Mormon Church in Vietnam

I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint and the church is just getting established in Vietnam.  It was officially recognized by the Vietnam goverment last year.  I'm part of a branch of 14 people and it's only a two hour service instead of three. Last week I had the opportunity to go a baptism of a young adult women in Hanoi. They pulled out this portable tub that looked like a bag on wheels. It was such a great experience to see how happy she was and for everyone in the branch. They have a lot of missionaries in Hanoi compared to how many people are members here but they are all so great! I really like this one sister missionary who is from Idaho and she always has a smile on her face. It's also very nice to have Americans to talk to or people that you can fully understand! Hahaha it's kind of exhausting trying to understand Vietnamese's English all day.

Every Wednesday I help the missionaries teach English to anyone that wants to come. It was a lot of fun! We had different stations where they would practice writing, singing, and speaking in English. It was amazing to see how much they really wanted to learn English; no one was forcing them to participate. It was a very humbling experience to help them try to improve their English speaking abilities. I was at a station where we made valentine/thank you cards and its very hard because you have little kids to 30 year old adults. I found that sometimes the children are better at speaking English then the adults. I found out that English education is very hard because they will teach the kids somewhat how to write in English but don't practice speaking it here in public schools. This little boy who I had helped throughout the evening asked me to be his valentine, it was super cute! Below are some of the cards two girls wrote to me!