Elder Jonathan Poon: Chinese is still really hard. September 21, 2015

We got fang'ed (stood up) 9 times this week. Therefore, it wasn't a great week as far as numbers go but I had a whole lot of fun! Every other movecall we get the opportunity to take a bus two hours north and do some temple work at the Taipei temple! This was perhaps my favorite day of my mission so far. I went in fasting just looking for a little personal revelation, and it was so awesome. The session was in English, but it was super cool seeing the Asian influence in the art and symbolism. It was a much needed spiritual recharge! Later that day, however, we were in the park and what we like to do is have one of us making calls and the other one contacting people walking around/playing basketball. So I see a lady walking around the track and in Chinese I say what I think is, "Hey Mrs., wanna come over here with me and take a break for a second" but what I really said, "Hey Mrs., want to rest with me?". She gave me a weird look and my companion started laughing way hard and then after he told me what I said I just had to laugh cause I know my Chinese needs so much work. We also got great news last night that we can keep our baptismal date on the 9th of October! We were worried because that weekend is general conference so the confirmation can't be on that weekend, but Pres. Blickenstaff said we can just do it the following Sunday! I'm super stoked and I'm super excited for our investigators cause I've already seen how much the gospel has helped them have more happiness and come to know our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ!