Week 18
Sunday, August 26,
2012
Hey everyone,
This week we had a
zone conference (where we meet with all the missionaries) in Zhubei. So we had
to take a 30 minute bus ride and then an hour train ride to the church in
Zhubei. We then had a six hour training with the mission president and other
missionaries in this area. The mission president taught us about working better
with the Church members and having them help us find people to teach. The mission president’s focus is on
working with part-member families and to teach friends of Church members. I
think this is really smart because now those we find to teach will have Church
member friends to support them and help them.
On Saturday, Michael
McClean (a Mormon musician) came to Taiwan and did a little concert thing in an
auditorium. We took an investigator and went with some ward members to the
concert. It was cool to see a bunch of other missionaries there who I haven’t
seen since the MTC (2 months ago) and to see that their Chinese is struggling
just like mine is. (that’s how it is for everyone the first few months)
We met with Lin Ren Shan
this week. He is an 18 year old kid that is really interested in the gospel. He
came to church and cried when the youth were singing because he was feeling the
Spirit. He is almost done with all of the lessons and should be baptized in the
next few weeks.
We also met with an 18
year old sister this week. Her sister is a member and she is planning on getting
baptized next Saturday. She is a solid investigator. She knows everything is
true. We were just working with her on coming to church. She had to work on Sundays,
but recently was able to get Sundays off. So she can come to church every week now.
Yesterday, when we
were at an 88 year old man’s house (we've been meeting with him), my companion
was- “ Look- wow!” I looked and there was, (no joke), a 6 inch spider on the man’s
desk. I popped up out my seat and was-“ what is that thing!” Then it ran away. Guo
Bebe (the 88 year old man) wasn’t even phased. He was like –“I’ll just step on
it.” Then earlier this week a less active member we were visiting had 3 inch
flying cockroaches flying around during our lessons! It was nasty!
Anyways that’s the
excitement out here.
Love ya,
Jordan Chatman