Week 38- January 13, 2013

Hey everyone,

The work went great this week. First off we had a miracle with Michelle, the sister from Germany. She wants to be baptized and do everything else to follow God, but has to work every single day. Last week, she had one day off for the first time in a month and so we were able to meet with her. We invited her to pray and ask God for an opportunity to come to church. We also prayed every day for her last week. Then this week, I talked to her on the phone and she said that her boss hired another person to start working there next month. This means she'll get 3 days off of work each week. Miracle! Prayer is real! She was really excited because now she'll be able to come to church on a weekly basis and prepare to get baptized!

This week, we also had some great success with Miguel. We met with him at the church and also at that time, we had a Taiwanese man and his son coming to meet with us. So me and my companion went on splits (this is where you go out to teach with someone besides your companion.) I went with the new convert, Ashutosh and we taught Miguel. The lesson went great and he said wants to be baptized and that he knows the Book of Mormon is true. His date is February 10th, so I'm excited for that. We still have to teach him the Word of Wisdom though and I know he has some problems with that. So we'll see how deep his faith runs this week. It'll be good though.

This week, I went to Taipei 101 for the first time. I didn't actually go up to the top or anything, but we passed by it as we were biking out to visit a potential investigator. Taipei 101 isn't in our Chinese Ward area but because we are in the English ward, all of Taipei counts as our area. So as we passed by, we stopped to take some pictures real quick.

Some other things we did this week - Yesterday we went with an Indonesian sister and visited a less-active Indonesian sister. She was baptized in Indonesia like 10 years ago but hasn't been to church since being here. So we stopped by her store and had a small lesson with her. On a side note, we learned some Indonesian. Then when we were leaving to go back to go to the MRT there was this huge march, mini protest parade thing where there were thousands of people walking down the road waving flags that said huo3 da4 (which means like big fire or angry) and holding up signs for this political party or something.

Also yesterday, Benjamin got confirmed during sacrament and received the gift of the Holy Ghost. His wife came to church as well, so we're going to try and start working with her. Oh and I forgot to mention that he is going to become his country's ambassador starting in March. I also learned that parts of the Pirates of the Carribean were filmed in the St. Lucia island where he's from...

That is pretty much a rap for this week. Again, I know this God's true Church restored to the earth. Anyone that will turn to Christ and follow his restored gospel will find peace and happiness.

Elder Chatman

Jordan by Taipei 101

Jordan from the tall angle....

 Taipei 101

Taipei 101 district

Jordan in an alley in the city where he teaches. They were out looking for a Filipino referral but she wasn't home so they left her a note. These are typical homes/apartments where people live in Taipei .