Hello!
How is everyone? This week has been great. We're learning
and working hard. Our small little Chinese group is growing. A new
Shanghainese family of 4 just moved into our ward boundaries. The mom
stood up in our gospel principles class this week and said she felt that
they moved here just to help the missionary work progress and to
hopefully help our little group turn into a branch one day. We had a
great miracle happen... we hopped on our bikes Monday night, and were
headed to an appointment. The first lady we stopped and talked to
happened to be a member of our church. She's about 70 years old and was
baptized 2 months ago in Taiwan, but had moved to America just a few
weeks after. Ever since then she hasn't been able to find the church.
She was so happy to see us and happy to be back at church. She bore her
testimony of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith yesterday, it was so
powerful. Our group is ripe for lots of investigators to come.The
mission will have a total of 18 chinese missionaries in the months to
come... which is crazy and exciting! Lots of good will happen here.
Thats awesome about Katelyn's call. And Carissa. Everybody is going on
missions, I love it! Exciting stuff. Lots of members of the singles
ward I served will be getting their calls soon, too. 2 people I taught
with Elder Ebanks got baptized yesterday, Adlai and Melony. Adlai is 14
and Melony is 16, they're the kids of a lady we baptized in August.
Adlai is just like Noah, it's so funny. Wish i had a picture! We had
been working with them the whole time I was there and we set them with a
date just before I left... really happy to see them finally make that
decision!
I'm scared to go home. I'm mostly just scared that my time as a
full-time missionary is running out. I'm sure lots of missionaries feel
this way, but I don't feel like I've done everything I need to yet. But
maybe that feeling won't come for a while. Something President taught me
is that the Lord is always pleased, but never satisfied. There's always
more we can do. I'm so grateful to be a missionary.
I love you all! Have a good week.
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