21 May 2018 - Cool Miracles

"Welcome welcome, P-Day morning, blessed with emails from my fam! (and friends)"

Monday, 14 May 2018
We had a good P-Day going out to the beach and playing ultimate frisbee with the district. It was hot, but it was so fun! After showing off the sand, we went out to work, which was good. Then Elder Bode and I had a super cool miracle happen. We went to the park that night to look one of our Filipino Investigators named Kristine. We got to the park where she is sometimes, but her phone has been broken so we couldn't get in touch with her. Elder Bode suggested we say a prayer and he prayed to find her there. And guess what? We found her!

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Our cool miracle today also had to do with Kristine. We set up to meet with her again in the park. She has quite a lot of knowledge about Jesus Christ, but this was our first time officially meeting with her. Right before she came our friend Charly showed up. He really likes us missionaries but is also very Budhhist. When Kristine came she started telling him how it pains her to see all the Taiwanese people worship "Pagan Gods," and I thought we were about to get into a religious fire-fight, but Charly was cool and just said that everybody has different viewpoints and that we believe a lot of the same stuff. Then we took over really fast and taught about how God restored His gospel in the last days and gave us proof of it through the Book of Mormon. Charly even bore his testimony that the Book of Mormon was good to Kristine because of previous experiences he's had with other Elders. That was super cool!

Wednesday, 16 May 2018
We did a hand-off lesson with the sisters today. They have a real cool investigator, Sister Huan who they had to hand off to us because she lives in our area, and she is already starting to ask about Baptism! She is so prepared. Then tonight we taught english on exchanges, I went with Elder Perkins from the other area and we stayed in 3rd ward. We taught the kids how to be interviewd for a job, so that was cool. English is always super fun. Then we watched "Finding Faith in Christ" for the spiritual share, which I always love doing, because they don't actually know much about who Jesus Christ is! Most people in America grow up hearing about him at least, but here it's very much less so. 

Thursday, 17 May 2018
Today was the rest of the day on exchanges. We ended up contacting on the roads the whole morning because our lesson cancled on us, but it was still good! I taught District Training Meeting today about listening. It was a super good DTM. Originally I had a different topic, but I felt like we needed to switch part-way through, and it turned out being more of what everyone wanted help with. So that was a cool miracle. 

Friday, 18 May 2018
We went to tour a place we are going to give service at later. It's a combination reclycle center/oldfolks home/ and Budhhist temple? It was very interesting, but it was cool to see how much good people are capable of doing. A lot of people really want to make the world better! Then tonight was a cool miracle, we ran into Kristine again, and she said she is loving the Book of Mormon!

Saturday, 19 May 2018
Cool tracting miracle tonight. So knocking doors can get a little brutal it feels like sometimes, just because a lot of doors in a row can say they don't have interest. But Elder Bode prayed when we started that we would find one new investigator. After about 10 doors we rang a doorbell of a fairly nice looking house, and we told the person we were missionaries who had a message we wanted to share, and could we have ten minutes of his time? He said "sure." Elder Bode and I were a little surprised, but we went in and met Ryan. He is a surgeon who has kids studying medical school in three different countries, and his wife passed away 2 years ago. He was very open to talking about religion because his cousin is also "Mormon" or a member of our church. He was welcoming and set up to let us meet him again. Miracles. 

Sunday, 20 May 2018
A good Sabbath. We had three of our investigators attend! Jeff, Flora, and Brother Zhu, the cousin of a member. That was miracle enough for me. And then wouldn't you know? A guy we met two weeks ago set up to see us tonight, and he was super cool! His name was Glenn, and he talked about how he was willing to learn more about God because he wants to find REAL happiness in life. He was so cool!

And a great week! Elder Bode and I have at least 2 more weeks here in Tainan 3rd ward, then his training will be over and our lives will be very much up in the air. I love it here, and I love being a missionary, and I love you all as well!

-Elder Meanea