2 weeks down in Brisbane! And a really exciting yet confusing week as well! I'll expound on my title later, so just "endure to the end" hahahaha. We've been teaching a bunch of really awesome people that are progressing and it's been fun! I've also been trying to look for a lot of people to speak Chinese with, and one way was with the sisters in my area. I was feeling pretty confident with my Chinese abilities around them until they told me "ni de zhong wen hen bang" which is basically saying your Chinese is awesome, but they told me at the MTC when they say that they really mean that your Chinese sucks hahaha because thats something they like say to little kids. Kinda made me depressed but that's ok.
Something funny that happened this week was Elder Setiawan and I were visiting members houses, and we were walking up to this one person's house, and there was a big tree with some really colorful birds in it. I was just walking under the tree when j just heard a little rustling and then something really wet hit my arm. THE BIRDS PEED ON ME! Haha it was so gross and I was just complaining about it, but then Elder Setiawan brought up the come follow me from like 2 weeks ago that talked about your trials being a blessing. So after we knocked and no one was home, we started walking back to the car, but I joked around and told elder Setiawan I was going to run under the tree so I don't get peed on again, so I started running and no joke the birds tried to pee on me again, but luckily I ran so they just missed me. Your trials truly are a blessing!
Anyways, about the title. Monday evening me and Elder Setiawan were visiting people and one of the Ap's called us. He basically said that Elder Gao in the Sunnybanks area told them that he wanted to go back to an English area so he could learn English, and they wanted me to go switch with him, so I would be with Elder Hohneke and Elder Gao would be with Elder Setiawan. He told me the transfer would take place the next morning after district council. I honestly had mixed feelings because I like EMP but I want to be able to use Chinese more. So we get back and I just start packing everything frantically, not really folding anything because I'm lazy and was just gonna unpack the next day. And the next day after district council, we go up to Elder Gao and ask if he's ready to move and he gets the most confused look on his face haha. The Ap's only told me about it and not him, and he wanted to stay in Sunnybanks for the rest of the transfer and then move out. So we were all confused but we just went on with the day because we were all busy and Elder Gao was going to call our mission president later, and tell him that he wanted to switch at the end of the transfer instead. Later at night when we were about to go home and unpack everything, Elder Gao told us that we are indeed doing the transfer on Thursday, so guess I'll be in Sunnybanks now! A lot of mixed feelings in this because I was just starting to really enjoy my time in EMP but now I get to go to a Chinese area and work on my Chinese. Oh well, the work must go on! 加油!
Elder Ensign
Sorry no pictures this week!
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