Email Home September 20 2010

This first part is in response to what a family friend should bring on his mission, he got called to the same mission as Ben, but spanish speaking.

Jake can just bring what's on the packet. And some sweaters. Oh, we've got new music rules. We can only listen to Motab, talks, and hymns. No soundtracks, no efy, etc. So let him know about that.


I shop at the Met. It's a tiny ghetto grocery store they have all over new york. And I also shop at chinese (super)markets.



I would say you don't really need any pants besides your suit pants. In the winter you'll want a beanie, earmuffs/head band to cover ears (more convenient than earmuffs, a scarf, a sweater (i'd bring 3-4), a warm jacket any conservative and warm one will do, a long waterproof coat to wear on top of everything that's not too thick, it's just for keeping you dry, mittens, snow gloves (for when you have to shovel snow), and long garment bottoms.


About the tornado in NYC...
I didn't even know there was a tornado, we were inside eating dinner and it all the sudden got really windy and rainy for a few minutes, one of our windows fell into our apartment (didn't break though, it just fell out of it's frame. and then it was done. when we went outside though there were trees all of the place. I just thought it was really windy...




We had another baptism of sunday. Lei Yu 'Cayden'. He's pretty awesome. He learned most of the gospel through missionaries on the church website and his uncle who's a bishop in texas.



I've been trying to study a lot lately about charity. It's the one thing I hope to bring home with me. Yes I'm probably gonna be stuck somewhere between china and america for my life (i hope to be) but even if I hadn't been on a language learning mission I would still hope to learn charity. Everything else is gonna pass away right? And my chinese is only useful if I'm trying to have charity. and Patience. that's another I need to be better with. I think when I write I'm more free with my words but when I'm speak I'm a lot more careful.


Well, I love you all and I don't have any sort of trunky feeling (I do sometimes wanna go to china or brooklyn really bad) but it does make me a little sad thinking that Zac's probably gonna be gone before I'm home.

Love you all! 我爱你们！

——狄俊明长老