Week 30- November 19, 2012

Week 30

November 19, 2012

Nimen hao,

Another quick week…. it is amazing how the mission starts to pick up and time starts to fly. My first transfer felt really slow but my last transfer flew by...

This week, Benjamin came back and showed interest again. After weeks of him falling off the face of the earth, we finally got into his apartment and were able to meet with him. He is getting married on Saturday and has been super stressed about that. The Taiwanese have a lot of culture things you got to do when it comes to marriage.  So he says he's been tied up in that and trying not to upset the in-laws. Plus, his mom is having trouble getting into the country. So he's been trying to work on that. This week we just did a little gut check lesson to see how he's spiritually doing. He said he knows the Book of Mormon is true and still wants to be baptized! After his marriage, we just got to get him to consistently come to church and then he'll be on his way!

Also, this week we got some bad news that our investigator, Ruby, from Indonesia can’t be baptized anymore. We have to be really careful teaching her because she is originally Muslim and her family in Indonesia is strong Muslim. She’s really scared that if she goes back there that she'll get persecuted. So we don’t want to baptize her and then have her go back next year and have something bad happen.

The biggest problem we are having right now with our investigators is that they won’t come to church. They will say they will come to our face, but then Sunday rolls around and they don’t come. We’ll even call them Saturday night or Sunday morning, but they don’t answer their phone. It’s hard to progress if you’re not coming to church. So we got some work to do with them.

It started to get really cold out here...for Taiwan that is. My companion is freezing but I’m good because it’s nothing compared to the Washington cold (which isn't even that bad). So to me, the weather is perfect right now, not too cold and not hot. If only it would stay like this year around.

I feel really lucky to be in the English ward this time of year because in the ward there is a bunch of us Americans. So they celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. So this Thursday, I’ll get hooked up for Thanksgiving.  It is just a normal day for all of the other missionaries in Taiwan. My bishop in the English ward is having us over.

It’s a great time of year. Let your light shine to everybody around you. Be an example of the believers!

Love,

Jordan Chatman