At the Halloween party at the church. So on Halloween we are staying in our apartment during prime time. President's rule. So we are going to have a junk food night and watch  an approved church film. 

Heyo Mama,

I learned that Everything is not suppose to go in your own way. It's suppose to go in God's way for His way is higher than ours. No matter where we go, it's there for us. St. George or New York. New York is teaching me how to change myself into becoming what God wants me to be. I am learning a lot of new things that I possibly don't think I can do myself. For example, on Saturday I was feeling discouraged from the language and teaching, tired since I'm not getting enough sleep in this hot apartment, and weak and that happens rarely. So we just finished Stake conference and we were waiting for the bus to take us home. It was out of town in Jamaica, 30 minutes away from our home. It was 10pm. The assigned bus pulled over and once he saw that we were a bunch of teenager missionaries he pulled away leaving us. We were all frustrated, tired, and cold. Ten minutes later another bus arrived and picked us up. I sat down. My heart was weighed and I prayed to my Father above in my heart. I had been praying all day that day. After praying in my heart, I looked across from me and saw a mom and a dad with two beautiful girls. One maybe 2 and the other one maybe 9 months old. The 2 year old girl was crying and screaming and the dad was doing everything he could do to get the child to stop crying by comforting and loving her. Once she stopped crying, she looked at me and started to smile, I smiled. She waved, I waved back. We were constantly looking at each other and waving at each other back and forth for like five minutes straight. When it was the family's time to get off the bus, I looked through the window and watched this family starting to walk away. But the two year old girl just stood there and looked at me as if she was telling me that she loves me and that God loves me and is pushing me forward. I know that God must have put me on this specific bus for a reason. I am amazed that God can answer my crying heart through that two year old. The point of this story is that if you ever feel that way, get down on your knees and pray or pray in your heart because God does know you and he knows your heart. He wants you to talk to Him. Pray even when you're not struggling, pray when you're filled with joy and love. My love for the people in New York has increased tremendously. I learned to "Forget yourself and go to work!

On Tuesday we had trainers and trainees meeting. We separated from our companions/trainers and went to a different room and there we met President Calderwood. He talked to us about turning our mind to great positive things. He told us a story about two different cities and a wise man between the cities. One family from one city was moving out and moving to another city. They met the wise man in the middle of their journey and asked, "What is the city like over there?" The wise man responded, "Well, what is your city like?" The family complained, "They are so rude, mean, negative, disrespectful, and blah blah blah." The wise man said, "The city that you're going to is the same as your city." Another family from another city was also moving from their city to the other city. They met the wise man there too and asked the same question, "What is the city like over there?" The wise man said, "Well, tell me about your city first." They responded, "We love the people there so much, we all help and support each other, we are so sad to leave them." The wise man said, "Your city is like the city you're going to now."

President Calderwood said that its all up to us to make each day a special moment. He said that if we keep looking for the next great big thing in life you're never gonna be satisified with this mission or for the rest of your life. Take each day and make it a gift and you will be filled with joy and happiness!

Look around you! You can find joy in simple things. I smile when I see someone laughing. I smile when I am teaching English class and the students are getting the English word right and you can see the big smile they have on their face! I smile when I see a parent comforting their child. I smile when I see a grandma pulling a beautiful flower off the bush and giving it to her 2 year old granddaughter. I love how that two year old is walking with that purple flower in her hand holding it carefully! It's amazing how you can find joy in everything!

I absolutely love this place! I am filled with joy doing missionary work. Please keep praying for my companion and me that we can continue to work harder and help other people and understand what they need.

I love you mom! You're my best friend!!!

Love your Animal Loving Daughter,

Sister Moore

Response to your email:

Everything is fixed in this old church. The inside of the church/ chapel is almost exactly the same as the chapel in the St. George tabernacle. Whenever I'm in the chapel, I feel like I'm in St. George. They are building a new church and it really beautiful but it won't be done till I go home: January 2016. So when we go back, we are stopping by the new church :)

The Language is coming little by little. I can say the words in my mind but can't speak it out right. I need to practice saying it out loud so I can become comfortable saying it. The Chinese that I'm struggling with is "c" which makes a "ts" sound. It's frustrating. I just wish I can get to a point where I can start understanding what others are saying so I don't need to have others translate for me all the time.

