Elder Miles Anderson: God is Good

What an awesome week for Elder Grisenti and I here in the land of miracles. Things here are just going so well! We went on a few exchanges this week and that was super fun to be with those elders! We were able to teach a lot of lessons and find a lot of investigators!

One funny thing, literally everyone here that has seen my family picture asks me if my mom is from Asia. Also lots of people ask me where I am from because they can't tell if I am Taiwanese. They ask and then say they are just making sure because they couldn't tell. Love it.

A super cool miracle from this week was from exchanges with Elder Huntsman. We saw this lady walking her dog and I just love dogs so I had to stop to say hi and pet the dog haha. But of course we started to contact her and she told us that she is a Christian but hasn't been to church in a long time and she asked what was different about our church. It was a super cool contact because we pretty much taught the whole first lesson with her on the spot. Then when we were sharing about the Book of Mormon she asked how we have felt God speak to us. Elder Huntsman then pulled out his Book of Mormon and shared a scripture that really impacted his life and the spirit was very very strong! She set up but she texted us that day telling us that she would be pretty late and has to leave by 7. She got to the church at 6:52. Literally the shortest lesson in my entire mission. We sat down and introduced ourselves and since we had already talked about the Book of Mormon, we gave her one and went into more depth with it. She was very willing to read it and I think she seems pretty golden! She can't meet this week but we are meeting with her next week and we are very excited!!

Another cool miracle was on Wednesday, we didn't have to teach English because there wasn't enough students so we went over to the Cultural Center to contact. They have a big park there and there are lots of people. So we were walking and there was this lady sitting on a bench with her headphones in listening to music. I stopped to say hi and she didn't acknowledge me, super common in Taiwan. But I felt to try harder and not give up. So we got her attention and she was super excited to see us! She told us like right off the bat that her son has lots of interest in Jesus Christ! We sat down and talked to her for like 40 minutes or so and she set up to meet with us. She came to the church the next day with her son and we taught them the first lesson and they really liked it and set a baptismal goal! Super pumped!

The guy in the Orioles shirt from last week told us he didn't want to meet with us. He called us and said that he realized that we were Mormons and that our beliefs are different and then hung up. We were pretty mad about that because he seemed super golden, but we didn't let it get us down and we went out and found more investigators.

Our investigator Daniel still hasn't felt like he has found his answer, but he has been reading and praying every day. We feel like he has already received and answer but it isn't the answer that he wants. He wants a really powerful answer but we feel he has not noticed the small voice that the spirit speaks to us through. So we gotta help him with that. But he is super great and we just love him to death.

This week I read about Abinadi. I have been studying with the topic of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I found a really good example of enduring to the end. "9 Now Abinadi said unto him: I say unto you, I will not recall the words which I have spoken unto you concerning this people, for they are true; and that ye may know of their surety I have suffered myself that I have fallen into your hands.10 Yea, and I will suffer even until death, and I will not recall my words, and they shall stand as a testimony against you." Abinadi knew that his time was coming to an end, but that didn't stop him from testifying and not recalling his testimony. Elder Grisenti and I talked about it and applied it to ourselves because our time out here is running out, but we will be as Abinadi and never stop testifying of Christ! We plan on being very ambitious for Him.

Lastly, we have been listening to a talk from back in 1975 given by Vaughn J. Featherstone. It's called "But Watchman, What of the Night?" I recommend every single one of you to look it up and listen to it because it is awesome. The part that we love the most is in the end when he bears his testimony. This is what he says, "The United States of America is the golden door. I bear my solemn and sacred witness that the United States of America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth. We ought to love it and we ought to talk about it." BOOM. USA USA USA

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Elder Anderson