Ring out wild bells and let him die!"
(Copyright 1985 LDS Hymnbook. I don't know why)
This P-Day we went shopping for one of Elder Fuller's recent Converts that lives in Gaoxiong. We got him some cool socks from the mall, and then once we had our Christmas shopping done we headed out to the Pizza Hut Buffet to finish off Christmas! The Pizza was really good and it was only about $10 American to eat all the pizza and chicken wings you wanted! Needless to say it was a good Christmas. That night we went and had a thought to check on a kid we had tracted into a few weeks ago. He was still doing good, even though we hadn't been able to meet, and was reading the Book of Mormon every night!
We had a lesson with Joey, the man who randomly walked into the chapel last week asking for a tour, and he read by himself to 1 Nephi 16. So that was cool. He works on a boat and is leaving for two weeks, but he found a triple combination on his boat and he's been reading it! That was a fun lesson.
Wednesday, 27 December 2017
Today was just proselytize until the English class Christmas party tonight. The Fergusons are the Elderly Couple who serve around Gaoxiong, and they threw a party for all the English students and invited us. It was fun to get to talk to all of these people who were in the chapel but didn't know much about the church. We met a cool family who hadn't really interacted with missionaries before and they might be willing to meet with the Xiaogang Elders!
We had our second ward correlation meeting tonight with our new ward mission leader Brother Liang. He is pretty new to the whole missionary thing, so it's really cool to see how the Lord always puts us where we need to learn and grown. It's been fun to help him understand a little bit about how being a missionary works and how he can help us to baptize in this ward.
Friday, 29 December 2017
We were going to have a brunch at a member's house with sister Xu, but she had to go to a doctor's appointment and wasn't able to show up. But we ate waffles with them anyways. It's a really nice family named The Yangs. They both went to school and worked in Utah for a while, so they have a lot of American traditions, including actually decorating for Christmas! After that we had a good lesson with Brother Zhong tonight who has set a goal for January 13! Just 12 days away over here! He says he is really excited, and we helped him to get his family history started.
Saturday, 30 December 2017
We went over to the Yang's house to help them start moving some furniture. They will move up to Taizhong in a couple years to take care of sister Yang's mom. As we were moving stuff, we carried down a human sized paper with calligraphy on it. When we got it to the street from four floors up, brother Yang told us that it was worth more than 10,000 American dollars!!! He said it was a very famous calligrapher, who is also his dad. So that was cool. We also got a surprise phone call today from Joey! He was in Port in Singapore for a few minutes so he called us over Line (the messaging app here) and we had a short lesson about his questions in the Book of Mormon. He'll be on an American naval ship for oceanographic research for the next week and a half. So that's also pretty cool.
New Years Eve! We went to church and had some good lessons, since it was the last week we stuffed all the information in the last three chapters of the Gospel principles book into one lesson, which probably hurt Brother Zhong's brain since it was about Exaltation, the Millennium and final judgment, but it was still good! We were out contacting in masses of people going to celebrations until it was time to go home. Believe it or not, we accidentally slept through the new year. XD Ah well, there's always the next one.
- Elder Meanea
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