Lots of Lessons

Hey everyone,

Ive had a pretty good week here at the MTC. Not much happened but its been busy because we have had to teach a few extra lessons on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to a supposedly non-member sister, Lai Jiemei, who has allegedly been taught by missionaries at one point and agreed to meet with us. We are not sure if she was a role play or not but I thought our three lessons with her were some of our best lessons at the MTC. We had a really good first lesson where we were able to identify her needs and so our lessons were pretty easy to plan because we knew exactly what she needed to learn. Unfortunately, we only got to teach her three times instead of the planned six times because the TRC (Teaching Resource Center) changed their computer systems and we got assigned to a new person for next week. 

We also had a really great Skype lesson on Monday with a sister in Australia. She was just about the nicest person ever and just kept telling us how awesome we are and how awesome our Chinese was and how awesome it is that we are missionaries. She really did say “awesome” like every third sentence it felt like. Unsurprisingly, we came out of that lesson feeling pretty awesome.

All the Chinese missionaries heading out with my group got their flight plans this week except those of us going to Taiwan. Some Missionaries in the other mandarin zone went and talked to the travel office today to see if they could figure out what’s up. Apparently none of us have gotten our Visas yet but the Travel Office wants to wait until Thursday or Friday to give us any new plans in case we do get our visas. Hopefully we will know sooner rather than later!

Quick funny story, We ran into our mission president’s parents who are also going to go serve in Taiwan at lunch this week. They are pretty awesome, but they haven’t gotten their visas either. However, they got reassigned to their home stake in Salt Lake! They didn’t seem very excited about it. Hahah. Hopefully we can all get to Taiwan soon!

我愛你們,

Elder Tustin Neilson

倪長老

Taiwan, Taipei

台灣，台北

Sister Morgan (the sister in the middle) had her birthday on Wednesday. Her mom found out Elder Burton’s (our district leader) mailing address and ended up sending him a big box of party stuff so we could surprise Sister Morgan. Elder Burton was kind of stressed about it. It was pretty funny.

Second half of the district party

Super random candid photo someone took of a zone prayer we had one night. Usually we are in the lobby but the Polynesia bound Elders stole it from us this night and we had to meet in the zone leaders’ dorm.