Busy Week!

 Hello!

  Yes, the W__ family loves to take us out to eat cantonese food, they are from Hong Kong. They are great. I love chicken feet, I think thats my favorite weird thing I've eaten thus far.

  This week has brought some great miracles. We've been working so hard, and no direct results have come from our efforts, but the Lord is blessing us in other ways. On Sunday, 3 members brought friends to church. We were able to teach a couple from Shanghai, The W__ family, and the wife is going to have her baby this week. It's her 2nd baby, so they have to come to America to have it or else they get a big fine in China. So they won't be here for long. Probably another 2 months or so, but we're hoping they can be baptized before they go back. 

   We also taught another lady that has a possibility of being baptized this week. She really has the desire to learn, but she's going back to Shanghai on Monday. We taught her a couple hours ago.   We told her the only way for her to continue learning in the church in China is to be baptized because you have to be a member to go to church there, so we'll find out what she decides soon. That will be super cool if she decides to be baptized this week.

  This upcoming week will be super busy. We have zone leader council all day tomorrow, and the mission is having obedience problems, so lots of changes will have to be made. Then we have interviews all day on Thursday. After that, we have a meeting with president and the stake president and the high councilman over missionary work to discuss the missionary work in the stake, and also to prepare a training we'll be giving to all the Ward Mission Leaders  the Stake. And we have lots of appointments scheduled, and we have to do a few exchanges with the district leaders in our zone. Oh yeah, speaking of which, I went on an exchange with one of the AP's this week, Elder Ballesteros. I stayed in his area for the day, a spanish area in East LA. It was crazy, it's basically exactly what you'd imagine the "projects" to be like. We were walking down an alley to get to a members house and he said "yeah, someone was shot here last week. luckily we were eating dinner at this members house." Haha. Then we had a way good mexican meal. It was a really good exchange. My spanish is improving, so thats good.

  Thank you for sending me the Triple! and yes, thats all I needed. Marking it all over again has brought lots of new revelation, it's been really good. I love the Book of Mormon so much. Definitely one of my best friends. I'm attaching some pictures of recent happenings, enjoy! I love you guys!

Love, Ben.