TRANSFER
WEEK!
So I
found out that I am staying in Glen Waverley with Sister Guan (YES!) but WE
ARE GETTING A NEW GOLDEN (new sister coming to the mission field)! So
we are training this transfer! Yeah crazy stuff. I am super excited to help
train a new sister, I mean I don't really know what is going on myself because
I have only been here for 6 weeks, but I am excited. She comes in on Thursday
this week!
Other
than that, this week has been pretty regular here in Glen Waverley. All of our
investigators are in China because of the Chinese New Year, so we
have been doing a lot of finding this week. Talking to people on the street and
door knocking is getting better and better every day so I am glad! Most
of the Chinese people are so nice and are so surprised when I can talk to them
in Chinese! It is the best!
This
morning we went to the City for a sister's breakfast with our STL's before they
leave this week. SO fun to go to the City and I got to see Sister Cahoon again
so that is always such a blessing!
Also
side note, we had flat inspections this week so we were deep cleaning and
Sister Guan killed our spider friend Russell!!! I went into the
bathroom and he was gone! I asked Sister Guan about it and she said she sucked
him up with the vacuum... she told me not to worry, because he is probably
happier now. I was so surprised. haha she is the funniest!
We
had a huge Hot Pot Lunch this week with some investigators and the
missionaries in our ward and it was so fun! We were able to share a
message and give investigators a chapel tour so it was awesome!
Also,
I was reading the recent conference talk from Elder M. Russell Ballard – “To
Whom Shall We Go?” (October 2016)) and everyone should go read
it! It is amazing! :)
I
love you all and I am so grateful for you! Thank you for the prayers, the
emails and the love. I would not be here if it weren't for all of you, so THANK
YOU!
xoxo,
Sister
Johnson
PS I
love the new words I’ve picked up here in Australia, but throw in trying to
translate these into Mandarin, my poor brain is ALL CONFUSED - HELP:
note = cash
trolley = shopping cart
flat = apartment
uni = university / college
they
say "all goods" for everything. like thanks, no problem and
everything else. they say "heaps" all the time and "keen"
so it’s funny.
Also,
they don't say bathroom. they say toilet. So I say "do you
know where the bathroom is" and they look at me all weird so you have to
say "do you know where the toilet is" haha which makes me laugh.
and
the worst one is they all say
HOW
ARE YOU GOING? and
it is so hard for me to say.. sounds so awkward, how about “How are you?” or
“How are you doing?”
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| HOT POT Lunch |
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| Highland is never far from my thoughts. YAY!! |
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| "I LOVE being a MISSIONARY" |
so is a "hot Pot lunch" mean that you are eating lunch from something that is in a hot pot? LOVE the words that you said they say in Australia that are different from us. so...How are you going? that's weird...but i guess no weird than the folks in Texas who say, "Hey, I'm fixing to go to the movie, want to go with me?". and things are "keen"? that means good..right? wow, that's something they said here in the 40's! but thank goodness your spider is in the vacuum, very glad to hear that. :)
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