This week was a really good week!! We finally finished the project that we have been working on for the past couple of weeks. And by project this is what I mean....So we have been trying to find the best way that we can find and work with all the Chinese people. It is hard for us just to go to neighborhoods and tract because we only talk to a few Chinese and then the rest are all American. A while ago we started to use school phone books and we would just look for the Chinese last names and then go visit the Chinese people that way, but recently we thought of an even more intense idea. We just recently finished our 'White Pages' project. We took the city of Irvine, and went online and used 411.com and white-pages.com, we used about 125 most common Chinese surnames and copy and pasted all of the addresses into one big comprehensive list. We took each address and found the map coordinate to each one so that whenever we are in a neighborhood we know which other people are close by so that way we can work more effectively. We finally finished doing all 125 names for the city of Irvine and then organized it and got it bound. For mine and Elder Bray's area we have a list of over 4,000 addresses. And the other Chinese companionship also has their list of about 3,000 addresses. We literally found the entire Chinese population of Irvine! We have been using it and it has been working wonders! I wish we would have had this a long time ago because now we are speaking to Chinese people literally all day long!!
One of our investigators named Angela has decided to be baptized on the 24th of December! We are very excited, and it will be a memorable Christmas for her! This week we went to a members house to eat lunch with one of our investigators, they asked Elder Bray to make Mexican food for them since he is part Mexican and used to cook it all the time back home. He asked them if they would like it spicy and all of the Chinese people there said "Yes, we love spicy" but Elder Bray warned them that Mexican spicy and Chinese spicy is a bit different, but they told him it wouldn't be too spicy for them. When we ate I thought it was sooooo good! It was pretty spicy but not too bad. It ended up making all of the Chinese members cry and sweat because it was so spicy haha, they said next time they want me to make some kind of dessert instead haha.
I am loving every minute of it out here! I can't believe it is December and still sunny and 70 degrees most of the time, the lowest it gets is in the high 50's. I hope everyone is doing well back home!! I would love to hear from you all!! I love you all! Talk to ya next week!
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