14 Weeks Remaining- December 23, 2013

聖誕節快樂 (Merry Christmas)

Monday - So to start off the day, we went tracting. Literally, the first doorbell we pressed, a college kid came out. We talked about Christ and such for a few minutes and he was interested. But he was busy at that moment, so we setup another time later in the week to meet with him at our church. That was cool meeting him. However later in the week, he never showed up to our scheduled appointment. We tracted for about an hour and half that night and then went to a subway station exit and handed out flyers to our free English class for another hour.

Tuesday - It was pouring rain so went tracting for an hour in the morning. Then we had district meeting and then after that we tracted the rest of the day until 8pm. At 8:00, we did two baptismal interviews for some elders in our zone. Both of the investigators passed their interviews. One of the investigators was scheduled to get baptized on Sunday, but when Sunday rolled around she got cold feet and didn’t show up...

Wednesday - We tracted all day till 4:00. At 4:00, we met with Zhang Ren Kui, our new convert. He is going strong and doing good. Then at night, we had English class. My companion and I taught the beginner class. English class is one of our mission’s most effective tools for finding new investigators. A super nice lady from China came to our class this past week. She has only lived in Taiwan for 2 months. The sister missionaries are going to try and start teaching her. After English class, we met with our investigator Li Yun Zhong. He is a college student who came to English class about 6 months ago and started meeting with missionaries since. We are probably going to stop meeting with him though because he won’t do what we invite him to do - like read from the Book of Mormon and come to church. We've invited him to do these things almost every lesson but he never does. So it’s pointless to keep meeting with him because he'll never develop a testimony unless he does these things. He is a cool kid though.

Thursday - The Assistants to the President came to our apartment during studies and talked with us about our zone. They gave us some training on being better leaders. One of the AP’s is real smooth. He's from Singapore, already graduated from BYU, served a few years in the military, and is going to Harvard after his mission. Later that night, we did some street contacting, where we go around and talk to people on the road. Also that night, we had dinner with our ward missionaries and ward mission leader at a steak house. It wasn’t an American steak but I just drowned it in A-1 sauce so it was all good. haha

Friday - We did more tracting and street contacting. At night though, we met with the Yang Family. We taught them all about church and how it blesses our lives and then invited them to come. I thought we taught it well but they didn’t end up committing to come. The dad works on Sundays and the mom says their 1 year old daughter has to sleep in the morning when church is. So they are temporarily stuck until we can get them to come to church.

Saturday - We met with one of our newer investigators named Liam. We met him a month ago on the subway. He wasn’t too interested in meeting then but as he was leaving we gave him a flyer to our English class. Then 2 weeks ago, to our surprise, he showed up to our free English class and has started meeting with us since. We taught him the Restoration this week and it went really good. He committed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon. Believe it or not, he actually lived in Portland, Oregon for a couple of years.

Sunday - We had church, studies and then met with another one of investigators named Chen. He is a college student. We met him one day while tracting. He was riding by on his bike and we stopped him. We reviewed the Restoration with him this week. We taught it to him 2 weeks ago but he forgot most of it.

My companion and I almost got in TV this past week. This lady who lives in our apartment community works for a TV station and they were getting a couple foreigners to come on the station. They wanted to ask them questions about Chinese culture and the Chinese New Year. We were supposed to go on this weekend. My companion and I were super pumped but we asked the mission president and he said he didn’t want us to do it. So it’s a no go….oh well.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas. 

Remember the Savior this Christmas and feel his love for you!

Love,

Elder Chatman