Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Another Typhoon

Taiwan has recently decided that they are going to try to have as many typhoons as possible. Not the best decision in my opinion. But yes this week we had another one but it wasn't as serious. And our apartment did not flood so that was awesome!!

We received a referral from some missionaries in our zone and this man is so golden! His name is Victor! Victor is such a great man. He has such a strong desire to learn how to have a better relationship with his family. Family is soooo important to him!! Even though he is unmarried, he still lives with his mom and sisters and we can just tell he wants to love them more and have a better family. His desire to learn from Christ has given me a stronger desire to follow our Savior. Victor is great! We taught him the Restoration this week and as we talked about apostasy, we said that people started to reject God and his prophets and would even kill them. His response was, "What??!!! Why????" I have never seen anyone respond more violently to apostasy than him haha. It was awesome! When we invited him to be baptized, Elder Nelson invited him and said it very clearly and in very good chinese and Victor didn't even hesitate. He said "I do!" Yes!" In English of course, bu then in Chinese he said that he was very willing to get baptized and he set a goal for October 29th! Super excited for him!

We met with Samson this week and I feel a lot better about him. We originally planned to reteach the first lesson but as we started following up with things, we felt we should talk about baptism. So we did. We shared some scriptures in 3 Nephi that he really like. We were kind of stern with him too... Sometimes it has to happen. But then we talked about what happens after baptism and confirmation. We told him he HAS to endure to the end otherwise this will all mean nothing. He was like, "Duh, of course!" That made me feel better :) So things are looking up for him! Now we just need to get him to cut his nasty long hair haha. 

Gryphon is doing pretty well! He came to sacrament meeting this week and it was really good. I was glad he was there because our Ward Mission Leader wanted all four missionaries to bear their testimonies. It was really powerful. I'm glad Gryphon was there to hear. And while we did that I saw Xie mama had a big smile on her face and I was fortunate enough to have my good friend Hubert from Xihu come and visit :) He liked it all too :)

Yesterday's Elders Quorum was sooooooo awesome!! So Elders Quorum and High Priests gets combined sometimes so the High Priest Group leader gets up for his lesson. And you could tell that he prepared a super super 還好lesson and it was not going very well. I was translating for a member from the Marshall Islands and I think even he was bored.... BUT good old Elder Jia (the Emeritus Seventy) raises his hand to talk and he gets up to the board and writes 'Baptism, Retention, and Enduring to the End'. And just kind of got in everyone's faces about how this church does not do a good job at retention and enduring to the end. Totally just switched the entire lesson. So 厲害! He talked about that a lot, then he stopped for a second and President Li the stake president gets up and talked about the same thing, and then President Zhou his counselor does the same thing and the spirit was so strong. Then the group leader talked again and tried to get back to his poorly prepared lesson but Elder Jia gets up again and changes it back and we talked a ton about retention and then President Zhou shared D&C107:99-100 " 99 Wherefore, now let every man learn his duty, and toact in the office in which he is appointed, in all diligence.
 100 He that is slothful shall not be counted worthy tostand, and he that learns not his duty and shows himselfnot approved shall not be counted worthy to stand. Evenso. Amen."
Easily one of my most favorite scriptures. It was just the best lesson ever and I felt like I was watching conference because these super strong members were just telling us all this stuff about how to increase the ward's numbers and everything. Ah it was amazing!! I know I did a pour job at describing it, but just remember that it was awesome! And remember to always fellowship your ward members because when you do not have a friend at church, most the times you will go LA. Don't let that happen with anyone you know!

Well that is about it. Nanzi is the promised land

I love you all!
Love

Elder Anderson 

Then he takes your AC to fix it right before the typhoon (ruining my beautiful caulk job) and I have to use an entire roll of duct tape to defend our home. Just call me Tim from Tooltime (Home Improvement for all of you uneducated people out there)

When they come to fix your AC.... 15 stories up. Asia

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