45 Weeks Remaining -May 21, 2013

45 Weeks Remaining

May 21, 2013

Jordan’s birthday

Hey everyone,

The highlight of this week was our investigator, Brother Luo, getting baptized. The service went really smoothly. I was able to baptize him and gave a short introduction during the service about him and how we met him.  It went great.

Some other cool stuff that happened this week: We went to this park to talk to some people. We were just getting rejected left and right.  Then we were walking up this hill and we saw this guy in a yellow shirt sitting down. I turned to my companion and I was like, “he's our guy.”  “He's going to get baptized.” So we walked up and started chatting with him and he was super cool. He is 19 years old and super humble. We met with him again the next day at the church and when we asked him if he wanted to be baptized he was like "of course!" It doesn’t get much better than that!!

We also met with this less active family. The mom and dad got baptized over 10 years ago, but haven’t been to church since. We shared with them about how the gospel blessed our families and gave us a stable foundation as we grew up and stuff. They seemed really touched by what we shared because they have a 10 year old daughter and a 1 year old child. I could tell that they really wanted their kids to grow up with gospel teachings in their lives. The mom in the closing prayer said "thanks for sending these 2 angels to help us, and thank you for not giving up on us God." It was good moment and I just kept saying in my mind saying thank-you God, thank-you. Its great moments like this that make a mission great and outweigh all the dirty looks, rejection, people yelling at us, etc that happens on a daily basis. Then on Sunday, the dad came to church with his 11 year old daughter who hasn’t been baptized yet. So hopefully we get them back active and the daughter baptized.

Oh something else cool, Elder Kang, my previous companion told me about this guy that we contacted on the street one time. Then we met him once at the church, but he didn’t live in our area. So a different companionship started teaching him and we never heard about him again. This happens a lot because often you meet people on the street, but they don’t live in your area. So you hand them over to other elders. But anyways, Elder Kang, told me that the guy recently got baptized. I just thought that was cool. You never know who your actions are going to effect. We just said hi to him and gave him a pamphlet.  Then a few months later, he gets baptized. That is cool stuff...

Love,

Elder Chatman