February 14, 2012

Guess what? Josh has only 63 days left....as Dad I say...WooooHooooo!!!


Hello Everyone!

Ok, so this week has been an amazing week. My companion and I have been running around all over the place and we have had so many miracles that have just seemed to fall into our laps! This week Elder Mensink and I worked really hard to teach as much as we possibly could. We would pray for opportunities to come and they did exactly that. It has been a great testimony builder of when we have faith and work hard, the Lord will provide. This week we received a referral of a lady that used to meet with missionaries in the past and wanted to meet with the Chinese speaking elders this time. I talked to her on the phone a few times because she was out of town and she didn't know her schedule too well to set any firm appointment. We finally got a time to meet with her and we brought two members with us and went and taught her. When we got to her house I shook her hand and introduced myself in Chinese and she took a step backward and said in Chinese, "Wait. You are the one that was talking to me on the phone?" and I said "yep that was me" and she said "I thought I was talking to a native Chinese speaker on the phone!". She is such an amazing person and we have been meeting with her a lot. She asks the greatest questions and we just recently took her on a church tour with our branch president because she wanted to tour the building before she comes to church so she is more familiar with everything. We were also able to meet with our other investigator named Michael. We taught him about the Plan of Salvation, and when we asked him if he had read the Book of Mormon since we last met with him he said yes, and he had finished the 1st book of Nephi in one week! He said he really likes what we are teaching him and it is making him think a lot. Keep him in your prayers! Other than that, everything is going great out here. We will be getting a new Chinese speaking elder on next Tuesday. He is white and from Georgia, we are really excited to be getting a new elder! We still don't know who will be training him but we will see! I love you all! I hope everything is going well! Happy Valentines Day!!