Sunday Afternoon

I wasn’t sure how I would spend my Sunday. It seems like a dead day sometimes. But mine wasn’t today thanks to Elder and Sister Frandsen. I attended the English gospel doctrine class they are teaching. And they asked if today would be a good day for me to visit them for Sunday dinner. Let’s see, I hesitated for about a millisecond. What young, poor person would refuse such an offer?! So we decided (after some discussion) that I would go home on my scooter then catch a taxi to their place.

I did just that and spent a very nice afternoon with them. They have a big apartment in a nice building. And dinner was delicious! Salmon, potatoes, squash, fruit, and Pepperidge Farm chocolate macadamia cookies for dessert. See Mom, people here are taking care of me. We spent some time talking and they gave me a book that shall be extremely helpful – Chinese Phrases for Dummies. I really should learn the language since I’ll be here for a year. They also gave me a Chinese hymnbook that has the pinyin version of the words (Romanized so I know how to pronounce them). That will help tons too. I shared such a book with Sis. Frandsen at church today and she thought I spoke the language. She said I was a pro by the 2nd song we sang. I don’t know about that; I was guessing most of the time.

At the end of the trip, we went over to the mall just across from their apartment building. 17 floors of shopping! Well, about 5 are for movie theaters. But there is still tons of shopping. We stopped in at the bookstore and I just laughed. People were sitting anywhere on the ground and steps reading books. They treat the store more like a library. Our next stop was the mission office. It was neat to see. Then they gave me money to pay for the taxi fares and put me into another taxi to take me home. They are very nice! It’s still funny that Elder F. is the cousin of my neighbor. The world really is small!

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