Hello Ga Tihng!
You are amazing, my dears. Truly amazing. I love you all. Thanks for all of your support and prayers and everything. Just yesterday I met another sister at gym who had just arrived here, and she was a convert with very unsupportive parents. She's going to Slovakia, and her parents gave her the silent treatment once she got her call, partly because they don't want her going to some crazy place, etc. etc. It was sad to hear, but this sister was so strong and so faithful, I just know that she'll work miracles, and it'll be worth it. But, the moral for you is, THANK YOU! And I love you.
So the days of my Coordinating Sister probation are over! I will miss it, but I'm excited because Sister Lier is now the Coordinating Sister, and she is just so loving and happy and outgoing. I should know, I get to be with her all the time. She's amazing. I'm also excited because I get to learn about being a Junior companion before going to the field and being junior companion for probably a long time.
So, I am grateful currently for the language help I've gotten from the Lord. It's crazy to realize how much I've learned. I have to stop and notice this because I am obviously getting antsy about going to Hong Kong in less than two weeks!!!! Eeeeeeeeek! But I'm excited. So I have to notice how much help I've already gotten and have doubled faith that I will be helped in Hong Kong too. Oh, I know I will be, but you understand. So, here's what I've noticed: I already come out of lessons and realize that I, Sarah Nielsen, unassuming Caucasian, have just spent the past 40 minutes speaking and understanding Cantonese and that that doesn't seem strange or foreign to me anymore. Yay! I know that I am bound for a surprise in Hong Kong, but already the language seems much less foreign to me. I recommend you watching some of the mormon.org profile videos from Hong Kong (I recommend Stella's and Patrick's) and just know that already, that language doesn't sound completely strange to me. Yay! A miracle, I tell you. Yes, it will be hard in Hong Kong, but I know that I'll be ok.
So, next learning lesson. We all have way more fun teaching as a companionship when we're all ourselves. And we teach better too. At the TRC this last week (a place where volunteers from the community come to be taught for 40 minutes. All in Cantonese. We teach them as themselves, and they're mostly all members), we had one of our best lessons ever! This was because we each contributed our own strengths. It was so fun and exciting and spiritual. We taught about prayer, and I got to recite the 1st vision in Cantonese, and Sister Lier came up with a ridiculously wonderful object lesson using jolly ranchers, and Sister Nelson bore beautiful testimony. And the volunteers really opened up the more we opened up. IN fact, we got to hear Wai Hing Daih's conversion story. I think I mostly understood it but I'm not entirely sure. I'm also learning more about being open about ideas and impressions that come during lessons and following them. In that lesson, I ended up sharing a personal experience I hadn't prepared to, and it worked out. Yay!
Also, I've been realizing these past few weeks that I will really miss my current district. There really is something about your MTC group. I guess since you start together and battle through weeks and weeks of MTC learning and progressing together, and endure the food together, and have lots of inside jokes together, etc, you just really bond. They're all really amazing missionaries. I will really miss my companions, butwe might have the chance to be comps again later. The only unfortunate thing about this experience is that we've all reverted to 19-year-old-boy humor since that is what we are surrounded by. I sincerely hope it will be cured once I get out to Hong Kong where the demographic is a little more varied.
Ah, lastly, just know that I love you all so very much. You are the lights of my life. I really admire each of you. I hope you have a good week. I love you more than I could ever possibly describe. But, as I've said before, I already know of the blessing of eternal family-hood. I want to go help some other families and individuals too! This gospel is true. And amazing. It really includes so much. Life can be so rich through it. And so happy!
Love,
Sister Nielsen
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