11 Weeks Remaining- January 12, 2014

Hello everyone. Here is what happened this week:

1. We met with this older man who we had met on the street last week. We visited him at his home and shared the Book of Mormon. Then we invited him to be baptized. But he was like, "I'll wait until my next life (reincarnation) to believe the Mormon Church." We were like, "There is no next earth life (reincarnation), this is your only chance." He said he believed the Book of Mormon (even though he had only read 2 pages of it - that happens a lot here.) But he was shocked when we nicely said that reincarnation wasn't true because that's not what the Book of Mormon says. After that he just got stubborn and started randomly going off about how all Americans spend money and never save any. My companion was like, "Umm no that's not true. Some Americans save money.  My dad saves a lot of money." Then he started yelling at him saying, "You're speaking nonsense!" He wasn't mad though.  That's just the culture here. They like yell and talk really loud when they talk about opinionated subjects. Anyways, we'll probably not meet with him anymore......

2. We had English class Wednesday night. Last transfer, my companion and I had an idea to put up a sign advertising our English class on our church gate. Well it worked. A lady walking by saw it and came to our English class this week. Then afterwards, she ended up meeting with the sister missionaries and setting a baptismal date with them.

3. We met with our investigator Brother Cai. I think I've mentioned him before. When we meet with him its really easy for him to fall asleep. And when I mean easy, I mean like it'll take him 10 seconds and he'll be snoring in the middle of the lesson! We tried to get him involved by reading a scripture for example. He start reading it and he'll voice gets softer and softer, then stops and he is out cold. So this week we stood up and taught him for most of the lesson, weird huh?! It worked pretty good but then at the end he rested his arms on the table in front of him and fell asleep again. I've wanted to give up on him, but he has a strong desire and comes to church. Its not really his fault either that he falls asleep. He works almost all day and only gets 6 hours of sleep and his health is bad. So we're going to do our best to help him and let the Lord do the rest.

Love,

Elder Chatman

  An altar that is in many of the homes in Taiwan, even in members. In the picture is Elder Cai4. The Elder's in the ward were helping a member, Ye4 zi clean her family's house

Jordan in front of a preschool in Taiwan in Shu4 Lin2. They tracted the area all afternoon but got let in zero doors.

Progress record Jordan wrote up for Ward Mission Meeting (Xie2Tiao2Hui4)

This is Jordan tracting in one of the many apartment buildings.  He has to push a button and try to get people to open the door to let them in the building. 

This is Jordan's companion Elder Miller that is also tracting the buildings.