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In the words of another missionary fella: Ha lou, dajia zao an. I couldn't have said it better myself. To be honest as I'm starting to write this email I'm getting quite sentimental. I was just reading some other missionaries' emails before typing this out, and a lot of them talk about their individual missions coming to an end. One of them included the line "there is too much to be grateful for." I can't think of anything more appropriate to describe my feelings at the start of my final transfer in Calgary Canada. Elder Lim and I were downtown today street contacting when I met a woman who had distanced herself from the church earlier in her life. She didn't harbor bad feelings towards the church, but for a multitude of reasons decided it wasn't for her. Towards the end of our conversation she said something along the lines of: "Well, I know what you're doing out here is pretty rough, so keep on pushing through. Talking to all these pe...
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I'm 胖 (pàng), white, tall, in Canada, speaking Chinese, and looking like a kiwi.

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Just to start off the direct translation of 胖 means fat in Chinese, but it's a word used to describe anyone who is not skinny, so I am now 胖. I GOT MY TRAVEL PLANS! So anyways I fly to Canada on Thursday morning at 4:07 AM by myself, and I'm so excited. I have loved the MTC though. The people I met here have been awesome, and the amount of stuff I learned here about the gospel and Chinese has been awesome. The MTC will always have awesome memories associated with it in my mind. Also I will miss Elder Palmer a lot. He is such a cool dude, and my next companion is going to have a lot to live up too. This week me and some people in the district decided we were going to do push-ups for every word we miss out of our goal for the week. We've been doing 150 words per week with the tones and if we don't get them right, that's three pushups. Anyways I did 102 pushups on Tuesday, but this week I will do none. My mom sent me a package with Salsa and Cherries in it. It was...
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