Good week this week. Honestly, it seems like a bit of a
blur. Monday was a pretty relaxed day. Today we will probably do all those
mundane things we need to do on p-day every once in a while. Also go to a
buffet. :D
But last Monday, after Pday we met with a new investigator,
Ms. Wu. The lesson went really well and she seemed to enjoy it. She had her son
with her and we testified how the Gospel can bless families. It was great to
start off the week with a lesson!
Tuesday we didn't have our weekly meeting, because we had a
bigger meeting, ztm, on Thursday. So Tuesday was pretty wide open. We had ward
correlation meeting in the afternoon, so it was nice to break up the day with
that. Then we contacted the rest of the day. A potential investigator didn't
show up to his lesson we had scheduled him for, so that was a bummer. So we
contacted the rest of the night.
Wednesday went pretty well. We met with Brother Wu on
Wednesday. He's pretty good. Hopefully we can help him be ready for baptism by
November 26th! We contacted in the afternoon, then at night met with Brother
Chen (not my companion, there are a lot of people with that last name here. ;)
), and it went well. Then we had English class that night. That went pretty well,
too!
Thursday went really well! Elder Chen's parents were coming
to Ali Shan kind of by Jia Yi and happened to come across us before ztm! It was
amazing! It was an incredible miracle, because it really wasn't planned at all!
We were heading to ztm, and saw them! We stopped for about 10 minutes and they
talked and stuff. It was cool to see them and who they were as well as to get a
preview of what it would look like when I get back. Now I know what to expect
when I first get back. ;)
Then we had ztm. It went well. :) We had meetings all
afternoon, then a lesson at night. That was about all for Thursday.
On Friday, we had weekly planning then met with a cool,
elderly less active member. He's great. We met at a nearby stadium which was
cool and I had never thought of doing before. The weather was perfect and it
was calm. We sung hymns with him and he said he'd come to church. Cool. :) We
also met another less active family on Friday or Wednesday I think, in the
afternoon. Well, we met the wife. She was super cool and we set up to meet with
the family tonight! :D
Friday night was contacting.
Saturday we met with a family who had come to English class,
but they weren't interested. I noticed they weren't interested when we knocked
on their door and the husband answered it while the wife started worshiping
their idol in the far end of the room for the first 3 minutes we were there...
They just wanted us there to teach their daughter English and stuff. Bummer. So
we tried to leave as early as possible.
The rest of the day was alright, and at night we met with
Brother Wu again.
Sunday went pretty well. We had confirmed some investigators
for church, but they didn't come. :/ That wasn't fun. Oh well. Hopefully this
coming Sunday they'll come. We also need to find some new investigators. I feel
like we always need to find new investigators. You've never found enough new
investigators on the mission.
So that was the week. It went by really fast! The time is
going by pretty quick, which is both good and bad....
Email to President:
President Teh,
Another good week in Jia Yi. It's been wonderful working
with Elder Chen. He's great! He shared his testimony yesterday for fast Sunday,
and I thought of the first Saturday when you were here for zone conference and
all the new missionaries had to share their testimonies. He's made incredible
and huge improvements. It's been amazing to see and be a part of that! I really
hope that he will become a better missionary than I am. I also hope he doesn't
make the same mistakes I've made. 12 weeks is such a short time to try to share
everything I know and give him all the advice I want to give him.
The district is doing well. We are all trying to continue to
work towards finding 7 new investigators a week. Many missionaries here seem to
have the faith and the drive to go out and make it happen, but aren't hitting
7. Others are a little daunted by the number. I think it's a possible number to
hit, but we haven't hit that goal yet.
I'm doing alright. I'm trying to stay all in to the end.
Elder Ward and my trainer, Elder Bak were great examples for me for staying all
in and giving their all to the end. I hope I can do that too. I feel like there
are a lot of increasing temptations and distractions coming up lately, so I'm
trying to stay as immersed in the work as possible.
--
Elder Fleming
Oh yeah, the Blickenstaffs came to visit Taiwan a little while ago. It was great to see them! :D It's pretty cool I'm back on their blog. :)
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