Zone Conference

Well this week was my very last Zone Conference. It was super sad. But the meeting itself was really good! We talked a lot about finding and the skills of finding and then President Teh talked about a lot of stuff and all in all it was great. I had to give my reflection and I think it went well. I didn't cry so that is successful! It was really weird to go and sit down afterwards. As soon as I sat down it felt like the whole world collapsed onto me. I think it finally started to sink in... To close the conference we sang the mission song, We'll Bring the World His Truth. I will admit, that is when I lost it 糟糕

This week went well though. We were able to get 4 investigators to church and one of the people that showed up was some random guy that we contacted that didn't have any interest. But he showed up! The ward members did a really good job at helping the investigators that came and it made me super happy. 

This week we met with Brother Shen and had a super super good lesson with him! He has been investigating the church for a while now and it has been super hard for him to quit smoking. As we were doing follow ups he told us that the other day he had a thought come to his head saying, "Why don't I just get baptized quicker?" Then after thinking that he has really been pondering baptism and feels he needs to be baptized. We talked about smoking and came up with some plans to help him. We then talked about priesthood blessings and his buddy that is a member gave him one. It was super powerful and Brother Shen said during the blessing he had a glimpse of his baptism. So cool! So he set a date for August 12th. He needs to come to church more and quit smoking!

Well, that is about it for this week. I am tired of typing emails.

I love you 

Love

Elder Anderson

1776

Shout out to America for being the greatest country. Sure do love it.

Well, this week was super busy!! With getting tons of new missionaries into the zone we have been pretty much spending every night just calling people to get to know them and welcome them to Tainan. Also we met with the Stake President this week so we had to ask the missionaries lots of questions for that! We have been super busy this week, but being busy is the best!

It has also been super super hot and humid. It feels good. Reminds me how much I love this country. 

This week we did a lot of contacting and we met this guy name Mr Wang. He is super cool and hopefully very golden! He was really interested in church and he came to sacrament meeting yesterday! The ward members did a super good job at welcoming him to church and he said he is going to come every week! We are meeting with him this week and hopefully we can drop in a baptismal goal! 

We have been making a huge push to work with the members. Honestly the biggest regret of my mission is that I didn't start working with members earlier. Elder Grisenti and I just could never think of any ideas but I feel the ideas are starting to flow! The stake president talked to us about that as well and we are super excited to see the results. It's definitely the slowest way to see baptisms, but it is the most secure way. I have already grown a greater love for the ward and doing the work just feels different now! I love it!

We have zone conference this week and I have to give my reflection. Which is just a testimony about your mission. Hopefully it goes well and makes Elder Jones cry haha. 

Lastly, I was reading in my scriptures last night and I read in Jacob. I was thinking about how back in the old days the Lord would destroy those that didn't repent and I thought about how that doesn't happen now (probably because the whole world would be destroyed) but as I talked about it with Elder Storey we decided that maybe it is a personal destruction. That when you don't repent, your spirit is slowly getting destroyed. Kind of morbid but it's true. Daily repentance is so important! Also helping others repent is very very important! Share the gospel with people!!! wooo!!!!!

Love

Elder Anderson

Also huge shout out to my investigator from Fengyuan!! 廖弟兄 got baptized!!! He was so golden!!! I love him!

I just love America. We went to Macdo to celebrate the 4th. Elder Storey ordered the 1955 thingy but what they meant to name it is the 1776

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