27 Weeks Remaining- September 22, 2013

Week 27 Remaining

September 22, 2013

你們好 

This week we had another typhoon come. But this time, we didn’t get the call to stay in. So it was fun tracting and street contacting people in the middle of intense rain and wind. I had 2 umbrellas get ripped apart from the wind.

Yesterday, we did the confirmation for Lawrence who got baptized last week. The Bishop asked me to do it. That was fun! I did the confirmation in Chinese on the microphone in front of everyone at sacrament meeting. It turned out really well and to my surprise, the members said they understood it.

This week, we had an outdoor zone conference. The mission president had a great idea to change things up and do something fun for zone conference. So for this zone conference, we bused up to a big mountain. Then we went on a hike and received some training up there. The only problem was that the typhoon started coming in while we were up there. So it rained super hard and was really windy, but it still turned out pretty good.

We visited a lot of less actives this week too. We rang the door of one less active melchezidek priesthood holder we went to visit. His wife said through the speaker that "he was in the bathroom". “Right!!?” We told her we would wait. She kind of turned that down, but then we pulled the-“we are in the middle of a typhoon card” and that got us let in the building. We ended up just talking to her for like 10 minutes at their front door because the husband never came out of the bathroom. But we invited her to bring her family back to church. We’ll see what happens.

That’s the scoop out here in Chinatown.

Love,

Elder Chatman