One Year Already?!
Samuel Watson
Monday October 1, 2018
Hello everyone,
Wow, I can hardly believe it, but I have been out for over a
year now! That is half of my mission! But I still have another year left, and
need to make sure to be working just as hard in that year too!
Well, we had quite an eventful week. I don't have enough time to expound fully, and there is just too much to write, so I will mostly sum up what happened. We actually got nine new investigators this week! That is a crazy high number for those who do not know. We had quite a few from English class, and taught several great lessons on families! We have one lesson we have gotten particularly good at teaching, in which we share the Family Proclamation and then talk about temples. The Family Proclamation is seriously an inspired document! At first most people are a little weirded out reading the preexistence stuff, but as it goes, it highlights so many truths that ring to them, and then when we connect it back to the Plan of Salvation, that is how we invite them to learn more!
And the really exciting thing is one of the guys we met for that lesson has a family he now wants us to meet! Another interesting set of investigators is an older couple who previously signed up to attend English class, but we have really been focusing in the mission to increase sacrament attendance to invite everyone, so we even called up all of our English only people, and Co Le and her husband Chu Thang decided to come. I don't think they fully knew what it was before, but they really enjoyed it, and want to learn more about the church! And the other cool story is Anh Quoc Thang, who we found on an old list of people sort of interested in the church. He met the missionaries over a year ago but never started learning. His uncle lives in America and is a member. The missionaries went to his house once and gave his wife and son a blessing. I don't know why they didn't start learning before, but we called them up, and he was excited to meet us to learn about the church! So the Lord is really preparing people for the gospel! Also, they have not become investigators yet, but we have found several people who want to learn more about the gospel and we found them unintentionally, as in not during time going contacting. We have been finding them everywhere from Circle Ks and coffee shops, to even a guy at our apartment we talked to when the bike check in station got broken! We are really seeing God put people in our path!
Well, we had quite an eventful week. I don't have enough time to expound fully, and there is just too much to write, so I will mostly sum up what happened. We actually got nine new investigators this week! That is a crazy high number for those who do not know. We had quite a few from English class, and taught several great lessons on families! We have one lesson we have gotten particularly good at teaching, in which we share the Family Proclamation and then talk about temples. The Family Proclamation is seriously an inspired document! At first most people are a little weirded out reading the preexistence stuff, but as it goes, it highlights so many truths that ring to them, and then when we connect it back to the Plan of Salvation, that is how we invite them to learn more!
And the really exciting thing is one of the guys we met for that lesson has a family he now wants us to meet! Another interesting set of investigators is an older couple who previously signed up to attend English class, but we have really been focusing in the mission to increase sacrament attendance to invite everyone, so we even called up all of our English only people, and Co Le and her husband Chu Thang decided to come. I don't think they fully knew what it was before, but they really enjoyed it, and want to learn more about the church! And the other cool story is Anh Quoc Thang, who we found on an old list of people sort of interested in the church. He met the missionaries over a year ago but never started learning. His uncle lives in America and is a member. The missionaries went to his house once and gave his wife and son a blessing. I don't know why they didn't start learning before, but we called them up, and he was excited to meet us to learn about the church! So the Lord is really preparing people for the gospel! Also, they have not become investigators yet, but we have found several people who want to learn more about the gospel and we found them unintentionally, as in not during time going contacting. We have been finding them everywhere from Circle Ks and coffee shops, to even a guy at our apartment we talked to when the bike check in station got broken! We are really seeing God put people in our path!
Now for some fun stuff. Last Monday, we went to a lantern
market for the Mid Autumn Festival, and I picked up two lanterns, so that was
cool. And today we are going bowling with another zone, so that will be cool!
That is about it for what I have now. I need to go, everyone is waiting on me
to leave to go bowling...
Oh, one more thing. Our other investigators are still doing
good, but Em Trang was supposed to meet us on Monday, but got in a bad
motorbike crash. She is confined to home, and unable to be visited. She does
have plenty of time to read the Book of Mormon now though as she said! Anyways,
your prayers for her are appreciated. Also, Anh Tai is doing great, he has a
baptismal date for next month and says he will read the whole Book of Mormon by
then to know for sure if it is the right decision for him. We know that as he
does so, he will truly get a testimony as he prays to God.
Got to go! See you all next week!
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