"Once there was a snowman snowman snowman,
Once there was a snowman, but not in Taiwan!"
(Copyright Elder Meanea 2017)
Monday, 1 January 2018
We took a little P-Day field trip to Elder Fuller's old area called Nanzi. It is in the northern part of Gaoxiong, but we were able to take the subway all the way there, which was pretty convenient. We met up with some of his older members and went to climb a mountain together. It was the one with an old Japanese cave at the top which was super cool! We of course were very safe. ;-) After that we all went to get ice cream together and went home to proselyte for the evening.
I went on an exchange with my old friend Elder Barney. He was the one who I took contacting his first night on island. This is my second exchange with him here in Qianzhen. We spent the night on errands for the stake President and bishop. We were checking names and trying to find people who had gotten lost off of the ward records. It was pretty fun, and really cool to see since we've been trying to develop our relationship with the Bishop a lot more.
Wednesday, 3 January 2018
Elder Barney had a great idea yesterday. We've been looking for service through the village leaders here, but not a lot of them have jobs they want us to do or don't Quite trust us yet after 60 years of preaching the Gospel in their Taoist communities, which is understandable. But Elder Barney and I were biking along at night on a bike path we use all the time to get across the city and he commented how much litter there was along the side of the path. So we went and bought garbage bags and barbecue tongs and spent some time today serving the community! It was really cool! I'm glad we finally got to do something to serve the people around us.
Today's proselyting was good. We got the chapel for a lesson tonight which ended up not showing up, but our friend Joey, who is on his boat right now, was able to start messaging us and he had a ton of questions about all the things he was reading in the Book of Mormon. He read up to Mosiah 18! It's only been a week and a half! We talked about fasting and baptism and he is reading every day and praying for an answer while he is away. It was really cool to spend that time with him and to get to see that progress he was making all because of the little act of faith of reading the Book of Mormon.
Friday, 5 January 2018
Tonight we went and visited a member who had a birthday. We bought 7 guava and a pineapple to give him, and he seemed really happy to have us over. It's fun getting to know the ward better and actually develop a relationship with them. They are such an important part of the work. And the members here are so great and really accept all the missionaries for however long they are here.
We went out this morning to go to a lesson that Elder Barney tracted into on Tuesday. I, very faithless, thought that she wouldn't be there or would just tell us she didn't want us there, because she didn't seem too focused or interested when we set up with her earlier, but she opened the door and told us that she never really had gone to church before, and we replied that was okay and that everyone was welcome at church because it could strengthen our families. She had to leave for a doctor's appointment, but gave us her contact info and told us we could come back and visit next week!
Sunday, 7 January 2018
Church was good today. Brother Zhong was sick, but they announced his baptismal service in sacrament which is scheduled for THIS SATURDAY! I am so excited for him! Sister Chen was also able to come, and so was a part member family we had been working with earlier. It was a great day. We also had two really cool lessons tonight. The first was a referral from the elders in Shizhong just north of us. He is a guy who has 10 brothers and sisters but his family situation is bad and he really doesn't understand life or God. It was incredible to see his eyes light up as we began explaining pieces of the Plan of Salvation, where before he had been mildly interested in what we had to say. I can't wait to teach him again!
- Elder Meanea
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