48 Weeks Remaining -April 21, 2013

48 Weeks Remaining

April 21, 2013

Hey everyone!

We saw some great stuff happen this week. We met with a former investigator (met with missionaries in like 2005) at his house and invited him to come to church. He is continuing to meet with us. He gave us a sketchy commitment that he was going to come to church and then he actually came. He could be getting baptized real soon here. We also met with Eric again and shared with him about the Restoration. His problem is not being able to come to church because he works on Sundays like everybody else in Taiwan. Those are our 2 best investigators right now. The other investigators are kind of off and on with meeting with us. But we did find a bunch of new people to meet with us in this upcoming week, so that'll be good. 

This week we focused a bunch on working with less actives (those who were baptized but don’t attend too often or at all.)  We have list of about 350 less actives in the ward and just started calling people up. One less active brother told us a few weeks ago that he was "busy".  That’s like the infamous excuse line out here. We felt like we should stop by this week and see if we could catch him at home. So we went outside his apartment one night and buzzed his doorbell. Then a guy walked up behind us asking who we were looking for and it happened to be him. He had just gotten back home so if we had been there any earlier we probably would have missed him. He let us in, we sat on his floor, and chatted with him. Then when we started talking about the gospel and it got crazy. He started going off about how we as a missionaries baptize a hundred people out here but that we would still be doing no good because there is billions of people in the world that still don’t believe. He just didn’t get it. I tried explaining it to him without arguing with the man, but he just wasn’t willing to listen (2 Nephi 33:2 – “But behold, there are many that harden their hearts against the Holy Spirit, that it hath no place in them; wherefore, they cast many things away which are written and esteem them as things of naught.”)

This week though, one of our less active members that we've been meeting with came to church. The other one whom I mentioned before from Omen committed to come next week. We also met with this sweet family that got baptized 10 years ago, but just didn’t have a testimony back then and haven’t been back since then. We are going to start meeting with them regularly and hopefully help one of their kids get baptized and bring the family back.

Oh yeah and the president of Taiwan almost got killed. Some guys planted bombs in the train system here and at some spot where the president was suppose to go. But luckily they didn’t go off and they caught the guys over in China. So it’s all good now...

That’s how things went this past week.

Peace

Elder Chatman 

Jordan and his companion and other member, eating at Wu Mamas home.  She feeds them every Sunday night. Jordan absolutely loves her cooking. Ah Bei (Zhang)is at the far right.

This is Jordan learning some fighting moves.  He was outside waiting for an investigator and a random guy was there and started to teach him his fighting moves.

Taipei Central Zone

Old people Lao Ren Jia drive these bikes around all over the city collecting recycling to make some money.

There it is again..... driving a bunch of recycling and such on their bikes.