10 Weeks Remaining -January 20, 2014

January 19, 2014

大家好

Hello from Taiwan. Here’s the scoop from this week:

1. Two weeks ago, while street contacting, we contacted a guy that was leaving from the bank. We got his phone number in a quick minute and then he left. He set up an appointment this week. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. On a side note - In Chinese the Presbyterian Church is called 長老教會 which translates to Elder Church. We, as missionaries, are called Elders (長老) so because our names are Elder and their name is the Elder Church people sometimes think we are the Presbyterian Church missionaries. Anyways, we met with this guy and taught him about the Restoration. It was weird because it actually made sense to him. When you teach someone with a typical Buddhist background, they usually have a really hard time understanding the Restoration in our first time teaching to them.

2. This week we met with one of our eternal investigator’s Brother 陳 (Chen). We taught him a great lesson on repentance using a conference talk from Elder Christopherson. He's super close to getting baptized. His biggest problem right now is just coming to church. 

3. The Elder's Quorum president was telling us a story about how he had searched for years looking for his genealogy (history of his family.) Then he finally found out that it was all in China. So he went over there and got it at all and found out a ton about his ancestors. He was telling us this story about how some of his ancestors built a weird looking building during a world war. America saw it from space and thought that China was building a missile. So they sent people over to China that looked like tourists to check it out. It turned out to be just a weird cylinder castle type building where they would cook, sleep, and do everything in the very center of it and then could fire out from the outer portions of the building from all sides. Its called 土樓 (tu lou). 

4. We ran into Michelle again. She is from Germany and almost got baptized last year when I was in the English ward. She just happened to move to the same area for work that I am at now. So we saw her one day at work while we were street contacting. Her problem is the same though as it was a year ago, in that she works on Sundays so she can’t come to church. 

Chinese New Year starts the end of next week.

Love,

Elder Chatman