Satan Makes Chinas Tires

The city I am in is Zhongshan China and it’s Gorgeous! We are only 1 hour from the beach so we are in a very tropical area, I love how beautiful it is here… the humidity- not so much!! The first 2 and ½ weeks here were almost miserably hot… which is bad because it’s only going to get worse! Mold is everywhere! It already started growing on my backpack… it may have to do with the fact we had no AC at first so in our room everything was wet. My school is really nice- most of the students live at the school and so do most of the teachers. So when we were little and thought our teachers never left the school… it’s true here in China! Teaching is much more difficult than any of us imagined- It has gotten better and once we understand the teaching method better it shouldn’t be as crazy! The kids are cute but WILD! You lose their attention for 1 second and the class becomes a jungle! It can be exhausting but then it’s all worth it when you see the kids later and they run up to you yelling teacher teacher! We hopefully will get to go over at night and help tuck them in, which will be fun because they don’t have their moms here to be with them.
I was officially called to be our branch’s Relief Society Coordinator, the ILP teachers have permission to have a group connected to the branch 3 hours away. So we have a Group Leader and Relief Society Coordinator. We have church in our rooms and we are able to bless the sacrament. Last Sunday I was asked to go to the branch so I could be set apart- and we decided Satan did not want us to go! My room mate Andrea and I went into town to buy bus tickets- it was our first time in town so we did not know the area and on our way back to the school the bus blows a tire!! Nobody on the bus spoke English and we had no idea where we were!! Andrea and I both felt like hiding in a corner but we didn’t feel that would really get us back to our dorms!! Luckily we had our coordinator, Vivi’s, phone number and we were able to borrow a girls phone so we had Vivi tell the girl to make sure we got on the right bus back to the school- so then even though we couldn’t communicate she stayed with us and got us on our bus! Then Sunday heading to church we are in skirts, sandals and short sleeves and for the first time we are here… it decides to rain!! Then our shuttle came late which made us almost miss our bus… We just don’t have good luck!! But the bus ride into ShenZhen where the branch is was Beautiful, so we were happy. We get off the bus and there is a man that motions that he can take us to the address of the church… so we follow him thinking he is a taxi driver! NO! he is trying to just take us in his car!! Then when we said no he tried grabbing our arms… luckily there are guards everywhere in China so we just ran to them till we got a real taxi!! Well in all our luck… the taxi half way there got a flat tire, by this point we all just sat in the taxi laughing our heads off!! The taxi driver was upset, and then got lost so when we got to the church he undid my seatbelt to help me get out faster!!! Church was all worth it though, it’s in a home that’s very big, especially for China. Sacrament was in the living room and it was fast and testimony meeting so it was a good experience. It was fun to go to church in China with all these other foreigners who have to travel 2 or 3 hours just to attend church. All of the branch members are really nice and it was fun to meet them!! Our branch president works for Walmart so he said he would send some Macaroni and Cheese our way!! :D