Hello Hello!
Well, this week was a great week! Well… there were a few bad things that happened but the good replaced the bad, so that is always a good thing.
The good was really good! Jing was baptized! I cannot even tell you what a relief that was for me! I have never had an investigator go through so many trials and have so many things happen before the baptism. She would have doctrinal issues then have problems with the date, work schedules, commandments, and etc. It was quite the journey! Her baptismal program went great as well! despite the fact that she was not able to videotape herself being baptized. She really wanted to show her dad who lives in china, which is a good reason, but we are just not allowed to videotape baptisms. That made her kind of sad but she was ok with it as soon as she started getting a ton of attention! The ward did such a great job supporting her! I have never seen so many people at a baptism! Maybe this is because I am from china town and we only have like 4 members if we are lucky at the baptismal service. The whole service was in Mandarin, so it was I and two other guys in the word that spoke Mandarin doing everything! But it was awesome! I have already seen how the Gospel has blessed Jing’s life. Her relationship with her daughter has improved incredibly! They have been starting to read the scriptures together every night! She is starting to find more job opportunities… her whole entire personality has changed really! It is like she has this new glow to her! I am so happy for her.
The bad news from this week is that we lost Shane. I am not really sure what happened but he is gone. We went to his house for a scheduled appointment that we had with him and no one was there. AND on top of that… everything in the house was gone! It looked like he moved out. Not going to lie… this was really hard on me. We have been going to his house every night to check and see if he is back, but everything is still the same. He does not have a cell phone so there is really no way for us to get a hold of him. I felt like he was so prepared for this. I was very surprised to see it all fall apart like that. I am sure that whatever happened, he had a legitimate reason for leaving. I hope that I will run into him again someday.
Lu Lu and Ernie's family are still doing really well! We have had members with us the last two times that we have gone to see them and they have taken the lessons really well! They take everything really well! It almost makes it hard on us to know what they need because they take everything that we teach so well and never have any problems with the things that we teach. We are still having a hard time getting them married and to come to church but other then that, everything is good. They promised us though that this Sunday they would be at church! We are looking foreword to that!!! They also said now that school has started up again, they should have more time to talk, and figure things out.
Elder Dees and I have been working really hard trying to figure out ways to get our members involved with our investigators. It has been really hard to find things that work. We are trying to do some things that we thought up a long time ago…. and they seem to be working pretty well so far! We made the sign up chart for them coming to help us teach and are doing a movie night this Friday at the church! We are excited. I really hope that things work out!
No comments:
Post a Comment