34 Weeks Remaining- August 4, 2013

34 Weeks Remaining

August 4, 2013

Whattup ya'll…..

We saw some cool miracles this week. On Monday and Tuesday, we didn’t teach a single person because we got rejected by everyone. Then Wednesday, when we were walking to go visit Luo, our new convert, we stopped this 16 year old kid who was riding on his bike past us. We invited him to come to English class and later that night, he came. After English class, we met with him and shared about God and prayer. Then Saturday, we met with him again and shared about the restoration, gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to be baptized. He set a date for the end of this month. He also came to church yesterday. So he's doing well.

Yesterday at church, the family who the ward member has been bringing for the past two weeks came again. Last week we asked if we could visit them during the week to start having lessons with them, but they nicely said no. But then this week, the member suggested that we meet with them right after church. Genius!!  We asked the family if they were good with that and they said yes. So we taught the family of 3 and the member helped us teach too. We taught the restoration and it went really good. They are going to be a little tough to teach because the dad grew up Christian so he understands most of what we were saying (he grew up in Hong Kong.) But the wife had no religious background, so she isn’t familiar with Jesus, prayer, etc. The great thing is that the member is her good friend, so she'll be able to help her every step of the way. I love member referrals!! They are so much easier than banging your head on the wall trying to tract and contact to people on the streets. But one thing I’ve learned is that if you have just faith in Christ you can see success in whatever you do. If you go out contacting people, just to contact people and don’t really believe that you are going find some prepared soul, you really won’t find anyone. You got first have that faith, and then you'll see a miracle.

That’s what is going on out here.

Love,

Elder Chatman

This was a greats ward activity the SongShan ward took up to a mountain in Yilan about 2 hours from Taipei on the east coast. This is the furthest Jordan ever got from Taipei on his mission. Most missionaries got opportunities to serve on the east coast 4-6 hours away from Taipei. Jordan wanted to go there badly but never left Taipei.

Dinner at the ward activity.

This was going up to the mountains for a ward activity.

This is going up the stairs to the ward activity.

Jordan with Jeff Wu.  Jeff Wu played basketball this past year for Union High School as a foreign exchange student.  This is the school that Jordan played at the year before so it was fun for them to meet each other after both of them hearing so much about each other.  They met at Jeff Wu's parents'restaurant and had lunch.