Family:
Yup another week has gone by in the MTC:). It's crazy starting today the older Mandarin missionaries start leaving to their missions. This is so crazy because this means that I am getting close to being to the half way mark in the MTC. Ok it is still a ways away but I'm in week 5 now. My companion was looking at when he leaves for France and his date is about Oct 4 and mine is about Oct 5, so this means that I'm here for just over 11 weeks not the twelve + that I thought it was going to be. Crazy.
So this week has been great, the language is starting to "click" and we are doing better at speaking it more and more and English less and less (SYL= speak your language) anyway everyone is stressing it so it will click for everyone sooner than later! This week I got to learn how to follow up on commitments in Mandarin, SO COOL! To be able to ask people if they have been reading the scriptures, and praying to know if they are true, it is awesome and then being able to very simply, very simply to answer their questions about what they have read is so cool!
This week I got to listen to Elder Holland’s talk that he gave called "Missions are Forever" so cool! He speaks with so much power!!! He gave this talk in the MTC and so I'm not sure if you will be able to find it but it is way cool!!! I've learned a lot from listening to his talks that he gave in the MTC, I hope you can find some of them because they are awesome, but I'm not sure if you will because it was in the MTC and they don't publish everything!
Anyway way cool, Elder Buss had a way cool experience this last week, he had to go the the French Consult in California for his Visa and so he got to talk to 4 families about the gospel while he was there, way cool opportunity!
Thanks for the package, cookies are great, like always and thank you for the fan! It's going to help a lot.
Chandler, Chinese is so cool I'll write a letter but glory, garden, boat, and beginning's - Chinese words/characters are so cool. I'll explain them in the letter but if you see Pres Anderson or Nate ask about them :) You'll love it!
When does Nate get home?
This church is so true! I'm reminded of Elder Holland’s talk last October about the Book of Mormon, it is so true. We have been so blessed. The Book of Mormon is true! Jesus is my older/ big brother and has done so much for me. I'm so grateful for Him. I know that God loves all of us and wants us to return to live with Him again! We are so blessed!
I hope all is going well. I'm sorry to hear that the camp out wasn't the best that it could have been, but good job for making it happen!
What has been going on?
Mom, love you. How are you doing?
Dad, thank you for your example, of hard work and dedication!
Love you! Watch "Mountain of the Lord" sometime, that's awesome as well.
Sorry my time is up. Love you. Talk to you later.
You all are the best,
Elder Harr
