(Ben and his first companion teaching English... One of his favorite things to do!)
Hello!
This week has been pretty crazy. We're not as
busy as we have been the last few months, but we still have much to do.
Theres only 2 more weeks left of probably my favorite transfer yet. So
much good and many miracles have happened the last few months, it's been
awesome. We have 1 more baptism set for this month so far, Sister Y_.
She's from Fuzhou, China, and she's loaded. She is determined to take us
to China when we're done in California, haha. She has a mansion and
lives in one of the "prettiest cities in China". Man if she's paying I'm
totally going, even if she is a little weird. But yeah, she's scheduled
to be baptized on the 20th. For our appointments we teach her english
for a half hour and then the gospel, it works out pretty well. Lately
she's been wanting to learn the gospel more than english, so that's
good. We've hardly done anything to help her gain friendship with the
ward, they are all still excited from the success we've been having that
they are starting to love missionary work more and more and doing it
themselves. :) I love it.
We had the opportunity to help a new family move into our ward
yesterday, they're from Beijing but have lived in Provo for the past
couple years. They said they went to the church in Beijing for a while,
but I'm not sure what their story is just yet. I'll have to find out.
But yeah, they'll be a great addition to our ward. 2 more Melchizedek
priesthood holders! That's exactly what we need if we are going to make a
branch in Alhambra soon. litterally 5 minutes after we had finished
moving them in, there was a crazy storm, it was so awesome! They were so
grateful Heavenly Father had allowed them to move in at the time they
did. They are a very humble family. I miss having variety in weather!
haha. The streets were pretty flooded and stuff, it was cool. It didn't
last very long, but it was still awesome. It's getting pretty cold down
here, I'm excited to start wearing a jacket. The afternoons are still
hot, but it gets way cold at night. Maybe it'll snow here someday... but
that's dreaming. haha.
I was reading in the New Testament this morning when Jesus was
talking to the lady Samaritan at the well, after He had told her that He
was the Christ she went into the city and everyone came out to see him.
His disciples came back with the meat they had bought, but he replied
that he had meat already, and that meat was the work of fulfilling his
Father's will. He looked out at all the people and told the disciples
that "the field is white already to harvest." Then it continues to say
how many of the Samaritans believed on him from that time on. It made me
think about how the Lord really has prepared these people through his
own means, and we are just his disciples for the "harvesting of souls".
But if we cannot see that these people are prepared, then we will not
know. Thats why we, like the disciples with him at that time, have Him
to help point them out to us. The church is true!
I've thought of some things for my Christmas list. A simplified
character learning book (I'll let you know which one) and .38 size pens
and pencils. You can't buy those in America, and they're perfect for
writing chinese. Thanks! I love you guys, have a good week!
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