Sunday, February 5, 2017

Benny and the Jets

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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