So this week starts Chinese new year, the biggest holiday in the Chinese world. It's a pretty fun time to be a missionary. The member's load you up with a bunch of meal appointments and you spend a lot of time getting to know them around tables full of traditional feasts. And sometimes pizza or fried chicken.
But this week started with a pday full of cleaning. It's a new years tradition for everyone to clean their house really thoroughly right before the new years and so as a mission we take the pday right before new years to clean our apartments. Luckily our apartment is really nice and we already keep it really clean so we didn't have too much hard work to do but it was nice to go extra in depth and get everything in tip top shape. I love myself a clean apartment. It really helps you feel good when you get home at night or wake up in the morning.
Tuesday and Wednesday we went on exchanges with the Muzha elders who are not even in our district but the Zone Leaders requested it. It was fun. It's always nice to see how other missionaries do things and get some new ideas rolling around for your own missionary work.
Other than that it has been a fun week of eating meals with members trying to build better relationships with them. Member work is our goal now in our mission and so it's nice to have a period of time when you get to be with the member's a lot more than normal. I have already eaten so much food that I never really feel hungry or full anymore. It's all just the same. And we are only half way! Hahaha.
Wishing you all a prosperous year and much good fortune!
Elder Neilson
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| We had a bunch of old food left in our apartment from missionaries past and so we had quite the adventure disposing of it all in the special food trashcans. Among the most interesting things to dispose of was all the flour sugar and other old dry ingredients along with a bunch of decorating frosting tubes from a long forgotten Christmas. |
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| we cross this white bridge almost every day to get to the church. At night it's lit up with rainbow colors |
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| My district walking back from a member meal found a rat on a clear overhang thing. We took a funny selfie with it because this year is the year of the rat! |
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| Frisbee |
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| A member family took us to their apartment buildings roof before eating with them. They had an awesome view of our areas |
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