Week 3 - MTC - Hey Family!!

Hello there!
So this week's been pretty much the same as all the others. We had our first TRC which is where we teach lessons to visitors. So they just have RM's come in and we teach them in Cantonese, but we teach them as returned missionaries, which is hard because we know a lot of really basic gospel things (I know...., I believe.....How do you feel when....  mihng mh mihnbaahk? = do you or do you not understand? haha we use that one a lot.) But sometimes the most simple testimonies can be the most powerful, so we did alright.

We've seen a lot of the missionaries we came in with leave already, so my districts getting a bit antsy.

One of our investigators is named Bobo, and she's great. She believes the church is true, but can't keep the commandments. So I asked her why not, and she said because she was homosexual. Which took us awhile to figure out what she was saying though, because that's not a word we've studied very much in class haha. But it was a great first lesson, and we decided to talk to her about it our next lesson. So we talked about God's love for her, and then the law of chastity, and then we showed her Suzanne's video on the mormonandgays.org website and translated it for her, and it was such a powerful lesson. So Bobo's really our teacher impersonating someone from her mission, and she was crying toward the end, and accepted our invite to church on Sunday. But after the lesson she pulled us aside and thanked us for the lesson, and had never heard of the website and couldn't wait to tell the real Bobo. It was just a really great, and really tender, and a good reminder to me that every one of us is working on becoming like the Savior in one way or another, and God loves us no matter what.

On that note, we got to hear from Elder D. Todd Christofferson this past week (4 apostles in 3 weeks?...crazy!) And he said that God has infinite love for his children. He made a note not to say unconditionally though, which I thought was interesting, not because it wasn't true, but because nowhere that he has read in the scriptures has he ever seen unconditionally, only infinite. He then went on to say it is far better to be trusted than to be loved, and I really liked that. And it made me reflect a lot on my work here so far. I've always seemed concerned with trusting in Heavenly Father and being submissive to His will, but I never considered flipping it. Am I someone Heavenly Father trusts? Of course he loves me, but does He trust me? And to be honest, I think I need to work on that a lot. And maybe that's why I was so hard on myself this past week. But I want to be someone Heavenly Father trusts, especially a missionary He trusts. So anyway, that's something new I learned and what I'm working on...being more trustworthy to Heavenly Father.

OH!! and thanks so much for the package! I loved it! The cookies were SOOOO delicious :) My shoes are already broken in and the shirt has been worn, so thank you! And .....surprise!!! They're actually going to let us call home on Mothers day. I know it's only been 3 weeks, but still, I'm excited to talk to you. And I absolutely love the updates, no matter how boring you think they are :)  Anyway, I love you all!

Love Hannah