Facebook Post! Bahahaha! I can't wait to see that soon. Yes I'll be getting Facebook next week and I'm excited. I miss seeing pictures of all my family members! Nice poop picture you have there. What Justin said made me laugh too!! We have such an awesome mama who can easily make us kids laugh!! Glad you have everyone offering to help you with this kind of job when I'm not there!

I am glad the patio is getting fixed and the gutters getting built. We need a strong stable firm home!

I'm excited for all of you to go up north and go trick or treating! And Halloween and so forth. I am sending Brandon's birthday gift today so hopefully he'll get it. Whenever I talk about my family to other people, they are amazed with how young Brandon is as a police officer, how crazy Justin is with everything and how he makes everything an adventure, and how wonderful you are. They are amazed with you raising a deaf girl and your strong testimony. 

Tell the Stewcox I said hi and that I love them and will be writing them soon. It's crazy that almost every night I dream about all of you. I can feel all of your happiness!

Wow Jacob's leaving already! Man.... Where did the time go??? He will do fantastic!  I better write him before he heads off!

I'm happy to hear about the MMF thing. I'm happy you're getting blessed through it all!! My heart is filled with joy for you!

If I can pick any hero as my favorite besides my family.... I would have to choose Emma Smith. She is such an inspirational person with strong faith and I hope to be like her. So I'm glad you watched that movie.

So I thought a lot about Julie Robinson this past week. My heart breaks for her and her family. Do you know how Alex is doing? I wish I could send my love to her. I am happy she is with Sammy in heaven.

I am happy for Randi, I hope she is ready to become a mother along with her husband. I hope everything is going good for them.

I love all of you and how each of you are a blessing to my life. I pray for you every single day!!! 

Some people like to feed me...look at her long hair!

 你好 mama!!!

I want to tell you how much I love you very very very very much! You're my top #1 best friend. Thank you for the package you sent us. We both love it!!! We ate the cookie dough the night we got it hehe. Love everything that was in the box!!! So what does the MMF really do? It's really helping with my neck, shoulders, and back. Last week I hurt my foot for some reason and its hurts to walk. But  持守到底 (enduring to the end).

So we did not get a chance to go to the Brooklyn Bridge :( we spent our whole day playing volleyball and didn't have time to go. We will later though. I found out that once our elder arrives from the MTC in a couple of weeks, we will go to the Statue of Liberty. We can get on the Statue of Liberty! :). I know the elder who's arriving. He became an awesome friend the last two weeks I was at the MTC ever since we find out we were going to the same mission.

So last Monday, something crazy happened: So we went to the church for family home evening and we walked in the church and two elders were saying crazy things and we couldn't understand what they were saying... They said something about the fire alarm going off and so forth. We were still confused. They decided to show us..... Our church has 3 floors. We went to the top floor and turns out that the air conditioner hose turned loose and the water sprayed everywhere.  Our missionary closet was completely destroyed and unfortunately, most of our items were destroyed! The young women's room was partly destroyed, the floor was really wet and the ceiling was falling apart. Since the missionary closet was full of water and it leaked through the floor underneath which is the bishop office and his room was destroyed as well. Water dripping everywhere and the ceiling falling apart.  One miracle thing that happened was that the bishop's nice desk, computer, laptop, and printer were not wet or near the water but the water was all around it. It also leaked through to the bottom floor.... Yeah.... Our church is basically falling apart..... All the missionaries and two members and a church janitor all worked together to clean and save what we could save. It was really sad to see our many Chinese stuff being thrown away.... I was covered in plaster and my dress was wet from carrying wet stuff out of the room and from the dripping ceiling. The best part of the night was that the zone worked together and we all built our unity. We needed that.

