October 16th

Its five in the morning.. :/ its really the only time every week we can e-mail. I don't mind:) makes me feel a little more.. healthy? Well first transfer is over as of this week:( But it has been fun and I've learned a ton!!! :) Chinese is coming along. I had one of those cool experiences where someones asks you something and respond without even thinking about what you need to say. It made me feel like maybe I can speak Chinese. :) I love the people here. We have our third baptism here next week so that will be an immersion of blessings from God in one transfer;) This week I contacted a guy by a seven eleven. His flamboyant attitude and pungent stench of old rotten barley, made it clear he had not slept much the night before and was still continuing his wild party with more beer. He said a bunch of stupid stuff like I've been to your church(everyone says that but no one really has) and stuff like that. The best part however was at the end he started to try and speak English.... wow I'm not sure where he learned his "choice" selection of words but not only was it offensive but did not make sense. Anyway I just left with him yelling at me and the whole world staring thinking of course I was the cause of this mans extreme behavior. Well I read this story over again... I'm sorry nothing sounds as funny in a letter as it was in real life. :/ SO this last week me and my comp decided to go home for dinner and make rice curry. we only have a half hour so we were really hurrying. I pulled out my rice and lo and behold... it had bugs in it:p stupid bugs. So we decided to make all of it! let me tell you I've had stupid ideas. I have done things I have regretted but making 4 pounds of rice is the one i regret most as we spent 1 hour MAKING RICE I found how much I never eat rice for the rest of my life. Sadly i still have 1 and 1/2 year left in the land of rice, and at least the next week eating rice for every meal... and maybe snacks.. and maybe while I sleep. Anything to get it out of our sushe(apartment). Well life here is good. :) my comp and I get along and have fun, we make competitions out of everything. This is exciting but I often lose. If its a physical race he is 6"8, and if its a missionary one I still am not by any means fluent so he gets that. However I always find ways to bend rules enough to put up a VERY decent fight;) His family has ten people and one on the way.. HUGE!!!!! We always fine a new way to make each week a little different. When I went on exchanges with the zone leaders we met some people form Cali who didn't really speak any Chinese. They asked where a hostel was and my zone leader had never hear that word before... I started to laugh (the one you hold in as much as possible) when he started to say that hotels were expensive here and they use the small places where a bunch of people stay. They looked at him and then asked me if I knew what a hostel was i nodded pointed to the nearest one and they smile thanked me and walked away without another word to my comp. Really awkward LoL LOVE YOU ALL!!! PLEASE WRITE SOON :)