Sister Larson in Taipei

Nimen hao! First off, it kills me that I can't put tones on my Chinese words, it's just not right! I've always known that without tones the meaning of the words change, but I've especially been careful of that this week because our teacher told us we've been saying several things wrong and totally changing the meaning of what we've been saying haha. The first thing our district has been messing up is when we say our missionary purpose, we are supposed to say chishou daodi, which, with the right tones, means endure to the end. But with the wrong tones on chishou, it means sucking your thumb to the end. So that's fun. Another one that we haven't really been messing up but could is "Zhishi wo de Aizi" which means "This is my Beloved son" at the end of the First Vision. Aizi (beloved son) with one slightly different tone could either mean midget/dwarf or AIDS, so yeah, can't mess that one up. It's especially daunting becaus...

Nimen hao! This week has been super fun!  As you can see from the title of my email, lots of exciting things have happened! One of the big topics for this week was whether our "investigator" we were teaching was a real investigator or just a teacher at the MTC. Our district liked to call this "Huang DiXiong (Brother Huang): Member or Mudaoyou" (Investigator). There was compelling evidence for both sides, and sometimes the debates would get pretty heated (but NEVER competitive, we are at the MTC after all and there is no such thing as competition here ;) ) but eventually most of us decided he was a member. It was kind of hard deciding though because our morning teacher was SO adamant that he was a real member, and me, being the trusting person I am, didn't want to believe that our teacher would lie to us! But alas, Friday at 6:30, I look down the hall and who comes walking in to our classroom with a name badge? It's Huang DiXiong! My district co...