this morning i spent 2 hours of my pday relaxing for the first time in months. i sat on the couch in my sweats, wrapped in a blanket because it was freezing, and wearing my warm crazy striped socks and had a cup of tea (thanks again mom!). i read through my journal, read the scriptures and reflected on the last year of my mission. i didn't try to write anything down. i just thought about things. it was fabulous and it's something i haven't done or had time to do in ages. i highly recommend it.
something of a new year's resolution:
my new year's goals this year are interesting. mostly because i will spend 1/2 the year as a missionary and 1/2 the year as a normal person with a normal life. as i'm not sure what that other half of my life really holds in store, it's all just kind of a blur. i know that i want to learn more chinese. its become a passion of mine now and it's something i can use after the mission as well (hopefully) so i'm trying to focus on getting up to 3,000 characters before i come home in June. i'm at 1,000 right now. and i want to be able to read the entire Book of Mormon in chinese as well. we'll see how that goes...:)
something random and extremely unhealthy:
on new year's ever i ended the year 2009 by consuming 10 mcdonald's hamburgers in 52 minutes and 32 seconds. yes. here in the china hong kong mission it is called the 10 burger challenge. my district did it together after climbing to the top of lion's rock (a mountain in Hong Kong). unbelievably, i was the only person in the whole district to get to the 10 burgers! yes, mother are you not so proud?...:) several of the elders in my district are big boys and i thought for sure they would make it before me, but they died at about burger 6-7. i told them it's all mental and like running a marathon. you just pretend every burger is the first burger...:) i hadn't eaten any burgers from mcdonald's the whole time i've been here in hong kong till now and i probably won't eat any ever again...:)
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