Week 41 -February 3, 2013

大家好,

This past week my companion had to attend 2 training meetings because he is a new district leader which meant lots of study time for me. This is cool because now I’m almost done with this language program. We have to memorize 2000 words. I’m taking the test this week and if I pass it I can start learning Chinese characters. I already know around a hundred but I’ll start to learn more so that I’ll be able to read the Book of Mormon in Chinese. I also met this cool missionary from Utah that played HS football. This is his first week on the island and his companion is also a new district leader so we chatted while our companions attend their training meetings. It was cool to finally talk sports with someone again!

We met with Miguel a couple times this week and then he had his baptismal interview this week. It was really crazy actual. He had been living in this apartment thing with other people, but he hated living there. Then after teaching him the law of chastity he was like alright I’ll move out asap. So he had been looking to find a place to move to and we had been praying that it would work out. Then low and behold, earlier this week there was a disputation between him and the land lord and he had to move out. So now he's staying at a hotel while he looks for a place to live. 奇蹟! God works in mysterious ways! I am glad it worked out so now he's going to be getting baptized next Saturday! What is his last name? De Vincci! You can’t get more Italian than that.

Yesterday, we were at the church for almost 12 hours! We had ward council at 9am, a ward mission meeting at 10:30, English ward church meeting from 11-2, Chinese ward church meeting from 1:30-430, dinner at the church from about 5-6pm, and then there was a new member/investigator fireside from 7pm-8:15pm!  So we were there all day, but it was all good. Sundays is actually one of my favorite days!

Recently the mission has let us go on to Mormon.org to think about how we can use it to help our members and I came across this cool one that they did in Taipei. You should watch it - http://mormon.org/shi/ . The cool building and stuff right at the start are actually in my area.

Anyways, hope everyone is doing well! God lives and loves you. Do what he asks you to do and you'll be happy!

Elder Chatman

莊長老