from the land of KFC delivery and umbrella dispensers

SOMETHING EXCITING!!!!!:
Yea Mitchell and Michael on receiving your mission calls!!!! wahoo! Honduras and CHile!!!! I'm so excited to have more spanish speakers in the family. my spanish has been slowly all replaced with cantonese as of late, but i'm trying to pull it back as i've been asked to help teach a lady from Guatemala. So cool! No one told me when you are going to the MTC! Please let me know asap!!!!

something funny:
Mistranslations. there is a lot of chinglish here in Hong Kong, but my favorites are the english translations that you see everywhere. most people don't know that it doesn't make any sense, so it's pretty funny. especially when it's on someone's shirt or on the sign of someone's business. the other day i saw a building that had the word "education" spelt "ecucation." yep, i would definitely go there if i wanted a good education. here is something written on one of my notebooks. this will go under the category of...

something worth quoting:
"i wish you a happy day. sports not only let us have a healthy physique, but also the growth of our inner strength, so we became very cheerful and exuberant spirit. knowledge is power. learning is a gradual, and slowly grasp. knowledge acquisition is multifaceted. learning must find the best way to essentials. we can achieve good results. learning notebook. learn and every day."...............did you get all that????....:)

something spiritual:
ok, so the analogy of the artichoke, abbreviated version. so alma 5 talks about the change of heart that must take place in us in vs. 12, 14, and 26. i, of course, thought of food. artichokes have hearts at the center of them and in order to make the artichoke eatable, you must boil it for almost an hour to get it all soft and yummy. so it has to go through that "mighty change." then you must start peeling all the layers of goodness off to get to the heart. this refers to vs. 28, which states that we must strip ourselves of pride! and with every layer of pride you strip, you get closer and closer to the heart, where the good stuff is and that is who you want to be! i have to end now, because i just got kicked off my computer.....uh, that was lame. ok, sorry, so short. will write more next week, hopefully! sad! love you all, b-bye!