My time here at the MTC is more than half way over already. Wow. This was a great week. Today was my first time doing initiatories at the temple. It was an interesting experience. When we were walking back from the temple, we saw snow falling. The weather here is getting cold, so they are requiring all of the elders to wear suits.
We are going to a devotional at BYU tomorrow by some Elder Davis. Apparently this is the time of year we start seeing apostles for devotionals. We are all excited for that.
We are teaching two investigators right now, and they aren't too receptive. We have a hard time finding people's needs. I think we are going to change our method. We are going to use about half of the first lesson just to get to know the investigator, so we can better determine their needs. This method is what we use when teaching less-actives, so we are already good at telling people about ourselves and getting to know people in Chinese, and we know it works.
Another group of Chinese speaking missionaries left our zone. Most of them got called to Taiwan, but they are getting reassigned for a couple of months. Many of them got reassigned to Arcadia, CA. After they leave, we will be the oldest group. It feels weird to already be the oldest group. We also have new missionaries coming into our zone next week, and the week after that.
Every Sunday, two people get called at random to give a talk on the topic of the week, all in Chinese. So every week we need to prepare talks, and church is very nerve racking. They usually call people from the oldest group, so we are going to get called more frequently.
We got new Chinese teachers again. For some reason they change our Chinese teachers almost every week.
My emails are getting shorter, because most of the stuff we do now is routine. I feel like when I get into the field, I will have more to write about. Until next week.
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Elder Jordan Andersen
DEC01 AST-MEL
2007 N 900 E Unit 19
Provo UT 84602
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