Here's the photo from last week. I look at it and I get really happy. You better get happy looking at it too. It will cure.
We don't have much time now- we're Sister Training Leaders so we interviewed all 13 Sisters in our zone. Then we go around and say night night prayers with them all, and today we get 7 new Sisters so... LIFE IS BUSY THERE'S NO TIME!
Mandarin word of the day: Kaixin (pronounced "k-eye sheen") means fun!!!
Also fun this week was how much tones affect mandarin! 1 is high flat tone, 2 is low rising slow, 3 is low up-down-up like "v" and 4 is high falling fast. If you say a tone wrong, the word could have a completely different meaning.
Examples:
Shu1fu3 is comfortable
Shu4fu4 is captive/hostage
We may or may not have messed up with the above example. I'll let you decide.
Short version: all is well. It's fun. Mission is a blast.
Long version: um I'm actually not sure. Our district keeps drawing hand pictures on the chalk board. We call them the "lai" or come hand, because Chinese people beckon people toward them by waving hand downward with palm down. I'll include a picture of the 50 hands they drew on the board.
Oh I know! We got to skype and talk to an actual person from Taiwan this week! She showed us her dog, then talked to us... a lot. And we got like 10.6% of what she said. Good news is that she understood us!!! I'll send a pic of our skype too.
Here's something spiritual for once: Elder Ballard spoke for Easter, so that was really great to hear him speak about his testimony of Jesus Christ!
We showed an Easter video to an "investigator" (who is actually just our teacher), and she started crying after- it was really touching. Here are the links:
~If you want you can try in mandarin (haha I got like 67% of it mainly because I already listened in English):https://www.lds.org/media-
Nimen shi zui hao de! (you guys are the best!)
Zai jian! Bye-bye!
~Mao Jie Mei
Sister Hickman
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