I would say that the best part of the mission is learning how to be guided by the spirit.  Remember the lady  that asked a lot of questions and said that we are too young and inexperienced. We invited a member for the 2nd visit and it was like 2 hours. It was really good. I felt prompted to tell her my experience with something. She was wondering why God wasn't giving her the answer. We realized it was the answer that she wanted in her own way. We all explained that answers come in different ways. Scripture, family, other people, thoughts, feelings. The spirit kept pushing me to share my experience and finally I told her something. I told her that my dad was sick and I was having a hard time with it one day, and I just went to my scriptures and just opened it to the page that was John 14:18. I felt comforted and peace come over me. She then said, "that has happened to me....." I told her God has given her an answer already, we just need to look more closely. I was filled with the spirit of God at that moment and felt prompted to tell her this, " I don't know why I am feeling this right now.... But I know God wants me to tell you how much He loves you and that He has been with you your whole life. He is watching over you. (She started to cry, and I cried too) We love you so much and you are a beautiful daughter of God." Her friend was there too and she can't speak English but she was crying. We all cried together. The spirit was so strong. She said the closing prayer thanking God for the love she hasn't felt in a long time and knows that we truly care about her. I cried again. There are people out there that need love, and we can give them love through a smile, hug, kind words, service, and so forth. I felt God's love so powerful!! I was very lucky to meet her daughter. She's four and she is the cutest girl ever!

So I've been sick this past week, headache, stomachache, sore throat..... Headache because our apartment is super hot and we don't sleep at night. We struggle to fall asleep. Stomachache because... My body was use to Chinese food and we went out for American food and got sick from that or the cookie dough (the picture I will send will explain why) and sore throat because winter is coming soon.

In our apartment, our cooking pan broke, told you about the flushing the toilet situation , apartment super hot, bathtub knob broke, our microwave broke as well, everything is falling apart haha.

So I think it's pregnant month. One day I was passing out free English class cards, I saw maybe about  50 pregnant women in one hour. There was a Spanish guy and he came up to me and he was right up at my face and started giving me a story about how he is from a boxing family and has lesson on how to beat people up. He moved his arms and hands around like he was beating someone up and some came close to me....Elder Johnson ran over to me and said, "I think your companion needs you." So I walked towards my companion. Creepy moment.

So I am handing out "Free English Class" flyers to people and I saw two Chinese people signing. I think they were signing Chinese sign language and were being immersed in American Sign Language. So I waved for their attention and they looked at me. I started signing with them and one Chinese person wanted to talk with me and the other one got mad and pulled her away from me and was saying stuff about how they shouldn't trust me. I didn't get the chance to tell her I was deaf. I was so frustrated that I wanted to scream. I haven't signed for a long time and I was happy that I was finally signing with someone and then I was rejected. I had to do the breathing exercise and ate lots of chocolate haha. I feel better now. Now that I am looking back to that moment.... Man I am laughing right now. Psssshhhh deaf people ;)

So let me tell you about Spider-Man.  He is super helpful with my missionary work.  I can say the lesson in my mind, but I can't say the lesson out loud to a person.  So someone challenged me to use Spider-Man to teach the lesson out loud to.  I thought it was stupid and it was a struggle at first.  Ever since I have been teaching Spider-Man the lesson out loud, my teaching skills have been increasing.  He is my 2nd favorite superhero.

Family History is important. Our recent convert is super awesome. We taught her about family history and how we can do ordinances for the dead. I showed her my pedigree chart and family tree online and she is super excited to get that started. We helped her sign in and she is now finding information from her family. It's amazing how excited a person can get.

I absolutely love the members here. They are super helpful. They speak Chinese to me and if I understand them, we go back and forth. If there is a part that I don't understand, they will tell me in English. I love it. Even though the ward is super small, they are super awesome.

I had my interview with the president and when I walked in the room I felt like the environment changed. It's  like I was weak and full of love. President was super amazing and I just love feeling that feeling when I am  around him. I felt super loved. He said he really admired the work I was doing and told me that I need to take things slow and be patient with myself. He knows I've been working too hard haha. 

