We Are Going Out With A Bang

大家好！我快死了... 

Hello everyone! 

It is true... I am in the last week of my mission, sadly. I have truly come to love these people with all of my heart. I have come to love God's Chinese children I since I have been here on my mission and it's hard to say goodbye!! 

HOWEVER!! We are not going out without a bang! We have many miracles lined up for this upcoming week. The Lord still continues to prepare his people to receive the Gospel even when his missionaries only have one week left. Hahaha.

We have 4 baptisms this Sunday for 4 different individuals. They all have their unique stories and I have been so grateful to play small parts and their conversion. I don't have a lot of time to talk about all of them. But I will post about them later on. 

Shannon Yang a convert of mine from about a year ago. Will be going through the temple this weekend to get her endowments out. I'm so excited about this very eventful week. I get to go to the temple twice and have 4 baptisms! I could not think of a better way to finish my mission. I love this work and I am so excited to see all of you next week. I'm not sure if I will send out a group email next week. But that doesn't really matter because I'll see you all in person!

我爱你们！ I love all of you see you soon!

A Little Extra from Ben to Us:

Guys, I have never had such a large mix Of emotions in my entire life! I have gotten told about a million times this week I am basically dead haha. We had our outgoing testimonies at Multi-Zones and I cried my eyes out haha. I have only cried one other time in my whole mission. But it was about to let it out in front of 55 missionaries haha. I have come to love these people with all of my heart! I can not express the gratitude and the true love I have for these people! 

Now let me take a moment to talk about how lit last week was and how lit this week will be. 

We currently have 4 people bring baptized on our last Sunday! Talk about going out with a bang! Every one of these people have amazing stories and were found in different ways. I could not think of a better way to go home than that!!!

We also have the pleasure of getting to go with Shanon to the temple on Saturday to get out her Endowments!!! Man this last week is amazing. God is sooo good. Let me give you a rundown of some of these lessons and how everyone is doing. We are sooooo busy right now. 

First off Sunny: 

We taught her the remainder of the commandments this week and it went great! She had been reading every day in China and brought us all back books from Beijing and gave them to us as gifts! She had her baptismal interview on Sunday and is good to go! She asked me immediately after to baptize her on Sunday! Her friend told me while she was in her interview that I was her favorite haha. She said I had played a very major role in her conversion! Aka God played a major role haha. We are excited for her this Sunday! 

2nd:

Rosie is another one getting baptized on Sunday. We finished all the lessons with her and she is good to go! She came over to dinner with us at Shanons home this weekend! She has been amazing through the whole teaching process. Very little concerns and in fact referred herself! 

3rd. Mr. Wang

We literally found this family last week but they are so ready!!! They leave back to China right after we go home. They would be baptized together except she just gave birth last week which was, in fact, a C-section. However, they came has a whole family to church! Mr. Wang will be baptized on Sunday!

4th

Michelle is someone we are teaching all the way in Palm Springs which is about `. 5 hours from our home... However, she is amazing and will be baptized out there on Sunday. Her baptism is at 1:30 and the rest are that night at 7:00. She flew through the lessons in about 2 weeks. Elder Lai and I have been the only ones that taught her through the whole process. She said she is so excited and we are too! 

Anyways as you can see the miracles are never ending. I still haven't fully registered the fact I am going home. This just seems like my life haha. I love this work and I am sooo excited to see you. But my heart is truly with the Chinese people I have served for these last 2 years. Love you both soooooooo much! See you next week.