Week 37- January 6, 2013

Week 37

January 6, 2013

Dajia hao!

Zhe ge libai women you yi ge xili hui!

The highlight of this week was Benjamin’s baptism. I was able to help baptize him. The service went

great and the highlight was where he shared his testimony. I thought he was just going to bear his

testimony, but actually he shared his life story! It was amazing. It’s so amazing that I’m going to

share it. It’s a little gruesome so you don’t want to read this to your kids. So his story was that when

he was younger, he loved the Bible and would teach everyone about it. Then one night, he was

walking with his girlfriend and got jumped by two guys. They beat him and his girlfriend up. He woke

up 3 weeks later after being in a coma. The men told the girlfriend, that they jumped them because

Benjamin’s light was too big. They could see the spiritual light emulating from him and didn’t like it.

A couple weeks after the attack, his girlfriend committed suicide because of what had happened.

Well, Benjamin blamed her death on himself because their purpose in attacking them was because of

him. So for ten years, he fought within himself about what had happened and couldn’t forgive

himself. Then one day in Australia, a missionary rode up to him on a bike and started talking to him

about the subject of forgiveness. This was exactly what he needed and this is how he started meeting

with missionaries. So Benjamin getting baptized was huge for him because he finally felt that he had

been forgiven and was able to forgive himself. So he was crying after the baptism and it was just a

super special experience. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is real!

Well now I’m out of time on the computer, but yeah love you all!

Jordan Chatman

A marathon that they had in Taipei. There were hundred of thousands of people  Jordan estimated. 

This is Jordan with his companion and Ethan Tai who walked on at BYU Hawaii. 

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This is at Benjamin's baptism

Dinner at Xie4 Family in the ward and Miguel, our investigator

This is fireworks in Taipei 101 for New Year's Eve.

This is more fireworks on New Year's Eve in Taipei 101