On Monday we were able to go to Anping, which is a tourist area in Tainan. It is just a city with an old fortress that used to belong to the Dutch until Zheng Cheng Gong, a Chinese leader, came and kicked the Dutch out of Taiwan. It was really fun. One of my old friends from Zhanghua, Pony, came down to Tainan to visit me! It was so great to see him again. I also was able to buy some cool souvenirs.
One other cool thing happened this week. Currently, the Pokemon Go game is super big in Taiwan. So, Elder Williams and I have been going to this park in our area and all we do is sit down in the middle of this big crowd of people playing Pokemon and we are able to constantly talk to people! I love this new game! It has gotten so many people to leave their houses and come outside so we can more easily talk to them.
Then this last week David Archeletta came to Taiwan. The park we talked to people who were playing Pokemon was the same park where he performed. So since it was our area, the stake president asked us and the missionaries in our district to go and hand out programs to the people entering the concert. Although we weren't able to attend, it was still pretty cool to get to participate in the activity. There were a lot of people we had met on the street before that came to the concert. I didn't get to shake hands with David though...
Our investigators are doing really well. One of them is 品逸 Pin yi. We were able to meet with him a few times this last week! He had some trials, but through prayer he got all the answers that he needed. He was originally going to get baptized in September, but we changed his goal to August, because he is ready for baptism. He has already been through all the lessons. He has a interview this week, so we will see how it goes.
We also had another investigator progress well this last week. Her name is Gwen and she is an english class student. When I first met her (my first week in Tainan as her english teacher), I asked if she would like to meet with missionaries sometime. At that time she wasn't very interested. However, as time went on and we did a lot of spiritual shares (we always do spiritual shares in english class), her heart began to soften. She now has come to church twice. She is reading the Book of Mormon regularly and she is also praying. This last week we had stake conference and even though our stake center is a little far from where we live, she was still super willing to come and participate!
We have other investigators that we continue to work with to help them progress.
This next week should be busy. Taiwan is having youth conference for the entire country this Friday and it is happening in the city just north of us, so we have been asked to participate. We will be up there for most of Friday. Also, we will be attending a seminar for zone and sister training leaders up in Taizhong on Thursday all day.
I love you guys. Pray that we are lead to the chosen vessels of the Lord!
Elder Quist
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| Handing out programs at the David Archuletta concert! |
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