Hello everyone,
This week was another great one! Last week I told you that we had a lot of investigators drop off but now we are finding a lot of news, which is always a great thing! The new investigators that we do have are awesome! Another good thing that happened was elder near did not leave! We already finished another cycle! I am so amazed how fast the time is going by! We were all expecting elder near to leave to the English program this cycle, but he is staying for another cycle! We were so excited because we have so many things that are so close to happening! We celebrated with sushi and rice pudding! The sushi was only 3 dollars but still it was a treat! The rice pudding was amazing! It was at this place called rice for riches in little Italy! I guess it is world famous! It was sooo good!
The new investigators that we got are so solid! The first one is Jolie! We met her in English class and because her English was so advanced and she was answering every question that we threw at her, we offered to give her personal lessons! She was very excited! Her English is fantastic besides some of her tenses being a litte off. She works in a furniture store and does not like her job because it stresses her out! She had a very different impression of what America was before she came! She thought that it would be easy to come here and accomplish her dreams, but she has been disappointed because it is so hard and expensive! When we started to teach her about prayer she got very excited! She told us that she has been praying every night and it is really helping her! We are going to teach her the plan of salvation tonight and I am so excited! I think that it is a perfect lesson for her!
The next new person this week was Kitty. We did not know what to expect with this one because it was a referral from another missionary in the mission! But she came to the church and met with us. I have to say I have never felt so tall in my whole life! She has to be at the most 4 feet tall! And she has one of the softest voices that I have ever heard in my life! I thought she was whispering! But as we taught her, we realized something was a little off. She was very slow to understand things but when she did, she got so excited and would have the biggest smile! We taught her about God and how much he loves her. She was so happy! We also taught her how to pray, which I think that she really liked! At the end of the lesson, it was so sad because she told us that a lot of people in her family are mean to her because she is slow. She said she liked us because we were nice to her! I have to say that made me feel so good!
The next new investigator was another referral! This one was from chen di xiong! Does that name sound familiar?! It should! It was from our baptism last week!!! That made me soo happy!! I am so excited that he as a desire to share the gospel! I guess he would not stop talking to his friend at work about our church so his friend got interested! His friend is extremely basic!! He had heard of Jesus Christ but had no idea who he was! He thought that he was just a philosopher. He had never heard of the bible or prophets or any thing else! Me and elder near used a lot of different object lessons to help him understand and I think that it went well! I am excited to see where it goes!
The next new person was Anida! I really hope that I did not talk about her in my email last week! This lady was amazing! Elder near contacted her… she said that she sees us all of the time in the cold contacting and always feels so bad for us! Elder near called her for a lesson last Thursday and not only did she come, but took us out to this fancy restaurant for dinner! I have never eaten such nice tasty food my whole life! She ordered crab, steak, noodles, and the whole nine yards! Me and elder near were extremely full! She said that she wants to start making this a regular thing! We told her no, but she insisted that she could every once in a while! She has been to church before and is excited to learn about what makes ours different! At dinner we were not able to talk much about church, but we are looking foreword to when we can!
I really tried to work hard on my personal studies this week! Working hard choosing topics and specific things to study! I also started reading the New Testament, which is so cool! I am learning so much from it! My favorite thing that I learned this week was in Matthew chapter 9 verse 9. It is an extremely simple scripture. It is Jesus telling Matthew to follow him and Matthew listening with out any hesitation at all! It does not say that he asked why, he just got up and followed him. I feel like Jesus is offering all of us this same invitation. Will we be like Matthew and follow with out question? Our will we be like lamen and lemual? Following along but complaining the whole time! I really liked that scripture! It was easy to understand!
Well you are all having a great week! I am so happy to have so much great support from all of you! Stay strong!
Bao Zhang Lao
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