Week 32- December 3, 2012

Week 32

December 3, 2012

Hey everyone,

Monday of this week, we went to a senior couple missionary’s house (called the Kitchens) for a family home evening with some of the Filipino and Indonesia members (and a member from Mongolia!).  We gave a spiritual message about gratitude and thanksgiving. Then the Kitchens fed all of us a mini thanksgiving dinner. Elder Kitchen was the first missionary to come to Taiwan (like more than 50 years ago or something). He came with 4 other missionaries and opened up Taiwan. His story about it is really cool.  I will tell you about it sometime.

Tuesday, we had district meeting and practiced teaching with another missionary We had some English class advertising and visited some less active members.

Wednesday, we met with Xu dixiong, our tracting miracle guy, and shared about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Then at night, we had English class.

Thursday, we visited some less active members (who we found on the ward list). They let us in, but I’m not going to lie, I was a little nervous in there. They had some mental issues, so they were doing some weird stuff. Like when I was saying a prayer, they were like saying stuff and telling me what to pray for...

Friday, we met with Michelle, the sister from Germany. We brought our recent convert from India, Asutosh, which was sweet. They were chatting back in forth in Hindu for a little bit. Her biggest issue right now is not coming to church. But with her becoming friends with a ward member (Asutosh) and us explaining the importance of church attendance, she should start coming ba. (ba is like the coolest Chinese word.  It’s used at the end of sentence to say like you think so, but not 100% sure).

On Saturday, Benjamin got married to a Taiwanese girl. We tried to get him to get married at our church, which would have been great because tons of nonmembers from the Caribbean islands, Africa, and Taiwan attended. But his wife’s family had already arranged it at a different church, so they did it there. The wedding has been his biggest setback because of the law of chastity (you can’t be living together unless you’re married.) Also just being busy getting ready for it, but now that it’s over, he should get rolling. It will be nice to have him help us teach other investigators because we have 2 other investigators from St. Lucia. So it would be great to have his support on working with them.

Recently it has been raining so much which is terrible trying to bike in. Plus biking in Taipei is like playing Frogger. You never know what the million taxis, buses, cars, scooters, or truck drivers are going to do, so you always got to watch your back!

This week, I read 2 Nephi 29 which is a great chapter about why we need the Book of Mormon and not just the Bible! If we ever run into someone on the street that is Christian (which is rare), they usually say that the Bible is the only word of God, so the Book of Mormon isn’t true. For that, I just pull out verse 8 and 9: "Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the ^atestimony of ^btwo nations is a ^cwitness unto you that I am God, that I remember one ^dnation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two ^enations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also. And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the ^asame yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my ^bwords according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one ^cword ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my ^dwork is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever." This answers their concern powerfully. This is because the Book of Mormon can resolve any questions or concern you are dealing with!

Happy Holidays!

Jordan Chatman

This is an ultimate frisbee game that we played.  It is at a local Elementary School.