First full week in my new
(old) area. It feels weird because I am not as busy and can focus more on
actually proselyting. Still get antsy sometimes about doing certain
things that I don't have to do anymore! It's interesting coming back to
an area though, my first time doing this. The smells all remind me of
things from 8 months ago! Especially the wonderful Eastvale cow manure
smell (there are a couple dairy's in the area).
I put my "Chinese
glasses" back on again. I talk with everyone, but now I'm
specifically looking for Chinese people! It's fun, playing spot the
Chinese person.
Only my first week back, and I
already made a trip to a government office. At least it wasn't the DMV
this time, it was the social security office. But remember, I'm a certified
"interpreter" (not translator) in the city of Ontario :).
I thought I was back in China
the other day. It was around 8:15, and we were walking in the park and
stumbled across a group of middle aged Chinese women listening to some very
Chinese music, dancing in the park. It brought me back to seeing a huge
crowd of older couples dancing outside in Shanghai!
My Chinese is rusty, need to
get it back up to par! Luckily I didn't have to translate for Stake Conference
on Sunday because there was translation from Salt Lake. It was a struggle
in English class though. One of the students wanted to study how to take
loans out from the bank. Unfortunately my vocabulary on that is not
terribly extensive! Doesn't help that I've not spoken Chinese is eight
months. I made it through though! My handy dandy translator did its
job.
Interesting experience:.
Sunday night we were waiting in a parking lot of a CVS for some investigators
who were coming to pick up a Children's Book of Mormon (they didn't want to
meet at their house). A younger gentleman starts to talk to us about the
church and, after we give the Book of Mormon to the investigators, we decide to
have an impromptu church tour with this guy. Already a little suspicious,
we head over to the church building. Long story short, after we give the
church tour, he asks about Mormon girls and how he can find one. I show
him a picture of the Salt Lake City Temple that is on my planner and he pulls
out his phone and shows us the background while saying "you mean like
this?" Newport Beach Temple. So yeah, we got played. He
served his mission in Fresno. Fun way to spend a Sunday night!
With Brother Powers, my old Ward Mission Leader - I'll miss
him, he's the man.
The sun was really bright! Elder Mock, my replacement.
Passing over the phone!
Passing down the AP
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