Ni Hao!

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15

KJV

I am guessing you probably don't get the title of this blog post. Am I right? Well here lately I have been learning Chinese, and Ni Hao means Hello. When I told my mom I wanted to learn a new language she asked me what language I was interested in so I told her Chinese.

She replied back, "Are you sure you don't want to try something a little easier like Spanish?"

I said," No I am up for the challenge."

At first my mother and I didn't know how I was going to learn. I sugjested Roseta Stone, but then my mom informed me that it could cost alot of money. So after figuring that out we shoved that thought out of our minds. Next we went to Walmart.com and serched for a Chinese lesson game. Up came on our computer screen a little picture of a Nintendo DS game called My Chinese Coach with a desicription about it. It was only about 30 dollars and looked like a much better deal. I saved up my money and before I new it I was at Walmart purchasing the game! Walmart has lots of other games that are simular to the game I bought. Including My Japanese Coach, My Spanish Coach, My French Coach, etc.

The reason I wanted to learn Chinese is becase someday I want to be a missionary in China (see verse at the beginning of this post). Also I want to meet the little girl we sponsor in China named Lisa. You can read about her here.

I think My Chinese coach is just as good as Roseta Stone just at a better price. It teaches you Chinese using a thing called Pinying. Pinying teaches you to learn Chinese through the latin alphabet. My game also teaches you how to write the characters for each word. Also in chinese there are four tones so things could look the same to us, but they have different meanings.

Now that you know that would you like to learn a few simple words in Chinese? Ok here we go...

Hello: ni hao

Thank you: xie xie ( You say the x like the word she)

How are you?: ni hao ma?

Good/Fine: hao

Goodbye: zai jian

You're welcome: bukeqi

My Little Sister in Christ

My family and I just sponsered a little girl all the way from China. Harmony Outreach is the orphanage in China where we sponsered her. Here is a picture of the girl we sponsered...

Her name is Lisa, but her origanal Chinese name is Xin Xiaoling. Once you sponser a child the company sends you all of their information and the even send you a handmade doll made by the chinese people. Here is a picture of that...

It is kinda like she is a part of our family now because her picture is right next to our portrait.

At the Harmony House they made a little bio about her. This is it.

"Lisa is full of life and energy and is always engaged in some activity and fond of smiling. Her growth is good and her body is strong. She is smart and understands many of the nanny’s words already. Sometimes she is stubborn. She likes playing with toys, with other children, climbing, and taking walks. She isn’t choosy about food and eats very well. She likes to put her finger in her month when she is sleeping. She arrived in our care on November 28, 2008 from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province in the extreme West of China. She is named after Lisa Bentley. "

There are still losts of children that need to be sponsered. You can even sponser children from other places like the Kaifeng Deaf School.

These are the children that go there. Harmony House is partners with this school.

John Bently offical started the program Harmony House you can read all about it at the website http://www.harmonyoutreach.org/.