23 April 2018 - 2 Transfers to Go!

"Called to serve him, three more months of mission
miracles abound when we work hard!"
(Copyright Elder Meanea 2018)

Monday, 16 April 2018
We spent the day biking out to a big mall that has a place called "The Harbor" which is a really expensive buffet that is reaaaaaly good. So we ate until we felt ready to die, and then biked back a half-hour to our area and got back in time to get ready to go out for the night! After a good night of proselyting, including talking to a lot of people exercising in a park, we went on home. 

Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Today a member named Mama Lin took us to a hotpot in our area for lunch. It was cool because all the workers and the boss knew her and the missionaries since she brings them here so often. I actually ordered the seafood platter for my hotpot, and you know what? I liked it! Yeah, the mission is a place of miracles folks. Anyways, sorry if the email is a little more sparse this week. It was sort of hectic and we didn't get to meet with a lot of investigators, but we still saw a lot of miracles!

Wednesday, 18 April 2018
We taught our friend Mushroom about the 10 commandments today! She liked the lesson and told us afterwards that she learned that we can express love for our Father in Heaven by keeping His commandments, so I hope that that carries over into the other commandments that we need to teach her. We also have a great member, Sister Chen who really fellowships her after lessons and they talk for a long time. We had to meet in McDonalds since we didn't have a brother there, but that also meant Sister Chen bought us smoothies. 

Thursday, 19 April 2018
We also went on our last exchange from last night. I was with Elder Thorup, who I served with in Gaoxiong before. He is a funny, funny Elder. We had a lesson planned this morning but it fell through, so we contacted some people in the park we were at. We met this nice old Grandma who had been to Salt Lake and seen the tabernacle before, so that was really cool! Then I gave the last District Training meeting of the transfer and we finished our exchange. Tonight we also met with a member who got baptized two years ago and heard about his conversion story. So that was super cool!

Friday, 20 April 2018
A happy and sad miracle today. Happy was that we met with Flora, who is really getting into all the doctrines of the Church. She loves the Bible but is appreciating the insight in the Book of Mormon. We had a great lesson about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and what it helps us with in life. Then this afternoon we met again with Mushroom and had to hand her off to the Anding Elders, because after six months of investigating we found out she lives in their area. xD But it was good, she took it well and we will video message into the next lesson to help the transition go smoothly. 

Saturday, 21 April 2018
I had some coupons for Coldstone, so we went there for lunch with our district. It was still pretty expensive, but pretty tasty. A cool miracle is that we have been messaging a kid we just ran into in 30 seconds on the river. He didn't seem that interested but we got his Line (Taiwan/Japan/Asia messaging APP) and he started chatting with us about how God could help him in his life, and he has a lot of interest in learning about what God's relationship is with him. 

Sunday, 22 April 2018

Lots of Goodbyes today, and a few miracles! We said bye to our district members at church, and then we went to the Su Family's house for a lesson with their cousin that came to church last week! He also brought his mom, and we got to share the gospel with two new investigators that just stepped out of the blue for us! It was so cool, and they really want to learn. The Su family seemed so happy. Then we went to the Sang Family's house for FHE. We took a puzzle we made but kept a few of the pieces and told them to put it together to illustrate the need for a restoration, it went pretty well. And now the transfer is over!

Lots of people are gone, but I'm still here. And I count it a blessing. I'm so happy to have TWO MORE TRANSFERS TO SERVE. Let's make them the best yet.

-Elder Meanea