Week 5--MTC

 


Hello everyone! This week has been good! Lots of language class and lots of mtc food. 

Highlights: 

Monday: Got to go to the Temple on Pday and did sealings for a family with 9 kids which was so amazing!! 

Tuesday: St. Patricks day! Everyone wore green and it was so cute.

Wednesday: Started learning how to teach the plan of salvation in Cantonese which is so hard and so confusing! The gift of tongues is so real because how the heck am I speaking Chinese! 

Thursday/Friday: Not as whole lot happened, classes everyday and lots of Cantonese which is good. 

Saturday: Best class ever. Earlier this day we were telling our language teacher Sister Gamboa how we wish our teachers would open up about their struggles with the language more and have opportunities to hear more about the culture in HK, and guess what! Our class later that night our teacher showed us videos of when he was in the MTC and we were able to ask questions about the culture. It was such a good class and made it feel more real and exciting. 

Sunday: We had a really good evening devotional today! My favorite this from it was "God called you in this language because he knew you'd be better at sharing your testimony in that language rather than English." Which was so crazy and honestly what I needed to hear. 

Favorite words in Cantonese:
paak ná - partner
Dāk yi - cute 
dím gáai - why
fē sīk - brown
Gwokdouh - kingdom (has my name in it) 

Alma 36:
18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death.

19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more.

I love these verses so much because even the thought Jesus Christ has so much power. Only through him can we receive peace and hope. 
Taugwo YSGD ngóh deih hóyíh jipsāu pìhngōn. 

Love you all so much! Email me I would love to hear from you! 

-Gwok jímuih





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