This week has been good.I have been learning a lot. Our teaching pool is slowly going up (its hard work to get it up though because its constantly dropping). I had a traditional English breakfast this week at a members home, and guess what? BEANS, like baked beans, and mushrooms are part of breakfast. It is an interesting combo. We had it with brown sauce, which is basically thickened Worcestershire sauce. Everyone loves it here and I actually really like it.
The ward here is awesome. Its actually the second biggest ward in the country so there's a lot of active members (and a ton of inactive ones) and a ton of diversity. Its pretty cool because at church there are members from all of the main continents and ethnic groups present.
Funny/Sad story: I wrote about how we found W last week? We taught him on Wednesday and again on Saturday and he is awesome. He had some really interesting ideas that were very... original. He believed that Jesus was blind, and that's why the bible is lacking detail. And he needed a sidekick (his words, not mine) to write the bible. Needless to say, we had to clear up some misconceptions! It was awesome though because when we met with him on Saturday he had been reading the Book of Mormon and praying. His ideas about God and Jesus Christ have drastically changed for the better. The sad part of the story: He's going to jail this week. For 2-10 years depending on if he pleads guilty or not and the judge. He stabbed someone a year ago in a fight... We have offered to go see him in jail, hopefully he accepts. We at least hope he will take the Book of Mormon with him and now he knows the proper way to pray. He's awesome though. In his last week and a half of freedom (literally) he will have met with us 3 times. And he even came to church yesterday! in 2 to 10 years from now I really hope he can be taught by the missionaries again. He's ready!
That's probably the most eventful thing that happened this week. Sister Miller and I traveled to the mission home on Friday for the new missionary/trainer follow-up meeting and it was really inspiring. It was fun to see some of the people I was in the MTC with and it was nice to see that we are all going through the same things!
Today we are meeting with our District to go eat at an all-you-can eat Chinese buffet so that will be fun! And next week for P-day we are getting me a bike (We're going to try biking to closer places) with all the fixins' Getting to some places it will be more efficient than buses or walking. An Indian lady in our ward is taking us Saari shopping! We're going to find some cheap ones :) They're everywhere and they are so pretty!
I have thought a lot this week about how we must continually be spiritually nourished. When we stop reading our scriptures and praying with real intent it is easier to slide off the straight and narrow path. It doesn't matter if you served a mission, were a bishop etc. you can still lose your testimony and become inactive in the church. And I would guess a lot of it has to do with prayer and scripture study!
I have also learned a lot about what it is going to take to be a successful missionary and things that I need to improve on. There is a huge list, but I know those who the Lord calls he qualifies!
The two pictures I am sending are hilarious. Our Zone leader bought us all really nice chopsticks because we "are basically in China" in his words. We deal with everyone, but there are a ton of Chinese people! and the second one is a picture of me coming out of the toilet (which I had to PAY ten Pence to use.) It was really nasty, but hey, when you gotta go you gotta go!
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| The real question is do they know how to use the chopsticks :) |
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| This is such a Meg face :) |
I LOVE YOU ALL!
Sister Meghan Roscher
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