大家好！
Well, we started doing english tutoring alongside of teaching english classes. Honestly the classes aren't to effective for teachign english OR finding investigators. Nobody really wants to learn english, they just want to memorize sentences that'll get them through their daily lives. The already have the vocabulary to do so, they've just never bothered to learn any grammar, so all their memorized words don't help them much when it comes time to use them.
I ordained Chen Long on sunday - I was a little nervous, I've never done it in english OR chinese... and my first time confirming didn't go to well. But the ordaning went just fine.
Chen Long's awesome. He really wants to go on a mission and is a bit dissapointed he has to wait a year. It's cool to see the changes he's made in the last little bit. When we first met him he was smoking, had a couple earrings, some ugly necklaces, a tatoo on his arm, and seemed so unsure, hopeless and... jittery. the earrings and necklaces are gone (we didn't even tell him to take them off), he much more collected and now he has purpose. He came to america when he was 16 and has been working in chinese restaraunts for 6 years - a common story for fujianese people. He just needs hope for the future, to realize he doesn't have to do the whole restaraunt thing til the day he dies like most fujianese people. he'll have to learn english though, so pray for him.
Sometimes I feel so limited. I wanna go and help all these fujianese people... But I guess I just have to accapt what I can do. Like Alma when he talked about wishing he was an angel.
No, I haven't got any packages yet. If the packages don't come before thursday mornings I usually won't get them for another week.
I guess I call call at 4:30 NY time.
It's starting to get to the point where you can feel the humitity when you go out. Yuck.
Elder Cui and I have been talking a lot about... doing something good in the world. He's convinced I'm gonna be some great politician or something. I'd say the same about him. He really has a good heart, but it's been through a lot to get that way, and still has a lot going up against it.
I've got to find some talks for my investigators to read.
I love you all,
- 狄俊明长老
Elder Benjamin James Eddy
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