32 Weeks Remaining -August 18, 2013

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August 18, 2013

你好 ya'll

All heat & rain over here..... it is super weird when it rains because I always kind of  expect it to be cold outside like it gets in WA when it rains. But nope, the heat level stays the same...

This past week we met some cool people. We visited a less active family with the Bishop. They have a daughter serving a mission in the south part of Taiwan. The less active family had a son that never got baptized, but instead went and joined this different type church. It was started by this guy that is preparing people for the 2nd coming and teaches all these different things. We taught him about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and such. He was like,"yeah I believe in that, I just don't believe that Joseph Smith passed on his authority and that we have living prophets." It's super hard to teach him because he has different theories due to this other church.

The family we are teaching is doing really good. The son is ready to go, and the dad is almost there. Its just the mom, who didn't grow up Christian like the dad, that is having a hard time. She, like most Taiwanese people, have no real understanding of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ just hasn't clicked for her yet. It super fun teaching them though.

We went and visited tons of less actives this week. We couldn't find very many because they either didn't live there because they wrote a fake address on their baptismal record or they had already moved and changed phones. We met with one lady though but it was weird.  A grandpa let us in, then the less active lady and her mom literally only said hi, please sit, then left us by ourselves for like 10 minutes. She later came back and we were able to teach her about the Atonement. We got a 20 year old less active kid to attend church with us yesterday.

Other things going on - Jeremy Lin is here visiting. He is in our area too doing some speech. We are gonna go proselyte where he's at, might see him.....  Also the Taiwanese pro basketball team beat China's pro team for the first time in forever. The Taiwanese people loved that. lol

 A member our ward was illegal proselyting in China. She is a teacher there or something and I guess started talking about the Book of Mormon and our church and stuff with her class. The students and staff were cool with it and loving it. But when she was telling the ward about it, one of them members who came from China was telling her how you're not allowed to do that in China. He told her that she could've been locked up if the government found out about that.

Love,

Elder Chatman