Well this one was a great week for me as a missionary! The best part was Huang Pin Yi 黃品逸getting baptized! I don't know if you remember how we met him or what his story is, but I'll give you a little review...
We met him about a month ago. We went to a 7-11 to make calls one night and we sat down and called for about an hour, not seeing much success. Finally, it was time for us to go to our next lesson. So, I got up and I saw a guy buying a drink. I decided I should go up and talk to him. I gave him a tract and asked if he could come some time and meet with us. He said he could, but he didn't seem like the most golden investigator. That was on a Friday. The next Monday we met with him at the church. The lesson started off pretty average. He seemed more interested in being in a room with a couple of white guys than coming to learn about Jesus Christ, but we still had hope. We invited him to begin to pray on his own. The next day I was able to call him and ask how his prayer went. He then told me over the phone that he had had a dream. He wouldn't tell us what it was, but he said that he had been praying a lot since we met with him. That started his conversion process. We kept meeting with him and he kept progressing. He missed the first week of church after we found him, but since that Sunday he has not missed once (including the time we went over to the stake center and had a conference). He is also currently reading in Alma. Originally, his baptism date was set for September 9th, but since we felt he was doing really well, we moved his baptismal date up two weeks. I had the opportunity to baptize him. After he was baptized, he was given the chance to go up and share his testimony. During his testimony he shared about the many experiences he has had over the last month that have caused him to want to come closer with God. That's why he wanted to get baptized in the end, because he believed it could bring him closer with Jesus Christ, a person he said he had come to love over the last few weeks.
Then we saw another really cool miracle this week. While contacting on a road, Elder Williams saw a street and had the impression that we should come back another day and tract out that street. So only a few days later, we returned and started tracting. We tracted only about four houses when we got to a house with a young man sitting at the computer. Upon seeing us, he ran upstairs. About a minute later, the young man's dad came down the stairs and invited us in. He told us that his son was deaf and was probably just nervous about the communication issue. So, we began teaching the dad and I had an impression that we should talk to the son. So, I began praying that the son would be prompted to come back down the stairs. However, after about 10 minutes he still hadn't come down. Finally, I had a thought. Why was I waiting for the Lord to compel him to come downstairs when I could just ask him down? So, I talked to the dad and asked if the son would be interested in talking with us. He said he would go and ask. A little bit later the son and the dad walked down the stairs. The son seemed really interested to talk to us and immediately sat down and began talking to me. I learned that he had been praying to Jesus for a long time in his life (because when he was young he had attended a church once). He then told me he had always wanted to ask God why God had allowed him to be deaf. I was amazed at the faith of this young guy, who has had very little exposure to any sort of christianity, but has undeniable faith in Jesus Christ. He set up for us to go visit him again. We are planning to go back tonight (and Huang Pin Yi is going to come and fellowship him too).
Gwen is progressing really well lately. She always comes to sacrament meeting now. She still refuses to accept a baptismal goal, but I think it really helped that she was able to attend Pin Yi's baptism. We will keep working with her.
This last week we were also able to spend half the week with another elder in our zone. He and his companion had been struggling lately, so President sent him to live with us until today, when he moved to a different area in the mission. His name is Elder Hongvilai and he is from Thailand. He is a super awesome missionary! He had to learn both English and Chinese when he came here. It is kind of lonely for us now that he is gone. I will make sure to send you a picture of us with him.
There are a lot of miracles happening here! Everything is going well.
Love you all!
Elder Quist
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