Performing in CHINA!

I wish I had more time to type all this up, but there is just so much to do all the time. But these are some highlights from my week so far. 

CHURCH

I can’t believe I forgot to tell you about church! First of all, let me tell you this; there a bunch of people that came to China through ILP…probably over 100…not sure. But of all of those, only 4 boys (yes this is a female dominated thing is seems, but it doesn’t have to be!) and all 4 of them are in our school. BUT only 2 of them are active members BUT that means we can have the sacrament as soon as we get permission. I feel so lucky to be in this group! Know that we have the priesthood 2 doors down and that they could give us a blessing if we needed is actually a huge comfort. As first I was just thinking about being able to take the sacrament but realizing they could give blessings too. I love it. Jace is a recent convert from Canada and he is way sweet. Max is a super funny guy from Idaho who actually served his mission in part of Missouri (but not my mission). They are both superb  young men.

Okay back to the church part. Since it was fast Sunday we had a fast and testimony meeting. It was really good. It was our school and the school that is just across the street and then another school traveled 2 hours to come meet with us! I was way impressed. It was really good. We sang songs, bore testimony, and then got to visit afterwards. I’m not sure when we’ll be able to have the sacrament, we’re still waiting for permission. We might be going to stake conference here in a couple weekends which I think will be sweet! But not this weekend since we’re performing in China. Yeah, you read that right. I’m PERFORMING IN CHINA. Super stoked.

PERFORMING IN CHINA

So the first full day we were here our foreign coordinators told us that there was a talent show next weekend and we needed to get 3 acts together. The twins in our group are borrowing my ukulele to play and sing a song. Max, one of the guys is salsa dancing with 3 girls from the other school, it’s pretty great. There are a couple songs and skits from the other group. Darci, Laurissa, Ashley, Jace and I are ballet dancing to the heart will go on song from titanic and we break into rap in the middle. Its pretty amazing. We lift Jace in the air and everything. It’s pretty legit. I hope someone gets a good recording I can put on here or something. But yeah. We leave tomorrow. It will be a 12-15 hour journey to get there and we will be there all weekend. But the awesome part is I’M PERFOMRING IN CHINA!! I don’t know if you caught on yet that I’m performing in China. Also, I’m pretty excited.  

KUNG FU

Yes, I went to a Kung Fu class. Yes, I am a Kung Fu master. Yes, I sing Mulan songs in my head pretty much the whole time. We started by running around and then doing all these stretches. Then our teacher (his name is Spring, not like the season but the water, his Chinese name is something about water so he picked it) taught us the moves. It was so fun. It reminded me of the beginning of the Mulan 2 movie… “like a rock, ha, ha, we must be strong, ha, ha, hi-ya”…because we say “ha” all the time.  I love it, it makes me feel so legit. We do it outside on this basketball court. Chinese people stop and watch us sometimes. Its kinda funny. I kind of love it here.

There is more I wish to tell you all, alas, I REALLY need to go to bed because I keep staying up late which is no bueno! So goodnight!