Here to Invite

Hi family! Uh I kind of feel like all my weeks are the same here so sorry if this is groundhogs day happening over again.Cantonese is still so hard, but it amazes me how much we are learning. Actually it amazes me how much we are learning in class and then I get to lessons and change my mind haha. We had our first TRC lessons on Saturday and I really liked them. Except the volunteers there talked soooo fast. I didn't really know what they said. Anytime the investigators say something we don't understand we just say "We know that when you pray you will know the truth." Very effective. I'm curious how this would work in normal life when someone is just talking to you at Walmart or something and you dont understand.  Someone test this for me and let me now how it works. 
 Cantonese is funny. You know how when people make fun of Chinese they say like ching chong tin tong? THAT'S REAL! Like chingcho is a word and so is tintong. Sometimes when we sing hymns I have to try not to laugh because it sounds so funny to my ears.
 One of our teachers is pretending to be an investigator named Walter and Walter feels no emotions because he never smiles. Except one time I said accidentally I didn't know who Jesus was( if you say one tone wrong the whole sentence is mixed up and means something opposite what you mean it to say) and HE WOULDN'T LET IT GO. He brought it up so many times, but at least it made him laugh. I really like teaching lessons even though it's hard to understand what they are saying, it lets us practice talking in all Cantonese. This week our adorable teacher Lau Ji Miuh was demonstrating a lesson for us on one of the elders in my district. It made me feel  stressed out to watch her because she was so good at it. I thought about how inadequate I am to be dealing with real people and their real problems and real sorrows. But last night we had a devotional where the speaker said that all we are to do is to invite people to come unto Christ. That made me think about how even though I probably can't go where people are and relate to them all the way and even understand them all the way, there is someone who can. Jesus has been where they are and has no problem or fear going to their level to pull them up. I'm so grateful that he is letting me help him on this mission. I'm excited to get to Hong Kong...but we have a while until then. :)  Wow what a great life.