Hello everyone!
Another great week over here in chinatown! Elder Near and I tried some new things for contacting and we had some great results! Because things are starting to heat up, me and elder near decided to go basketball contacting! A lot of the high school kids play after school so we decided to go give it a shot! I don’t know how well you guys remember my athletic abilities but yes it was a little rough!! ha-ha! I ended up using my experience for a listening activity in English class! I was a little sore the next day and I got a blister on my toe but it was so worth it! Soo many people stopped and looked at us to see what we were doing playing basketball in white shirts and ties! It was good! We also met two really cool kids, Bing and Allen! we really want to play with them again!
As far as our investigators this week, it was a little rough! We met with a lot of new people but none of our baptismal dates met with us except chen di xiong! I was very disappointed. But… wow I cannot say enough good things about chen di xiong! He is way to cool! He prays twice everyday! AND says he loves to meet with us because of the peace that he feels! He lives a crazy life and he loves to hang out with us and feel the spirit! We introduced to him the word of wisdom this week, and there was no question to him that he was going to follow it! He drank coffee and tea but he said if it is what god wants him to do, then he will do it! It is weird having someone so solid I am not used to it! But I am so happy for him! (this is the one that has his family still in china.) But as far as our other baptismal dates, I was a little bummed! None of them answered their phones even!! Wang jie mei was supposed to get baptized this weekend but there is no way… she is not ready at all. We are going to have to push it back a couple weeks!!
I had a really cool experience this week contacting with the English program! We have started doing zone blitzes now and I am loving it! It is nice to go contact in English every once in a while! BUT anyways! I had a man come up to me and say you look very familiar have we met before? I said no.. He had a very heavy accent so I asked him where he was from! He said he was from Poland! I got really excited and told him that a lot of my family was from Poland! He said that was why he recognized me! He could tell that I was polish! He had a lot of questions for me! He started telling me that he does not believe that any churches have authority and that it left the earth when Jesus died! He was right on the money! But he also said that he did not believe in our church! He thinks that the book of Mormon is a lie and he did not even want to try reading it. As he said this, I got a memory of my grandpa making polish pancakes for my family and I asked him if he had tried them. He looked at me surprised and said yes, I have and they are very good. I asked him how he knew that he liked them and he said because he had eaten them! I told him that it was the same thing with the book of Mormon! He needs to read it to know if it is true! I thought that was so funny! It is hilarious how heavenly father works through us sometimes! I gave him my phone number and a card! I really hope that he will change his mind about the book of Mormon.
As for new investigators, we have two that are awesome and I really want to talk about! The first is jiang chi! She is so awesome! I contacted her a long time ago and she just came to our church one random day and we taught her a lesson! She is so cool though! She is a singer. We recorded her singing this Chinese song and set it as our ring tone! She was just in the hospital because she broke her arm but she cut off the cast because it was itching her and she wanted to shower! ha! The other is xu ji mei! She is soooooo smart! she was a doctor and a Chinese teacher! She helps me with my Chinese a lot! She also sang in the Chinese opera. I thought that was pretty awesome! I met her through the lady I told you that I contacted her and her white husband was cussing at me in English behind me as I talked to her! It was her friend! That girl had to stop meeting with us because her husband was Jewish and didn’t like us! But I am so happy we ended up getting a new great investigator from that! Both of those people I just told you about are from Beijing so they have awesome accents!
Chinatown also got a new addition! Sister Sue! She is from Taiwan! I only met her once so I don’t really know anything about her yet but she seems cool! Sister Tai went home though so that is kinda sad! It was weird seeing someone go home that I knew! It kinda scared me a little because I realized that missions end! I am so happy I still have a lot of time… I am getting scared with how fast it is going though!
The best small miracle that I saw this week was pistachio ice cream! My companion and I had a rough, long day of contacting, not really finding anyone that was interested. Then we found this store... we had never seen it before so we decided to go in and take a peek. In the back fridge we found it... the beautiful delicious green ice cream! I had never tried it before and oh my goodness it was awesome! It made me so happy! I am addicted to that stuff! my forty-day fast is getting so much easier! I think I am starting to develop good habits! That is always a good thing!
Well I love you all so much! Thank you for all of the love and support you guys are them bomb! Sorry this letter is a little short, but the place is starting to close down so I got to speed it up! love ya!
bao zhang lao!
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