Land of Promise

For those of you with a limited knowledge of the scriptures, "the land of promise" can also be referred to "the promised land". Which just happens to be the area of Nanzi :)

This week was a great week full of lessons, fun, the Bible, refuting every single 'Bible Scholar', and a surprise baptismal interview :)

To start off the week we had interviews with President Teh and that is always a blast! The church wants mission presidents to have interviews with their missionaries once every transfer and I love it!! He is so wise and just knows how to answer all questions. You always feel so refreshed after leaving one of those interviews.

We were able to find some pretty cool new investigators this week that seem to have lots of promise :) so we are super super excited about that! 

We met with Brother Chen a few times this week and he is doing pretty well. We aren't quite sure how much he is remembering so we have been teaching basic doctrine and focusing on the baptismal interview questions. He came to church and he loves coming to church! He has a goal for February 18th so that is good!

Some Elders from the other Gaoxiong zone gave us a referral this week. Her name is Sister Liu (yes, even though I hate contacting girls it seems like all the solid investigators are girls...). She is a member referral and has been to church a few times and has already been taught the Restoration. We met her this week and she is pretty cool! She seems to have a strong desire to be baptized and follow Jesus Christ. She also accepted a goal for February!

Brother Liu is doing alright. He too has a desire for baptism but he has yet to come to church enough times. We are giving him another goal for late February and hope he will hit it!

A cool miracle from this week was from our investigator Sister Guo. We met with her on Thursday and planned on teaching a few of the commandments. As we sat down she told us that she feels like she needs to move her baptismal date up and get baptized on the 21st. We were shocked! She asked if she could so we talked about it, made a few calls and then told her that we would have to teach all the commandments right now and then she would have to have her interview the next day. So we did. But the miracle was the timing of it all. The Zone Leaders planned on going on exchanges with us in the beginning of the transfer but it just didn't work out so they planned it on this last weekend. So Elder Musgrave just happened to be in Nanzi on the time that Sister Guo needed her interview. God's timing is incredible. It is perfect. He knows what he is doing.

Copy and paste is so nice and convenient. 

We are teaching the Lin family right now. They are investigators from English class. It is a mom and a dad and their two crazy sons. They are super cool and are trying to find Jesus Christ. The only problem is they have some friends in another church that are trying to get them to go over there. They are just looking for truth. They said they would com to church next week and we are pumped for that!

Other than that... Jesus isn't doing too well.... We are working with him :) 

We had to pull out our limited but great bible knowledge this week with a new investigator named Lloyd. He is from the Philippines and he too is looking for the truth. He's not like most other Christians because he knows that we are supposed to pray to Heavenly Father and he knows that Christ and the Father are different people. He is very smart with the Bible and has lots of questions that he wants answers too. Luckily we were on exchanges and Elder Musgrave knows the Bible very well. I wish I would have listened more in seminary :) But we feel that once Lloyd starts to read the Book of Mormon, he will get baptized.

Things here are just going great! Elder Nelson and I are just having a blast! Transfers are this week and we are hoping to stay together! 

The church is so true. As I read in 2 Nephi this morning I just couldn't help but this about how true the church is. The Book of Mormon is literally the word of God and that is impossible to deny. It is such a powerful book!

This week I studied Elder Bednar's talk 'If ye had known me". Super good. Go and read it

I love you all

Love

Elder Anderson