46 Weeks Remaining
May 6, 2013
What’s up everyone,
This was a fun week. On
Monday, we met with Brother Yan, a 21 year old new convert and just taught him
about what we do in the temple. We tried to help him prepare to go. Lots of
people get baptized out here, but then go inactive. So we are focusing on
helping them get to the temple to do baptisms. According to a statistic our
President gave us, recent converts that go to the temple and do baptisms are a
ton more likely to stay active. Brother You came with us. He's super cool! I love this guy. He is from Taizhong and then
served here in the Taipei mission and then moved here to Taipei after his
mission. He was an AP (assistant to the president) during his mission and is
super cool. His English is great because he had tons of American companions. So
he helped Brother Yan out and is going to go with him to the Family History
Center.
On Tuesday, we met with
a guy that the Sisters tracted into a few months ago that was willing to meet
with us. We taught him the restoration a few weeks ago and then the gospel of
Jesus Christ this week. We made sure to teach it using the Bible and the Book
of Mormon because he goes to this other Christian church. I thought it was a
great lesson, but he just doesn’t understand it. He thinks that worshiping his
ancestors is going to help him. We are trying to nicely help him understand
that he needs to only worship God, not his ancestors. It’s a really hard
concept for Taiwanese people to get. Later that night, we taught our
investigator, Brother Wang, the Word of Wisdom. He understood and believes that
God wants him to follow it, but he was just like “I can’t do it.” He does it
all - smoking, alcohol, etc. Anyways after his lesson, we went to the train
station and handed out English class flyers for an hour.
On Wednesday, we called
a former investigator up and set him up for around lunch time. He showed up and
was like “let’s go get some lunch”. So we followed him and before you know it, he had
called up a taxi and took us up to this super fancy hotel restaurant. Then
afterwards, we tried to sit down at the church and meet with him and he was
like, “I have a cough so maybe some other time.” I’m still not sure what to
think about this…. Later that night, we taught English class.
Early Thursday morning,
we got up real early and went to the hospital. My companion had hernia surgery
scheduled. So basically we went there and he did tests and stuff all day. Then
we slept at the hospital that night. I slept in this chair that folded down in
a long padded bench like thing. I couldn’t sleep at all that night because the people
a curtain sheet over were going off in Taiwanese and for some reason whenever
people speak Taiwanese, they yell. So pretty much they were yelling all
night. Then at like 4am, the nurse woke us up and started doing stuff to
get my companion ready for surgery. Then late morning, he had surgery for about
3 hours. I just waited and studied all day with Sister Day (mission
president’s wife). Then he got out of surgery and had to go back to the room we
had slept in. We stayed there another night and then left the next morning. It
was a bit boring. I would have made calls to investigators and referrals but
this upcoming week my companion can’t go out so we wouldn’t have been able to
meet any of the people anyways. Then Saturday, my companion and I went to the
mission home and stayed the night there. It is super nice. I’m not sure if it
really is super nice or if I’ve just been in Taiwan for too long lol. It was
funny because I was about to wash some dishes and then the mission president
was like you can just put them in the dishwasher. I was like, “oh that’s right,
I forgot what a dishwasher is.” lol That’s the first dishwasher I’ve seen in Taiwan.
On Sunday I went on exchanges, so a different elder stayed with my companion
while I went back to my area with the zone leader Elder Chen. We went to church
(one of our investigators came!) and then we met with Wang DX again. He hadn’t
been keeping the Word of Wisdom at all. So we had a member share his experience
of how he overcame his coffee/tea addiction and he recommitted to keep the Word
of Wisdom. After Brother Wang, we went to a member’s house and they feed us
dinner. Then later that night, I went
back to the mission home. My companion will probably be here most of this week because
he’s not supposed to walk much or carry anything. So I’ll be in the
mission home most of this week just studying.
Love,
Elder Chatman
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