Good Morning everyone!
This last week was good! We have some great new investigators and Chen Bo Han got baptized! I'll start off with talking a little about one of our new investigators and English class students, Nick, or Brother Ye. He has very good English and has some Christian background which is really nice cause he understands things a bit faster. He's super nice and cool and we took him on a temple tour a few days ago! When walking into the church (the tour is actually in the church, which is the building right across from the temple. So you can look out the window and see the temple) he stopped and looked around for a second and said it feels really peaceful in here. Then he looked out the window and said I imagine it's more peaceful in there. That was kind of how most of the tour went. We walked around looking at the paintings while he asked questions and upon answering them he would say that makes sense, think for a few moments and then ask another question. We talked about our purpose in life, John the Baptist and authority, importance of temples and Jesus Christ in general. He's awesome and every time we talk about the Gospel he eats it all up! Another investigator we have is Julius! He's a bit slower but he's still cool. He is pretty strong in his own Christian church, which I believe is Reformed Baptist. When we first met him he was pretty opposed to our church and reading the Book of Mormon. But during those first few visits we had Leo (Recent Convert of a few weeks ago) help us teach and they've actually become pretty good friends. Leo helped him open up a bit I think.
Yesterday we met with him and this time he had many, many questions. We taught from the scriptures and knowing he wouldn't readily accept Book of Mormon scriptures, we only used the bible to teach the Plan of Salvation. He believes more firmly in the New Testament so we stuck with scriptures from there. When we would talk about a part of the Plan of Salvation, he would not really agree so we would say well actually we've learned a bit about this through the Bible, in 1 Corinthians it talks a bit about this. Then he would read it and say I don't really understand. So we'd explain it and slowly, very slowly he would accept what we taught, though rather hesitantly.
It's definitely a slower process with him but at the end of the lesson we committed him to read the Book of Mormon which he was very much against a couple weeks ago! So he's pretty awesome and we're happy that he's willing to read and pray. And then this week Chen Bo Han got baptized! He brought his wife and kids whom we haven't been teaching but we hope to start seeing the whole family soon! At the baptism all the members were talking to the family, getting to know them and stuff. It was beautiful to see. It seemed his family fit pretty well into church that day and I can imagine them all becoming members so I hope that day is soon! Will keep you updated on that. Also another cool experience with Bo Han is that when we taught him tithing for the first time a while back we were a bit apprehensive. But, starting the lesson, he said the opening prayer and in his prayer he said something like,"Heavenly Father, this is my belief. I know that this is the true faith and whatever the missionaries say to do, I will do it." So I thought to myself, well that's a good way to start off a lesson to tithing! So we taught him tithing and he said no problem! He also quit coffee, tea and smoking within a few days of us teaching him. The man is a total saint and the most humble guy you'll ever come across! He has 4 Mercedes Benz but you wouldn't know that upon meeting him because he's so nice and wears average clothes. Love him!
Well that was pretty much the week and I'll talk to you all next week! Shout out to Tess Happy Birthday!
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