Well, this last week was an odd one. Not a whole lot exciting happened.
There was a good bit of rain and storms again, which has at least cooled
things down a bit. I say this week was odd because the results were
much different than our plans. During our planning for the week, we had
decided to really focus on strengthening the members of the viet
branch and to focus on finding and teaching investigators in the english
area that we have. We made a lot of plans and efforts to meet with
recent converts and less-active members in the branch. Though as it
turned out, we didn't end up meeting with any. And to add to that, we
didn't end up teaching any investigators in the english area. That was
really odd, and we're not entirely sure how that happened.
We did find a very nice viet family the other day. We were going
through Sugar Land (higher wealth area) which would normally mean a
little more rejection and a little less success. But as things go, one of
the first few houses that we came to we met a nice viet man that talked
to us for a moment then invited us right inside. He was pretty in awe
that we spoke viet (we are kinda used to that by now). He gave us some
water and we talked for a bit. Eventually his wife joined us. They are
both Catholic, though he was Buddhist (he converted to Catholicism to
marry her). We had a good discussion and they wanted to read the Book of
Mormon.
This week we will have a special zone conference with the Saylins.
They go home next week. So next week we will have another special zone
conference and we will meet President and Sister Ashton and family.
Things are certainly going to be interesting these next couple of weeks
as we make the transition.
Hope you all enjoyed your holiday! Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Phong Manhardt
Sunday, July 15, 2012
7/3/12 Email
Wow, it had rained a lot these last few days! Fortunately we never got
caught on our bikes though. The rain made things cool down a bit, which
of course we are thankful for. We can hardly believe that it is the 4th
of July this week! Time just flies by.
This last week, we have had an interesting battle to fight. This last week was transfer meeting and we got word that in addition to running the branch, we also now have responsibility for a small part of the English ward that meets at our building. President Moregenegg, our branch president, joked that they just need to give us a small spanish area now and we can be trilingual missionaries! (By the way, I can hardly speak spanish anymore) So it has been interesting trying to figure out how we can balance our time to work the two separate areas. The easy solution would be if there were Viets in that area, but nevertheless, there are not, so we need to figure out a balance to do both. So now we are part of the Viet branch (Braeburn 2) and the Memorial ward. We go to sacrament meeting twice on Sunday and now get twice the leadership meetings to go to. Hooray!
Other than that, I don't have much else to say. Me and Elder Robison are still working together. Our Vietnamese has been improving rapidly as we study more and more. It is a lot more enjoyable talking to people now, as I can actually understand most of what they are saying (sometimes). I am really trying to improve my speech (grammar and pronunciation and such). I am also getting close to finishing the Book of Mormon in Viet. I only have about 100 pages left. My new goal is to finish reading through the entire standard works before the end of my mission.
Well have a great week and holiday!
Love,
Elder Phong Manhardt
This last week, we have had an interesting battle to fight. This last week was transfer meeting and we got word that in addition to running the branch, we also now have responsibility for a small part of the English ward that meets at our building. President Moregenegg, our branch president, joked that they just need to give us a small spanish area now and we can be trilingual missionaries! (By the way, I can hardly speak spanish anymore) So it has been interesting trying to figure out how we can balance our time to work the two separate areas. The easy solution would be if there were Viets in that area, but nevertheless, there are not, so we need to figure out a balance to do both. So now we are part of the Viet branch (Braeburn 2) and the Memorial ward. We go to sacrament meeting twice on Sunday and now get twice the leadership meetings to go to. Hooray!
Other than that, I don't have much else to say. Me and Elder Robison are still working together. Our Vietnamese has been improving rapidly as we study more and more. It is a lot more enjoyable talking to people now, as I can actually understand most of what they are saying (sometimes). I am really trying to improve my speech (grammar and pronunciation and such). I am also getting close to finishing the Book of Mormon in Viet. I only have about 100 pages left. My new goal is to finish reading through the entire standard works before the end of my mission.
Well have a great week and holiday!
Love,
Elder Phong Manhardt
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