Super Week!

Well this was a super good week for us in Xihu! Recently, President Blickenstaff has been focusing on helping us have good and diligent studies. He has given the whole mission tons of invites and such and wow, he sure knows what he's doing. I really have noticed that when we make the most of our morning studies, then the rest of the day goes super well. We have been working on that really hard and this week we got lots of lessons set up and got more numbers from people this week than in the past two weeks combined. Super awesome

This week we met with a former investigator named Cruise. We biked out to his house which took like 30 minutes (woo!) and we sat down to meet. Before we could even introduce ourselves he pulled out a list of questions that he wanted answers to. Questions about gospel and stuff that he should do. This was probably the best lesson of my mission. Every single question that he had we used the Book of Mormon to answer them. Literally every single question that he had we found answers to them in the Book of Mormon. I always knew that we could find answers in the Book of Mormon, but my eyes were really opened up to the power of that book after this lesson. It's truly amazing and is most definitely the word of God. Anyways, Cruise is super cool and wants to get baptzied. He has even read the entire Book of Mormon. But he is just scared that he is going to sin after baptism. I really hope that when we meet with him this week that we can give him a baptism goal and help him a ton.

We also did a little bit of tracting this week and it was really good. We were able to meet lots of cool people and some even had interest! But most of them all live in Taibei and they were just here on break. So referrals haha. Team Jesus. That is about the story of my mission. Every single golden person that the Lord has led me to has not lived in my area. Some missionaries get super upset about that, and I mean yeah, sometimes it is a bummer, but I don't even care just as long as they get baptized. We also went to drop in on a family that we tracted into but they were busy. So we tracted their neighbor instead! And he was really interested! So many miracles

We had a really good ward council this week. The ward is really working hard to get bigger and to rescue all those LAs out there. The entire focus of the council was directed towards missionary work. I loved it. Xihu is so awesome and I love this ward so much! Especially our ward mission leader! He is a beast!! He goes to school in Taibei but come back here every other week. He is not only the ward mission leader, but he is also the gospel principles class teacher, and the ward secretary. He is so cool! His name is Mike and he just got back from his mission in Minnesota and his english is super good. I love him so much!

This week I have been studying a talk called the Fourth Missionary. It's so great. It is super long but I recommend reading it. Yeah it's applied to missionaries but you can also use it in your life. My favorite part is talking about us changing ourselves and becoming a true disciple of Christ. He said something to the effect of, "Christ will make us into a masterpiece, when we would only make ourselves a smudge. We will make ourselves and ordinary man. Christ will make us a God." I love that so much. As long as we are willing to truly dedicate our life to the Lord, we can become like him.

I hope you all are continually striving to be better and help those around you become stronger in this gospel. 

Last thing regarding those pictures of my arm. There is an LA here that does this stuff called gua sha. basically he rubs your arms with his knuckles and tells you what you need to be healthier. It hurts SO BAD. Literally my arm has never been in more pain. Basically I need to drink more water and not eat as much chocolate. He said that is what every missionary needs to do. Haha lots of missionaries come to this guy. It's super cool but it hurts so bad. He was rubbing my right arm and hit a place and asked me if I had an injury there in the past. I was really surprised and said that when I played baseball that was the place on my arm that would hurt really bad. Crazy that he knew that.

Anyways, I sure love you all so much. Keep being great!

Love

Elder Miles Anderson

This pictures don't do this justice, but I will talk about it in my big email. Be patient haha