29 Weeks Remaining -September 29, 2013

29 Weeks Remaining

September 29, 2013

How are ya all? Next week we're having a baptism! Leggooooo!!!!!!!!!

What a week…. to start it off my companion was playing basketball on p-day and ended up tripping on himself. This resulted in what we thought was just a regular "walk it off" ankle sprain at first. But then Tuesday night, he took his shoe off and his foot was all purple. So we went to the doctor and got it looked at. They said he tore a ligament and has a tiny crack in his ankle. We had to buy a boot thing and then he isn’t supposed to walk for 3 weeks. We told the mission president’s wife about it, because she’s the mission nurse. But they were in Hong Kong for some mission president training, so she couldn’t really help us. So basically my companion had to just rest and ice his ankle for a few days. Saturday though, we had a lesson with the son of a family we are teaching. So we had to go on exchanges with the other elders in our apartment so that I could go out and teach the lesson. So I went with my last companion elder Anderson and his trainee elder Chen stayed with my trainee. I think elder Chen slept for most the day. But I don’t blame him because there really wasn’t anything he could do being stuck inside all day. Well, that made elder Anderson mad that elder Chen didn’t do anything. Last night, they started yelling at each other. Elder Anderson was like, let me talk! Then elder Chen was like, say please. Elder Anderson bangs the desk and yells, let me talk! Elder Chen again says, say please. This resulted in elder Anderson getting up and getting in elder Chen’s face saying I am going to punch you if you don’t let me talk! So me and my companion had to go break them up. It was pretty funny because elder Chen would speak in Chinese.  Elder Anderson would understand but then speak in English.  Elder Chen would understand his English and then speak Chinese back. I don’t know why it was just kind of funny to me.

On a good note, we met with Lawrence (son of the Chen family we are teaching). It was great because the Bao family, the family that referred the Chen Family to us, had us and Lawrence over to their house so we could teach him. The Bao family is loaded. They have a pool at the bottom of the apartment. I didn’t know such a nice place existed in Taiwan lol.  I thought I was back in America for a bit haha. Anyways, we shared the rest of the lessons with him. Then Sunday he passed his baptismal interview, so he's good to go for getting baptized next Sunday. Yes sir!

This week, we had met some foreigners. The first one was in the hospital. Some random guy from Seattle of all places was like "hey elders". He was like “you're from the Mormon church right?” “Do you have the title of saint in your church?”  We explained about us being latter day saints and he was “oh like followers of Christ right?” Then he was like thanks and leaves. Weird.

Then in the subway, some lady visiting from England, came up and start talking to us. She was Christian and just curious about why our church and other Christian churches are different. We shared about the restoration and gave her our mormon.org website pamphlet. We would've given her a Book of Mormon, but we only had them in Chinese. It was weird though because this lady straight up looked like a Utah Mormon. Funny!

Love,

Elder Chatman