We have trials for specific reasons to get us to where we are now. Because we got through our trials we can help others go through theirs and see the blessings they can receive. We have been through a lot and you mom have been able to help many people who associate with you. Your love shines so bright. I know I got that from you ;)

I love you mama!! I am hoping to find Brandon a gift so I can send it to him soon. I've been thinking about him a lot!

Love the backyard. So beautiful and I'm happy for Randi!

So sad about Julie Robinson. My heart breaks for her. I will pray for the family.

Love you,

Sister Moore

My Favorite Scripture

Dear Mamasita,

Man.... It's hard to pick a favorite scripture.... They are all so good. If I have to pick one that applies to my life and my mission more it would have to be Deuteronomy 31:6: Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

I love this so much. We have fought so many battles as a family. We weren't afraid of our trials and we just pushed through them with faith and courage. He is with us and he has not forsaken us. He has given us so many blessings and joy. He has made our family stronger than ever. He has never failed us in life. As for my mission:  people and sharing the gospel is harder than I thought it would be because everyone is different and the language is really tough but the scripture said, "he will not fail thee, no forsake thee" Because of this scripture, I always have strength and I am always reminded that The Lord did not send me to fail, he sent me to succeed. He knows that the mission is gonna be hard but he will never ever leave me and the other missionaries alone to do the work. He is walking beside us every step of the way in teaching and sharing the gospel. He is changing ourselves for the better.

Love you mama so much! You are my hero and will forever be my Super Mom!!!! I really miss you but I know I'm needed here and I know that you're rooting for me in Utah! Thank you for your love and support. How did I get so lucky to have a fantastic perfect and amazing mamasita??

Love

Sister Moore

Dear Mom, 

This past week was a good week. I still struggled with the language but I can tell you that I've been improving little by little. On Thursday, we went to the Manhattan temple for Nicole. She is in her 30's, she has been a member for like a really long time I think 10 years and she has never been to the temple before so it was really cool to have an opportunity to be with her to do this. The temple was beyond gorgeous. So noisy and loud outside but quiet and peaceful inside. It was pretty awesome!

On Friday night Sister Johnson and I exchanged companions for the day. So I was able to serve in Little Neck in a driving mission all day Saturday with Sister Harris. Sister Harris taught me a lot. I love her testimony and her desire to serve. I love how she told me about the pray, read, and write method. It's when you pray, read the scriptures, and write your feelings down about the scripture or an answer to your questions. I tried that and it really work and you get more out of it! I really love that area, right next to the ocean, more trees, and people speaking English in different accents.

I met a black 25 year old woman, we had frozen yogurt and talked with her. She was baptized in June and her husband was not a member. The plan was to talk about the priesthood and the lesson went in a different direction to patriarchal blessings because she asked about it. She recently had a miscarriage and she feels like she is going no where and wants to know where the lord wants her to go. We explained to her about  patriarchal blessings. It was funny because I was being guided by the spirit and Sister Harris was an English speaking missionary and we both spoke English. It felt weird to teach in English and I felt tempted so many times to speak Chinese. I also met another lady who is like in her 60s. She is the only member in her whole entire family, mom, dad, husband, kids, and she still keeps her hands holding on to the iron rod. Her faith is so strong. She was from the Dominican Republican and speaks with a Jamaica accent. When we walked into her place it was like entering a ghetto to a garage and the only light she had was a little lamp and it was cold in there. I felt bad for her. She has such wonderful pictures of family on the wall and she talks a lot about them.

On Saturday, our zone got together to do street sweep and that day was a miracle for Sister Harris and me. The weather was so cold and raining and I had about 100 "free English class/church of Jesus Christ" cards. Well guess what.... Remember how I talked about earlier that I only gave out 3 cards and the next day 7 cards..... We gave out allllllll of them! Had conversation with about 6 people and got one number. It was an amazing day. I couldn't help but smile.

