A Great Week, Upcoming Transfer and Religious Debates.......

So This week was great. We had another lesson with the keen guy named Jack. It went OK. When we got to baptism, He said a bunch of concerns, but neither of us understood what he was saying because our Chinese is bad, and he has a thick northern accent. For some reason it is hard for me to understand older Chinese people. They speak a little bit differently.

That lesson made me boost my diligence in studying Chinese. Every chance I get, whether it be on the train, waiting for people to show up . . .I try to pull out some materials and study.

This next transfer is going to be a huge one. Quite a few people are going home, some are coming in. They may open up a new area. One of our zone leaders is going home. Sometimes this makes me think of what I will feel like when I will go home. But I still won't have to worry about that for another year.

Recently we have had less lessons and more finding. And the weather has been bad. When we have less lessons, and the weather is bad, we usually do finding in train stations. So recently we have spent a lot of time inside Flinder's Street Station. It is the biggest train station in Melbourne, and kind of a historical site.

Since we are Chinese missionaries, we usually don't get in many religious arguments, but yesterday, while I was in this train station, two Born Again Christians tried to argue with me, and told me I have to get a King James version of the Bible. Well that is actually the exact one I have, and read from. They also told me I have to fast for 7 days, and that there is no church. I asked them if they have ever read Acts or some of the Epistles. They said that "you can't just focus on one part of the Bible". Well Acts is a whole book in the Bible. They made no sense.

I heard there are wildfires in California again. Are they close to our house?

Until next week.