Transfer 14 - Week 4

It was a wonderful week! First, on Thursday we held a mission-wide memorial service for the two Elders that passed away and it was a very nice, spiritual meeting. An MTC buddy, Elder Gibson and I translated for it so it was kind of cool to see each other after all this time because he's been in the southern parts of Taiwan most of his mission. The parents of one of the missionaries sent a letter to the Mission President to read to all of us, it said something like,"Take a few minutes to mourn, to cry and then to smile, for you know that they live on. Now go and continue to preach the Gospel, for you know that they preach on." The meeting gave my companion and I renewed energy and motivation to work hard and we saw many miracles and blessings. We found 7 investigators! 

We've been working with a really really good investigator named Chen Zi Jun. She's an English class student and we've been teaching her for a few weeks now. The other day she was looking at a picture of Jesus (the one where he is holding a lamb) and said,"I don't know why but I really like looking at this picture. I can't stop looking at it." She has a baptismal date on the 27th and she is well on her way to make it. Whoo! Next up is a super awesome family that we found this week, the Zheng family. Just a Dad, Mom and 4 year old daughter. I teach the little kid English class and their daughter has been coming the past couple weeks, brought by her grandma but this past week their parents came too so we chatted with them and they liked us so we visited them a few days later and they are so awesome! You can really feel the love they have for their daughter and they were both very receptive to our first lesson about Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. When we asked if the Dad could pray the daughter said, "I don't want to pray!" And then both the parents both said ,"不行！需要做祷告！“ ("Hey! None of that!") Then we all knelt and said a prayer and it was great! The only thing is that they're literally going camping for the next four weekends and so it will be really hard to find time to meet with them. But they said we can call them and share scriptures and stuff so it shouldn't be too bad. 


We also found this lady who just moved from China a few weeks and we met with her last night. It was a little strange teaching her because she said she's always been taught there is no God and that you can't talk about this sort of stuff in China. So we taught her very simply and in the end she said a prayer of her own! It was really cool to see her pray. It was a very good week and we're pretty excited for this upcoming week.