That night Sister Harris and I were to attend a baby shower for a member and for an investigator. It was half English and half Spanish. There was a lot of food so Sister Harris and I ate a lot. I was so grateful because we don't eat much here in the mission. I may have lost some weight, my skirts are becoming a little big now. The only food we eat here is Chinese food mostly noodles, sandwiches, cereal and we walk a lot everyday. I love it still. So while being at the baby shower, a lot of Spanish people talked to me... I received a Spanish Book of Mormon. So looks like I will be learning a little Spanish here on the mission. In our zone we have missionaries learning different languages... For example: the Spanish speaking sisters are now trying to learn Chinese.... The English speaking elders are trying to learn Chinese and Spanish.... So I am willing to learn Spanish. Sister Harris started her mission as English speaking and got put into a Spanish mission... So she is learning Spanish right now.... So language is pretty much awesome here!

The other day when we were doing street sweep a man came up to me and hit on me. I was giving out Free English class cards and this guy came up to me and just stared at me. Then I spoke English and he started talking in English.... He kept looking up and down and up at me. I was so uncomfortable that I motioned for Elder Johnson to come over. They started talking in Chinese and English mix. The guy grabbed my hand and shook it and held it and I had to pull my arm away from him. Turns out that he really really wanted to rob the church. Elder Johnson said he was a creep and kept an eye on him till he was gone.... Awkward.

Elder Johnson called and Sister Johnson was nowhere to be found so I had to answer the phone and we just started talking. Sister Johnson is now giving me a responsibility to call people and talk with them.... Why???? Haha it's getting better though. I am starting to be able to hear on the phone most of the time.

Sister Johnson and I are getting along really good. I really really really love her and could not have asked for a better companion than her. She has been such a good trainer. She can easily make me laugh so don't be too surprised if I return home with abs ;) I love how Sister Johnson is very involved in the work. I love how she always challenges me. For example, if we are teaching a lesson, the challenge was..... I have to talk more.... So if the person is talking and the talking stops..... I look at Sister Johnson and she looks at me and smiles which is a sign that I need to talk more. So I am doing better. On Friday we taught a couple. And I felt the spirit so strongly and I was being guided by it and the lesson went well. I talked more than Sister Johnson so she was happy about it.

Yesterday, Sister Johnson found a book with all of our members in Chinese 2nd Flushing Ward.

The book contains maybe a little over 100. And guess what..... 95% are less active and we never see them in church. We were shocked. Sister Johnson was a little upset about it and it was so funny to watch her do her breathing exercises. 

So guess who is going to Brooklyn today? Me :) We are going to see the Brooklyn Bridge today so I'm really excited!

 

 This is Flushing, New York.  I really love it here!

So I had a dream about papa the other night. It was like we were all saying goodbye to him all over again. Every single member of the family was there. Holyoaks, Penningtons, Stewcox, us, grandma! There was this one moment I remember really well is that he was standing there, grinning his special smile, telling me that he really loves me and was really proud of me and that he has been with me this whole mission. I still wear his key around my neck a lot. I can feel his presence with me on the mission.

Thank you for telling me everything that's been going on! Glad everyone is doing good. Thank you for being such an awesome mama!!! Taking care of and loving all your children to death! Thank you for being such a strong mama holding on to the iron rod and going forward with faith. You have been such an awesome example to everyone around you. Even when you don't think you can make a change and honestly you have made a change in everyone's lives! Sister Price told me that you were the nicest person she has ever met and she loves you! She is now in Taiwan but told me that she really loved St. George! You are blessing my life from afar. I feel really close to you in my heart. I love you mama!

Which reminds me, what is Justin's email address? I've been wanting to talk to him on email.

I still see weird things everyday here. Not a day goes by that you don't see something abnormal. Like a fire going crazy in the recycle bin which we walked by and thought it was going to explode. It's crazy!

I'll give you the scripture tonight for the plaque.

Love 

Sister Moore

莫姐妹

我爱你

That's right! I'm proud at character writing ;)

Sushi!

Japanese restaurant eating fish.  They found out that I don't like fish and wanted me to try some fish.  At least I lived and didn't die!

Warning: One of the longest emails in history!

