Monday July 1, 2019
Happy July! (Week 91)Hello everyone!
Well, for some things this week. We had a good week, with
zone conference. We had a big emphasis on the power of the Book of Mormon. That
was really good. We also had an activity where we all picked our investigator's
hardest questions and found answers in the Book of Mormon. And President Chiles
pointed out that a lot of the questions were not actually the investigator's
concern. For example, when someone tells you all religions are good and it
doesn't matter which one you are in, the real concern they likely have is that
they don't know if there is really a God. Because if there is, He is who He is,
and we need to find that out, not just imagine whatever we want. It was a cool
realization, because we get that a lot here. And we went back to some of the
training from last October! Does anyone remember when I told you about our
CHURCH list and how we invite people to come to Sacrament? If you don't and
would like more details, let me know. But in short, we make a list of all the
people we think could come to church and we make a schedule to call them and
get them excited to come, anything from "hey, you had a question about how
to develop faith. Brother so and so is giving a talk on that this Sunday!"
to the slightly more worldly "there is a potluck on Sunday", but
something that applies to them to get them to want to come. It was a good
refresher, our quality of calls was not as good as it was when we first heard
it, so it helped. We learned how to make calls better, and heard again the emphasis
to talk to 10 people a day, as invited by President Ballard for missionaries
worldwide. Seriously, as you do so you see miracles. God puts people in your
path. It was a great zone conference and I always love hearing President
Chiles' counsel as our mission president.
Otherwise this week, Em Vy's friends, Bang and Nhu came
back! Now that testing is over, they have time to meet! And we have another new
investigator, Chi Dung, who came to English club, but wants to know more about
God. She believes He is real, and wants to know more about Him and how He can
specifically help her. We gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon and read the
introduction with her and she is really excited! So those are the new people we
are working with. Chi Nhuong is getting ready for baptism on Sunday! That is
really exciting! And Em Vy is doing great! She has a goal to share "For
the Strength of Youth" with her mother this week. Prayers for her are
appreciated! And the other exciting thing is Chi Hoa, the member, is getting
married! Her husband is not a member but seems very nice. She has shared a bit
with him and invited him to church. He has not had the chance to come yet, but
hopefully will be able to some time soon! Well, we got to go to their house and
do some service. They are repainting to make the house look fresher, so we got
to sand and smooth out some walls. It was fun, and Chi Hoa's mom was very nice
and made us lunch. We also got to talk to Chi Hoa's husband. Oh, and Em Cuong
came to help to! He is like a mini missionary! And he wants to serve! Just
needs to get baptized and wait a year and he'll be all set! One side note
though, I have gotten a cold of some sort. I don't know if it was the one
passing around here amongst the missionaries, or if it was dust from sanding...
but today we slept in a bit and I am feeling better. Not fun though being sick,
and not helpful for missionary work either!
Our English club is going well. This last week, Elder Bao
made a goal to lead the class. It was a little rough and I had to step in a few
times, but he did good! Sister Chiles pushed him last week and said he needed
to focus on his English more... but he is doing better! And also something that
didn't help this last English club was we had a half black out. And I mean
half. The lights in the room didn't work, but the ones in the bathroom did. The
air conditioning unit didn't work (so we opened windows), but the TV did.
Because that makes sense... But it worked out. I taught everyone the word black
out, and made up the word half black out, so that wad fun. And the spiritual
thought was on patience, so a perfect fit. Thanks to everyone who was patient
with us in the half dark.
Well, this evening I will be exchanging with Elder Duy
through Wednesday. He is almost done with his mission, just one week left. It
should be a good exchange though; he is a good missionary. And Elder Bao will
get the chance to lead our area here! So that will be fun! And next week, I
should know if I will be staying in Binh Duong or not, so stay tuned for more
information on that!
I think that is all for the week! Talk to you all later! Thanks for reading this!
I think that is all for the week! Talk to you all later! Thanks for reading this!
Elder Watson/ Nghiêm
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