Week 30

Miracles

This last week was a great week! We had the chance to see some miracles and also get spiritually uplifted by the mission president. 

Last Tuesday we had mission conference again, even though I felt like we just had it.  Time flies here.  (We had to leave the apartment at around 7:30 to get to Taizhong by 9. We got to the bus station and the bus pulled up as soon as we got there, Elder Fox didn't even have time to lock his bike! It was great for us, but the Qingshui Elders were about half a block behind us and they got stuck at a red light at the last minute, so we felt kind of bad as we watched them through the back window of the bus.) The zone conference was really great.  We talked all about becoming a more consecrated missionary. I also had the "opportunity" to give the opening prayer in Chinese. I just made it really short so no one could judge me. 

Then this last week we had an interesting experience with one of our investigators. His name is Prayerstone or Ke xiansheng. He has so much knowledge about the Bible and he really wants to receive the Holy Ghost, something he never got in the Christian church where he usually goes. However, while we were meeting with him last week, he told us he got an answer to his prayer and he believes our church and the other Christian church are the same, both with their own "grace". So the next time we went back we showed him the restoration video in Chinese and after that his whole attitude changed. He said he realized he had to pray for himself to find out if this church really was the only true church and he has to start reading the Book of Mormon more. However he told us he couldn't come to church this week, because he was going to the other Christian church. But on Sunday, while we were in sacrament meeting, we looked back and saw he was sitting in the back! When we asked what happened he told us that after the other church service he felt prompted he should come here. We told him it was the Holy Ghost.

Then we also met a super cool person last week. We were actually traveling to Ke's house and we stopped to get drinks and this lady who worked there told us she lived right next to our church. So we told her we could visit her sometime and show her our church. However, over the next few days she didn't answer her phone and we couldn't get a hold of her. It wasn't until we were biking yesterday in Longjing to visit a member, that we heard someone on the side of the road yell at us. We pulled over and realized it was her! She told us she wanted us to visit her family that night. So we went back over and met her husband and her kids! It was a miracle. 

Some of our other investigators progressing are Chen Jun Hong, a really good guy who just had his baptism interview and Liu DiDi. He is 13 years old and needs a lot of work before baptism... he needs to grow up a little bit.

That's about it for me this week. Love you all! Congrats Nate on graduating! 

Love,

Elder Quist