Wow! This week was really really good! Here is a little bit about a couple of our investigators,
-L: I love this kid- I think he is just the
greatest 15 year old on the planet! (except you, Haylie. :D) He just shows up
to church every week on time and stays the whole time and is great friends
with all of the Young men and attends the activities. Seriously, he has a maturity
and understanding of the gospel that is just incredible to me. We shared the
plan of salvation with him yesterday and he asked some super great questions.
We were finally able to get him to give us his address, so hopefully we will be
able to stop by and meet his parents this week. He said that his dad is more
against Christianity but his mom has a more "do what you want to do"
kind of attitude- which actually is progress from last week, when both of his
parents were pretty opposed.
-H: This is our 75 year old
investigator. He told us this week that he doesn't feel like he has ever felt
the Holy Ghost, so we are working hard to help him understand what the Spirit
feels like, as well as trying to get him to commit to come to church. He is in
Mosiah in the Book of Mormon, but he keeps telling us he won't know what he
thinks of it until he finishes reading. Good thing he's reading quickly... :D
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| college students from Japan taking a temple tour |
This week we went on exchanges with the Sister
Training Leaders. Sis Jenkins stayed in our area and I went to Beitou, and did
temple tours in Taibei. Right as we finished setting up all the stuff for the
tours, a group of 4 Japanese college students came in. They spoke no Mandarin
and only a little tiny bit of English- enough for us to figure out that they were on
vacation and wanted to look around. We grabbed a Japanese copy of the Book of
Mormon and gave them a tour by bringing them to different paintings of Jesus
Christ and then showing them a scripture in the Book of Mormon in Japanese for
them to read. It was an incredible experience to be able to locate passages in
the Book of Mormon in a language neither of us had ever studied- somehow we
just knew what the words for "1 Nephi", "Mosiah",
and "Alma" (a few of the books in the Book of Mormon) looked like.
I love contacting and knocking doors because we
always have such interesting conversations. On Tues we met a guy named T
who told us (in English!) that the virgin Mary could appear in the form of my
companion's face, that Jesus was Asian, and that heaven was actually not a
place, but it rather inside of us. Yesterday we talked to these old ladies who
just kept telling us that they were sisters and all almost 80 and didn't
understand Christianity, and that they were 80, and oh did they mention they
were all 80 years old? On Thursday we contacted a lady who was smoking, and she
pointed to inside of her office building and said, "go preach to them-
they all need help!"
We met a ton of really awesome people this week
and we are excited to try to keep working with them all! DanShui is going to
have a white Christmas!
Sis Murri
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