Chad Lewis, Language barrier, and more!

On Sunday we had Chad Lewis come and speak to us! For those of you who don't know who Chad Lewis is he played football for BYU and then played in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles. He also served a mission in Taiwan. Also sitting on the front row in the MTC was Tayson Hill who is the quarter back for BYU and is out for the season for breaking his foot. Well he actually tore his lisfranc ligament and as it turns out so did Chad Lewis.So we got to hear from both of them. Chad lewis talked to us about a little about his mission but the funniest thing was he had Elder Oaks come speak to them in their mission and he said, "I know the Lord loves the Chinese because he made a lot of them". He also said that when he had torn his lisfrac ligament he couldn't play in the Superbowl but he said that his family was his Superbowl! Then Tayson Hill bore his testimony and said, "Not one experience playing on the field in front of thousands compares to serving a mission" This huge football player was in tears saying this and it was probably one of the most heart felt thing I have heard come from that pulpit!

Ugh...we were teaching our teacher and he was complaining how he's trying to find a girl to take out on a date that wants to talk about the gospel(because apparently there are no girls like that here at BYU) weird) anyway I was going to ask him, "Have you taken any girls out on dates?" Instead I used Tocar instead of Tomar and said, "Have you touched any girls on dates?".....the elders erupted into laughter and I felt so bad and my teacher just laughed it off but..it...was...horrible....ugh LANGUAGE BARRIER!!! Well at least it wasn't as bad as the Elders in the other district that told their investigator to read 3 Nephi3:7 but they meant 1 Nephi 3:7, so their investigator read , "Or in other words, yield yourselves up unto us, and unite with us and become acquainted with out secret works, and become out brethren that ye may be like unto us-not out slaves, but our brethren and partners of all our substance" I'm just glad they didn't read verse 8 as well.

Nothing really happened that was out of the ordinary this week. I leave for Nicaragua Monday morning at 3:35 a.m. I'm so pumped! I'm going to miss playing sand volleyball everyday though. Try not to do anything crazy while I'm gone people! I love you all!

Hermana Partridge

Words of Wisdom for the day

"A few months after moving to a small town, a woman complained to a neighbor about the poor service at the local drug store. She hoped the neighbor would repeat her complaint to the store's owner. The next time she went to the drugstore the druggist greeted her with a big smile and told her how happy he was to see her again. He said he hoped she liked their town and to please let him know if there was anything he could do to help her get settled. He then filled her order promptly and courteously. Later the woman reported the miraculous change to her friend. "I suppose you told the druggist how poor I thought the service was?" she asked. "Actually", the woman said. "I told him you were amazed at the way he had built up his drugstore and you thought it was one of the best you'd ever seen."