Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Week 26- October 24, 2012


Week 26

October 24, 2012

Hi everyone,

This last week some local news people wanted to film our English class that we have every Wednesday. So if you saw the short clip that was me and another elder from Las Vegas teaching our class.

This week was crazy. We taught and met people from all over the world. Let me list the ones I can think of off the top of my head - India, Gambia, Ghana, France, Italy, St. Lucia, and mainland China. Being in the English ward is cool because there are tons of foreigners here, so we are the elders that get to teach them. Yesterday I got to eat octopus and seaweed soup. That was interesting!

This past week we had a baptism. It was a Phillipino sister who is here working. A lot of Philippines and Indonesian sisters come here and take care of the elderly people (because they don’t have elderly care homes here like in America). The baptism went great. We were a little bit scared at first because 5 minutes before the baptism started she wasn’t there and the person baptizing her wasn’t there either. They eventually got there, but then we couldn’t find a baptismal suit that fit her (it was either huge or way to small.) We eventually found one though. Another funny thing that happened was that she went to the bathroom to come into the font. So the guy baptizing her came out, but she never did. It was because the door to the font was locked. So we had to give her the keys to unlock it and then she got baptized. Other than that, it went good.

We also have two baptism scheduled for this upcoming Sunday. A twenty one year old young man from India and another Phillipino sister are both getting baptized. Both of them were awesome. The young man from India was amazing. He had already being living all of the commandments without even knowing because the culture in India has pretty high morals from what he says.

This week we got a call from my old companion (Elder Murphy) in my old area in Bade. He said the Li family I was teaching when I was there is getting baptized this week and wants me to baptize them. It takes about one hour and a half to get there. My first companion (Elder Bowcutt) called us up and said he talked to President Day and said we can go on splits (this is when you switch missionary companions for the day.) So me and Elder Bowcutt will go to Bade this weekend and help baptize the family and my companion and Elder Bowcutt’s companion will stay here. I’m happy that I get to go to Bade to baptize them.

Anyways that is the news here!

Jordan Chatman

A lady on the streets with a pig

In the middle is Rosemarie. She is an investigator that Jordan baptized from the Philippians. On the right is Rose Andres. She is another investigator that Jordan baptized from the Philippians
This is Xin Beitou which is the city where Ashutosh lives. The MRT we take to and back from visiting him

This is the same city where the investigator lives

Elder Wang, Jordan's companion, at the MRT station

The lady with her pig on the street

The baptism of the Phillipino, Sister Rosemarie that Jordan taught

A part member family (Lai4) that they were teaching. The kids were members and loved basketball but their dad wasn't a member

A less active member from Ghana that we surprised visited

Jordan's area

This is the church (Church headquarters in Taiwan) right next to the temple which would be a few feet to the right from this picture and mission office across the street from where they were

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