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Riley # 20 - Los Angeles - New companion, Back to Chinese, An Abysmal Translation
May 11
Dear Family,
Well, transfers are tomorrow, so Pday was on Tuesday
rather than Monday. By the way, sometimes, like today, we email in the
morning so if you could be sure to email by Sunday night your email will
always be here when I send mine.
To clear some things up, Elder Moore,
my companion, was called Spanish speaking and didn't speak Spanish
before his mission. He is from Farmington. I told him about you wanting
more pictures and ever since then he has been making sure to take at
least a few. He randomly would remember and take a picture so some were a
little weird.
Tomorrow, I am heading to Chinese B with Elder Bergeson.
Elder Hsieh and Wald are leaving so there are going to be only four
Chinese left.
Last Sunday night, we attended the Departing Missionary Fireside, where they have all the missionaries leaving bear a brief
testimony. It was President and Sister Bakers' last group of departing
missionaries. They will be leaving at the end of the month, and the new
Mission President will be coming in.
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| My week as an English missionary ends tomorrow. (Click to Enlarge) |
I also translated for the first time this week. Even though I
am in an English area, there is still a couple Chinese members
attending the English ward. They brought some friends from Taiwan to
church with them who didn't speak English and asked me to translate. I
couldn't exactly tell them no, so I put forth my best effort. I think I
summarized a fifteen minute talk with about three sentences. It was a
fairly abysmal translation.
The speaker shared about how grateful he was
for eternal families, gave personal experiences, had some great quotes,
and shared a story about a person who made great sacrifices to help
build a temple. It was a great talk. When I translated it, all I pretty
much said was "He is grateful for eternal families. He loves temples.
Through Jesus Christ, we can live together with our family. He is happy
he can live with his family forever." I think that is more or less what I
said. Probably more.
Love,
Elder Bowman
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