Hey everyone I don't have a
lot of time today, I'm finally going go Mongolia 🇲🇳!!!!!! First I'm going to Salt lake then I'm
going to fly to LA, then Beijing, and then to улаанбатаар! Love you all,
I'll call you mom! Love you mom!
This is what he sent us this week:
Hey everyone! I
finally made here..... to Mongolia! It's been really interesting. I've been
having a super good time! :D This week I arrived, I went through LA and then to
Beijing, my first day was pretty slow I just went to a really small hospital
and did a blood test, that was crazy. I couldn't understand anything that was
being said to me, still really don't. It's like super different over here, our
apartment has filters over the sink, so the water stays clean. The people are
super nice and the cities super awesome! we mostly go around missionaries
teaching schedules to structure our days here, so the daily schedule can be
really hectic! So Friday was my first real day doing stuff, my
companion had to teach english, so I was on exchanges all day, then later that
night we went to a member named Doshdorj, there we ate some sheep, noodles, and
potatoes, it was way good! Then the next day was tseregiin bayar, happy
soliders day (similar to veterans day), so everyone partied hard that day. On
Tseregiin bayar we had to go to the bus stop, on the way there Elder Udall
stepped on a man hole cover and almost fell in. He fell to the side and drunk
guy across the street started yelling at him, while the other people there just
laughed.That was pretty funny because the day before we were given a safety
training and we were told to avoid man holes, and we joked around about it all
day. Then we got to the bus got on, and there in Mongolia you have bus card
that you swipe to get on and then off, well I couldn't find mine, so I'm
standing there and my companion just tells me to go ahead with out swiping it.
So I tried to go through the door but it closed right on me! The bus started to
go with me hanging halfway out the bus, my companion (elder Ames) yelled for
the bus to stop. It stops and I like slide myself through the door and get out,
then the door opened and Elder Ames came. All the people on the bus laughed, I
laughed, my companion laughed, it was a good time! Then we took another bus to
a ger district, we met in a ger with a super cool member, he fed us goat and
noodles and really good berry juice (it was boiling hot). After that me and my
companion were standing at a bus stop when this older drunk man with a
crutchwalked up to us and this is how it the conversation went,
Guy, "Are you
Russian?"
Us, "No."
Guy, "Do you
speak Mongolian?"
Us, "Yes."
(we were speaking Mongolian to him)
Guy, "Okay, I'm
going to fight you!"
And then he took a
swing at us, but we got away.
The next day was Sunday and
had to give a talk, note my Mongolian sounds like a dying rat,on Joseph Smith!
It went pretty well though, the Gift of Tongues is definitely real! Then we
were back with the Bayanzurkh elders, Elder Udall and Salvesen. We chilled with
them and we ended up eating buuz at this awesome investigators! Then on the way
back we got a taxi. First to explain, in Mongolia real taxis are way expensive
so if you really want a ride you just stick your hand out when walking down the
road and random cars will stop to offer you a ride, and then you pay them for
the ride! (that's what I mean by taxi) So this guys picks us up and he is
listening to super chill music, and Elder Ames starts dancing and asks if he
dances, so he does!
The rest of the week was really chill I went
and saw a monument to the Soviet union.
Elder Griffin Hansen
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