TEMPLES ROCK!!!

Well everyone, the temple is the best place on earth and right after that is Taiwan Taipei... I think?... I'll let you all in know in TWO weeks!!!!!!!!!!! IT is so crazy to think that in two weeks I will be In Taiwan  constantly surrounded by chinese people speaking nothing like what I learned! But I am so so so flipping excited! I recieved 11 emails from friends today!!!! You all rock! Shout out to Jeff Chapmin and Ben Zollinger! You two are awesome It was so nice to receive letters from you two! I want you to know this is the best thing I could have ever done for my life and am so excited for the day that you will be serving the Lord in this great cause! Congrats Ben on your call to New Zeland!!! And Jeff.. I'm serving in Taiwan not Thailand but :) I still love you because that is what Jesus would do and so I will as well ;) You are fantastic! If you both send me a mailing address I'll write you both a letter next p-day! 

Alright, so this week was actually a pretty boring one here when it comes to sitting down and writting about it cause youre not missionaries and so.. the joy is probably not the same. Cause I had an awesome week bit not for reasons that I can really write about?? My resolve to learn and do all I can to learn Chinese was strengthened this week from my amazing teachers. Wen lao shi and Chen lao shi. I could not have asked for better teachers to help guide us on the journey of preparation to teach the chinese people in Taiwan. However, this saturday we lost wen lao shi. She got a teaching job at a school somewhere and so we allowed her to quit on us and start her career, but not without a bang! We all pitched in and had jade dragons bought for them (sense wen lao shi's name is jade). They were both super happy and told us they would sleep with them. Well... then to our surprise they came in the next the day with gifts for us... which will be displayed in a picture. They are terrific and I am going to miss them so much! Which worries me for when I get into the field and it comes to be next December and I will have to leave the Taiwanese people... so just so you are all forewarned I may not ever come back to America but you can all come visit me the visa's are easy to get for there!! ;)  

Alright, so for what went down this week... oh and Kipp, I am funny. And you know it. ;) I apologize everyone, I know I am not funny but I think that I am and I thank everyone else besides Kipp for allowing me to think I am funny. Okay, so we were teaching our investigator (who is pretend) about repentance, and got to the part where she asked us what she would need to talk to the bishop about, and remember how Chinese is fun with the fact that you HAVE to say the words with the right tone of voice? Well.. we didn't and ended up telling her she can talk to the "pig's foot" about serious sins rather than the bishop... needless to say, I still have a lot to work on when it comes to Chinese. 

However progression is being seen. You all remember how I told you the second or so week that we watched the Testaments in Chinese and the only phrase I caught was meiyou mesiah? Well we watched it again yesterday and I could understand all the things Christ said and most of the things said about Christ, any other random lines non gospel related... I still am clueless. So, I have decided I will be fine in Taiwan, I will simply tell them I only know these words give them a pamphlet on Christ and I am golden! 

So, hmm... what else to write... I honestly do not know. The MTC life is hard to write about cause we don't meet any new people like EVER! But this wednesday I get to host new missionaries!!! So if any of you are coming in let me know via dearelder and I will look out for you!!!!! Love you all and know that this is the true church. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve and daily become more converted to Christ. 

-SIster Thornley