The Chinese speaking missionaries in my mission

 Hey Mother!!

This past week has been a roller coaster up and down, up and down. I struggle with a lot of things. But sometimes we have to look past the struggles and find the beautiful things in the struggles. For example: I struggle a lot with the language.  I know, I know I'm not expected to be amazing in Chinese within a few weeks. But even though I was frustrated a few times understanding Chinese, the people around me are helping me. Some speak English and know what I'm trying to say so they can help me. Some don't know English but still do a charade. Some just smile and say, "You can do this!" It's amazing how much love they show me.

So we met a woman two weeks ago at street sweep and we taught her our first lesson on Wednesday. Both me and Sister Johnson were so happy because we've been cancelled on so many times this past week! This is actually the real first lesson I was able to participate in. We got to know her more, she is a very desirable willing person. She is 52, from China, and has been married for two years. She has two daughters, one is hers and the other one is her husbands. She unfortunately was in a bus accident a couple of years ago in China. 71 people died in that accident but Jenny survived. Her face, head, and arm were destroyed. The doctors used skin and bone from her leg to fix her up. She showed us her scars. But she is grateful she lived! We talked to her about the first lesson and talked about the Book of Mormon! She was so excited when Sister Johnson pulled out the BOM and gave it to her. She gave the closing prayer and it was a beautiful one. I'm proud of her. We also asked her if she was willing to be baptized and she said YES! The plan is November 23. She also is inviting her husband to join the discussion.

Street sweep was tough on Thursday!  The weather had gotten colder, it was raining, people were grouchy and mean, welcome to the bad side of New York but I'm not a wimp anymore hehe. While we were doing street sweep I got rejected so many times that I told Elder Johnson that I was "ugggghhh" he gave me a pump up talk and pushed me forward! Things got better from that point.  We always see missionaries walking on the street.  We walk a lot everyday and we use the subway like once a week. 

We went and visited another lady, a 3 mile walk from our place. She just got baptized and we were checking up on her. I looooove her. She's blind but super super smart! We were just chatting with her and the conversation went deeper and deeper, we asked why her and her mom don't stay for all three hours at church. They said they already know everything and don't trust the teachers and then the door knocked when the conversation was so deep. The other two sisters , Sister Wang and Sister Wang were at the door with a member Caroline. It was awkward with everyone in the room and the Wang sisters took over and taught the lesson and sister Johnson and I sat there awkwardly. Oops!

We stopped by Dunkin Donuts after visiting Maple so Sister Johnson can find our investigator's address. So I decided to buy a donut and Gatorade. I went to pay and a Mexican was so grouchy that he asked another guy to take the spot. So I paid with cash and they started yelling at me for no reason. They want the money in coins not cash or card and grabbed a bunch of coins from the donation bowl and put it toward my face and were yelling at me. I was so close to saying that I didn't want a donut.... Two kids came in after me and they yelled at them for coins too. They wouldn't buy a donut. Stupid workers.

We also visited another lady  on Thursday  We went clear across the other side of town. We walked 2 miles to the bus stop and rode a 10 minutes bus ride and then walked for 20 minutes to get to our investigator's house. She has a 4 year old daughter and a husband. She fed us lunch and continued to talk to us about why we go on a mission and what are the missionary rules. She was shocked about no electronics such as cell phones, tv, and so forth. We told her that it was a distraction and we wanted to focus more on the person we are talking to. Her husband was in the process of getting ready for work and kept overhearing our conversation and kept jumping in to interrupt and said a bunch of crazy things about the Mormon church. Whenever the husband jumped in, I looked at her and noticed that she was frustrated with him. When he left, she just burst out everything about her husband and that they are in the process of getting a divorce. She said that he wasn't being a good husband or father to their daughter and just wants to sleep and do nothing. I explained to her about how my parents got a divorce and we were struggling and we were all mad at God and why He let that all happen. I told her about the Book of Mormon and how The Book of Mormon helps us find peace, joy, and hope through hard times. She continued to ask questions, "how, how, why, why" she wants proof, a physical proof. She says she loves God and knows He exists but doesn't want to have a strong faith. She asked why a lot of people died in 9/11. Should someone with the Holy Ghost know about this and warn the people? God knows about it and why did he let those people die when they don't deserve to die. The questions goes on and on and on and we try to explain it to her. Sister Johnson tries to show her some videos but either she doesn't want to watch it or doesn't like it. She asked and asked and interrupted and asked and interrupted us. Questions are good but she is not giving herself time to think or listen to us. We went all over the place trying to teach her the lesson. She kept saying that we are so young and not experienced and that we don't know a lot and she doesn't know if what we were saying is true and on and on and on...... It was like a 3 hour discussion.  She has faith but needs to act on it.

