Leaving the MTC

OH MY GOSH THIS IS MY LAST P DAY AT THE MTC/AMERICA/THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. I am so excited and very freaked out what is this life?? This week has been great. I've come to the conclusion that a.) I really enjoy teaching lessons which makes me excited to go to Hong Kong and do it for real, and b.) I don't know Cantonese and so I'm not sure how I'm going to do that. Lately whenever I ask my teachers a question they answer with "you'll pick it up in Hong Kong." It's pretty frustrating, but I hope they are right. On Sunday I had to give a talk in church (which caused a large panic as you can assume) and, being a Terry of course, I talked a lot about grace. The topic of Sunday was faith in Jesus Christ and I started thinking about why we have faith and why it's important. Then I started flipping through the New Testament and reading the writings of Paul, I thought after all my nineteen years of my Mom being in love with Paul maybe I should take a look, and I was blown away. I felt so strongly that all God is is grace and love, and that is why faith matters. He just wants us to believe he is who he really is, pure accepting love.  He loves us and if we just accept that He will carry all our burdens and pains and give us a great life (even if that great life is a hard life which I think he thinks equals a great life ;)). In Cantonese instead of saying you got baptized you say you accepted baptism. I love that. I think it makes more sense. Faith in Christ and accepting Him is a gift. It's the best most amazing gift in the whole world, and it's totally free. I freak out daily about going to Hong Kong and every time it is the love of our God that comforts me. . I've loved my experience here at the MTC though. I'm sad to leave it but so excited at the same time. I'm so thankful for this life I live and for my family also and how you guys always support me. I hope Luke and Paul know that they are so precious and when I see little Chinese boys in Hong Kong I will think of them and want to kiss them except that's against the rules so I will try not to.Have a fantastic week!!! :) <3

Almost to Hong Kong

So today is our second to last PDay at the MTC, not that I'm counting. :) It's so crazy. This week has been kind of crazy, learning so much and doing so much. During one of our lessons with Walter I tried to ask him if he wanted to get to know Jesus and accidentally asked him if he wanted to eat Jesus. He got really worried and asked me if I like to eat people. Also we have yet to clarify that we don't actually believe in the trinity. I don't know who is trusting me to teach the gospel in Chinese because so far I'm teaching some weird stuff. Kind of fun though.

Will someone please tell Paul that in all of our Cantonese books, Paul is always the person inviting you over for tea.  It makes me laugh every single time. I think he might also be the big fool they are referring to, but maybe dont tell him that.

This week I've also been working on learning phrases and words outside of gospel terms. It's kind of hard though because all of our study materials have only gospel terms. However, I've mastered the phrase "I regret the mistake of ever knowing you" and "what do you want with me" very well. My teachers are very proud of me.

We had a devotional on Sunday that I really liked. The speaker talked about how the Holy Ghost. One of the things he said was that the Holy Ghost believes in anonymous service. He then said that sometimes we don't even know we're being lead by the spirit, or that the spirit is working in us to help other people. We just have to trust that if we're doing our best to have the spirit with us that He will be helping. God wants to help us, He's not trying to put obstacles in our way to keep us from Him. I'm so grateful everyday for a Heavenly Father and Savior who don't leave me or any of their children. I love my family so much, hope you are well! <3