Okay so it's October 9th 2012 and here I am in the computer lab writing you guys again in what seems like 2 or 3 short days but actually was 7 days. So 3 weeks left guys!!!! This week has been so great and I think this is the first time in my life I watched all 5 general conference sessions. 10 hours of sitting woohoo! But no seriously it's been fun, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Oh yeah and i've been gone 2 months already?!? It's been going too fast!
So this week has been a pretty normal week, besides conference, but there has been an interesting "miracle" according to my district, there was a story shared last Sunday (Oct 1) about a little 7 year old boy his mother told him he could get any answer from general conference, so this little boy wanted them to talk about "killer bees" so anyway the boy got his wish... President Hinckley at the time mentioned killer bees in his talk about how the media is like a bunch of killer bees... I took that story to heart that we can get any answer from conference that we want so I got all my questions written down that monday (Oct 2) and I shared one of them with my whole district... I really wanted to hear something about Praying Mantis... yes the bug. I knew it was a long shot but we were really hoping for Praying Mantis at conference to be mentioned... but to no avail... we paid attention for those 2 special words... praying...mantis... please!!! just say praying mantis...! But nope... there was none... The last session came and we were so looking forward to the closing prayer to contain praying mantis because we knew that we had faith in these two words... nope... sorry. We were all crushed... so we left the auditorium... we were the first ones out and guess what was walking across the ground direct below my feet? A PRAYING MANTIS... A REAL PRAYING MANTIS... I honestly can't remember the last time i've seen one of these little guys but we could not believe our eyes... I actually have a picture of me with it that I'll have to send sometime next week. Anyway just a fun little story we had from conference this week.
But on a more serious note, I did get a lot of my burning questions answered and I thoroughly enjoyed it this year, I hope all you did as well. I liked Sister Dibbs talk the best from the Women and probably Bednar's talk the best from the mens.
So family I leave in 3 weeks, and don't worry I already bought a phone card. Sorry about all the transactions on my card the other day... I needed more shampoo body wash and a laundry bag plus I was asked to do dry cleaning a few weeks before I leave so I did that.
Oh yeah and Shawna I wrote you back today... sorry i've been busy (include this on the blog for her to read)
So what's wrong with dads hip? I put his name in the prayer roll today and been praying for all of you daily. Hope he is okay.
My chinese is doing much bettel, my grammar is improving and I feel confident that in the field I will be able to thrive with learning the language. My main concern for this week (and yes there's a main concern for every week) was applying the doctrine to their needs. I've been working tirelessly practicing and I think we are actually doing it really well now... it's just a matter of time and patience with all this. I still have 22 months to go to get this language and teaching down. I'm really exciting to get out in the field. I start packing up my stuff this time two weeks from now and make sure everything is in order. I don't really need anything right now, although I would like to have some sheet music... don't worry about that though not much time left here anyway.
I think i'm singing solo "How Great Thou Art" in Sacrament next week with Elder Gummow accompaning me... we'll see not sure yet.
Julee there's an Elder that's going to Houston Mandarin speaking, doubt he'll ever get close to Kingwood but his name is Elder Quigley just in case... as for Granny's request to find Elder Bell... I never found him... you gave me a room number but I wasn't sure what building... there's 20 huge buildings here so I wasn't able to even start finding him, it's just too busy here.
Let's see what else? Any questions for me? I sent a letter to mom dad and jessica on saturday so you'll probably get that sometime this week. look forward to the letter to angel and moroni as well, that's a good one.
Anyway I love you all and since I'm a little bored waiting for Elder Edwards i'll assign family names to everyone's different families... i already did the Telle family..
Sanchez Family 单 Shan Family
Hodges Family 黄 Huang Family
Tate Family 陶 Tang Family
Taylor Family (rachel and matts email address is what?) 遢 Ta family
not sure who else to include... if you want a family name let me know :)))
Anyway love you all, talk to you next week.
Elder Sanchez
单长老
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