Writing like the Prophet Nephi

A few months ago when we were traveling to Taiwan, I learned from one of the sister in the Daya ward how to use this new app in my phone to do memories.  This is an app that is put out by Family Search.  I quickly fall in love with it.  I could pull the app out during sacrament meeting or devotional and start writing in it.  You should check this out if you are looking for something easy to keep up on your journal.  https://www.familysearch.org/mobile/memories

Now that I am writing in memories, I can keep some of the more spiritual experiences in there.  Then I have this blog.  I want to share some of the fun things we did here.  As I am writing, I can really feel for the prophet Nephi in the Book of Mormon.  It has to be so hard for him, having to write in the Large plates and then has to keep a separate records in the small plates.  He did not even have the modern conveniences, such as typing, auto-correct, spell check, etc ... The only excuse I have is time ... it seems like time is flying away for me.  We have been so busy and at the end of the day, I just want to sit in front of the TV and watch a movie! 

But, I feel guilty ...  if Nephi can do it, so can I, right!

October, 2017


The Chandlers who are Self-Reliance missionary went home early part of October.  They were not replaced by another set of missionary so they asked that we take over the English Class for them.  They have taught the class twice while they were here.  They taught the ILETS class helping mostly returned missionaries to prepare them to take the ILETS exam so they could apply for local college or overseas university.  We are now teaching two nights a week.  It will be 10 weeks course with 20 lessons.  Our first few classes we have about 10 YSA showed up.  It was fun to exclusively speak English.  We told the YSA that once they stepped into the room, there will be no Chinese during the two hours class.  I was skeptical about teaching because I don't feel my English was very good, but I guess it is good enough.  As long as we follow the manual Focus on ILETS, we will be okay.  I hope my English would improve too.  It is so funny when I see the student worked on their writing, I see them stop to count words to make sure they have the 100 or 150 words.  I remembered doing the same thing myself when I was at their age.  Counting to make sure I have the number of words required, and if not, adding a few a, the, add etc. just so I could squeeze in a few more words!

With teaching two nights a week and working in the Temple on Wednesday, we are gone over 12 hours days.  Because of this, I am cooking more and packing lunch.  We are starting this eating plan to let our stomach has a 16 hours fast every 24 hours.  This means, if we have dinner at 5 p.m., we will not eat until 9 a.m. the next morning.  After a couple weeks of this, we are getting used to it.  Hopefully, we can loose some of the weight we gained from eating so much starch here!!  If you want to read more about the 16:8 diet, check out this article.

http://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/diet/diets/the-eighthour-diet-is-the-key-to-weight-loss-according-to-experts/news-story/bdda1ada8bbb6f35d4be35ff63c9e199