Apr 9, 2018
Hello everybody,
This week has been quite interesting. As many of you may
know, this weekend was general conference weekend! We got to hear from actual
prophets and apostles of the Lord! What an amazing opportunity for all of us
here to be able to hear the word of God through his servants. I feel I really
learned a lot as I listened to what the Lord had prepared to share with us. I
came prepared with questions and feel like they were all answered. It was a
great experience. In particular, I like how they focused a lot on personal
revelation, especially with a lot of the changes occuring in the church
organization with a combined Elder's Quorom, and changing the home and visiting
teaching programs. It is great to be able to receive the Lord's guidance in how
to run His church. Oh, and for conference, we had two of our investigators
attend that, and I think they had a really good experience with that.
Speaking of investigators, we got a new one this week. His
name is Chu Thuong, and he seems really cool. He has been attending our English
classes for a while apparently. This week, we talked with him about families
and who God is. He seemed very open to it, and agreed to learn more with us.
Hopefully we can continue to teach him about the gospel of Jesus Christ and how
that can bless his family! Currently, we are also trying to work a lot with the
branch and branch members. They have asked us to do several things including
visiting members who live further away. This week, we visited Chu Hung, who
lives about two hours away by bike. He is a really great person, and was happy
to see us. We shared with him and his wife about prophets and how to get ready
for general conference. We are also trying to work with the branch's YSA, and
this last week they played "Family Feud" which was really cool, and
we had several investigators attend that activity. All in all, the branch
members here are doing quite well, and I am really glad to have the opprotunity
to serve with them.
Besides that, I am still adjusting to living in Ho Chi Minh
City. We definitely do more biking here than I did in Ha Dong, where I used to
bus more. The food here is also quite good, though different. So far, I do like
the food up north a bit better, but maybe with time I will come to appreciate
the food down here more... It is still really good though. It is also a lot
hotter and more humid down here. When you even walk out of an air conditioned
room, the heat is quite extreme! Still the heat is fine, as I am used to it in
Arizona.
This morning I was playing a game called dat gao, or
"shuttlecock" in English, that is a popular game throughout Vietnam.
It involves a small feathered object that you play with much like a hackey
sack, trying to kick it to each other. Clearly I don't have much experience,
though I did a little in Ha Dong, but I actually did alright. It was a lot of
fun. And some lady came by and joined in our game. She was actually impressed
Americans could play at all! We also were playing with some members. Well, she
apparently has some kids who want to learn English, so we gave her a card about
our class on Tuesdays. It would be really cool if we saw her or her child at
that event! Oh, and speaking of English class, or I should say
"activity", as we are not officially qualified teachers to teach a
class, it has been going quite well. Though last week for the advanced class we
only had one student... Still, it was a lot of fun and we taught about phone
calls. We then related it to prayer in the spiritual thought, as a prayer is
similar to a phone call with God, with a two way conversation. The one student
was a member already, so we went into a bit more detail with her on that, and
it was really good. Hopefully we get more students this week in our advanced
class!
Well, I think that is most everything to mention for this
week. I really am excited to be serving the Lord and His people here. Vietnam
really is a special part of the world,
and I am glad to be part of the work here. Here is to going forward in faith!
Elder Watson/ Nghiem
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