The group that came in with me is now officially the veterans of the MTC. Its crazy that when I leave the MTC I will already be 1/12 of the way done with my mission. I'm starting to love it more and more everyday here, and I love the people that I get to be with everyday.
Today is what we call ultra P-day, because their are new elders and sisters coming into our zone. Thats basically the only difference, and we also do initiatories instead of a session. But other than that its basically the same as every other P-day.
Tomorrow is Christmas, so we are doing a secret santa in our zone. And a bunch of parents sent us decorations, so our room is decorated with little trees and lights. Also one of the elders in our zone is making a Christmas tree out of cardboard boxes. So you could say its a pretty legit Christmas.
One of the Elders in our zone (Elder Griffin) has a brother that just got back from Taipei (yes he knows elder Casper) and he just became our new teacher. He is really funny and he always tells us stories from his mission, and it just gets me so excited to go to Taiwan.
I got my first MTC haircut (its crazy but is one of the most exciting things that happened this week) One of our subs, because our teacher is on vacation, was Elder Eyring's grandson so that was pretty cool.
On Sunday I got called as a zone leader. Pretty much all an MTC zone leader does is new missionary orientation, interview district leaders, and assign priesthood teachers, but I am still really excited to serve, and be able to hopefully help others. Nashville Tribute band came again, and it was really fun and awesome. By the time we get to see David Archuleta concert in Taiwan, we will have seen 3 concerts on our mission, which I am pretty sure breaks the previous record of 0.
Our violin mondays are getting even better. At first it was just one elder playing the violin, but now we have a piano player, and a cello players, so it's a pretty great time. We also taught our first Skype TRC, which is where we skype a member from Taiwan and we teach them. It was kind of hard to hear because the speakers weren't great, and she was speaking Chinese, but it went pretty good. Except about 5 minutes before we were going to finish, her phone died, so we just left a little message with our testimonies. During the Skype me and my companion were introducing ourselves, and we told her that we both had 8 people in our families, and she said weishenme?!?! which means why? I was just laughing cause she thought it was so crazy that we had so many people in our families.
Another 2 districts in our zone left on Tuesday (Elder Kelemen's) I had become such good friends with all of them so it was kind of sad, but I will see them again in October.
I don't really have any personal stories of me messing up in Chinese but I have a couple funny stories from my zone. One of the Elders was telling his investigator that God loves everyone (everyone = mei yi ge ren) but instead he actually told her that God loves americans (americans = mei guo ren) and she wasn't american so that was pretty funny.
During another lesson my companion was talking about the Atonement, and he was trying to tell our investigator about when we commit sin, which is "fan zui". But instead he said "cheng nuo zui" which is saying when we commit to sin :)
Love you all. Thank you for everything!
Elder Bosco
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