I don't have pictures this week because I forgot my camera.
It's
hot here, though it's not as hot as California. However it's always
very humid, which makes it feel a lot hotter here than in California.
I haven't gotten sick yet, but everyone says that
it's only a matter of time, and that every missionary gets sick within
the first month of arriving. I don't know, but it's probably true.
The days here aren't very exciting. We aren't
allowed to street contact in Vietnam, so we often have unfilled time.
My companion and I don't have many investigators, so mostly we teach
recent converts. We have a lot of recent converts to teach, as my
companion and I teach most of those lessons, including some for new
members taught by the other missionaries in the city. We teach most of
the lessons at church because it's easier for us, but when we go to
visit less active members we usually bike there. It usually takes about
an hour, and the traffic is insane. As I think I said in my last
e-mail, there really aren't many traffic rules here (that people
follow.)
The food we cook varies from day to day. Elder Tai
and I normally cook more American, but the other companionship cooks
more Vietnamese food. I sometimes cook Vietnamese because it's cheaper,
but I usually can find some American stuff (like pasta or bread) on
sale or very cheap because we have to go to many places in order to get
everything we need. Occasionally we order pizza if we really don't feel
like cooking, there's a couple Dominoes in the city.
I don't miss the MTC for the food (it's much better
to cook for myself) but I do miss not having to bike several kilometers a
day in traffic that would get a couple million people arrested in
America (including the missionaries, we sometimes have to follow traffic
in order to actually go through some 4-way "gos", there aren't 4-way
stops here unless there are traffic signals.)
One of our investigators (OK,
really our only investigator) was baptized yesterday. Her name is Chi
Diem (That's not the correct spelling, but I don't know how to use the
Vietnamese settings on this keyboard.) I do have pictures, but again, I
forgot my camera, so I'll send them next week probably.
I still can't really say much in Vietnamese, it's
coming very slowly especially because it's hard to understand people.
Sometimesitseemsliketheytalklikethiswithabsolutelynospacesbetweenwordsorsyllables.
All in all, I'm doing fine here. Elder Tai is in
Hanoi for a leadership assignment or something (he's the zone leader) so
I am working with Elder Huyen this week.
Elder Nguyen
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