Hey everybody! It's Pday again! This week was my first full week of MTC after those three days of MTC I had last week. It was definitely a lot of class, but it feels like it went by pretty quickly. We did lots of roleplay teaching as we learned how to deal with different situations. I think it's getting easier every time. I definitely want to improve my familiarity with the scriptures so I can have more material to relate the lessons to. I just got some colored tabs I can put in my scriptures and I'd like to assign each color to a topic. Hopefully that'll make it easier when I'm looking for a specific scripture. But I think I've done well enough so far. Last week and the beginning of this week, we spent a lot of time on Lesson 1 of Preach my Gospel, but now I feel like we're going through the other lessons so quickly. We're already practicing Lesson 3 and we only spent two days on lesson 2. I think over time I'll definitely know everything better, but currently it's a lot to take in. Though, maybe they're going through the lessons so fast because next week we start language learning and that will be very involved. I'm so excited though. I've been practicing short phrases in Cantonese but I really want to get more practice. I think the hardest part has been studying the scriptures in Cantonese. There's no real good tool I can use to listen to how you pronounce the words, because the Book of Mormon isn't available in Cantonese on gospel Library, and I haven't found any other resource I could type the pinyin into and hear it spoken. I'm doing my best though with what I know about the finals and initials. I've been practicing counting to 10 and I think I've at least gotten familiar with that. The number system works the same in Mandarin so once I learned to count to 10 I could figure it out from there. I think mostly I just wish I could learn vocab before phrases. It's so much easier to be able to learn vocab first and slowly learn to build phrases than it is to just start memorizing phrases and figure it out eventually. I'm doing my best though, and I think it'll hopefully get easier as we start learning in class. We actually had a workshop on Tuesday about the Gift of Tongues and it was really inspiring. We talked about how in order to receive the Gift of Tongues you need to 1. Be worthy of it, 2. Ask for it, and 3. Work at it. As you do those three things then you will see the Gift of Tongues work in your life. We talked about a group of missionaries who were the first ones sent into Turkey. They were previously Bulgarian speaking and now had to learn a whole new language as quickly as possible in order to teach people. So their teacher challenged them to learn 100 words a day. At first, they did it because it was their teacher's goal, but soon it became their goal and they wanted to do it every day. As we discussed challenges we could give ourselves in order to learn our language more effectively, I think we were really inspired to work at it. In class we talked about what goals we made and how excited we are to see progress.This week, we also got the opportunity to meet the other district of missionaries serving in our mission. My district has 9 missionaries, including me, but the other district only has 4. They have one elder as we do, which I think is funny because they could be companions if they were in the same district. Their teacher is Sister Yau, who taught me a few pre-mtc lessons so I knew who she was. Basically our teachers both did a roleplay together to show what a teaching experience of Lesson 1 would look like. Every five minutes they would pause and we could comment on things we noticed or things we would change. It's good to see people who know what they're doing demonstrate. That's pretty much what has been going on in class lately. Other than that, I've been working through the Book of Mormon and it's really interesting to see how my understanding has changed and improved over time. It really is such an amazing book. As I'm getting ready I also sometimes like to listen to the Pearl of Great Price. I loved going through Moses. It's full of such amazing stories and insight. I hope that you're all doing well! I will be sure to continue these updates each week so, tune in next week to see what my first week of language learning is like!
Gāa yáu (It literally means "add oil" but it is used as words of encouragement)
Sister DelHoyo
The powerful words of Alma:
Alma 5:48
I say unto you, that I know of myself that whatsoever I shall say unto you, concerning that which is to come, is true; and I say unto you, that I know that Jesus Christ shall come, yea, the Son, the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, and mercy, and truth. And behold, it is he that cometh to take away the sins of the world, yea, the sins of every man who steadfastly believeth on his name.
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| Classed with Brother Ng |
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| Our Pday video call this morning where Elder Ng showed us his cardboard cutout of Brother Ng |
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| My online MTC set up with chocolates and caramel of course |
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