Vietnamese Language Training at the Amanda Knight Hall

January 9 - 20, 2017



         Our time spent under the tutorship of the ten young Elders was amazing, They taught us of the culture of Vietnam as well as how to speak some basics in Vietnamese. Most of them were either from Vietnam or from America and had served there on their missions.
        We began each session with prayer and felt the Lord bless us each day. By the end of the two weeks we could do basic greetings of conversation and had learned how to pray including thanking our Father in Heaven for ceratin things and asking him for His help in many of several areas. 
       The Spirit was so strong and we felt He was helping us to prepare to be with the wonderful people of Vietnam.




Elder An Ho

Elder Remington Steele and Elder Robert Leonard



 

AT THE MTC

January 23 - February 1, 2017

 



Sister Yonk

Sister Nelson

Two of our energetic and wonderful, Preach My Gospel instructors -
They were always inspiring us to be our best.










 

                     Our MTC experience was wonderful, full of new friends and experiences,
                                 and lots of inspiration. We feel blessed to have this experience

 

 

The Monday before we left for our mission we toured welfare square with the other humanatarian missionaries and had a delicious lunch in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

During our humanitarian training we learned about the Church humantarian program and how to implement the programs we are responsible for. We want to remember our new friends and follow them on their missions around the world.

 

 

From left to right Elder and Sister Henrie, Elder and Sister Thomason, Elder and Sister Gerritsen, and Elder and Sister Bell

 

We are on our way

 



 

 

WELCOME TO HANOI



 

                                            The view from our apartment on the 17th floor

 

 

 



                              - The New Long Bien Branch of Hanoi -

 

The Vietnam Hanoi Mission President and Sister Hassell are in the middle and

our interpreter Hieu is in the front on the right side.

 

Our first meeting was held on February 5, 2017. Three banches were made from the original Hanoi Branch: Ha Dong Branch and Long Bien Branch

 

Our new Branch President is President Canh, (in the middle) 1st Counselor, Brother Justin Rogers (on the right) and 2nd Counselor is Brother Nguyen (on the left).

 

We are excited about the formation of this small, historic branch in Hanoi and we look forward to growing the Church in this part of the world.

 

LANGUAGE TRAINING

We just completed our first week of  language immersion training at BYU. Elder Cameron Le Nguyen and eight other Vietnamese speaking elders have been so helpful and have taught us one on one. We are grateful and feel very blessed to have many good teachers.

During our first week we learned how to meet and greet people and have learned how to pray in Vietnamese. That is much more than we thought we would be able to do in a week. We have 4 more days of language training and then we are off to the MTC. GOOD STUFF!!!