It's raining hard here.
It's been raining since 3 in the morning, all morning long. We had a great week this week. I told you guys last week that my shoes are
absolutely destroyed. I have 3 pairs of
shoes right now. One pair of shoes Elder
Harris gave me, they are a little bit broken in. Another pair of shoes I brought to the
mission that the bottom is worn out.
They have holes in them and dirt gets in. I have the pair that you sent me and where I
step on the heel is just a hole. They
are destroyed. Monday we were walking
around and there was a guy outside fixing shoes, we stopped and talked to
him. We stopped by later and gave him my
shoes. It cost me $250 pesos, like $25
so now I have comfortable shoes again.
It was terrible because my feet were dying but it's all good now.
A few weeks ago we found M, M, and L that we're teaching. They are
really cool young adults. They are
confused about their religion. We've
been teaching them and gave them a Book of Mormon but they haven't felt that
it's true. Last week we had an activity
for them but they didn't come. Maria
read on her phone a lot of garbage about the church. Luckily she didn't believe in a lot of the
stuff she read. One of the things that
she didn't really understand was baptism for the dead. She thought that we baptized dead bodies
which is a little creepy so I can understand.
We explained it to her so she's not completely convinced but she felt
better about it. We had a lesson in the
church before the activity. We helped
them see the changes in their life since
they started learning about the gospel.
They have more understanding of the purpose of life. We are trying to help them understand that
those are answers from God. I think they
are waiting for an angel to appear and tell them that the Mormon church is
true. That's never going to happen, well
maybe but it's never happened to me.
They stayed for the activity after the lesson. Out of nowhere M started feeling super
sick, she started feeling depressed. We
gave her a blessing and then she left.
She didn't come to church because she's been sick. We've also been teaching J and he is going to get baptized this weekend. He'll get baptized this Saturday if it all
goes good so pray for J.
G and A got
married. We threw rice at their wedding,
they were really happy. When we first
started teaching them they would always fight and now they treat each other a
lot better. They get along a lot
better It's really cool to see how
reading scriptures, going to church and
praying changes lives. I don't think
it's a coincidence. No wonder Jesus
teaches this. The activity we had
Saturday was for them, we made them a cake.
G came over and we baked the wedding cake with him. We had the cake and a little wedding shower
and a bunch of the members came. We
played a game like musical chairs. It
was a fun activity, they really enjoyed it.
It was crazy during the activity some kids outside were throwing rocks
at cars. The church is on a main street
and right next to the church is a police station. The kids threw rocks and broke some
windows. The guy driving the car called
the police and the kids tried hiding in the church, they ran through the church
and in to the back field but he church is completely surrounded by a
fence. The police ran through, caught
and hand cuffed them. We left to go wash
my hands and came back to the police.
They looked very focused and looking for the kids. We had to go through the whole church and
make sure there were no bad guys.
Luckily they got them. Fun
activity.
Friday we had some baptismal interviews for some Elders in
our zone. I interviewed a few people for
their baptism. We've also been teaching
someone named C. C, her son
died. Her son was the boyfriend of a
recent convert. She was super sad and
another member gave her a gospel doctrine book and marked the pages about the spirit
world. Every time that she's sad
about her son's death she just gets up and starts reading gospel
principles. She's never been to church
before. The member gave us a reference
of her. We've been teaching her a few
weeks now. She's progressing very well
now but she didn't come to church. She's
accepted baptism. She's reading the Book
of Mormon. We promise peace blessings
and happiness. That's really what
everyone wants and that's what the Gospel of Jesus Christ gives.
The day before the wedding we had a little lesson. The day was a
bad day. We had walked from tim-buck-two
and back. My feet were killing me and we
walked so far and I had these big blisters.
It was actually a good experience.
We were walking down this super long street and knocked on an
investigators door but they weren't home and then we walked back down this
super long street. Looking at the street
I thought wow is there another way, could we catch a bus? Then I thought of Jesus Christ when he was
about to perform the atonement and he asked the Father is there some other
way. There was no other way so he just
did it and there was no other way for me so I just started walking and did
it. We walked an hour and got to the
house of our investigators. We sat down
and he tells us he has some bad news.
He said they weren't going to get married and they were going to break
up. He said he was going to another city
and they weren't going to church any more. She was outside the house and from outside she heard what he was
saying and she was telling us that he was lying. He started dying of laughter and thought he
was so funny. She wasn't ready to get
baptized so we asked her to read and pray.
She read and prayed and she got an answer. She prayed and asked God to guide her and
give her an answer. She opened the Book
of Mormon. She opened up and read Isaiah
that says Oh house of Israel you that have left the waters of baptism. She read that and took it as her answer that
she needs to get baptized. She's set to
get baptized the 28th of November.
Hopefully everything turns out good this week.
I love you a lot, I hope you aren't too cold in Utah. Don't worry it's hot here in Formosa. Love you tons, see you later.
Bye
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