Hello Everyone!
This week was a roller coaster of a week, but I say that all in a good way. There are so many changes happening!! The mission president decided that it is finally time for there two be two Chinese speaking companionship's within the Yale Chinese branch, and to have 4 mandarin speaking elders serving all at once! I am now companions with my old companion Elder Bray who is from Connecticut! And Elder Kim is with my MTC companion Elder Mensink! Elder Bray and I are so excited because we will be two white Americans speaking Chinese, and it always has a huge shock factor to the Chinese people and they love talking to us because of it! The branch here has been growing! There has been a lot of success lately and we are sooo excited for how many more miracles will happen now that we have 2 companionship's serving in the branch!
This past week Elder Kim and myself taught our new investigator Jason. Jason is from mainland china and he has soaked up everything we have taught him. He loves reading the scriptures and he loves coming to church. He and I have a special friendship because when we met, we both felt like we knew each other already ;), his baptism is planned for this upcoming Saturday!! I am a little sad though because since there are now two companionship's, our area was split in half and it just so happens Jason lives on the west half which isn't my area anymore so the other elders will continue to teach him and prepare him for baptism, but I will definitely go to his baptism and see him every Sunday!! We have a few other investigators that we are working with and it is going really really well!! I have been studying the language really hard and it has been improving bit by bit!
I will be the District Leader over our new Chinese district with just the two Chinese companionship's! So I can teach all our district meetings in Chinese! Another funny thing to note is what the assistants to the mission president have named our district. The new Chinese district is named "Xili district" which literally means "Baptism District" haha. Pretty cool!
Well I am lovin' it down here in southern California! The weather is getting into the perfect weather of sunny and 70 degrees all the way until about April :) cant beat that!
Well I love you all! Hope to hear from you! Until next week!
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