Alright, well this week was the last week of my first transfer in the field! This week was pretty busy and I had some fun experiences with tracting. I have been realizing lately that we sometimes let people just walk by without talking to them and every time it happens I feel bad because I missed the opportunity to help them hear the Gospel. So this week I decided to be much more bold and didn't let anyone walk by without telling them something about the Gospel. One contact this man was walking by and I tried to stop him and talk to him but he acted like he couldn't/didn't hear me and started to jog...normally I would just Keep on walking to the next person, but this time I all the sudden found myself turning around and jogging with him. I jogged with the man for about 2 minutes telling him about the gospel and then left him with a card...I felt like Kirby Heybourne in "The Best 2 Years" when he chases down the people on bikes. I have found it is hard to talk to Californians because they are always busy going somewhere or doing something, so you have to be quick and bold. That is one thing I have not necessarily been used to doing but it is coming much easier now and I find the more I just act like myself the better it goes and the happier I and the people I talk to are. We have a new investigator and his name is Johnny Kuo, I don't remember if I talked about him in the last email but i will now. He is the most amazing and funny old man. He is from Taiwan and speaks no English, he is extremely hard of hearing so we practically have to yell for him to hear us. He came to church all by himself, we didn't know who he was so we talked to him and he said he lives in the senior housing across the street and this is the closest Chinese congregation so this is where he will go. He is so awesome!!! He loves church and has read the Book of Mormon, Gospel Principles book, Bible, the Church magazines, in about a week and a half. He gets a kick out of me being able to speak and understand him because I am white....he tells me that every single time we meet. We had a language training meeting this week about the English classes we teach every week. They are totally reorganizing how we teach the classes and we were taught by a man named Von Packard. He taught us so much and he focused on letting our body language showing what we want, and how it is the Holy Ghost that invites people to be baptized not us missionaries. Well as of yesterday my companionship is now myself elder Chang and my old companion elder mensink. We are in a trio. It is definitely different but it has been so great just in the few days we have been in it. I love this work! Until next time!
Zaijian nimen. Wo zhende ai nimen.
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