Sending this to you because I think I look pretty good in this picture ;)
Also because I didn't take any this week, it was Elder Booth that took it. :)
Also it's so you can see Elder Booth. :)
It must be fun to have the cousins close by, even if you probably don't see them too much. :) I'm excited to have them around when I get back, because maybe we can do fun things together every once in a while. :)
Ok, this week was pretty busy, but really good!
On Monday, we played basketball with a couple members and
Elder Grisenti (one of my previous companions) and Elder Neuhaus. That was
really fun! Then, Monday night we spent some time contacting, then went to a
member's house for family home evening. That was pretty fun! I really like
visiting members, it's one of my favorite things about being on a mission. They
are always so nice and really fun!
Tuesday morning we went to ZuoYing for district training
meeting (we have it there every week), and afterwards we went on exchanges with
the Elders over there. I went with Elder Neuhaus. It was super fun! :D
Wednesday we had a miracle lesson in the morning! The other
Elders had an investigator that told us she was sick and couldn't make her 2pm
appointment and it sounded like she didn't want to meet with them anymore. 5
minutes later she called us again, telling us she was at the church and asked
if we could meet with her. So that was cool. We did that. Afterwards, we came
back to SanMin, and I went with Elder Musgrave again. Then we contacted all
afternoon. We had English meeting that night and met with a couple of
investigators, which was good. :)
Thursday we spent about the whole day outside contacting.
The miracle was that we both just went out in an excited attitude to talk with
everyone and we did and it went great! We met some cool people that day who
will hopefully have time to meet with us! We also met with a family, which was
pretty cool!
Friday, we went up to Taizhong to exchange with the
assisstants. That was pretty great, too! I got to go with Elder Booth, the
Austrailian who was in my MTC district with me. That was super fun to work with
him again and see how far he's come as well as the changes I've made, too!
Saturday, we missed our train back to GaoXiong, so we were
really late to our appointmet, which was a bummer. Then the ward had an
activity which we went to for just a little bit to introduce our investigator
to some members so we could get back out on the streets contacting more people!
Then Sunday came. I was so tired on Sunday! :o I had to take
a power nap during dinner time! :o It's great to work super hard! Anyway,
that's about all for the week. :) It's been great and I'm loving every minute
of it!! :D
Here's my letter to President Teh this week: :)
Working here in San Min is going really well. The people
here have been very nice, possibly nicer than my other areas. I am so grateful
to be among these wonderful people. I also thought about what you said when you
first got here about how these people were so good. I was thinking about it
lately and they really are. I have been trying to develop charity and love in
particular these last few weeks and when I go into a lesson or a contact with
that attitude and that love, it makes all the difference in the world. I have
had plenty of contacts--to many actually, where I go into the contact almost
robotically. It's a lot like what Moroni says in Moroni 7, if you don't have
charity, you have nothing.
The miracle we saw this week was that as we were contacting,
going to a place to make calls, I rode past a dark alley and saw a man standing
there. I rode by, but felt impressed to talk with him. I immediately turned
around and started a conversation with him. He lives really close to our church
and was really interested. About a minute later, his wife and baby showed up,
and they agreed to meet with us this week. They met with us twice, came to a
ward activity, and then the wife came to church yesterday! Hopefully we can
keep meeting with this amazing family! Another quick miracle was Elder Musgrave
was being very diligent in asking everyone for referrals. I admired his
diligence, but questioned the effectiveness of it. Later that night, we got a
text saying we had received a referral. I fully believe it was because Elder
Musgrave was showing his faith and diligence in asking for referrals.
--
Elder Fleming
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