January 16, 2012

(HE'S BACK!!! And here is his letter for the week. Josh also lost his camera this week and unfortunately he had all of his pictures that he has taken on his mission on SD Cards in the camera bag. Needless to say he is pretty sad about that. Please pray that he may find his camera and his pictures.)

Hello everyone!
This week was a busy week. We did a lot of preparation for our interviews with the mission president, because Elder Bray and I had to teach our zone while there district members were being interviewed. It went really well and I loved having the interview! It is crazy to think that is my last normal mission president interview on my mission until the one where I am interviewed at the end of my mission...time is going by way too fast! This week we spent some time up at the office creating our new pass along card for our Chinese branch. It is going to be so amazing! If any of you have seen the new Mormon.org pass along cards, it is kind of like that except we used pictures of our Chinese branch members. On the front of the card it says "I am a child of God" in Chinese characters. And then the back has a map, our church times, and bible study class info, and it is also all in Chinese characters. We already sent it to the printing company so we are now just waiting until we get them! This Sunday at church a member had his farewell talk in sacrament meeting, he is going to the Bangkok, Thailand mission. There were so many people that came to church to see his farewell, we had about 14 of our investigators come to church! I think that sets a new record. The Branch is doing so well and I love working with all these members! We are going to be getting a new Chinese speaking elder starting next week, and then about 2 weeks after that we will get another one and then will have 6 Chinese speaking elders in the Chinese branch!! It has definitely grown a ton since I first got here to the mission field! I hope everyone is doing well! I hope to hear from you all! Talk to ya next week!