I love it here!

I'm guessing some of you are wondering what I do when I’m not working during the day. Well, my time is filled with working with my church. On Mondays I run the Family Home Evening program for the young single adults.  This calling has been a huge blessing in my life while living here in Vietnam. The people are so great and so real.

The pictures below are from this past Monday at the mission home in Hanoi.  We had a meeting combined with the Relief Society (or women of the church) because there is construction at the church building. The missionaries are so great at bringing new young adults to meet all of us and learn more about the gospel. We had a great lesson from a young single adult on dating. Then we played ninja and ate yummy food! The Relief Society ladies made a traditional Vietnamese cake which is made out of a form of rice, sugar cubes, and a type of small seed on top. They are then boiled and served hot to everyone. It's really good!

It's good to be immersed in a culture that is totally different from the United States. When you go on vacation you really don't get the whole feel of the country, you only get a taste.  I feel like in America you care about what you wear, what you have, and a whole list of things like that. But here, from what I have seen, they really don't care. They care more about what is inside, than what is on the outside. It's refreshing to be here and to really get to know the people.

Every Wednesday I help teach English at the church and I love it! The people who attend are so eager to learn and want to speak better English. I have met many amazing people through this program. The last video is of us teaching the participants parts of the body by singing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

                                         

Being a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been such a blessing, and has helped me make so many good friends.  I love hearing all of their life stories. I'm going to miss everyone that I have become good friends with. I love how the culture here is opposite from anything in America that I have experienced so far in my life. It's funny that this really is my first time out of the United States (except the Caribbean).


It did take me a little while to get used to living in a city. There is always something going on here no matter what time; this city never sleeps. I have loved living here in Hanoi and it's going to be really weird going back to America in a few weeks. I look back and try to think about what it was like before I came here and it's hard for me to imagine. I have fallen in love with this city and the crazy traffic. I will be sad to go back home and a not as exotic lifestyle.