We are cleaning our apartment today, too. :) It's pretty
dirty. I'm excited to live in a place that's not small and lived in with other
19-21 year-olds who don't take care of stuff very well.... oh wait, I fit in
that category... ;) Hopefully I'll be better at that after the mission. :)
I like to hear you spend time with Tyler a lot. It makes me
excited for when I come home and I'll probably be able to spend time with
everyone, too. :D
Bummer about RSL lately. :/ I hope that they can pull it
together. That would be sad if Cassar loses his job. That's one reason I
wouldn't want to be a coach. It's so inconsistent. Hopefully they find their
stride. Playing a game in LA probably isn't the best thing at this point for
RSL, either... :/
The week was pretty great! Monday was Pday. We played
football and went to Costco! :D It was pretty fun to play football in a park!
:D Turns out, Elder Chen's never played before, but he was great!! It was a
great day!
Tuesday, we contacted, met with an investigator that went
alright. I feel like the lesson wasn't the best, but it was ok. :) Then we had
3 lessons at night, and had to go on splits to teach them. :) That was pretty
fun! I like it when it feels really busy on the mission and it feels like I'm
getting a lot done. :) I feel like there is a lot of patience involved in
missionary work, and a lot of the time it feels like nothing is really
happening, but I love it when there are a bunch of things to do and seemingly
not enough time to do them.
Wednesday we had mission tour and Elder Funk came and
visited. It was pretty good. They talked a lot about using the Book of Mormon.
It was interesting. They said when we contact, use the Book of Mormon. I tried
it and got wrecked. I'm going to have to practice more at that... :) We taught
English class at night. The kids were mostly alright. There was an
uncontrollable one though, so the beginning of English was incredibly awkward
as I began English class and had Elder Chen call the kid's parent. After that,
it went better, though. :)
Thursday, we had 2 lessons set up, but they both fell
through. Bummer. :/
Friday we weekly planned, met with a pretty cool Mr. Yang.
He reminds me of a previous investigator we taught. He got super excited when
we shared about the Book of Mormon with him! That was pretty cool. :) That night
we visited a member family and then someone fell through whom we had set up for
that night.
Saturday we went to our secondary area. It's super rural!!
It was pretty great! :) It was pretty out there and the people were SUPER
nice!! :D We met with our investigator, Brother Wu, that night, which was
pretty cool. That lesson went really well. It was definitely by the Spirit, and
what he needed to hear. That's one of my favorite parts of being on a mission
is teaching a lesson according to the Spirit and seeing it help the
investigator and his/her life. :)
Sunday was good. Church, studies, and a miracle--we helped
two of our investigators come to church. We set a goal of three. Then, in the
last hour, someone came in off the street to church, we taught her after church
and set up a time afterwards to meet, giving us 3 investigators at church! :D
This week, we were able to hit or almost hit most of our goals this week,
including investigators with a baptismal date, investigators at church and
lessons taught with members present. That was a huge miracle!! :D
Love you all!
Here is my letter to President Teh:
Dear President,
This last week was filled with miracles. It has been amazing
to see the blessings of whitewashing and training pour in lately. I hope that I
can foster an attitude of gratitude to accompany these blessings. I want to
continue to work hard for the Lord and let Him know through my actions that I'm
grateful for all He's done for me. Elder Chen seems to be doing better and
better as time goes on. I'm very impressed with him. He is not nervous or
apprehensive to share his testimony with others, lead in contacting or in
lessons. It's been really great to see him change these past few weeks. I keep wanting to teach him so much, and take
all the things I've learned on my mission and download it into his mind, but
unfortunately, I have to share and teach him the things that have helped me the
most and share those and let him learn the rest on his own. The time is so
short.
This week after the mission tour, I decided to go out
contacting with out tracts and only have a Book of Mormon with me. It didn't
work very well, but it was a great learning experience. I am going to have to
practice and try a lot to get contacting with the Book of Mormon down. On the
bright side, we saw a pretty cool miracle from using the Book of Mormon in a
lesson. We had a first meet with someone last week, Mr. Yang. We sat down with
him and ended up sharing most of the 1st lesson. We then pulled out the Book of
Mormon and talked about it a little bit. He was fascinated with it! He asked
where he could buy one. We said we'd give him a copy for free, and he
gratefully accepted and said the next time we came back, we would have to share
more about that book! It truly is the most effective tool in gathering in
scattered Israel. I have thought about the recent converts I have taught here,
and all of them were well into the Book of Mormon and were gaining personal
testimonies through it daily before they were baptized. True conversion CAN NOT
come with out the Book of Mormon.
--
Elder Fleming
The really rural
secondary area we went to. It was super pretty!! :D
I saw some old friends at mission tour (Elder Hanna and
Elder June), beef noodles, one of my favorites here, and last Monday after
playing football in the park. It's still SO HOT here!! :o We were all pretty
sweaty and gross afterwards, but it was super fun!! :D
MASSIVE bowl of noodles I ate on Saturday! :) I didn't know
they'd be that big! :o It was bigger than my face and almost my stomach! ;)
