Week 47- March 17, 2013

Week 47

March 17, 2013

你們好!

This week, my companion Elder Powell got transferred and I got a sweet, new companion, Elder Wesemann. He is from Colorado and spent one year at the Air Force Academy. He has been on his mission about 7 months. I also became senior companion for the first time and District Leader. There are eight of us in the district: 4 sisters and 4 elders. As a district leader, I receive a report from the missionaries on Sunday nights about how their week went and then I conduct once a week district meetings. I try to motivate and support the district with their missionary work.

Right now, I’m in the Song Shan area. It is right in the heart of Taipei. Taipei 101 is in our area and there are probably around a million people in our area. (Actually I have no idea, but it’s a ton of people lol). Tons of people in the area, but the hard part is teaching them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We try to talk to everyone we see, but lately we've just been getting a hand in our face or the cold shoulder. It’s fun though and we are trying our best. My new companion was shocked at how hard it was to get people to talk to us. He has been out on the east coast of Taiwan his whole mission and people out there will talk to you. There is prepared people out there though and we are going find them. We are going to try to work a lot more with ward members now and see if they have any friends interested in learning this life changing message. That’s hard too because sometimes when we ask to visit some members they will say, "nahhh I’ll see you on Sunday, no need to come visit us.” Anyways, we are still doing it, trying to make something happen.

Now I want to teach you something cool about some Chinese characters and how they are related to the gospel. I didn’t make this up either. This is real, no joke.

So the character for Holy Spirit is 靈(Ling) (Sheng Ling means the Holy Ghost) and if you look at this character you have the 3 boxes which represent Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost: 3 separate beings. Then you have the 2 half triangles things under them which means people (人means person) so Heavenly Father and Jesus have 2 bodies. Then under them you have 1 line, representing that Heavenly, Jesus and the Holy Ghost have 1 person. So in all, this character is saying God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost are separate beings, only God and Jesus have bodies, but God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost have the same purpose. Not sure if any of that made sense to you. Really neat stuff though! I’ll have another for you next week. Peace

Elder Chatman