I READ A LOT!

Yingping & Marilyn
March 20, 2011 Sunday

This evening, Yingping called and asked if she could come over. It’s about a half hour drive from her place over to here. She has a GPS and so she’s fine with driving around in the dark in places she’s never been. When she got here, she had 10 magazine articles that she wanted one of us to read into her phone so she can listen to them and improve her reading skills and hopefully her writing skills by listening to the sentence patterns. They were about all kinds of subjects from the environment to the economics of the infrastructure of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. So for an hour and a half I read while she held her phone about 1-2 inches from my mouth. She was concerned about my voice and would have me go get a drink of water every so often. She’d also brought a cantaloupe and a frozen cream pie type thing. Anyway, she was so happy to get someone who could read the articles smoothly. I guess she’d tried a couple of friends, but they were unfamiliar with a lot of the vocabulary and she didn’t want to read like them. We invited her to Tai’s baptism on Thursday and she said, “Maybe I could be baptized with him.” We told her she’d have to check with the zone leaders.
Earlier we went over to teach a Muslim girl we’d tracted out last week. Ngara is a nursing student. She had us come in, we prayed and started to set up the first lesson when she said, “We can’t do this; my aunt called and I have to take our car over to her.” But she was happy to keep the Restoration pamphlet and read it. She also said she would give us a call so we can teach her and some of her friends who want to know about religion. That would be very cool if it works out. She’s a cute girl. She doesn’t look like she might be a Muslim and her English is very good so we aren’t sure what her ethnicity is. It should be interesting if she comes through for us.