Hi from the MTC! :)

Hi again!

Another week has gone by and I have now officially been in the MTC for
one month!  Wow!  Whenever I sit down to write, I never know what to
say but I'll just keep on going.  I am still busy learning the Canto and
learning how to teach.  We still haven't seen the prophet yet.  Every
Tuesday, people keep telling us that President Monson is going to come
speak at the devotional, but he never does.  I wonder why they keep
saying that LOL!

The older Cantonese district is leaving for Hong Kong on the 21!  They
got their flight plans last Friday and have been in high spirits ever
since.  Everyday that passes is the last day of something.  I am so
excited for them and some can't understand why, seeing as I'm here till
September.  I was like, "Well you're going to teach the gospel!" and they
were like oh.  Good grief.  I guess it gets harder to remember why
we're here sometimes after being here for a while.

This afternoon, we were suprised to find that two new sisters will be
moving into our room!  The room was a bit of a mess since today's p-day
and we all scrambled to make the place look better.  The new sister's
name is Sister Mace from Idaho, and she's gonna go to New Zealand!
Woohoo!  She's the kind of girl who has always wanted to go on a mission.
We have yet to meet her companion.  I am so excited that Sister
Bostwick and I won't be the only ones in the room after the older district
leaves!

I've still been coughing a lot and lost my voice yesterday, which was
interesting.  I've been croaking ever since but I'm getting better.
Good thing I like cough drops.  Halls vapor action sure beats that awful
cherry kind that I used to swear loyalty to LOL!  That sentence reminds
me that we learned noun clauses in Canto yesterday!  It's the first
grammar thing I will really need to work on since everything so far has
been pretty easy.  Good thing I have Elder Lindsey and Elder Ling to talk
to because we're more on the same language level.

I got my new scriptures a couple days ago.  They're the burgandy mini
quad with the snap on it.  I can't BELIEVE how much they cost, but
they're so worth it!  "Sister Chu" is even engraved in the cover hehe!
They've made my personal study much more effective now that I'm not blinded
by all the highlighting I've done in my old set.  Right now I'm
re-reading the Book of Mormon.  So good!  My testimony of the scriptures have
really been strengthened while I've been learning how I might teach
others.

Every Saturday morning, we go to the Teaching Appointment (TA . . . it
used to be called the TRC) to practice teaching volunteers.  There's
two parts: the task where we talk to the person in Canto for 15 minutes
and then the follow-up lesson in English.  This Saturday will be the
last time we'll do it in English!  Next time, it'll be completely in
Canto.  Woohoo!  We work the whole week for this moment, and it can get a
little stressful if you forget to trust in the Lord.  As long as we do
all we can to prepare in learning Canto and putting together all we can
with the lesson plans, the Lord really directs the lesson.  It's amazing
how it all works together even though it's practice!  Sister Bostwick
and I teach well together, and we never assign parts of the lesson to
each other.  She explains doctrines really well and I love analogies.

The Church is true!

I miss and love you all!

Sister Chu :)