MTC - Week Three

President and Sister Teng with Sister Scharman, Sister Menzie, Sister C and Sister A

Hey! 

So this week we lost the other district in our zone, and I'm so sad. We became so close and now it feels empty without them! But we found out we are getting 19 new people today!! What! 8 elders and 11 sisters, and as sister training leader I have to interview all of them so I can report back to President Teng, I'm going to be super busy. So fun!! I am super excited to meet them tonight! I get to show them around the MTC like a tour guide, but the problem is I still get lost a lil and I've been here three weeks. We also had another sister move into our room, her name is Sister Money. She was here in the MTC before but had to go home to get surgery. Now she is back! Her, Sister Clawson and Sister Apsley are now in a three some. She seems nice, I've known her for about a solid hour. Last night we stayed up till 11:30 (I know breaking rules but the lord knows we were doing service) we decorated all the new girls doors with dresses we made out of paper. Origami is a fun activity here in the mtc haha 

Sister Menzie and I have taught 11 lessons in the past week, no wonder they call it a training center. We had TRC for the first time on saturday. (that's where we meet with real members and teach them) besides my mandarin being bad, it went pretty good! the first guy we taught knew my aunt, so yeah fun. When we were teaching Amin (one of our investigators) about families and how they can be together forever we showed her pictures of our families. She loved it! She commented on how tall Ryan was, that made me think about how tall Tyler is going to get when I'm gone and that makes me sad.  

We became friends with the Cantonese District, there is one super short asian elder that gives us a pile of candy everyday hahah he is so cute. And he gives us good candy. Also he cheers me on while I'm running around the track at gym time. What a nice guy.

The funniest compliment that I got this week was from Elder Oreno, he said.. "you are a super cool sister! I bet you're even cooler as a person!!" HAHAHA thanks?

Before Sister Hickenlooper and Sister Bradley left yesterday we had a little party in their room with brownies and cookies. Sister Teng, our branch president's wife, came and partied with us. She is the CUTEST little asian lady I have ever met. She is from Taiwan, even though she's lived here in the US for a long time she still has some troubles with english. She is so funny, and President Teng just sits there and laughs at her. 

I love all my teachers, especially my main teacher Li Laoshi we have some that just come in our class and

President and Sister Teng with their Zone

sit there like Brother Dodge, and Brother Liao. They just sit there and laugh at me, (not just when I'm speaking chinese) apparently I'm pretty funny.

The funniest thing that has happened this week was Sister Apsleys calf cramp.. we all went to bed only to be woken up 45 minutes later by her screaming "OW OW OW OW" it sounded like she was dying seriously. Sister Clawson said she was having a calf cramp so she said "grab your big toe and stretch out your leg and massage it out!" after a second the "ows" stopped. and Sister Apsley said "how did that even work?" then was dead asleep again. The next morning after breakfast we asked her if her leg felt better. Sister Apsley literally looked at us like we were insane. SHE DIDN'T REMEMBER hahahah 

this is probably one of those times where you had to be there to make it funny. She does lots of weird things in her sleep btw 

Only 6 more weeks in the mtc!!!!!

Love,

Sister Scharman 是姐妹