Turns out in Chinese that if you try to say that some one is somebody else's man, you are saying either 1) they are in a romantic relationship or 2) they are the person's henchman (we figured this out by my native Taiwanese teacher trying to explain "mafia" to us). In conclusion, when someone asks you in Chinese what a prophet is, you should not try to say that they are God's man. You should learn the word for representative or messenger. That would be less confusing.
Another week here at the MTC! Life is still good, we are still learning a lot every day. Two major things happened in our little lives around here: the district that was supposed to leave this Friday for Taipei hasn't gotten their visas yet, so we might have them for a whole extra week or they might leave on Wednesday or anywhere in between. So that's been exciting. The more major event though, is that since the BYU semester is starting up schedules have changed, and there was so many logistics with that change that Brother Olsen is no longer our teacher. He was there the first day with us and is so much fun and such a good teacher, so it's actually been really hard on us this weekend. We'll still see him around and our new teacher Brother Woolsey is great, of course, but it's not the same. But don't worry, the church is still true.
hmm what else. We have a running joke that Elder Tatton is keeping a pet hamster in his room (he isn't actually, don't worry) and have managed to convince the new zone leaders that it's actually true. Some entertaining shenanigans have ensued from this situation.
We have Mandarin Sisters' Soccer on Saturday and had a really good game a few days ago. My favorite part was when Sisters Bowman and Lew weren't touching each other or the ball and we still screaming because they didn't want to hurt each other, just waving their feet in the air. it was great. I totally made an awesome goal. Also, I am way good at Four Square now.
We had an awesome devotional last Tuesday from Elder Martino of the Seventy, and he totally told us that we need to be putting in our best effort and I was like YES MAN I WILL. I can probably still put forth more effort. Then last night we had a devotional from Brother Holzapfel who used to be a mission president in Alabama and he teaches at BYU and he was super inspiring and kind of yelled at us Elder Holland-style and then the closing song was 'How Gentle God's Commands" and I kind of laughed a little bit. He told some really cool stories and I was so inspired and excited to be out in the mission field where I can follow the Spirit to just drive a little farther and find a woman in a trailer in the middle of the woods who is ready to hear the gospel. Except, I'll probably be biking a little farther to the next rice paddy to find a cute little Taiwanese family who needs the gospel. Point is, people all around the world need that gospel and I am so happy that I get to do just that: share it.
I'm out of time and need to go eat dinner, but I love you all and guess what, I'm still so happy to be here and learning and growing and having the chance to feel the Spirit so much and speaking Chinese even though I can't actually speak it and be edified by Christ's servants and humble myself and learn how to teach the gospel so that I can help the people of Taiwan come unto Christ. Shall we not go on in so great a cause?
Love,
Sister Cardon
P.S. Best quote from this week: "The most rebellious thing I've ever done is have a bad attitude at a service project."
P.P.S. Here's a mildly awkward picture of our district because it is super hard to get people to take good pictures on Temple Walk.
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