Xin Chao!
(Please excuse the lack
of tone and vowel markers, this computer doesn't have any. You'll have
to fill them in yourself, sorry. And please don't use Google Translate,
because I might have accidentally written something offensive because I
don't have the tone markers, etc.)
Em la khoe. Khong thay luon luon heiu tieng viet, nhung anh ca hop
tap. Em co thay dop tieng viet. Em co thay noi bang tieng anh trong
Fundamental Practice va Coaching Missionary Study.
OK, that's enough of that.
I'm doing just fine here. The language is still difficult (for
everyone) but everyone's learning. There's not really much to report,
every week is pretty much the same.
We actually have two
investigators now (I don't know if I told you that already). One of
them, Em Thao, is progressing well. We have him attending church and he
is keeping most of the commitments that we have given to him (We
haven't been able to follow up on some yet). He has a baptismal date
(Saturday) but my companion and I don't think that we're going to be
able to finish teaching everything in time, so we're going to push it
back a week or two.
Our other investigator, Chi Thuy, is another story altogether. We've
taught her one full lesson and are about halfway through the second
lesson, but she doesn't understand why we need to pray. No matter what
we tell her, she keeps insisting that she doesn't think prayer is
necessary, and we can't really go anywhere with these lessons if she
refuses to pray.
In my last letter I said that I was called as the district leader
last week. It's not quite as demanding of a calling here as it is in
the field. I have to pick up the mail and approve companionship splits
for some activities, and that's it (I don't think I'm going to be
required to give baptismal interviews for the district, because there
are some missionaries in the district who don't speak Vietnamese, they
speak Hmong, and I can't interview people in Hmong. In fact I can't say
anything in Hmong at all.)
I was surprised at the announcement that young men could begin
serving missions at 18, but not as surprised as most others were. There
were a few missionaries in our zone who were 18 when they came into the
MTC, so when President Monson started talking about them I knew what
was going to happen. I'll bet Michael and A.J. are excited about that,
now they don't have to wait quite as long. But I probably wouldn't have
gone at 18 even if I could have. Not because I wouldn't have wanted
to, but because I was so used to having 19 years old as the earliest
people could begin serving that I probably would have just stuck with
going at 19.
I'm glad that I'm leaving the MTC soon. While it's good here and I
enjoy it, I'm a bit tired of being here (most people who speak foreign
languages are only here for 9 weeks and most of the people I know here
who aren't in my district are already gone or will be going soon.)
Well I'm about out of time, so I'll end it here. Bye! Hopefully these next two years won't be too long for you.
Elder Nguyen
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