Elder Jordan Chatman: Week 39- January 21, 2013

你們好,

I'll give you a quick recap of the week:

Tuesday - We went on exchanges. The district leader, Elder Lin, came to my area with me and my companion went to the district leader's area with the his companion. Elder Lin is from Gaoxiong and is going home this Friday. He is the like nicest guy! We've been in the Chinese ward together for the past 3 months, so I'll miss him. Anyways, together we visited a former investigator - Zhong mama and baba. They are probably in their 70's and their son is a temple worker. They stopped meeting with missionaries before, because they are devout Buddhist But we are gonna try and start teaching them again and see if we can make any progress. This week we just got to know them and invited them to pray every day. We also had a district meeting today and then went English boarding. That is where we go handout English class flyers and talk to people about our free English class for an hour.

Wednesday - We met with Miguel and taught him the Word of Wisdom (our health code.) He said he drinks coffee or tea every day. "It's an Italian thing," he says, ha ha, but he is totally willing to give it up to follow Christ! He went to Hong Kong later that night and doesn't get back until today. So I'm not sure how it's actually going for him though. Later that day, we had English class. Elder Baxter (from Utah) and I taught a group of about 20 people some English things out of a textbook they give us.

Thursday - We went out to Tianmu (about a 30 minute subway travel, and a 20 min bus travel) to go find a less-active family. The English ward council asked us to go visit. We tried to stop by and see what was going on with them (because if you call them they will be like -hey yeah maybe next week and then never actually setup with you. Then you call them again and they won't answer.) Anyway the family had moved addresses -so no luck there. The other family we tried to visit out in that area had moved as well...

Friday - We had a training meeting with some of the Taipei zones and the mission president. We learned about how to find more people to teach and some family history stuff. Then we went to a park and did an hour or so of just talking to people about the gospel. Later that night, we met with Ashutosh and start teaching him the new member lessons.

Saturday - We met with this man from Ireland named Tom. One of the weirdest lessons I've ever taught. He was going off about numerology, the 12 deadly sins, and some other stuff. He was a nice guy but it was a little different. Later that night, we had a correlation meeting and had a ward activity where we watched a movie called 17 miracles with some members and investigators.

Sunday - We were at the church from 10:30am - 6:00pm. That was a long day. We had an English ward correlation meeting, then a 3 hour English ward church meeting, then a 3 hour Chinese ward meeting. We had an investigator (which is person interested in the church) randomly show up in the Chinese ward. We haven't taught him in a while because he wasn't willing to do anything we invited him to do. So it was a miracle to see him there. He 復活ed (Resurrected) as we say....... Then later that night, we subway-ed 45 minutes out to Xin Zhuang and gave Michelle a priesthood blessing. She was hospitalized earlier this week and just feeling really sick (not sure from what though). I think it's because she hasn't had a day off of work in like 3 weeks, but that's just me lol Anyways, we gave her a priesthood blessing last night, so hopefully she'll start feeling better.

Anyways that's the excitement of this week! God is love! And remember "without charity ye are nothing."

我愛你們

莊長老

Elder Jordan Chatman