Wonderful week but also hard because we didn't have a
car. We've been on foot walking and walking and walking. I've
realized how inconvenient it is to live in America without the use of a
vehicle. One night, we were trying to get to a lesson three miles
away. We walked but needed to get there faster so we ran about 3/4 of a
mile. It was fun... not...
We went to the Temple as a mission this week, then, later in
the week, we got to attend the sealing of members in our Chinese group. It
was the cutest thing ever when the five year old came into the sealing room
after her parents had already been sealed and just gave us a huge smile and
waved! We had our "Families are Forever" ties on (our Chinese
ones).
Another of our investigators got baptized too. She is
from Chengdu, where Elder Zeng lives, so during her baptismal interview with
him, they had a lot of fun talking about their "lao jia" [old home].
We sat down to have a lesson with this eight year old
investigator and his parents asked what he had learned from church. He
started to sing the hymn "Praise to the Man" (he didn't have a hymn
book). I don't know how he remembered all the words because he's only
been to church four times. It was a very spiritual experience listening
to him sing.
We were sitting in a class on Sunday, and one of the
member's sons (Peter) didn't want to go to his own kid’s class. I had him
sit next to me and asked him if he wanted to go to Primary. He replied in
the negative so I asked why. He then said "because I love to
cry" ("wo ai ku"). I couldn't hold in the laughter.
I got him to sit reverently on his seat though - by bribing him with Hershey's
kisses.
During English class we were talking about food and how to
order at a restaurant. We decided to bring peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches for everyone to try. I expected everyone to think it was
gross, but out of the 25 students that came that day, only one of them didn't
like it! One of them asked us for the "recipe."
"Three ingredients" I told her! They asked if they could
add egg or cheese or something like that. I told her that would probably
taste weird but what is that to them?
We got visited by Elder Christofferson in our mission this
past week. It was an amazing experience to hear an Apostle speak to
us. He held a question and answer session and joked about how Mission
Presidents cringe during this session because they worry the missionaries will
asked "dumb questions." It went well though. He joked about how
the Apostles don't travel to Israel in pairs because of Revelations 5. It
was a very spiritually uplifting and inspiring experience.
Our group at the temple
At the baptism!
Selfie with our investigator last week during her baptismal
interview
My piranha shirt for kick-ball
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