Best week EVER! oh and pokemon

Hwaaaaayy Nimen Hao!?

Wow this week was great! It was so good maybe I can just leave my mission now cause I don't think it can get better than this. But it can only get better right ;)?

Word of Week: shenqibaobe (probably most important word I've learned thus far. It means pokemon)

It is now my goal to learn all 600+ pokemon names. My companion asked what that has to do with my missionary purpose. Hey, they said work with your talents! Pikachu sounds like pikachu, and charmander is literally smallfiredragon.

Short version: So many miracles. Also update on keys I have not forgotten the keys lately. Only because my companion always makes sure I have them. Also because I was demoted and no longer hold the keys. 

Long version: Literally so much happened. We had two great baptisms this week! Chen DX and Lai DX are awesome people! I have learned so much from them!

My companion told me when I don't understand something it's probably taiwanese (taiyu). So that's why I'm having such a hard time everyone is speaking taiyu! Right....? Ok maybe not.

Oh I remembered something. My first week here I was doing laundry and put all my clothes in the dryer instead of the washer. That was pretty funny. 

Another fun thing is the Ye Jiating. The dad is like 90 years old, so he's kindof hard to understand. So translations go as follows:

The older baba says something mumbled in chinese. The dad translates back for us in clearer chinese. My companion translates to Enlgish for me. I say something in mumbled chinese. Companion translates to clarify my meaning. The dad yells in chinese what she said to the older baba. But when the older baba smiles... :D the lights descend from heaven and the angels sing.

What does the Fox say just came on. We must leave. 

Zai jian for now

#Iwantchinesemusic

wo ai nimen!

~Mao Jie Mei

Ps be a sassy cat

Also that is me with my shared last name/maybe relative Mao Ze Dong de Mao. People tell me not to say that. But I see the resemblance.

I'm Famous!

Nimen hao?? 

Wow another great week in Taiwan! Favorite moment was when we were finding and having lessons in a thunderstorm.Preach in all weathers ;)

Word of the week: chi fan (pronounced... kindof like it sounds... I'm sorry the more chinese I get the more english bad) it means to eat!

Short version: Rain rain go away come again another day. Or never.

Long Version: So a lot of the people I meet at the church from Taoyuan apparently recognize my name and say they know my mom, grandma or grandfather. Actually super cool! They get pretty excited! Hope my Chinese ability doesn't ruin my family's honor. Here's a picture of me with them! 

Here's a picture of a sassy cat.

Wo ai nimen! 

Buena suerte!

#yaodiyu

#huigai because next time I'll write more!

                    ~Mao jie mei 

I only have like 3 minutes

oh wait. I was just informed that we have an hour and a half of email. Nevermind I have like 33 minutes. ooo this will be fun then

 

I feel like my companion is probably so annoyed at me.

This is our morning routine: she's dressed waiting for me on the couch. I come over she asks "you ready to go?" "yup!" Got your wallet? *runs back into bedroom to get it. "got your lunch?" *runs into kitchen. "got your nametag?" *runs into study room "got your helmet?" *picks it up from table "shoes?" *changes shoes. At least most of the days I got the keys :D

 

Word of the week: "zhanglang" pronounced... eh I don't even know. It means cockroach though, which Taiwan has lots of! Including a huge scary one we saw in a market so we are never going to that market again.

Also sounds like how we say "Elder" a little so I'm always afraid I'll go "Hey cockroach!" instead of "Hey Elder!"

 

Short version: "Food's great" correction from last week. Realized the smell on the street was not sewage it was stinky tofu.

 

Long version: my new goal is to make a chinese person laugh. And also to understand chinese jokes/humor. I feel so sad when during church someone says something funny in chinese and everyone laughs but I don't get it. I just want to laugh with the chinese folks :,(. So any advice on how to do that is welcome haha.

 

Also my companion put a boiled egg in the microwave and it exploded ALL over. Like a mini bomb!

 

Went shopping last week and every time I saw a cat print on clothing I stopped and said I wanted it. My comp probably thinks I'm crazy. Also a cat rubbed her leg this week. i was jealous.

 

Ok now i really only have 3 minutes left.

 

The Jehovahs Witness missionaries found us again. They're following us I think. And we accidentally gave them our address.

 

Anyways, language is coming... ish. I have faith, and if there is faith there's a way!

 

Love you all! Wo ai nimen!

 

Zai jian for now!

#yaodiyu

 

~Mao Jie Mei

 

 

The picture is of us in front of a miao (buddhist temple). Or as I call it a "meow."