44 Weeks Remaining -May 26, 2013

44 Weeks Remaining

May 26, 2013

Dajia hao,

We saw some good things go down this past week out here. Quick Recap - Monday night, we went out and talked to people at this big park in our area. But we didn’t see any success from that.  Then Tuesday, we had a district meeting and then afterwards, we went and handed out English class flyers for an hour. Later that night, we had a lesson with this guy that met missionaries down on the southern part of the island, but he wasn’t very interested. I don’t know why he wanted to meet with us. We shared the restoration and asked him if we wanted to know if God and Jesus really appeared to Joseph Smith and he said “no.” Then we tried to give him a Book of Mormon and he was like, "you don’t want me to read that do you? Come on, I have no time." Then we tried to invite him church and he was like "I’m busy Sunday mornings, I got to walk my dog." I finally lost it and was like "Are you kidding me…..walk your dog over salvation!" Needless to say he just isn’t ready yet……

But we did get a referral from a member in a different ward and he was pretty solid. He had been to other Christian churches before and was really interested in what our church believes. We met with him earlier this past week and then he came to church.

Unfortunately, the really golden kid we found last week has disappeared. He hasn’t answered any of our calls! Not sure what happened?!! Then the less active family that came to church last week said they were too busy to meet with us and then didn’t come to church. Not sure what happened there either...we did our part though and that’s all the Lord asks.

This week a less active member fed us at this local restaurant. I felt really bad for one of the new sister missionaries that just got on the island. The Chinese people are super blunt. For example, they tell people all the time,” hey you've gotten really fat” and they don’t take it as rude here. It’s just their culture. Anyways the less active said hi to the sister and then was like you have a bunch of pimples on your face.  She didn’t understand what he said so her companion translated for her and told her. That shocked her a bit. lol That’s how they are out here. They tell you how it is, without even thinking about what they just said.

I had some pig foots and poppy seed soup this week. It was nasty stuff. We also found this place that sells turtles and snakes to eat by our house.  I didn’t mess with it though. haha

That’s pretty much what’s up out here.  We are going as hard as we can.

Love,

Elder Chatman 

This is the first convert that Jordan found, taught, and baptized on his mission. Luo2 Dixiong was his name. He was a former investigator from like 2005, This is with his companion, Elder Anderson.

Jordan's neighborhood