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Its like stepping into the farmlands of mainland China

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Hello everyone. I'm back with an email this week so we'll get right into it. These past two weeks were really awesome. We had the Primary Program last week at church and that was fun to explain to our friends. It was less of a primary program and more of like 8 kids mumbling and one kid yelling. It was wonderful. They weren't even yelling words they just yelled on pitch for an hour. I was just crying/laughing in my hands for a solid 30 minutes so my jaw and face hurt afterwards. We had a super awesome miracle yesterday with our recent convert 左大哥, Zuo Da Ge. He is from deep China and with about negative understanding of our terrible Chinese accents. We decided we wanted to visit him with cookies because of a light the world challenge in our mission that day. We went by and he didn't even recognize us from the window. Just a look of utter terror that two people who looked like they only spoke English were at his house. He got his son in law who spoke a little english t...

SALMON! YOU DID MY DIVORCE

Hello everyone. Welcome back to my biweekly every once in a while email. This week was good but we had some difficult parts to it as well. Sadly our most progressing friend decided she no longer wanted to meet with us and that she was going to rejoin the Catholic church. This is tough because we have been meeting with her for like 3 transfers now. She was so elect but I guess everything is according to the lord's plan. Anyways we had one last lesson with her this week and on the way down the elevator after the lesson we saw this group of like 50 year old lady's finishing like an old ladys night or something. One of the ladies looks at our member and just drunkenly yells, "SALMON YOU DID MY DIVORCE!" I immediately pretty much burst into tears laughing cause it was so unexpected and she just started going off on her divorce with Brother Salmon. Anyways what a wonderful way of ending 4+ months meeting with her. This week on Sunday I gave a 20 minute talk in Chinese at ...