As you can see from the subject, my new and second area is the magical and faraway land of . . . MACAU!!! And I am now going international speaking ENGLISH! Bwaaaa!I've only been in Macau for less than an hour now . . . after all the packing and more packing, Sister Thompson and Sister Au dropped me off at the ferry port. I hate packing! It took FOREVER! I am super exhausted, but somehow, since everything's all new, I have energy to bounce around and try to soak everything in. It took about an hour to get here by boat, and I got to talk to this lady about God and how He loves her. Her last name was also Chu so that made her super happy LOL! She was on her way to Macau to go to the casino. Before I came to Macau, all I knew about Macau is that there's lots of gambling and lots of pornography.
One hour later, I still don't know very much about Macau haha! I got my moves call last Monday during zone lunch in Tuen Mun. It was crazy cause they had each companionship, who had to sit in the front of the room, guess where they were going from clues from the other missionaries. As soon as I got up, everyone started screaming their heads off. So now you know! Sister Thompson will be training yet again, this time Sister Cheui, my friend from BYUH! Yaya! She will LOVE Yuen Long! I will miss it. It's funny to think back on when I first started. We had no investigators then! Now, we have several progressing ones with two getting baptized on the 25 and two others who are going to get dates soon! As I lugged my luggage out the front door, I got to say bye to my favorite guard Wong Sinsaang. Wah! He is definitely a kindred spirit. We took a picture with him a couple days ago so Sister Thompson will give it to him pasted in a Book of Mormon with our testimonies. I hope I will one day see him again.
Macau is a peninsula (I had no idea till an hour ago haha) and has a total of twelve missionaries: a senior couple (the Kapps), four sisters, and six elders. Elder Burk and Hardy are my zone leaders. We go to bed (at 11:30 p.m.) and wake up 30 minutes later (at 7:30 a.m.!) weird! Everything in Macau is written in Chinese and Portuguese. Their currency is the pataca. I have no idea what the exchange rate is. The streets are tiny and cute cause everyone seems to have a balcony with flowers and stuff. We don't have to spend money traveling by MTR or anything cause we'll walk everywhere!
My new apartment has three other sisters; two are Cantonese speaking (Sister Chan and Esplin) and my companion (Sister Harding) and I are English speaking. It's really fun because I met Sister Chan at BYU Provo years ago my freshman year! We met on the first day of Cantonese class, but the teacher made her take another class cause she knows it well enough already. The apartment is pretty big . . . two bathrooms, two bedrooms, two refridgerators, a huge living room with a treadmill that doesn't work, and kitchen. AND a balcony! Wooo!
My companion Sister Harding seems really nice. She and Sister Thompson are also good friends, too. Sister Harding talks really slowly in English . . . probably because she says that lots of our investigators are Nepalese so we have to talk super slow haha! She says that we have girl AND guy investigators, which is really different since I'm used to teaching only girls and in Cantonese. I have no idea why we also teach the guys since there are also international elders. We also have a cell phone, which Sister Harding hardly ever answers because she forgets about it LOL! Anyway, I'm excited to go to church this Sunday to meet everyone in the branch!
English speaking or no, I'm determined not to lose my Canto! I've worked too hard to get it so I'm going to speak as much as possible. I don't know if I can go back to see relatives for New Years now that I'm in Macau, so I will talk to President Van Dam as soon as I can. So if Uncle Tim calls, tell him sorry for the wait!
Love from MACAU!
Sister Chu :)
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