Horrors! Welcome to "The Ethnos Speak Mandarin Campaign"

Dear people,

Soon, I will be disappearing to China for a month to guide some young Tibetans on leading worship. Being a great woman of faith, I trusted God to bestow upon me the supernatural ability to teach on worship using Chinese. Ah, the perils of being an "Ang Mo Pai" (westernised person)... I confess that it will be sinful and shameful if I make you listen to my Chinese. And now, I've only got 2 weeks to get my mouth churning out those lines like butter - smooth, velvety and pleasing to the ears *mmmmm....*

So, today I had my first Chinese lesson with Mabel. I worked hard the night before to prepare my teaching notes for her to teach me their translations. We agonised through sentences of explaining what worship is/ how we worship/ how to lead worship/ bible verses/ chaacter of God vocabulary/ spiritual phrases/ syntax, etc.

Acccckkk, by the 2-hour mark, I felt like I had paralysis of the mind. But I was triumphant.... I did it! I'm all set with Mabel's translations! The new and improved me can now teach them how to lead worship in Chinese! All the biblical explanations are at my fingertips! Hooorah hooorah!

Then I went back to my office and proclaimed my victory. And someone congratulated me, asking, "So now you know how to say 'verse' and 'chorus', 'key', 'chords' and all that?"

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Dang! I clean forgot about all the technical terms!! Boohoohoooooo..... I thought it was over......

Please, pray for those guys to be healed from my butchering of their language and for more proficiency for me.
And seriously, pray for the Chinese-speaking believers in Singapore to rise up to bless China. We need them! "Ang Mo Pai" here calling for help!
Pray that the Tibetan youth I'm working with will understand their relationship with God and people, not through me but through the spirit of God.