Letter #21

AMAZING WEEK!

Well this week was just amazing!! I was so happy! The mission president gave our mission a goal to find four new investigators for every companionship! This goal may not seem very high but for china town missionaries who are lucky to find one investigator in a week, this is huge! BUT me and elder Near decided that we really wanted to do it! and we worked our tails off! we work hard every week but this week, we decided to push it even more! Every night we would usually crash after doing our planning for the next day because we were so tired from all of the contacting and tracting and even some TEACHING!

I already told you about one of the investigators that we found last week in my last email! The English class student that is really cool! I now call her purple boots because she came to English class wearing these awesome neon purple boots! But after we met with her, is really when the magic started to happen!  The second one was a call that we got from someone calling from our pass along card! YES, someone called from our card!!! She called us on the phone and said that we talked to her yesterday, and asked if i remembered her! I, of course said, "yes" but had no idea!! It is hard to remember so many faces from a day! She said she wanted us to come over to her house the next day! We were very excited! When i saw her face, i remembered who it was! AND... it is a really funny story how i met her! I contacted her on the street in Chinese! AND her husband who was a white man was behind me the whole time swearing at me! he was asking me what i was trying to sell his wife! The woman said "i like you, i am going to call you" and they walked away! It was very interesting! I didn't think much of it because people always say they will call you then don't! But she did! AND we met with her at her house! She is very wealthy! Her husband invented the clothes pin she said! Her husband was not there but i found out that he is Jewish and really does not like Mormons! So this is going to be interesting! She also had such a cute little girl! I was having so much fun playing with her! It has been so long since I have played with a little kid! Any ways, it was a lot of fun! They want to feed us dinner tonight so I am really excited!

The third one was a friend of Lillian jiang! This is our investigator that invented the thing for the i phone! We had a lesson scheduled with her and she brings along this awesome friend! She said that she used to go to church and always loved the feeling that she had when she went! AND described a peace!! She was also very amazed in us, very surprised we would just leave our homes for two years to teach people about our church. I really like her and we will be teaching her again this Saturday!

The forth one was a lady that just came in to our church! That is another complete miracle no one ever does that here in china town! I talked to her after sacrament meeting and got to know her. I thought that she was a church member that i hadn't met yet! She said it was her first time coming to church and she had never been to any before! She wanted to learn about what it is… MIRACLE… she is also awesome, she is a hair stylist in china town! I asked her if she could give me a cool style maybe with some light highlights and texture and she said yes! so right now i have a "really cool" hair style!! I will have to send pictures soon!

But wow we got exactly four! I was so surprised. AS you can tell from how many exclamation marks i have been using!!!! I am very happy! The next step is getting all of these people we are finding to progress! We had a really cool district meeting this week on baptism. The presidency of the church sent out mandatory district meetings that we all have to start doing! The first one was about baptism! I never really realized how important this ordinance really is. It talked about how we need to start being more bold with making invites! This is my next goal that I really want to work on!

Speaking of baptisms... me and elder Near got one this week and were very excited!! Her name was ling yao! I have never been so proud of someone my whole life! At the end of her baptism, she bore her testimony and it was so powerful. AS i looked at her talking, i became so happy and really realized why i came on my mission. My purpose has never been so clear to me! She talked about the book of Mormon and how grateful she is that we taught her about it! I am so grateful that heavenly father gave me the opportunity to meet her… the feeling is so hard to explain but it is amazing! I love my mission and i really can not say that enough…

OH and another really cool thing from the missionary world! I don't know if you all have seen the new Mormon.org but it is really cool! They have these profiles now of Mormon people with videos and what not and it is really cool to see all of the different members of our church. Our mission president now wants us to go on Mormon.org twice a week for an hour so we can become familiar with these people and relate them to people that we contact! a lot of them are going through the same situations. We also have these new really cool pass along cards! They have a bunch of pictures of people on them and on the inside you can write who you want the person to go look up! It is way cool! YOU should all make profiles! It would be awesome to use your testimony's to help other people!

WELL, i love you all so much! thank you so much for the continuous support that you have been giving me! It helps so much! I really had a great week and am still loving my mission! My testimony is continuing to grow every day that this is really gods church and he knows and loves each of us! I hope you all have a great week! THIS is Bao zhang lao signing off...