Well. What a week. This week
was super super fun and awesome! We had lots of weird things that happened
though but nonetheless it was very awesome!
It all started with Monday
night. We had Zone Conference on Wednesday and our district leader wanted to do
exchanges so we did them right after preparation day until Tuesday night. I was
lucky enough to be with Elder Barker!! For those of you that don't remember or
don't know, Elder Barker and I used to be on the same baseball team and in the
same stake back in Kaysville! It was sooo fun being with him! He just finished
training and holy cow he is a beast!! We hit the streets super hard and had a
blast! We were doing what we call 7 sit downs which is we go to every single
7-11 or Family Mart that we see and talk to the people sitting down inside. We
were going for a while and we see this man sitting in the back of the 7 and we
went over to talk to him. He just looked soooo sad and bummed. We asked if we
could sit down and talk to him about Jesus Christ and he said yes. We talked
with him for a bit and talked a lot about the Book of Mormon. He had tons of
questions and we answered. The spirit was super super strong! We exchanged
information and he set up for another time! Sadly he didn't come to his lesson
but in those few minutes that we were talking to him, you could tell that the
spirit was working with him. By the time we left he was smiling and it was just
incredible. I don't know what will happen with him. Hopefully he will accept
the gospel. We'll see!
Then on Wednesday we went down
to Zone Conference in.... Forever healthy 永康 (that's its literally meaning) down in Tainan. Super
fun! I was able to see lots of friends that I haven't seen in a while so that
was great. In the meeting we talked a lot about new stuff for English Class and
some other trainings and then we did a musical program for Christmas. The night
before I found out that I need to play the piano for like 5 people so that was
fun. One of them was really touching. A sister missionary was singing the First
Noel and she really needed someone to accompany her and so I did and before she
sang she was crying and told a story about how much this stuff means to her
(I'm not going to say details because it is her story) and as I was listening I
just felt really grateful that I was able to be a part of this and help her
out. I think for the first time in my life I felt grateful that I know how to
play the piano. Really touching. Probably won't ever happen again because I
hate the piano. Oh and Sister Teh always calls on me to play the piano!
President knows how much I hate it so I think he tells Sister Teh to always
call on me haha. 糟糕
then we barely made it on the train to go home after and yeah.
Then it was a week full of
contacting and working hard! On Saturday we had our ward Christmas party and
that was super great! There were so many potential investigators there! So we
ate as fast as we good and then just talked to everyone. Tons of fun! We found
one potential that we actually tracted into! We asked him who invited him and
he said it was us! We were super surprised! Then he said he was busy this week
but he could set up another time! He was the only glimpse of success we saw
from it but he seems very promising.
Well, on Saturday night I
received a call from the Assistants. Normally when they call they are asking me
to play the piano so I was super bummed. I answered and they told me I was
moving! WHAT. Then they asked where I thought I was going, I told them that
President Teh probably traded me to another mission for some Books of Mormon
(Book of Mormons?) we had a good laugh. BUT they said I was moving back to
Nanzi to be with Elder Nelson again!?!?!?! CRAZY! I was so shocked and so
surprised! I was only in Yuanlin for 2 weeks! What happened was some local
missionaries got their visas to go to the mtc so we had to do a few transfers
and I was one of them that was transferred. It was super hard to leave Elder
Zhang! He was not very happy about it haha. We had a blast together! But it's
fun to be back in Nanzi with Elder Nelson!
Last, as I have been pondering lately I have just been
thinking of the question 'Why?'. Like "why did this happen?"
"why did we meet him?" "why did this cool miracle happen and
then they never showed up again?" "Why did I get called to the same mission
as my sisters?" "Why was I in yuanlin for 2 weeks and why am I moving
back?" As I have thought about these types of questions I cannot find an
answer. The only answer I can think of is from Isaiah 55:
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
I know that God has a plan for
each and everyone of us. We have no idea what is in store for us in this life.
But (because of the Christmas season) we need to 'put one foot in front of the
other' and keep going! We are meant to be happy! this is a happy time to be
alive! Even though the world around us is dark and evil, God and Christ will
help us! They know what they are doing!
That is it for this week! Super pumped to be ambitious
for Christ with one of my best friends!
PEACE
Merry Christmas
Love
Elder Anderson
Elder Barker from Kaysville who was on Miles' baseball team
Elder Bradford from the MTC
Saying goodbye to Elder Sims
Transfers
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