This week I would love to give you a list with some of the things that I am thankful for!!!

(Not Exhaustive.)

-Northern Ireland

-Belfast

-Belfast Christmas market (Great food!)

-Belfast skyline (Love the Scenery)

-Belfast Street Preachers (Bashbashbashbash)

-Queens University Belfast (One of the Queens 3 universities in Ireland)

-Queens University Belfast Student Union (Our consistent teaching place)

-Irish Food (Or in other words, meat and potatoes)

-Thanksgiving!!!

-A great flat (near the City!)

-A great area (Queens University Belfast)

-A great Companion (Elder Mcleish!)

-Inside Jokes (nuff said)

-A license to be awkward with everyone (Contacting)

-China (中国人吗？)

-Chinese Friends (two scheduled for Baptism!)

-Chinese Food (thanksgiving lunch!)

-Chinese Language ·可以将中文吗？

-Chinese Hotpot (火锅)

-Cars (Random Exploring)

-P-day (YAAASSS)

-Cavehill (hill over Belfast)

-Long johns (2 or 3 at the same time to stay warm)

-Coats (2 or 3 at the same time to stay warm)

-Not Rain (admittedly rare)

-Warm Weather (…wait, take that back, that never happens..)

-God’s Creations (Greenery!)

-God’s Children (however interesting they are)

-The Scriptures (in whatever language they are)

-Our Friends (At whatever stage in the Gospel they are in)

-My Family!

Hope that this wonderful Thanksgiving season can continue through the year as we can appreciate the wonderful gift that God has given us all!

Jk, they looked awesome and I am soooooo jealous! Everyone was there! Hope you enjoyed all the company and I really do love all the wonderful support that you guys give! I am very thankful for my parents!

So just a little bit about the area, We are in Belfast Stake, Holywood Road Ward. The ward does cover quite a bit of the city and all of the university. Me and Elder Mcleish pretty much exclusively work on the university. A lot of chinese students, so I get a lot of opportunity to work with them! In fact, The entire ward has given me the title as the “Mandarin Speaker” because I am the only one! I have already had the opportunity to translate for an interview, baptismal interview, Aaronic Priesthood Ordination, and will be teaching Mandarin Gospel Principles this upcoming Sunday!!! AAAAHhhhhh! The best part though is the fact that I now finally (after ordering it and waiting a ton of time) have both the Bible and Triple combination in Mandarin, so teaching is a breeze!!! I am beginning to try to work my way through both for language study. It’s really tough, but I really feel that the Lord is helping! I can’t tell you how or why, but it seems that I kinda can just… get it. Gift of Tongues. There are some great people to work with around here! We are hoping to get some Chinese families to come back to church! That would be amazing.

So I have not gotten the beef jerky or the longjohns. They are currently in Cork. That’s ok, There is an All-Ireland Conference this upcoming December. I will get them there. I am still district leader, the district is the Zone leaders, us, a set of sisters also in our ward, and a set of sisters out in Lisburn Ward outside Belfast city center. The ward is good.  about 70 in attendance every week active. sometimes a lot more. We also get fed a decent amount!

To be honest, I don’t know why President has kept me District leader for this long, and in all these areas, since I’m not the best missionary, but he did say to me one time in an interview that the Lord expects a lot out of me.

Hope you guys have a great week!

Love you guys a lot!