Hey everyone,
I had another really
busy week. We visited a bunch of less active church members (baptized members
of the church that don’t come consistently) this week. The mission president
wants us to visit more of the less active members because in Taiwan there are
about 50,000 members of our Church, but only about 10,000 are active! So that
is not good, there are millions of people here and only 10,000 active members!
We had a baptism on Saturday. The lady that was baptized is an 18 year old girl named Zhang Yan Ting. We had a great turn out of people at the baptism and one of the young single adult ward members baptized her which was great. It’s a tradition here that you have to bear your testimony (say what you believe in) in sacrament (church), the Sunday after being baptized. She was really nervous about that and went up there and only said 2 sentences! But that is ok, she is learning.
We did some tracting
this week (going door to door and knocking on them, seeing if people have
interest). Tracting is not really successful here. No one has any interest. As
soon as we say we are missionaries, they start shaking their heads and waving
their hands. Then they turn around and shut the door on our face. Sometimes,
they won’t saying anything and just clasp their hands and start bowing, symbolizing
that they are Buddhist. Then they close the door, ignoring us completely. It’s
a cool experience though.
We have a bunch of
baptisms scheduled for October, so we're working to help those people progress
and get ready.
That is what is going
on here. I know this Church is true. God is Love
Love,
Jordan Chatman
This is at Zhang's baptism.
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