Well this was another good week for Elder Jones and I! We
had a lot of fun and saw a few miracles! It all started on Monday when we went
to play basketball as a district for Preparation Day. We went to the park to
play and it was a blast. I love schooling all these people here. People were
filming us playing and had a good time watching. Then a college team from
Douliu showed up and wanted to play us. Uh oh. Don't worry we still beat them.
They were great sports and we had a blast! Like my old man always says:
"Work hard, pray hard, play hard." We have been doing a lot of that
this week.
Ben is doing really good! We finished teaching him the
commandments this week and even though he has a few problems he was willing to
give them up and obey the commandments fully. We did have to change his date to
the 25th though because he wasn't able to come to church this week and he still
needs to come twice before he can get baptized, but all is well. I have been
super impressed with his desire to follow Jesus Christ and change his life.
Even though he would be the only young man in our ward, I firmly believe he will
help his friends get baptized. It will be like that mormon message where the
one guy invites all his friends to church and they all get baptized and
keep inviting their buddies and then in a short manner of time the greatest
church ball team in the world was formed. You'll have to watch the video to
understand. Then our ward will have Ben and the jets all at church.
But even though this week we didn't find any investigators
we have really felt the spirit with us all throughout the day. We have been meeting
tons of cool people at 7's and Family Marts but the problem is with the New
Year, none of them live in our area! So it has been hard to find places to
contact because the place where all the people are at, the people aren't from
our area. But that's ok. We are still working super hard and having fun doing
so.
We have been focusing this on teaching people about a new
start and repentance. We have been thinking that we are here to 'Teach
Repentance and Baptize Converts' but when we talk to people we might not even
mention repentance or that process. We discussed it and studied how the
prophets of old taught and they just taught repentance and baptized a lot of
converts. So we have been testifying of how we can be clean from all our guilt
and sorrows and disgrace. I have really felt a difference in the work as we
have done this. I love it!
Last, yesterday we were out tracting and we were looking for
our miracle and we were on one side of the road and as we walked to the next
house we looked across the street and saw this family watching tv and their
daughter was dancing right by the window and we laughed because it was just
funny. Eventually as we made the rounds we had one more house to knock before
we headed home. Yep, it was dancer girl's house. She was still dancing haha.
But we knocked on the door and her mom came to the door and turns our she is a
former investigator and talked with us for a while. She was willing to set up
and meet another time so that was such a sweet miracle! Fourth floor, last door.
Well that is it for this week! New years is over! Yay!
Love you all!!
Love
Elder Anderson
We got to a members
house a little early for dinner, so we decided to take some pictures and do
calls on the big rocks on the side of the road. GQ
Elevator selfie. aw yeah
Us being ambitious by eating a lot of food and then
contacting every single person while we were on the verge of throwing up!
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