Hi family!
So lots has gone on this week.
It turns out that Sister Law will not be coming with us, as her visa hasn't arrived yet, and there have been some administrative issues with advancing her-- our teachers' supervisor was supposed to get it sorted out a week ago or so, but we visited the travel office today and they still have no word from our supervisor about advancing her. They might temporarily reassign her to a stateside mission while she waits for a visa. I'm sad she's not coming with us.
Thirdly, I got my travel plans this week!! We leave the
MTC at 6am on Monday the 6th, have a layover at LAX from something like
11-1, and then will fly Cathay Pacific straight to Hong Kong. So we
leave the MTC 6:00am on Monday and get to Hong Kong 7pm on Tuesday.
Weird time changes. That was really fun. A few other Mandarin districts
on our floor got theirs at the same time, so our hall was in a state of
semi-celebration for the hour or so after lunch.
4) My roommate Alisse Frandsen got her mission call!
She's going to the Chile Concepcion Mission!! Yay!! I'm really excited
for her. She leaves Sept 12, so she doesn't have much time to get ready!
5) The other day Sister Lin and I went off campus for a
dr's appointment, and while I was in the waiting room it was really
cool because I felt the Spirit just kind of settle on me saying "There's
someone here you need to talk to." I felt when a woman who had hurt her
knee walk in that she was the one, so I chatted with her some. I'm
still not sure why I was supposed to talk with her, but it seemed to
cheer her up because she looked like she was in a lot of pain. Then I
met a man there who said he lived in the Oakton Ward until about 2006 or
something-- his name is John Hill-- ring any bells?
6) Then on the way back, in the shuttle van I got
talking to a couple of elders, and discovered one of them was an Elder
Brian Doll from the McLean 2nd Ward! I was kind of freaking out about
how small of a world it is. I couldn't get over how the last time I had
seen him he was probably 11 years old. So weird. He remembered the
family, and said to say hi! He said his family's doing very well. And
his younger sister is starting her senior year I think it was?? What the
what.
7) I also saw this week in the cafeteria an Elder
Pizza, which made me laugh. The best part? He's going to Italy.
Hahahaha. I was thinking "Is this for serious?" Sister Lin said
"President Monson must have been tired that day!" Awesome.
8) There's also a new Mandarin missionary on our floor
named Elder Heaton! I talked with him, and he said his grandpa's name is
Lamont, but he couldn't remember any further up his family tree. He did
say his family's from the southern Utah area though, which means he's
some kind of distant cousin!
9) And last, I have a fun language mess-up. So the word
for charity and Cantonese is yahn-ngoi, which literally means
people-love (actually sister Lin told me that it was a different
character for yahn, so it actually means mercy, but I only found this
out later). So in my prayers I'd pray to have charity, naturally, but a
lot of the time I'd forget the order and say ngoi-yahn, which literally
means love-people. Easy mistake, right? Well, I learned a couple of days
ago when we were practicing teaching the Law of Chastity, that
ngoi-yahn actually means "lover," which means I have prayed for a lover
on several occasions. Hahahaha. Good thing we figured this out before I
left the MTC, or I might've confused a fair amount of investigators. So
for future reference, charity is yahn-ngoi, not ngoi-yahn. Just so
we're clear. Haha.'
10) Also, I'm supposed to say the closing prayer at the
big devotional tomorrow! I'm crossing my fingers for an apostle to be
the speaker!
So yes, this week has been quite
eventful! I look forward to my last week here.
Love you all! Have a great week! It might be Wednesday in Hong Kong before I can email you all again! Sweet!
Sister Heaton
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