Lots Going On!
Samuel Watson
September 24, 2018
Hello everyone,
Wow, Elder Trung and I sure have been busy! As you may know,
when we started our first transfer together, we had very few people to teach...
So we went contacting for like four hours a day! Well, this week, we did not
have very much contacting time, we were so busy meeting people at the church!
Or in some cases, waiting for people who never came... But that is less common!
So we got two new people who agreed to keep learning. We have Anh Tai, who is a
college student. I met him at Aeon. He agreed to come get a tour of the church,
and really liked it. He had never seen a church before. Also, in one room, we
had written up the steps of how to pray (which may or may not have been
intentional...) and he asked what it was and if he could learn how to do it!
Afterwards, he also said he could tell we had a good message to share, so he
said he would bring his friends! It was really cool.
Then we have Chu Khanh,
who came to church on Sunday. We think he was contacted by Elder Thien, who is
now in the north, as we did not recognize him. He stayed throughout sacrament,
and Chi Hang did an awesome job of explaining it to him. Afterwards he said he
wanted to learn more, and we got his phone number! We are going to meet him
again this week! We also met a few other people who have not fully agreed to
keep learning yet, but will be coming to our activities. We did drop one
investigator, Chi Yen, from last week. She said she liked what we shared, but
does not want to convert. She will keep coming to the activities but does not
want to meet individually anymore. It is a little sad, but hopefully she will
change her mind back some day. Oh, and Chi Dung, who came to church last
Sunday, met us for a lesson, and she is doing awesome! She came back with
questions from the Book of Mormon! Also, she agreed to a baptismal date! She
will still need to learn more before that, but she is very open to learning
more, and has enjoyed what she has learned so far! Even if some of it is a
little confusing first round through. Actually, that reminds me of a quote from
Elder Bednar I heard in the MTC. More or less he said how the majority of
converts in the world say they were super confused when the first met the
missionaries, with all the talk of angels, and golden plates, and the sort.
But, they feel good about it because of the Spirit! This case was no different!
She came in with a lot of questions, like what it means by the plates were "taken
up" or the people "would speak as it were from the dust", but
she still felt good about what she read! The power of the Holy Ghost is real,
and anyone who truly seeks will find! Chi Dung is doing awesome! And we met Em
Trang this week! She forgot her Book of Mormon at her grandma's house. While
that was not convenient, it was cool to know she took it up on her trip to keep
reading! She still does not know if she is ready for baptism though,
particularly fearing how her family would react, but she does feel the truth of
our message! I know with time she will become even stronger in her faith and
testimony! And the one other investigator we met this week was Anh Huy, who
just got back from his hometown. He went to church on Sunday and will now be
learning with the sister missionaries in District 1, which is closer to where
he now lives. I know they will do a good job in continuing to teach him though!
And that does it for our investigators this week. The rest have been pretty
busy, some of whom are getting ready for the lantern festival with family and
the such. We will still try to keep meeting them though.
English class is still going strong. We played Mafia last
week, and are going to introduce Mad Libs this week... Elder Trung and I have
been talking about really trying to invite more English students to learn about
the gospel! We actually had a district training on it that was good. And
afterwards, I actually got three people to agree to meet after last week! Now
unfortunately these are the three aforementioned cancelled lessons... But they
all have rescheduled appointments for this week. Two of them actually got to
the church building together, but got an emergency call, and turned back around
right in front of our eyes... All good though! Actually, funnily enough, one of
the guys wanted to donate us money for English... We offered to talk about the
church instead! And just in general, not to brag, but I am getting a lot better
at inviting people to learn! So is Elder Trung, and we have had a lot of new
people come to the church. Return appointments are another story... But we are
doing good!
To report on last week, ice skating actually went pretty
good! No serious injuries, and I was getting sort of okay by the end, though I
moved really slowly. We also found a Swensen's, and had great ice cream!
Everyone else ordered scoops, before I asked about the specialty sundaes which
were an extra 10000 dong (50 cents) and you could still choose your scoop
flavors... I guess good things come to those who ask! And today, we are going
to stop by a lantern market which should be cool!
I guess one other fun thing to bring up, they just built a
new coffee shop called Cong Caphe. It is a really interesting place. It is
designed to look like an old-fashioned army barracks or something. We checked
it out since we usually try to study outside to contact people.
Well, I think that does it. As you may have noticed, my
investigator section keeps getting progressively bigger in these emails! That
just shows how much God has blessed us to be able to do more of his work! Well,
see you all next week!
Elder Watson/ Nghiêm
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