So, super exciting week!!! The Temple was closed last Monday for Labor
day so we all woke up and got breakfast then took a glorious nap.
So
Thursday rolls around and we are supposed to use gym time to pack and
we also have service that day so we had a good 4 hours to do laundry and
pack all our stuff up. On our way back from laundry we ran into our
zhonglao (elders) who excitedly informed us that we needed to go to the
travel office at 2 and they would call to see if our visas went
through. super exciting, right?! So we seriously packed everything up
and went to class. During lunch the other districts told us we needed
to go to the travel office because they needed to tell us something. So
after lunch we tromped over to the travel office where they informed us
that our visas had not come and they had to fill out new forms because
they changed....alll this stuff. So, here's what happened. We have to
stay at the MTC for at least 14 more days (two weeks) while they
reassign all of us somewhere in the states until our visas come. It's
actually exciting because now I get to serve two missions AND it's like
getting a mission call all over again. But I'm stuck in the MTC for at
least another week. YEA!!
So, funny embarrassing story about
me. After dinner we were scheduled to teach Biao (yan lao shi). Luo
Zhang Lao (Robinson) hadn't taught in a week because his tongban
(companion) has been sick, so we invited him to be our "member." 1st
mistake. Then we went and knocked and he let us in and we sat down and
started talking. It was Lew, Me, Luo. 2nd mistake. So we're talking to
him (by the way, we're all sick so we're all coughing sniffling and
can't think straight. 3rd mistake) and Lew Jie Mei is explaining how the
gospel can bless families when this bubble of methane surprisingly
slips out of me and makes a huge noise. And that's the end of that
lesson. Seriously ALL of us started laughing and could. not. stop.
Yep, so the moral of the story is DO NOT invite zhanglaomen (elders) to
be "members" in your lessons.... yup, that pretty much sums it up.
The
next day after dinner we had the pleasant surprise of wu lao shi
teaching us!!! It was like a breath of fresh air, he asked us what we
wanted to learn about. So he taught us about coping with
disappointment, how to keep motivated, and how to lose yourself in the
work. It was pretty amazing, because he didn't really teach us, he
asked us all to find scriptures to answer them. His point at the end
was that we already had all the answers, they're all in the scriptures.
If we diligently seek for them and ask our Heavenly Father, we will
find answers to our questions.
Saturday our
zone did the cereal challenge. For those who have not had this
opportunity, the cereal challenge is when you drain a whole cereal row.
These cereal containers are about 2-3 ft tall and about a foot deep.
Our zone drained two! I seriously ate about 5 bowls of cereal. A lot of
the Zhonglao (elders) averaged about 7 - 10 bowls. WARNING: do not try
this at home, especially the meal before fast Sunday! :)
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