Week 44 -February 24, 2013

Week 44

February 24, 2013

Li ho! (Taiwanese for ni hao)

Quick recap of the week!

Monday, me and my companion went over to a member’s house and taught a lesson to one of the investigators, Mr. Huang. He has been meeting with missionaries for like one year now and has read the whole Book of Mormon all the way through.  But he says that he still didn’t know if it was true or not. So we went and taught him about the Spirit, how it works, and what kind of answer he might receive because he had no idea what answer he might get. He probably thought God was going to appear to him or light his pillow on fire (no joke, people have thought that before). So we helped him recognize how the Spirit might testify to him...

Tuesday, we had a training meeting with Elder Evans and Elder Watson with most of our mission in attendance (except for the missionaries on the south east coast which is like a 6 hour train ride away). It was a pretty good training meeting. They talked about faith and having joy in the work. Oh and on our way there, we were on the bus and a lady came a sat down in the seats facing us. She looked at our name tags and then started yelling at us. She said Jesus Christ is garbage but in stronger language lol. Then she went off in Taiwanese because she knew we probably couldn’t speak it. That’s was fun! Later that night, we met with a Mr. Wang. He's about 23 and we taught him about the restoration. He is pretty solid. He willingly listened and loved it all. My companion found him two weeks ago tracting with his last companion.

Thursday, we went on exchanges with the zone leaders (this is where you switch companions.) I went to Xi Zhi with Elder Gist from Nebraska. We taught the plan of salvation that night and then on Friday, we went to the library for an hour and did some service.  Then we walked around the streets of their area talking to the people. Not much success because it was raining, so not many people were out but we tried.

Then Saturday, we went and helped a member do some translating. He works for some labor organization that helps Philippine workers and their employers. So he needed our help talking with the Philippine sister who wanted to leave her current employer.  She said she was getting treated badly which is true. (The Philippines get treated really rudely here). So she spoke in English, then we'd translate to Chinese, and then the member brother would speak in Chinese and we would translate into English. We did that for about 2 hours. I’m proud of myself because most of it I could translate except for some weird words. I didn’t know like diaper or accumulate. lol

Sunday, we had to inform the bishop that an ordination (when they give the priesthood to a young man) that they did was done incorrectly. A young man was getting the Aaronic priesthood but they had kids in the office of teacher helping give it to him. (Bu xing)  Once the Bishop found out, he handled it.

Anyways, that’s pretty much what went on this week.

Take care!

Elder Chatman

This is when Elder David Evan's in the pink tie in the front. Elder Watson is in the blue tie.  He is the Asian Area President.