August 1, 2011

 

 

Hello!

 Man I can't believe i'm missing Shark Week and the X games... BUT oh well. I guess missionary work is pretty alright. :)

 This week has been a pretty awesome one for us. We've got 4 baptismal dates set for the month of August, so we're pretty dang excited about that. 2 of them are cantonese people though, and all I can really do for them is say the prayer at the beginning of the lesson and occasionally nod my head, but they are awesome! Jin should be being baptized this Sunday, if things go alright! He has to have an interview with President Becerra this Friday, so that's when we'll know for sure. And our other baptismal date is a guy that we picked up this last week, we met him while street contacting outside of an asian supermarket, and then he agreed to come to the church that night and meet with us. He accepted the message of the restoration so well! That lesson strengthened my testimony that people are more prepared than we will ever know sometimes, and if we don't make the effort to reach out to those people, some of them will never get the chance! He's set to be baptized by the end of this month. ALSO we had another miracle happen this week as well. We had about 30 minutes of time to go knock some apartments, so we went to a road that looked pretty promising. It didn't have any parking on it, so we pulled onto the next closest road. We decide to just knock the apartment right in front of our car. It had 5 doors, the first 4 were vietnamese so we almost didn't knock the last one, but we did anyways and it was our former investigator Tyler! He had just gotten back from Shanghai and agreed to start meeting with us again... We had no idea he lived there! It was such an awesome miracle. These experiences really strengthened my testimony that the Lord's work will and must go on. He will shape us into the tools he needs as long as we're worthy and ready. freak man this work is awesome. 

Make sure the ward knows how grateful I am for their support! Their prayers mean a lot. I love you guys! have a good week.

Love, Ben.