Sunday, October 6, 2013

25 Weeks Remaining -October 6, 2013

October 6, 2013

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We had a baptism this week for Lai Guan Da. Yeah! I love this guy!! He is super cool!!  He’s the man! He's one of the most prepared Taiwanese people that I’ve taught. While in the English ward, I got to teach a lot of prepared people, but none of them were from Taiwan. It’s cool getting to teach a super prepared guy like Lai Guan Da. We'll go out and contact people and tract all day and get nothing but rejection. You just want to say, “man there’s no one in Taiwan that really wants it.” But then meeting people like Lai just boosts your faith and helps you know that there really is prepared people out there. Like I’ve mention before, Lai was introduced to us by his friend who is our assistant ward mission leader. Money! Finally someone out here who put the Apostle’s member-missionary work teachings into action!

I was talking to one of my previous companions, Elder Wesemann last pday. He was telling me how they were walking down this back alley by their church (which is like a floor in a business type building.) They saw this huge guy walking towards them. The closer he got, the more they were like, “wow this dude is a giant.”  It ended up being the 7 footer, Luke Nevill, who played basketball for the Utes a few years ago. Lol  I guess he is trying playing basketball in Taiwan or China so he was here playing or something. What a small world.

A cool story- I was on exchanges with Elder Gerrard in Xizhi and we were out tracting. We didn’t get anything on the entire street until the very last doorbell. We rang it, a family guy came out and we end up talking to him for like 10 minutes. We got him to say a prayer and gave him a Book of Mormon.  I love the tender mercies of the Lord. That always happens. After tracting or street contacting, for me it’s always been that last door or last contact that has interest.  It is cool stuff.

Anyways that’s a rap from Taipei,
Love,

Elder Chatman
This is Jordan with Elder Bennion and  Lai Guan Da. It was Lai's baptism day. Lai Dixiong was a member referral from Cao1 Dixiong, the assitant ward mission leader, who recently moved in to the ward. Jordan was good friends with him from his English class in his previous area Jin Hua. Cao1 Dixiong brought Lai Dixiong to church one Sunday, where they met him and later started teaching him until he got baptized. Eventually Lai Dixiong moved to Jordan's next area (Tucheng) for work and Jordan was able to continue to teach him as Lai Dixiong had become less active from being busy with work and going out of town/to America for work and such. Elder Bennion (on the left in this picture), Jordan's trainee/son, later moved to Jordan's next area (Tucheng) as well after Jordan fanxiangd (went home) and was able to continue to stay in contact with Lai4 Dixiong. Tender mercy of the Lord....

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