Well, I'm slow getting Lacee's blog updated this week because we have been travelling in California with Brandon this last week! It is so fun to have him home! But here's a story Lacee shared this week about learning the language...it touched my heart and you will be able to see that it also touched her heart!
From Lacee's email:
So Wood Kyodai is in our branch presidency. I love him. He's great. He was doing interviews probably the first or second Sunday, and when it was my turn he asked how I was and how Nihongo was. I told him I loved the MTC demo (but) I was so frustrated that I can't learn Nihongo. So he talked to me for awhile, demo he told me something that was totemo sugoi. Daisuki desu. (Very great. My favorite) So he told me that if a farmer planted a bamboo seed and a fern seed, the fern seed in not too long will have a little sprout...in a couple months or something. But the bamboo has nothing. Then as the months go on, the fern keeps getting bigger. Still nothing from the bamboo. Then after a year, the fern is big and beautiful, but the bamboo still hasn't sprouted. The same with the second year. And then the third year. And then the fourth year. And the fern is still just doin' it's thing...growing and being all leafy and pretty and stuff. So then the fifth year rolls around and finally the bamboo has this little tiny sprout. And within that day it can grow like 6 inches! He said it grows so fast you could almost see it growing. Within that year the bamboo can grow 100 feet!! 100 feet! That's incredible. He said what happens is that the bamboo is growing and building this incredible root system. You can't tell it's doing anything demo it's doing crazy things. So then when it does sprout, it can grow so fast. He said that some of us are ferns and some of us are bamboo. We're both growing, just in different ways. It's just easier to see the ferns grow. I just LOVE that!! Isn't that like the best thing you ever heard? As long as I'm growing, I can be ok with being a bamboo.
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