Paper Towels, Service, and the Christmas Devotional

Finally found something to start my Christmas wish list on…

Hello!

This week has also gone pretty well! Despite it still being pretty cold and me bringing only one coat (I won’t need any warm coats in Taiwan!), it’s really nice here. Today we went to the temple to do initiatories before coming back to the MTC to do laundry and write emails. We rotate each week between doing an entire session and just initiatories; last week we did a session.

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Still Attempting to Learn Chinese

Elder Simonson – Gettin’ Lit up and feeling the (Christmas) spirit at the MTC

Hey everyone!

My first and second week at the MTC has been awesome! We have devotionals on both Sunday and Tuesday, plus special ones on holidays. On Thanksgiving, Elder Dallin H. Oaks was the speaker! He gave a great talk about obedience and gratitude (what a coincidence that it was Thanksgiving…). He brought up a good point that we should be grateful for even the adversities and trials that we have because we will be blessed when we overcome them.

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Boot Camp

Elder Simonson, Elder Cajilig, Elder Nicol, Elder Vanaiku, Elder Lee

Elder Simonson, Elder Cajilig, Elder Nicol, Elder Vanaiku, Elder Lee

It’s been going well. I started out having three other people in the room, but one of them transferred to the Chinese fast track class (he’s here only 4 weeks), so now there’s only two others in the room. We’re in a three person companionship now​ because of that. We are the only three Elders in our District and classroom now. The Elder that left also had a sister in our class, so in addition, there’s only three sisters. Our teacher is nice; his name is An Laoshi (Teacher An aka Brother Andersen). He’s only spoken Chinese to us since the very first day we arrived. He’ll occasionally use some English if we’re not understanding or if it would be much easier for us if he did. Continue reading