Elder Miles Anderson: What a Week!

What a week! It started off pretty sad to be honest haha. We went over to Yongkang to play basketball with a bunch of Elders from our zone and when we got there we received a text from Sister Huang. She was the investigator that was found two weeks ago and she set a baptismal date. She told us that her and her son are too busy to spend time to read the Book of Mormon and meet with us. We were so heartbroken and it made the rest of the day super rough. When we got back to contacting that night, it seemed like every single person on the streets was ignoring us. So frustrating! Luckily we got over it pretty quick and the next day went really well.

We met with Daniel again this week and we talked about why he hasn't received and answer yet. We asked him how he was asking God. He said he asks God if he should get baptized. We talked about how maybe he is asking the wrong question. Mainly because God probably knows that Daniel knows that he should get baptized. So we told him to switch the question to something like "I want to get baptized. Is that what You want?" so far he hasn't gotten an answer. BUT last night Elder Grisenti and I were talking and we realized that Daniel hasn't entirely been keeping the word of wisdom. He still drinks tea every once in a while. So we decided we need to focus on keeping the commandments in order to feel the spirit. So hopefully that works for this week! We'll see. But keep good old Daniel in your prayers!

We were able to meet with a really golden investigator that has been out of town for a while. His name is Marvin. He is super golden. We followed up on his reading and he said that he has read to Alma! We were so shocked! He felt like it wasn't that much. He told us that he just reads a little bit every day and we almost fell out of our chairs ha! He is super cool and he has a date for early June. He just needs to come to church a few times and then he will get baptized!

On Wednesday we had Zone Conference and that is always a wonderful experience. We had our conference up in 嘉義。 We focused on using the Book of Mormon to help people become converted. So we are really hoping that as we teach our investigators how to apply the scriptures to themselves that they will have a desire to get baptized. It was a super good zone conference!

Oh this week I went on exchanges with my former companion Elder Jones!!! It was super fun to be out proselyting with him again. He is a beast!! As we were making our expectations for the exchange he said that he wants to follow a spiritual prompting during the exchange. We were out looking for a side street to tract on and we both looked at this one street with really nice houses and I thought we should go there and so did Elder Jones. So we flipped around and tracted there. We had a goal to get a referral during this time too! So we got to work. Nothing. but then as we were about to head back home we went to one more house and this guy answered the door. We told him we were missionaries and then he called to his wife and went inside. She came out and talked to us. Turns out she is Christian and really has interest in Christ. We talked to her for a while and taught about the restored gospel. She seemed super interested so hopefully we can set up a time this week to meet with her! It will be hard because we have to go up to Taizhong two times this week... but it was such a cool miracle to follow the spirit and ask everyone for a referral. Even though she doesn't really count as one, that guy totally could have slammed the door in our face, but instead he called his wife to talk to us. Such a great part of the week

Well that's about it

Love

Elder Anderson