Well, it has been another week and time is going by insanely fast.
As of yesterday, I have been in Houston for a full 2 months. This is the
start week 4 of my second transfer which means that this is half way
through the transfer. That means that I'm nearly done as a "trainee."
When this transfer ends, I'll be a normal missionary, well assuming
there is a such thing as a normal missionary and that a Vietnamese
missionary can fit that description. Oh well. It will be cool. Really
what it means to be done with training is that I no longer have 4 hours
of study in the morning, only 3. That will be spectacular!
This last week was another rough one as far as numbers go, but I
think that it was actually a pretty good week. There were a lot of
things that came up that limited our time out proselytizing, but that was ok. A lot of great things came from those.
Two of those things were on Friday. We had a special zone
conference with President and Sister Saylin and also had our ward New
Years party. We didn't get out to proselytise at all! But it was a
spectacular day. The zone conference was absolutely awesome! President
Saylin is incredible and that conference was definitely inspired. It was
exactly the things that I needed to hear at that exact time that I
needed to hear them. It was great. After that conference, we went to the
church building for our ward activity. It was a lot of fun. Everybody
seemed to enjoy it. It didn't have quite the effect we were hoping for
our missionary efforts with the Vietnamese people, but it was still very
good. It was a good activity for the ward and should lead to being able
to have even better ones in the next years.
There is a lot of potential for this week to be a really good one.
We just need to work hard and put our trust in the Lord. There are
several people that we are starting to work with and it is pretty
exciting.
Something else that is really exciting is progress with the
language. I am now able to see improvement in my ability to understand
people. Woohoo! I still don't understand much, but just seeing that I'm
at least getting a little bit better is great. I really enjoy language
study and as I have been changing my approach and the things that I do, I
have been able to see more improvement. Its fun, but I am still
impatient. I want to be able to understand now. I dont want to have to
wait for time to help me out. I guess I just have to suck it up and keep
working.
Soon, I promise, I'll have more to write about. I hope.
Love,
Elder Phong Manhardt
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