Sorry it's a long email. Haha! We have five potential investigators. We are happy about that. General Conference was amazing, this whole time I felt like I was to be a wife and a mother and it was like preparing me to become the kind of person God wants me to be. It's was a really cool feeling, I don't know how to describe it. My favorite talks were Dallin H. Oaks and Prophet Thomas S. Monson's concluding talk. They both talked about loving everyone including your enemies. Helping and supporting others in need. Sometimes we often wonder this, "Will I make a change in that person's life?" They also talked about how there are many people struggling and we need to help strengthen the weak! 

There was an investigator that the Wang sisters were teaching. She follows me everywhere and feels comfortable only around me. She wanted me to be part of the discussion with the missionaries. She knows enough English to have a conversation. She is learning sign language from me and when people are talking to her in English she would look at me and I would try my best to translate in Chinese. She and I both attended a baptismal service yesterday and she freaked out when the little boy was dunked and sighed when he was out of the water. She just came in from China two weeks ago. I love her so much already. I wish she was my investigator!

I wanted to send you pictures of my apartment.  You can see our lovely kitchen, the living room where we study, our small bedroom and the view from the window.  I don't have a picture of the bathroom at the moment.  I don't like our bathroom because it's so filthy.  The bathtub and shower is terrible and kind of broken.  At least it gives warm water.  The toilet is broken and Sister Johnson knows how to flush it and I don't so my average time of being in the bathroom is ten minutes because I am trying to get the stupid thing to flush hahaha!

The future package sounds fun!!!!  Can you add another journal in there too???  I can't believe I forgot to tell you two awesome things.  We are going to the Manhattan temple this Thursday.  We are taking a lady in her 30s to the temple for the first time and do baptisms for the dead.  I'm excited for her.

Today for pday we are going to be eating sushi and chill at the church with our district and write our emails.  I forgot to tell you, I got the package, the zone leaders brought it to me and THANK YOU!!!  I love everything and everything fits.  The boots fit perfectly with the tights.  They are beautiful!  Your da bomb!!!

Since this mission has universal languages, we have to learn the Missionary Purpose in English, Chinese, Cantonese, Korean and they will be adding Spanish and ASL!  I'm excited to know the Missionary Purpose in all the languages!  

Mom, I wanted to thank you for everything! I'm so lucky to have you as my mom! On Saturday, I taught a mom and a daughter while Sister Johnson was teaching her son how to play the piano. Her son has a mental disability. She kept saying, "I love him but..... I love him but.... I love him but...." She has more negative things listed for her boy than positive. She has no hope and doesn't think he is capable of anything. I told her that I was deaf and how I was successful in life because I had an amazing mother who loves me and supports me and motivates me, and believes in me. She kept saying "how how how how, why why why why" I answered and answered and answered. She had me tell the story again and again but still doesn't believe in her son. I believe that her son was capable of something. I don't know if she doesn't realize that her son has a mental disability, she is trying to fix him and force him to be "Normal." It was hard for me to watch her treat her son badly and have no hope in him. Her son is already a joy to me by his simple smile. It helped me learn how to become more prepared to be a mother. I love the kids here!

I love the people here and the branch. I'm struggling but very happy.  You asked me for specifics on what you can pray for, maybe pray to help me hear better and speak Chinese better. Love you mom! You're amazing!!!

Love,

Sister Moore