(Copyright Elder Meanea 2018)
Monday, 8 January 2018
Today was an insane P-Day! We ate at a Tex-Mex restaurant which was really expensive but really good, and then headed over to monkey mountain to go hiking. About halfway through the day we stopped using the regular trail and just followed the paths that seemed more frequented by mountain goats than humans. We even found some cool caves filled with spiders. So we were all pretty happy with our P-Day.
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
We had an exchange today and also a great lesson with Amanda. She has been investigating for a while (Sister Chen) and she has been coming to church off and on for the past few months. We wanted to help her be more comfortable in the ward, so we invited our relief society president to help with the lesson with her husband. The times got all messed up, but it actually worked out in the end where we had a really good lesson! She is really growing in faith as she continues to experience the goodness of the gospel in her life.
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Zone conference today was filled with helping us try to simply our lives in Christ. President Teh asked us to come up and write on the board everything that we've been asked to emphasize in the past 6 months and we got a board filled with about 30 things from using the Book of Mormon to remembering to clean the apartment. Then he taught us about being centered in Christ and how it would help us simplify our lives by just trying to follow Him. I feel like that's an important lesson for all of us.
Thursday, 11 January 2018
We took a train up to Taizhong today to go on exchanges with the assistants. We spent the night out with them cleaning some parks and contacting people along the way. The best part of the night was when we went to go teach a recent convert a lesson, and it turned out to be a lady that we taught for the first time when I was on exchanges there two transfers ago! Miracles!
Friday, 12 January 2018
Coming home today was hard to stay awake, but we made it back to Qianzhen just in time to make it to our lesson with a less active Brother Chen. He is blind from a car accident, and has never actually "seen" missionaries since he has been blind since before his baptism, but he is an amazing guy story teller and really badly wanted to have someone help him get to church. It was fun to see him get to come on Sunday!
Saturday, 13 January 2018
Baptism! Today Brother Zhong was baptized. Elder Fuller baptized him, and he was so happy. There were no hiccups, he went under the first time, the font filled perfectly and we had enough baptismal clothes. It was all amazing! He is such an incredible convert. Totally self-taught by the Spirit. We told him the commandments and he just kept them because he knew God loved him. And now he's on the path. He is willing to follow Christ, and his journey has just begun. I am so happy for him and change its brought to his life!
Sunday, 14 January 2018
Good Sabbath today. Brother Zhong was confirmed, and Amanda showed up to church! We also had some guy just show up at church for no reason who wanted to check out the church. His name is Sam, so hopefully that goes well! I love to see the miracles abound.
With Brother Zhong's baptism, this was an amazing week. He was so happy to be baptized and confirmed. He had a long road of changes to make, but to see the hope that Christ brings to his life is priceless. I hope we can all feel that hope every day. Let Him change our lives every day. I love you all!
-Elder Meanea
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
We had an exchange today and also a great lesson with Amanda. She has been investigating for a while (Sister Chen) and she has been coming to church off and on for the past few months. We wanted to help her be more comfortable in the ward, so we invited our relief society president to help with the lesson with her husband. The times got all messed up, but it actually worked out in the end where we had a really good lesson! She is really growing in faith as she continues to experience the goodness of the gospel in her life.
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Zone conference today was filled with helping us try to simply our lives in Christ. President Teh asked us to come up and write on the board everything that we've been asked to emphasize in the past 6 months and we got a board filled with about 30 things from using the Book of Mormon to remembering to clean the apartment. Then he taught us about being centered in Christ and how it would help us simplify our lives by just trying to follow Him. I feel like that's an important lesson for all of us.
Thursday, 11 January 2018
We took a train up to Taizhong today to go on exchanges with the assistants. We spent the night out with them cleaning some parks and contacting people along the way. The best part of the night was when we went to go teach a recent convert a lesson, and it turned out to be a lady that we taught for the first time when I was on exchanges there two transfers ago! Miracles!
Friday, 12 January 2018
Coming home today was hard to stay awake, but we made it back to Qianzhen just in time to make it to our lesson with a less active Brother Chen. He is blind from a car accident, and has never actually "seen" missionaries since he has been blind since before his baptism, but he is an amazing guy story teller and really badly wanted to have someone help him get to church. It was fun to see him get to come on Sunday!
Saturday, 13 January 2018
Baptism! Today Brother Zhong was baptized. Elder Fuller baptized him, and he was so happy. There were no hiccups, he went under the first time, the font filled perfectly and we had enough baptismal clothes. It was all amazing! He is such an incredible convert. Totally self-taught by the Spirit. We told him the commandments and he just kept them because he knew God loved him. And now he's on the path. He is willing to follow Christ, and his journey has just begun. I am so happy for him and change its brought to his life!
Sunday, 14 January 2018
Good Sabbath today. Brother Zhong was confirmed, and Amanda showed up to church! We also had some guy just show up at church for no reason who wanted to check out the church. His name is Sam, so hopefully that goes well! I love to see the miracles abound.
With Brother Zhong's baptism, this was an amazing week. He was so happy to be baptized and confirmed. He had a long road of changes to make, but to see the hope that Christ brings to his life is priceless. I hope we can all feel that hope every day. Let Him change our lives every day. I love you all!
-Elder Meanea
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