42 Weeks Remaining- June 9, 2013

June 9, 2013

Hey everyone,

We had transfers last week. I stayed and my companion did too. It was cool because an elder and sister that I knew from the MTC got moved into the district.

A recap of the week…one night we went out and tracted. We buzzed like 12 doors and then met this guy who went to school in the States. He was pretty interested. He grew up doing a lot of the Buddhism stuff but didn’t believe any of it. His mom died recently, so we taught him about the plan of salvation (which is about where we came from and where we go after we die.) He wants to meet with us but said that he's gay and not too interested in changing. We’re probably going to meet with him this week though and just focus on helping him feel the Spirit. We will see what happens.

On Tuesday, we had a zone meeting at the chapel by the temple. Another district leader and I trained on developing Christ like attributes. Then the zone leaders trained us and gave us some announcements.  One such announcement was that the area seventy (one of the leaders in the church) is coming here this upcoming Thursday. We all have to prepare three minute talks in Chinese and discuss a memorized scripture in Chinese that relates to our topic. They are only going to choose a few of us to give the talks though. My assigned topic is enduring to the end.  So if I get chosen I am going to talk about that and use the scripture "oh be wise, what can I say more?" haha

Right now we have three investigators that are making great progress.

Wang right now has a Word of Wisdom problem. He has given up coffee, tea, alcohol and is almost done with cigarettes. He came to church, has some good church friends, reads the Book of Mormon, etc.  He's on a roll.

Then there is Zheng. He’s been golden. We met him last Sunday and he's planning on being baptized in 2 Sundays. Ever since we started meeting with him, he's accepted everything we've taught...

Then there’s Li. He is about 35 and was a member referral from a different ward. He has been solid. We set a baptismal date with him for the end of the month.

What else...oh a less-active new member called us and wanted help moving stuff. We were like cool, no problem. Then we got to where he said was his house and there were three guys chilling & smoking. One guy had like part of his head shaved off, one had a fake eye, and some other sketchy stuff. They wanted help moving some super nice antique Chinese stuff into a truck. We moved a few things and then left because it was just sketchy. The guys were ghetto and there is no telling whose stuff it actually was. It was "his family’s" the less active said.... we keep seeming to run into sketchy situations...

Anyways, that’s the scoop for this week.

Love,

Elder Chatman

This is the zone at a Dedicatory Site in Taiwan.  Behind them is a hotel.