YOUR CHINESE LESSON FOR TODAY: My name is Sima Jiemei. Sima is a transliteration of "Smith" and Jiemei means sister, so technically, it's Smith Sister! My companion is Mu Jiemei (Sister Murri). She is awesome and we work really well together!
MY EXPERIENCES: The Sisters say they've noticed that I talk in my sleep, (Now for the good news) but they say it's in Chinese! YAY!
Tomorrow we are going to the Teaching Resource Center where we will teach random people a couple times a week. Sometimes they are real investigators, sometimes RM's acting, sometimes less active members...all in Chinese. It is truly amazing how much Chinese we've learned already! We still have much to learn but I can pray and bear testimony ...and that can get me far!
FAST AND TESTIMONY MEETING is great since there are only 15 of us, we all know we need to bear our testimony...in Chinese.
I shared a scripture, Alma 31: 32-35.
{32. O Lord, wilt Thou comfort my soul,
and give unto me success, and also my
fellow laborers who are with me...}
{34. O Lord, wilt Thou grant unto us that we
may have success in bringing them again
unto thee in Christ.}
{35. Behold, O Lord, their souls are precious,
...therefore, give unto us, O Lord, power and
wisdom that we may bring these, our
brethren,...unto thee.}
No joke, I wanted to share a scripture so I said a silent plea to Heavenly Father asking HIm to guide me to a scripture that could really apply to us. Then I stuck my thumbnail into a page of the Book of Mormon, and flipped it open. My thumb was right on verse 34. I read it substituting the names for my own and the names of the missionaries in our zone, and replaced "them" with the Taiwanese people. It was awesome!
FIGHTING DISCOURAGEMENT: Some of the sisters are struggling. It is hard, but I've never been one to over focus or be a perfectionist on grammar and studying, and I think that has been really helpful to me here (okay, not so much in high school, but here at the MTC!). It is easy to let yourself get overwhelmed and let Satan convince you it is impossible to learn, that we aren't progressing. But I've found that looking outward from myself is the key. Think of others. Ask how their day is, offer to practice sentences that they are worried about and give encouraging thoughts. (Sometimes bluntly)! I am just learning so much, I'll send my journal pages home soon. That's what I really want to share with you all is my learnings.
MY EXPERIENCES: The Sisters say they've noticed that I talk in my sleep, (Now for the good news) but they say it's in Chinese! YAY!
Tomorrow we are going to the Teaching Resource Center where we will teach random people a couple times a week. Sometimes they are real investigators, sometimes RM's acting, sometimes less active members...all in Chinese. It is truly amazing how much Chinese we've learned already! We still have much to learn but I can pray and bear testimony ...and that can get me far!
FAST AND TESTIMONY MEETING is great since there are only 15 of us, we all know we need to bear our testimony...in Chinese.
I shared a scripture, Alma 31: 32-35.
{32. O Lord, wilt Thou comfort my soul,
and give unto me success, and also my
fellow laborers who are with me...}
{34. O Lord, wilt Thou grant unto us that we
may have success in bringing them again
unto thee in Christ.}
{35. Behold, O Lord, their souls are precious,
...therefore, give unto us, O Lord, power and
wisdom that we may bring these, our
brethren,...unto thee.}
No joke, I wanted to share a scripture so I said a silent plea to Heavenly Father asking HIm to guide me to a scripture that could really apply to us. Then I stuck my thumbnail into a page of the Book of Mormon, and flipped it open. My thumb was right on verse 34. I read it substituting the names for my own and the names of the missionaries in our zone, and replaced "them" with the Taiwanese people. It was awesome!
FIGHTING DISCOURAGEMENT: Some of the sisters are struggling. It is hard, but I've never been one to over focus or be a perfectionist on grammar and studying, and I think that has been really helpful to me here (okay, not so much in high school, but here at the MTC!). It is easy to let yourself get overwhelmed and let Satan convince you it is impossible to learn, that we aren't progressing. But I've found that looking outward from myself is the key. Think of others. Ask how their day is, offer to practice sentences that they are worried about and give encouraging thoughts. (Sometimes bluntly)! I am just learning so much, I'll send my journal pages home soon. That's what I really want to share with you all is my learnings.