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Dear Everybody,
How are you all doing? It was great
hearing from you all. I just love knowing you all are still doing well
and that you are loving life, for the most part. Well some advice for you
all, "Treat every week like it's Shark Week!" This month our mission
has a goal to have 100,000 other lessons on the road (doctrine taught with an
invitation to meet), I don't know if I told you this or not, but anyway, in order
to carry our load and do our part, I pumped up my companion and I by naming
this week "Shark Week." For all those who have watched Shark
Week on the discovery channel know exactly what I mean. Well, "Shark
Week" went along pretty well, some days a lot better than others, but lets
get right on into it. It'll be just a brief summary of each day just
because we are on rushed time.
Monday, we visited a less active, Brother
Hong, and shared a lot about opposition with him. He is super busy with
work and stuff, has questions, and ended up talking about opposition.
Went great and we're hoping we can start working with his nonmember mom
and dad.
Tuesday, Patriot's Day, we had an ok DTM
on how we can use Family History in our work. I figured since we just
barely got some Family History people here in GaoXiong and because the
Taiwanese respect their ancestors that we could use that resource for our good.
Went out and sat with Jerry and found out he has been drinking a lot more
than usual. We shared with him Alma 36 and the story of Alma the
Younger's conversion story. It doesn't matter who we are or what we do,
the Atonement of Jesus Christ can cleanse us from the mistakes we make each and
every day. He really has that desire to quit and it will come from
reading, praying, and coming to church. We then sat down with another
investigator, Brother Hong, and reviewed the Plan of Salvation and then talked
on what we can do in this life to be cleansed to return to live back with God.
It is only through Christ's Atonement that we can do so. As we have
faith in Christ and His Atonement, repent and change ourselves to live in
accordance to His teachings, are baptized by water and fire, and endure to the
end, we can be forgiven. We were only able to share about faith and repentance
with him this past week, and so we'll finish it up this week.
Wednesday was a rough day, especially for
my companion. It found us in our secondary area where we found not a
whole lot of success. It was rough mainly because my companion crashed
into a parked car (don't worry he is ok. we laughed it off together), and then
decided to bike over the mountain instead of around it. Great day, great
day!
Thursday was Zone Scramble which meant
that Elder Barson came and spent the day with me in XiaoGang. This day
was dedicated to just talking to people and nothing else. It was a great
day and we talked to tons of people and saw some success from it.
Friday, a random rain storm caught us by
surprise which left no one out on the streets. Along with that, lessons
began to cancel and so it went a little slower than planned, but it was still
great!
Sunday was probably the greatest of all
the days. Other than attending church and just having my mind at ease, we
had an investigator attend church with us, which hasn't happened for a long
time. It has been one thing we have struggled with and this guy is great.
His name is Fu Guan Hua, 21 years old, and going to school here. He
enjoyed church and afterwards we sat down with him and shared the First Vision.
He accepted to be baptized and so we're gonna be working with him to hit
his date.
This was another quick letter for you
all, but I hope you still enjoy it. This week is the last week of the
transfer/move call and it is very likely that my companion will be moving,
which means I will be staying which I am totally fine with. This area is
great, and it doesn't matter where I am at, the work of the Lord is still the
same. To help others come unto Christ through faith, repentance, baptism,
receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. I'm
grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ and for the ability it has to change
lives. I love this work, Taiwan, and I love you all!
With all my love,
司馬長老
