice recording:
hi, im elder fletcher i know
you guys are at my house, sorry i don't know your names, but i am very happy
you were able to arrive at my home. right now i am in
If you try writing the words
that they don't understand they might be able to pick it up because people from
china learn how to write and recongnize words but they don't know how to say
them or hear them! it but the written language they comprehend a little better!
Abbi, i dont' know why but i
woke up in the middle of the night last night and had the feeling that you need
to remember that God loves each of his children and really does know each of us
individually! I wrote this down last night in my journal so i wouldn't forget! I love you so much!
wow that is so amazing about
all the gifts your Chinese kids gave you. people from china are so nice! i don't have a
nice pair of chop sticks! but i am planning on buying some sometime!
I learned a lot this week
and i am trying everyday to get better and better! this week we have been
working with alot of new investigators and potentials and been trying to help
them all learn! we also had a lot of appointments at members house and
activities with members! i hope that you guys are going to have a great week
this week too!
Love you,
Elder FletcherGod is at the helm! he loves each of us! and will show so much
