I Love Being A Missionary

Hello!! I'm hoping you get this because I can't remember your email address...haha. If not, I'll write a letter today and send it home. Anyway, I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!! The MTC is so great! I love it! I have the best companions, too. That's right, I get to have two companions. They are so wonderful. There is Sister Anderson and Sister Schultz. I love them both, they're great. Um...idk what to say. The MTC is crazy. Right after you dropped me off I went and got my name tag and then went to class. My teacher was in there and was just speaking Chinese at me and I had NO idea what he was saying. it's pretty much been exactly like that everyday since. Chinese is soooo hard. I am learning though and I even formed a new sentence yesterday that wasn't in the book!! haha it was amazing! We study all day every day. I know that Heavenly Father has been blessing me because the other day we had a little extra time and my companions asked what we should do and I said, "lets hurry back to class so we can study!" ......... does that sound like me at all!? haha I never thought I would hear those words come out of my mouth. But I enjoy studying and learning and i can't wait to learn more Chinese. We taught our first investigator on Friday...in Chinese.......haha. Luckily Sister Anderson knows quite a bit of Chinese so she was able to talk to him and answer some of his questions. His name is Parkson. We go to the Spanish building to teach him and me and my companions always joke that if we wanted the MTC to be easy we would have gone Spanish speaking. haha. But really, chinese is way hard and when we are in the Spanish building we just feel bad about ourselves because we can say next to nothing. I am getting better though. Yesterday (Monday) we taught Parkson again and I decided before we went in that i was going to say more, and that even if I didn't know how to say it i would open my mouth and try and have faith the the spirit would help me. So I did, and I said SO much! it was a miracle! The gift of tongues is SO real. We asked Parkson if he would follow Jesus Christs example and be baptized if he knew what we were saying was true and he said YES! We were so so so happy for the rest of the night! i love being a missionary so much, and i can't wait until I can speak Chinese better so I can help more and more people. It's so crazy. My branch pres. told us that on the Wednesday that I came in, there were at least 800 new missionaries. out of those 800, I was 1 of 4 sisters going mandarin speaking (the fourth already speaks fluently so she isn't in our district). And out of all the missionaries here at the MTC there are only 40 mandarin speakers. That is only 40 people to spread the gospel to 1/5 of the entire worlds population! how crazy is that!? He also told us that within our lifetime we would be called back to the work to help the church get started in China. WHAT!?  I LOVE China!! i seriously feel so blessed to get to serve people that I already love so much! God really does know us and how we can help him with this work. I am just so so happy! Um...I'm trying to think of what else has happened this week. Really it wasn't that much, just lots of studying. Today we had a....unique experience though. haha. All of the missionaries going to Taiwan are required to poop in a cup, put it in a vile, smash it up, then put it in a bag and take it to the health clinic. hahaha. We have been being really immature about it all day. its fun to make the elders feel uncomfortable. Which probably isn't nice on our part, but we can't help it. It was really gross though. I was gagging the entire time. haha. Anyway. Tuesdays are preparation days! Which means we get to do laundry, write letters, and go to the temple! it has been nice so far. Oh! My companions and i are in the choir! I forgot how much I love it! We are singing in a fireside tonight. The general relief society president came and talked in Relief Society on Sunday so that was cool. She talked about the importance of relief society and visiting teaching and it kind of made me feel bad because I was never really good at that haha. It made me want to be better at it though and now is the perfect time to practice. We also got to watch the Joseph Smith movie on Sunday which was perfect because that is what we ended up talking to our investigator about on Monday. I'm so grateful for Joseph Smith. he made so many sacrifices and went through so much and without it we wouldn't be as blessed as we are. if he can go through all that he went through, I can learn Chinese. It makes my trials seem more bearable. Sorry this email is kind of scatter brained, I just got so excited that I got to email you that i forgot everything that has happened in the past 6 days. I feel like I have been here for forever, but I've only been here for a week...but it was the fastest week ever...but the days always take so long...haha. it's the weirdest feeling. I seriously love it here though. I am so happy that i decided to come. Everyone is so happy and we feel the spirit all the time and you hear hello in like a magillion different languages and it is just so cool! Sister Anderson and i had to leave the MTC campus yesterday to get chest x-rays, and we were able to feel the difference between the MTC and, we called it the real world. haha. There really is a spirit here and I feel so blessed that I get to be here. It is going to start getting more crowded though, the day i came in there were at least 800 new missionaries, and they said that that number is only going to get bigger and bigger every week. It's so exciting! Um...oh! My Chinese name is Fu Jeimei. Fu is my last name and jeimei means sister. Just in case you were wondering. Well, there is this timer in the corner of my computer screen counting down how many minutes I have left and it's giving me anxiety and I'm almost out of time. So feel free to write me letters or dear elders or anything. Missionaries really do love getting letters haha :) I got one from you mom on Thursday, it was at the bottom of the pile and I was scared I was the only one not going to get mail. Everyone else had like, two letters each haha. Well, I love you so so much and I miss you! But I am so happy that I am here and I know what I am doing is so good! Pray that I can keep learning Chinese!

 

Wo ai nimen!

(I love you all)

 

Fu Jiemei

Sister Fuller