The third week is down and I can't believe it. Looking back, it feels like last week was so long ago. That's encouraging and discouraging all at the same time.
Early in the week, each day was full of practice lessons and endless Cantonese vocab. My language is still slow in coming in the eyes of some of the teachers, but I still feel like I'm progressing way faster than I normally would be. I'll keep on putting the pedal to the metal though because there is a long way to go.
The bombshell news this week was when the older Cantonese districts all got told in the middle of classes that they wouldn't be going to Hong Kong for at least a transfer. A lot of them got reassigned to Ogden or Idaho Falls. They said that a guy just came into their room and said that the brethren didn't feel it was safe at the time. Some were ticked off, some were bummed out. The rumors started floating around about the specific reasons why, but nobody knows for sure. You all probably know the situation better than we do. So we have been having district prayers the past couple of nights to pray for whatever is going on.
The other things that happened this week are that I got made District Leader yesterday. I'm not very excited about it because it is just one more layer of pressure on top of everything else but I will do my best anyways. One of the highlights was that I got to play sand volleyball again with Elder Cahoon, this time on the same team. He leaves this week so it was good to catch up with him. We discussed how different it is to be a missionary, how weird new languages can be sometimes, and how tough it can be to be with a companion 24/7. We also won most of our games so that was good.
Our district, since the elevator incident, has been kind of known as the rowdy district. We have been trying really hard to dispel others of this because our teachers are really worried that we hate each other. They were worried about this because it's very likely that when school starts at BYU, there won't be enough teachers and they will combine the districts into one. That was fine with us because all the guys in the other district are totally cool. But we have been going to surprise birthday parties and spike ball tournaments with them just to prove it to our teachers.
Overall it has been a good week. Hopefully nothing too crazy has happened in Hong Kong and it will stay that way. I hope everyone is doing good. See you next week.
-Elder Murray
our "apple" chart. It's a scale we came up with for when we get too distracted in class. Pineapples are the worst, crabapples aren't so bad
The district in class again
Sweater Saturday with the whole zone was super hot - a year long zone tradition
(along with Floral Fridays)
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